Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-02-25
MISS SOMEBODYELSE.

If you have ever been engaged to two
girls at once you know exactly how
Harry Pollard felt after the second
Lenox Club Assembly.
.'IlI cut and rum he said to himself
the following morning as the full reall-
cation of his embarrassing position
dawned upon his mind. cts a devil
of q mess"
He pondered the situation for time,
and finally decided to accept the invi-
tation he had received from au old col
Eege chum to visit him at Cape Cod.
Harry Pollard forthwith wired his
friend Bob Hewitt, and told him he
was coming.
Fiancee No. l was tall, stately girl of
%. She had known Harry Pollard
ever since they were children. He had
ALWAYS liked Carolyn Cannon, and that
evening after they had waltzed together
he thought he loved her, and told her
so She thought she loved him and
said so. 1t would have been very well,
no doubt, il matters had paused here
but they didn't.
Fiancee No. ? was Miss Aspinwall-
Jones, and she wouldn't have captured
Harry Pollard if it hadn't been for d
very scheming mamma. When Pollard
accepted a seatin Mrs. Aspinwall- ones
carriage to drive to the assembly he did
not dream the consequences OF the rash
act. For before the cotilllon was half
over the scheming mamma bad a very
bad headache-and would MIR. Pollard
mind if she drove home atonce? They
might finish the dance, and very likely
could get someone to chaperone them
on their homeWard way.
every likely p'-nOthing of the sort.
When Harry Pollard and Miss Aspin-
wall-Jones got into the brougham before
everybody, and brazenly started off for
a two mile drive after midnight, signi-
ficant glances were exchanged among
she onlookers.
ITO bad, you know" said one. Hes
too good a fellow for her"
1t was tacitly understood that she was
hunting his money. She was an awfuliy
pretty girl and all that, but frightfully
poor.
Miss Aspinwall-Jo had passed
through four seasons more or less, and
was too old hand to let such aA oppor-
tunity pass. 1t was not every day that
she could manage things to have Harry
Pollard alone with her in a brougham.
It was an alleged faipting fit that did
The business then; and when a girl
sinks down on your shoulder, and when
her lips look very red and tempting,
what are you to do? Harry Pollard was
but human, and forgot all about Carolyn
Cannon. When he left Miss Aspinwall-
Jones that night there was an under
standing between them.
But don't tell any one vet" he said.
Everything seemed to go wrong after
he left Lenox. He missed his connec
tons at Boston, and at last when he
reached his Cape Cod retreat he found
mo one waiting for him at the station.
Rain was falling, and hay fog OBJ
escured everything. 1t was after and
growing dark rapidly. Harry Pollard
stood on the platform in his gray mack
1ntosh and looked about helplessly.
He questioned the station agent, and
was directed TO a cottage half mile up
she road Then he resolutelv tramped
of, carrying a single hand bag.
''I'll find the place, never fear, he
said.
Presently be came to cottage answer
ing to the description given him. He
walked up the steps, but before he had
opened suddenly, pair of arms were
around his neck and he was kissed
heartily OF the lips by an extremely
pretty girl He didn't seem to mind it,
ard stood stock still in AFFECT confusion.
Then the girl drew back, saving:
Bob, dear, I'm so glad to see you. -
@'Er-why, really" he began.
The instant he spoke the girl looked
frightened. A wave Of color flooded
her face AS the light from the hall
streamed on him and she saw his face,
her eyes-Harrv Pollard retained his
tself-p0ssession enough to note they
we're blue and awtully pretty-looked
very much troubled. Indeed she had
some thing TO be troubled about.
@-Oh ~ she exclaimed, and ran swift
Iy away.
Harry Pollard watched her, and
stood blinking in the light.
"Deuced cordial reception" he said
4c himself. "Wonder who she is? No1
Bob's wife, of course, ] know her. His
sister? He had none. And she called
him Dear Bob / have this cousin
nv Jove. Odd | didn't think of it be
fore. Just returned from abroad
Wish | had known she was here and
wouldn't have come. I've had quite
enough of women; and she begins like
the fest-kissing and all that sort O
thing. Ny luck follows me every
where"
The door was open and Harry Pollard
felt tnat he couldn't walk in, SO be
pulled the bell and waited.
Presently woman came into tie hall
and the moment6he caught sight Of Pol
lard she gave him her hand and greeted
Aim cordially.
"Where did you drop from ?" she
asked. Il am aWfully glad to see you
So sorry Robert is not here"
1t was Mrs. Hewitt, Of course, an6
Pollard found that they had not received
his telegram, as the wires were down
and as for Beo Hewitt, he was in Bos
Ton, but expected home every moment
you'll find it awfully dull here,
said Bob's wife; "but Cousin Lou il
with US, and | want you to like her very
much"
And he did like her very much
When she came down to tea her face