Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-09-15
WORSE THAN A CHINESE PUZZLE.

| pdJleQ the crisp plllON oA>'A44S
gazed complacently around the pretty
room-a guest room that had never yet
! held a guest-fresh, new end dainty
The breeze stirred the frllled curtains
the late afternoon sun shone on the
creamy walls, and the soft light MT
tered through the young leaves OF the
chestnut and family tinted with green
the lovely 'Abend" over the bed.
No wonder Mrs. Jack looked salts
fed. No detail for comfort or beauty
had been forgotten. She and Jack nad
been married only few months; thls
was the finishing touch to their cosey
nest, and any young housewife might
have been proud of the result.
Just then Jack rushed in, bearing
letter He stopped on the threshold.
"Whewl what a magnifcence! Might
a poor worm venture in?"
Nonsense. jack 1t isn't magnit-
cent at all-only pretty and resttul.
Come in. bad boy, and tell me what Is
in that letter"
you know Cousin Elizabeth ask
ed Jack. as he settled himself in big
easy chair and pulled his little wife
down be side him.
Eyes, indeed, dear You remember
saw her the summer We were en-
gagged; and I liked her so much! Such
sweet face and gentle ways! But she
seems too old to be your cousin-more
like an aunt"
Father was the youngest of an i'm
mense family, and Cousin Ellzabeth's
mother was the eldest, so there were
many years between them; indeed
father and his niece are nearly OF an
age. You knew she was married.
yes an old love story, wasn't it-a
real romance"
"Well, Fannie, what do you say to
your new room being chrlstened by
this ancient bridal couple on their
antique honeymoon"
"Oh. this isn't their honeymoon!
They were married long before we
were. and that was ages ago. Besides,
they aren't so old, and | am very glad
to have some of your people for our
first guests. You've been such per-
fest dear about this room. What does
the letter say?"
He read it,
Dear Boy and His Dear Wife,
have so longed to see you in your new
happiness, and now comes an oppor-
tunity. The colonel has come TO Bos-
ton on business, and I am with him.
Would it be convenient for you to have
us for a few days? DO not hesitate TO
say so if it would not. Ii you really do
want us. couldn't Jack meet the Col
onel at YOung's after his business
hours Wednesday, and take him out to
your home? I have an engagement
that will keep me until evening, but I
can find my way to you easily. With
dear love to both
COUSIN ELIZABETH.
P. 81 do want you to see my col
Onel. c. E.
"Wednesday-that's day after to-
morrow" said Mrs. Jack 81 shall be so
happy to have them I'll write AZ once.
But she gave no address. Never mind,
you can assure the colonel when you
meet him how pleased we are. There s
the dinner bell"
That night as Nan was. taking hair
pins out of her bonney brown locks,
she casually remarked 10 jack
What did you say the colonels
name was? | don't remember il"
Jack loked puzzled "Why didn't I
tell you? -colonel-Jingo! I've
clean forgotten that name for the mo-
ment. No matter. II will come to me
in the morning"
But in the morning it was just as far
away from his memory as ever.
Nan" he said in CONSERVATION,
chow shall l ever find the colonel at
Young's Hotel? 1t will never do for
me to go around inquiring for the col
onel who married Cousin Elizabeth
Jack" creid Nan, what fix we are
inl What ever can we do? Can't you
think of the name? Bend your mind
to It,"
Jack bent his mind to it, meantime
pacing the floor.
at seems to me as If 1t were some
think like Walker but 1t isn't that "
Perhaps it's 'Trott, " suggested Nan
cor 'Trotter.'
mo. it's an odder name than that,
but what It is I cannot make out"
Jack. this is awful. We never can
let them know we don't remember their
name. after that lovely clock they sent
us when we were married. My note of
thanks went to Cousin Elizabeth.
through her mother. I know if I had
ever written the name I should remem-
Der it. Oh, dear" and Nan looked so
disconsolate that Jack had to stop his
deeply perplexed thinking for awhile to
cheer her.
ooh. jack she almost sobbed. you
can't find the colonel, and they'll think
we didn't want them, and how can we
ever EXPLAIN"
Gracious, Nan! It's simply awful!
Cousin Elizabeth Is such a dear, for
getful soul. she'll never remember she
didn't send us any address; but she is
very sensitive, and if she gets it into
her head that we didn't care about her
coming, it will break her heart. Ha;
have it, and Jack snapped his fin
gers and executed a jig on the hearth
rug.
what, oh, what?" cried Nan.
well, I'll go over to the station and
telegraph to Sue for Cousin Elizabeth's
married name"
Jack pulled on his mackintosch and
plunged into the storm. Half an hour
later he returned with a very dismal
countenance.
THE wires are down between here
and Boston" he announced. "The
gale is fearful"
They spent a dismal evening Jack
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