The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-26


@My boy, she bielsnb her umpreua,
and your plot fell through. Am | not
right,
"You arc, Z answered Carroll detected
| 1y. How did you know she had her UNI
brella?'
"Why, / saw her, of course. Here I get
out of bed at half past Z and stand for one
hour in City Hall park to see you escort
that girl from the bridge to the office, and
instead of that she comes over alone n
with an umbrella which would make W
of yours. I consider, sir, that have been
bunkoed, badly bunkoed.
Now, then" he continued, what is
your next move to be?"
"Oli, I don't knew what I shall dol"
replied Carroll in q ~Giscontented tone. Il
might jump ont Of the window, and l
might go home and go to bed, but l don't
care which it Isl
eff you are determined" said Lyle,
with a grin, ITO do, either one of the des-
perato things you have named, l should
suggest the latter as the lesser of the two
evils, but if you take my advice you'll
stay right here and watch the girl go
home. There may be a chance yet,
There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
rough hew them though we may and
with this quotation Richard Lyle walked
out and slammed the door, leaving Henry
Carroll to his none toopleasant reflections.
AT O'Clock Carrell.stood at the Broad
way entrarceof the building and watched
the men and women as they hurried along
| through the dismal rsin. He was about
to give up his watch for Miss Moore when
he saw her leave the elevator Il walk to-
ward him. Then he could hardly keep
from shouting when he saw that she had
no umbrella.
He was at her sidein a lnomentand had
offered his services as an escort, and she,
after a moments hesitation, had accepted,
with many thanks, and the pair started
coward the bridge. 1t happened, very
strangely, that Henry had been intending
to go over to Brooklyn for some weeks,
and be decided that tonight was the very
one for the trip.
They did not talk much, but Henry was
happy and did not care TO talk. She told
him, however, that her umbrella had been
stolen that day, and also that she lived
some blocks from the elevated station.
Henry knew that he could not convince
her that he was going in her direction,
and SO he gave her his umbrella, swere
that he was. only going one block from the
bridge, and after escorting her to the
train left her and returned to New York
on the next train as happy as if he had
Just been made a justice of the supreme
court.
The next day they met again.
She called at his Office to return the UNI
brella and to repeat her thanks, and
shortly after this Henry was a frequent
visitor at Mrs. Moore's house, and he was
well liked by the widow and her other
daughter.
Henry had accumulated three clients by
the following May, but all of his cases
were still undecided. He had money of
his own, however, and SO that did not
bother him, and on n bright spring
morning he made up his mind to propose
TO Nellie that evening.
He made the proposal as they walked
across the bridge, and she didn't say any
thing about its being SO sudden and about
speaking to her mamma, but told him
%Yes'' without moments delay.
Henry, ever in his happiness, cursed
| the bridge for being such a crowded place
and thus preventing him from doing the
thing which always characterizes the sue
| cessful termination of a love suit. The
marriage occurred in June.
Henry and his best man, Dick Lyle, sat
in the anteroom waiting for the organist
to give them their cue to enter, and the
groom said:
"Dick, old man, you were right on that
rainy November day when you quoted,
There is a divinity that shapes our
ends.'"
Dick did not answer, but after the cere-
mony, when the happy pair had said good
by and driven away to the Grand Central,
he stood in tho doorway and muttered:
"Well, this is the first time that I've
been called a divinity. I stole her UNI
brella that he might meet her. damaged
my immortal soul, He got a bride by the
theft, and the umbrella is my reward.
I've still got that, and I'll hang Oh to it..
New York Sun.