The morning call., 1892-12-20
HER PHOTOGRAPH.
A Little Plot for Archie
Gunther.
THEY FOUGHT FOR A GIRL.
I'm Secret They Both Loved the Fair
ffester-Witb Disclosure
Came Blows.
THEY FOUGHT FOR A GIRL.

Johp Biglston and Arthur Keplaar have
been cburns for years; now they are mortal
enemies.
There is q woman in ii.
John is a wood-carver who came to this
city from Pittsburg seven months ago and
now lives on Larkin street, near Post.
Arthur is brass-fnisher who came from
the smoky city of the Alleghanies with
John and lives in the same boarding
house.
Saturday night they went to the theater
together. 1t is their custom at the end of
each week, bur, alas! they will never so
together again.
Together they went out between the acts
to ''see man." They must have ''seen"
many 'meu." for when they returned to
their clearinghouse at an early hour Sum
day morning they were both rather
'jaggy." at least the landlady says they
were. and 10 prove 1t she instances the fact
that she had to come down and .let them in,
though both carried night-keys.
John and Arthur remained In their re-
spectiYe rooms all Sunday IL orning drink
ing bromide settler and absorbing the
moisture from towels baDdaged about their
respective heads
Before noon they were mortal enemies.
And all about woman no is young. fair,
giddy, and wanted husband so badly that
she intrusted her name and photographs,
together with $40 coin in 10 the keeping
of a certain marriage bureau.
This was two months ago. Since then
she has been corresponding with several
more or less eligible young mea in search OF
wives.
The plot thiekens.
Among the correspondents of the fair
Hester 4. Andoyitch. for that is the beauty's
name were these two friends, the WOOD
carver and the brass-fnis her.
According TO her arrangement with the
marital institution, Miss AndOyitch was to
correspond with as many male members of
the bureau as she pleased for period II
two months. II she had not secured life
partner by that time an additional fee Of IS
was due.
1t appears that Miss Andovitch was
equally smitten with the manly grRces of
both John and Arthur. She soon discOD-
tinued her epIStles to all other members of
the bureau.
To John and Arthur she wrote almost
daily.
OF course photographs were exchanged,
but no personal introduction had taken
place. Her period of probation, however.
was drawing dangerously near. The
madame" OF the marriage bureau was
becoming inpatient al her hesitaney and IL
she chose not a lover by the end of the year
the additional fee must be paid.
There existed but one secret between
John and Arthur-that both were mem bers
of a marriage bureau and that both were
madly in love with the photographs they
had received from Miss AndoViIch.
Had they not both gone to the theater
Saturday night and seen" so many men
and had such big heads Sunday morning all
might have gone well and John and Arthur
remained Damon sud Pythias tor weeks to
come.
But fckle fate played them a strange
trick.
She sent John into Arihur's room on Sun
day morning to talk over the events Of their
dissipation.
half an hour later the occupants of that
erstwhlie quiet bOarding-hO were almost
startled cut of their wits by sundry terri.
flying sounds that came from the hallway
on the third floor.
When the lRudlady. followed by tie cook
and the chambermeid, reached the hallway
carver ana tie brass-fnisheT rolling about
struggling, kicking. scratching, biting and
fighting like wildcats.
Near the combatants on the floor. torn
and trampled. lay the photograph of the
Miss Hester IL Andoyiteh, her name and
The inscription, ITO my dear Arthur" on
the reverse side.
One of the boarders Is a nghtwatchman
and special officer. He was reused from his
morning nap by the racket.
BY dint OF threatening TO arrest both the
eombatants be succeeded In separating
them.
Whom quiet was once more restored Ar
thur keplaar told the story. He says tn at
when BlgletOn entered his room and saw
the photograph Of the fair Hester on the
dreSsing-ehse he accused keplaar of double
dealing.
n heated controversy ensued, which
ended IN B!gleton assaulting Keplaar-so
keplaar dsclares-and he vows vengeance
in the shape of a warrant Tor assault TO kill.
And The fair Hester has still week in
which to choose her fate