Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-02-14
HER QUEER LODGER.

| ~ ES, l think the landlady
IN : SAID, "that the most mister
T~HA iOus and altogether interest.
&g.i& ing experience | ever had the
misfortune te be mixed up in was
a little drama that was enacted at
my house about five years ago
l was running a particularly Sc
lect establishment then in Omaha.
MY boarders were pleasant and
cOngenial, and l liked them all,
but there was one young fellow in
whom l had taken an especial in
terest. He was an industrious,
wide.awake young doctor who had
won his way to his then enviable
position, both in his profession and
in society, By dint of a dOggeh
perseverance which had finally
overcome @ d prejudice against HIN
caused by lack of family, money
and influential friends, and had
lifted him to the high notch he was
occupying when | first knew him.
Our most intimate friends In
Odmaha were people named -udlS-
bury. Mr.. MalSbury had formerly
been closely associated With my
husband in business, aud mother
was slightly related to him through
marriage, so there were several
reasons for the deep friendship
existing between ns. There were
three children in their tamily-a
son and two daughters, the young
est of whom was a bright, good
looking girl OF about tweniy'one
My daughter Jennie was several
years her junior, and in the he
ginning of the acquaintance she
conceived for her one of those VIC
lent attachments which very young
girls are apt to form for some one
of their own sex. Frequent visits
were lnterc hanged, hardly a week
passing without Rose Malsbury
spending two or three days with
my daughter and vice versa.
MY favor;e, the dOCtOr-l won
give his name, for he is a still a
wel!-known praclitiOner..-grad
learned to care for her, and before
the end of his first year with me
they had become engaged. Tue
engagement was announced IL
January and the wedding was tC
take place in June. But the latter
part of May was marked by a regu
lar upheaval of sentiment. There
was a bitter quarrel, which had Its
origin in an unreasonable but un
conquerable jealousy which hac
always been prominent ia her dis
positlCff, ani the consequence wa
the engagement was declared OIL
The doctor went away for a shOr
vacation a few days before tb'
time that had set for the wedding
and Rose took advantage o
his absence to make US anothe
three days visit.
Sac went home. l remember, OF
a Friday evening. The next day
the people who had been occupy
ing my third story alcOve went tC
New York and left me with ont
vacant room on my hands. Time'
were pretty hard, an1, wishing Il
get a tenant as soon as possible,
advertised in a Sunday paper,
thing seldom do, for 1t Is apt t.
bring in all sorts and conditions {
people. The first person to call /
answer TO my advertisement was
Young widow. She came early
Monday morning, and as sh
seemed to find nothing objection
able either about the room or the
price, let her take it, and sh
promised TO move 10 that evening
She was a boOkkeeper and stenC
grapher in some down town whole
sale house, she said, aud woul
not he around again till
o'clock. She was dressed in dee
mourning and was heavily veiled
aud did not see her face till TIN
night.
The doctor had come soOne
than he hal expected to, IN.
daughter Jennie aud myself wer
still lingering at the table whe
{ she came doga for her late diune
d | can't describe the feeling ths
came over me when got my fir