The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-06-10
.He Was shook" But he Loved
Her.

What | want to know SAID
white headed Young man Of twenty
as he stood before the sergeant i
charge of the Detroit Central Sta
ton, what l came here for was {
get some advice
i Proceed, Z Sid the sergeant.
lyon know Nancy Smith, dom
youp'
"Neyer heard Of her.
"Wsll she's a wilder, over fort,
years old, and I've been boarding
there /"
.Yes!"
And we were engaged to be mar
RED"
.Whew!" whistlrd the officer.
4 don't blame you," continue,
the young man III broken voice
I'm only twenty and she's forty
but man Can't always tell wheI
he's going to make a fool OF him
sell"
"And You fell in loye?"
Il did that, and al soon as We ge
through taking I'm gong out Il
get some Que TO kick me over 3,
Canada and back! Yes, sir, fell
dead in love loved a woman oyel
forty
"What folIered? What allerl
folders! lm human, same's any
hody else, and when love | low,
like locomotive on a down grade
What do you think did in Just 81,
weeks by the watch. Went to th,
theatre sixteen times, went oul
Safeguarding twelve times, had
three parties, went TO three lectures
and took her out to eat oysters ten
or twelve times. Fact, sir cost mi
near $500.
"But it was all for love-" replied
the sergeant.
II thought so, and what else did
| do? bought her $40 watch, q
$40 bracelet, a 50 ring, a 81 set Of
jewelry, q new dress, and gaze her d
s. gold piece with a hole in 1t. Yes,
sir, | drew $500 from the bank =
every red | had -and used it all up
on herp'
"And them"
"She purtended to love back,
and when | squoze her hand she
smiled and smiled and looked heaps
OF love at me. She'd lean On my
arm, talk about Cupid, and glt of
poetry BY the rod, and it was plain
~ understood that we were 10 be
married in June. Oh, she knew her
Dlz, and she slid around M as the
Bengal tiger does around Lamb.
did she break the engagement
Last night" said the young
man, swallowing the lump in his
throat. "she told me she'd been
trihing with mo all along. She
said she was engaged TO another
lnan, and she could never be more
than sister to me! | tell you
seargent, you could have knocked
me down with a straw. | braced
up after awhile and called her a
hypocrite, when she called me a
white-headed idiot, and the board
ers threw me out of doors.
Five hundred dollars gone, and
| m wrecked man.
He blew his nose, wiped l.is eyes
and continued.
u don't want to drown myself;
the waters awful cold, and perhaps
| can get over this. want them
presents back, and Ell 20 10 Muske-
gon and try and forget her. It's
wrenched me All to pieces, and | can
never love again. Were you ever
IN love, sergeant?"
mo, never"
"fhen you don't know the an
guish the gripping around the
heart. Il cuts like a knife, and all
| can think Of i being laid out in q
coffin, my right hand holding a
bunch o. roses and my left resting
on nv heart.
"fou are young-you may out
grow it,"
Il may-l may, but It's so awful
sudden, and hits so hard. that | feel
~ IL Id fallen from q house. Go TO
the house, sergeant, aud see II lyon
cant yet them things back. IL I'm
alive III b. round again Tomorrow,
and IL don't come you may keep
the things for your Kindness. I'm
white-headed, but I'm tender-heart-
ed, and want to retire behind some
barn and think" .*
Al - ....es.s.I