St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-10-03

Euellys Why did yon encour.es ~
q you have done, when now yea tell
me we must part forever
Carrie (tearfully but firmly)-I can
not marry you. Mr.. COurtland A voics
from the tomb forbids It
| Frank-A voice, did you say7
Carrie-Not Psecisely = voice, but q
letter. I receive letters continually
from my late husband
Frank Laughing grimly)-I suppose
they come from the dead letter Office.
So he writes you letters and Won
! arc correspondingly unhappy. What
wretched nonsense! Why triae with
me in this way?
Carrie-l am not trining, Frank.
Here is . letter in his handwriting
posted yesterday from the spirit world.
have received them regularly ever
since you began visiting here. I have
had them examined by the best experts
in handwriting and compared with
letters of my late husband. and they
say these ghostly letters arc written
by the same hand. Besides. in some Of
the letters are secrets known only BY
my late husband and myself
Frank takes the letter and reads. II write
these lines from the spirit world to let yUe know
fasthiess woman. that everything you do. say
or think Is known TO me. You want 10 marry
again. II you do something dreadful viii hsr.
zen. Bcwarci Your late >esband,
"PEl.SH VAN SLYcK."
Carrie-So you sec ] dare not marry
again. There is no mistake about the
letter. There is the envelope with the
New York postmarlx, station H. dare
say he is in the room right now.
Frank with clinched teeth)--I wish
he was Id make him wish hs was not
Carrie, issthis the only obstacle to our
union?
Carrie (blushing. with ~, rted face,
Yea
Frank-Then I'll clear thi. mystery
M in short order. Just let me have
that letter and envelope. And now
farewell Exit Frank. after pro-
longed osculation.)
Scene III (private Office of .nspectoe
Byrnes)-There are present the in
spector, Frank CORTLAND and an Eng.
lish-looking servant in liveries with
mutton chop whiskcrs. Tho latter is
on his knees and weeps bitterly.
Inspector Byrncs fixing his eagle
eyes on the wrctched cu;prit)-Now
make a clean breast of it or it will 10
the worse for you.
Mutton Chops (vvringins his hands,
Indeed, sir. I'm hinnoccnt as q babe
hunborn. never saw old Shakespeare
at hall ham no Frenchy No. but
an Englishman. never butchered
hanybody.
inspector (sternly)- learned
enough about that Nobody accuses
you of murder, but you had better tell
all about this letter from your late
master. Mr.. Van Slyck, which was put
in the letter box by yourself. Did You
write it yourself?:
Mutton Chops-Mr. Van Slyck wrote
those letter hisself, sir-hindeed he lid
Inspector (still more stcrnly) When?
Mutton Chops-Bcfore he died, sir.
Frank-Ah! 1 suspected as much.
Inspector (soothingly)-Come, now,
Just tell us all about it.
Mutton Chops lin \ confidential whis-
pcr)-Well. sir. for a month before he
died. Mr.. Van Slyck did nothing but
write letters to his wife, threatening
her hif she married again. He said to
me that he believed his WILDLY would
try to marry some young fool. who is
after her money. Drank squirms).
Says he to me, if you nee hany Of them
long cared doods ere scurtin' my wildly
halter ham dead and gone, just yo,
keep hon posti1' these letters till she
gets hafraid and tells i'm to stay away.
As soon as this young gentleman came
to the 'ousc began postin' the letters.
I was hafraid if my mistress married
this young scnt-and I seed for myself
she was lawfully gone on 'im-I might
be discharged and lose my place. Two
got 'arf bushcl more Of the hold gen.
tleman's letters in box, sir.
frank becomes dclirious with Joy
shakes the inspectors hand and even
embraces Mutton Chops, after which
he darts out of the Office and is lost to
sight.
The following item has since ap
pcared in the society column Of . lead
ing New York paper:
The rumor that tho beautiful end wealthy
Mrs. Van Slyck has broken her engagement
with that dashing society man. Mr.. FranA
Is now suthoritatively denied In |
fact It is generally understood that the we'd |
ding viii take place Within . short Tins. and |
will be one OF the most magnificent Affairs OF
the kind New York has ever witnessed The |
newly married couple will spend their honey |
moon in Europe"
Alex E. Sweet, in n. Y. Herald