Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-04-28
THE TWO BROWNS.

"ls Mrs. Brown ini"
The good looking woman smiled coquet-
tishly, placed her hands on her hips, with
her arms akimbo, and said very archly:
ut looks like it, doesn't iti"
Then she burst into very jolly laugh,
caught Brown by the lapel of his coat and
pulled him into the parlor, where she
reached her two plump arms up around his
neck and said to the astonshed Brown:
First, kiss me!'
Brown would have thought he had
struck private asylum but for the fact
that the little woman with her arms around
his neck was very pretty, 9Th big blue
eyes and golden hair and not at all like
lunatic.
Besides she was holding her face up
turned to be kissed, and he had no time to
think. He kissed her as per request and
did it with as much ardor as any woman
could ask. Then she said:
Second, tell me what brings you here in
the middle of the afternoon" and she
pulled his head down and kissed him
again.
Brown saw in moment that he was
mistaken for somebody else. He said:
II reckon you've made mistake. Pm
looking for a room. You seem to take me
! for somebody else you've met before"
His remarks threw the pretty little wom-
an into great fit of laughter, but she did
not let go of him.
Finally she subdued her mirth little
and said
Now quit teasing and tell me how much
you love me, and she smothered him again.
Pm not teasing you," he said. II never
saw you before. Who do you think ann"
The arms were loosened, and the two
hands grabbed him by the shoulders.
why, Harry Brown said the little wo-
man. What do you mean by talking to
me like thatS You know don't like you
when you tease
Harry Brown is my name" replied
Brown, but l am not your Harry Brown
nor anybody's / am a single man, and
came here hoping to find room"
The little woman bounced off his knee
and stood looking at him for moment,
evidently in doubt as to whether he was
crazy or only just playing her joke. She
made up her mind to the latter and made
a dive for his neck again and got it along
with another kiss.
Il see you take me for your husband"
/ said Brown as she perched on his knee
again.
well, ratherr' the little woman muir
INJURED as she Struggled her cheek down
against his and tickled his mustache.
But am not, ;" said Brown.
Up the little woman jumped again, and
Brown took advantage of the opportunity
to get up also He took her by the arm
and led her to the bay window. He threw
it wide open, squared himself up before the
tempting little beauty and said earnestly:
Pm not joking at all. have told you
the truth. l am not your husband, and
never saw you till you opened the door and
hhad mo I o1v ticad for n roo,,, l.,
this neighborhood and you answered it to
r H. Here is the answer" and he dived
into his pocket and brought it out
Look me all over and see if you don't
realize your error. It's hardly possible that
| should be dressed exactly like your hus-
band, even if | do look like him in every
other respect"
The little woman was dazed. She took
the letter mechanically and looked at him,
getting scared more and more every min
ute. Her eyes took in the cutaway nit of
dark stuff he wore, as though it were per-
fectly familiar to her
She looked searchingly into his face and
at the peculiar expression about the left
corner of his mouth, and had got SO far in
a protest as "Oh, Harry, don't frighten"
when her eye rested on his necktie and the
pin it held.
The pin was a jagged little nugget of gold
which Brown had got out west, and he had
had little diamond set in it.
Pretty Mrs Browns face grew a shade
paler, and she took a step backward and
hurriedly snatched the sheet of paper out
of the envelope. She opened it and read
her own answer to the advertisement. Then
she took another look at her husbands
double and ran to the other end of the
room, as scared as though poor Brown had
been a mailman.
"Go away" she cried frantically, "go
away"
! suppose she thought of the affectionate
reception she had given him and was
writing mentally. She dropped into a
chair and began to cry. This touched
Brown, and he came over and sat down
near her.
Pm sorry for what has happened" lie
said land will go in a minute First,
want to know something about yourself
and husband. gather his name and mine
are identical, just as we appear to be in
person."
The little woman told him, between her
sobs, that she had been married only three
months; that her husband worked in a GER
tain wholesale house down town, and they
wanted to let room or two to help out the
rent. That was why she answered the adj
vertisement
When Brown departed, she went to the
door with him and smiled through her tears
as she told him she could never be certain
she had the right man unless she put a
mark of some sort on him. She wouldn't
shake hands, and Brown walked away.
Well, he came and told me about it, and
we fixed up a scheme to go to the place
where the husband worked and look at him
was to ask for him and talk to him, while
Brown stood aside somewhere and sized
him up.
We did it. / asked for Harry Brown, and
when he appeared was so thunderstruck
that almost forgot my part, but l man
aged to say had called to see if he was a
Harry Brown had known in Manchester.
The two men were exact counterparts.-
Boston Globe.
A Trade Secret.
Make man think he is getting some
thing for nothing and he is easily captured.
A shoedealer down town is giving away