The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-26
FOR VEAL OR. WOE.
The Dramatic Ending of a Mixed
Up Love Affair.

Up Love Affair.
Doubtless Jane Dobbins and Arthur
clever when, ia the first bloom Of
young love, they had a memorial pho
tograph taken together, with her gentle
head resting fondly on his gallant
breast. There We're TO be only two i'm
pressions struck from the plate, and,
oh, what a consolation each one would
be for the awful hours Of separation, an
ever-present sign of ineffable bliss! But
they never fancied that the plate re-
tanned its reproductive powers nor that
it was destined to fall into the hands of
the vengeful George Percy, and when
they recl>oned without George Percy
shey reckoned without host.
For this young man was romantic of
temperament and ingenious of mind
From his earliest perception he had
known and loved Jane Dobbius. From
his earliest perception he had vowed
that she should be his: and so, in the
heyday of his discretion, having seen
her ruthlessly torn from his mental en-
brace through the diabolical arts Ct d
hated rival, he swOre that he would
have his revenge. OF course. he must
disseIn ble-that was an essential of the
passion. Arthur and he had always
been good comrades, and so they must
continue. He must congratulate the
happy pair with false words and hol-
low smile. He must and he did.
But time was his friend, SO avaunt
despair. The lovers were young and
their complacent parents had declared
that they must wait. Aha! Was he
not man enough from the nettle oppor-
tunity to pluck the flower success?
Only bring on the nettle! Meanwhile
he would watch and wait. It was at
the acme of this conviction that Arthur
one evening, in food of that Grass
confidence which is half the pleasure of
being in love, showed the picture to
George. Alas! the blindness of fate.
Among the mental ingenuities with
which George was endowed was a very
pretty taste for the natural sciences.
Chemistry. through its facility in pro-
ducing Gght,from, darkness. sound from
silence, and smell from scentlessness,
had always appealed to his imaginative
qualities.
At school he had been allowed the
run of the a boratosy-and sometimes
a rim frowit--and there was nothing in
the,nature of smoke, stencil or explo-
sionswhich hs had not generated. He
wcnttfurther in a day than Faraday
did inthis whole life, and as for Da-
guerre, l,e could, take care of him with
cut half thinking. Indeed, in time,
phetog raphy became a delightful avo-
cation to him, and its mysteries We're
camerical not chimerical.
He ha6gained a weli-deserved repu-
tatiGn,as an amateur operator, and, it
So happened, had long been in the
habit of developing hts work in the
very gallery where the young lovers
had so wantonly made light OF their
most sacred emotions. And more he
was SO engaging in manner and SO gen.
crous insreturning favOrs that he had
the free use of the establishment, and
GANG and went as if his will was a CEN
turion, latchlley being his guide by
night All of this Arthur well knew,
and all of this he clean forgot in the
seltishirapture of displaying his happi-
ness.
But George remembered. and when
he had carelesslv read the makers name
On the back of the photograph he could
scarce restrain q start and the conven-
rional chuckle of foreseen revenge. In
z. fash came an idea which gradually
developed into full-grown purpose. lie
could. he would, he did. He knew many
n secret of the craft; now was the time
10 call that knowledge to his aid. One
night he searched and he found the
plate. He scare he'd further and he
found negatives of Susie Graham, a
great friend Of Arshurs, and of Robert
Prince. an ardent adnirer of James.
With infinite care, he prepared new
plates; andlo, when he had developed
these and taken their impressions there
We're two pictures. one of Arthur and
Susie, and the other OF Robert and Jane.
l.. the identical conjunction of affection
in which it had seemed clever to Arthur
and Jane to exploit their young love.
Aha" hlssed George with a half.
suppressed, mirthlcss laugh. as he
pulled his hair over his brow and rolled
his eyes, which shone with an internal
fire Aha have them on the hip and
i'll feed fat the ancient grudrc l owe
them"
And well he might laugh as one who
laughed last. The following week the
little Jane, while dreaming idly ef her
felicity received IN anony package
and wept The following week the
ardent Arthur. while impatiently count
ing the days Of his probation, received
an anonymous package and Swore The
next day two notes, pregnant with
grief and resentment, crossed each
other.
Read one:
'Faithless Arthur: return the ring
and other presents. All is over; 50
never, never speak again to Jane"
Read the other:
Pickle Jane: Since You no longer
love me, beg To herewith transmit
your letters and the slippers Won sent .
me last Christmas. think they are
Just his size. / remain. yours indic-
nantly, Arthur. /
How shameless" sobbed Jane when
she received the latter. What nerve,' 5
Rzpwlsd Arthu. as he tore the former .