Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1896-09-11

apology, she was young, bright and, 1
Thought, the handsomest girl had ever
seen. She was tastefully dressed in a
fancy costume. with skirts reaching Just
below the knee,
1--WE were soon chatting pleasantly
together, and learned that she had
gone up Tor come up, rather, that after
noon from Melbourne. and had been
driving before the wind above the storm.
as had myself been doing. 1t was, she
said, only her third ascent, but she was
perfectly cool and laughed gayly over
our somewhat strange meeting. / hap
peued to look closely at her balloon, and
suddenly it struck me that 1t answered
the description Of the ono the signor
had lost l asked her delicately where
she got it. and she said that it had come
down one day in her father 3 front yard,
and after dligent attempt to find the
owner by advertising in all of the Mel
bourne papers and putting up notice
in the post Office she had decided to be-
gin making ascents with the balloon
herself, since there was u heavy mort
gage ON her fathers farm and danger of
his losing 1t If $500 was not raised soon.
"She was much embarrassed when l
told her that l knew tho owner of the
balloon. and instantly said she would
return il to him at the earliest possible
moment. | was by this time so taken
by her that | told her sho should do
nothing Of the sort; that ns the signor
had got another balloon ! would see
that she was not dispossessed, though l
had not the least idea how should ever
pay for it.
cat this she blushed, thanked me,
but said that mamma would not allow
her to accept such gift from compar-
alive stranger. | was deeply touched by
her delicacy in the matter. but resolved
that she should own the balloon never
theless. In fnct, to tell the truth, was,
az you may guess. falling in love with
the girl just as rapidly an 1t is possible
for any man to fall in love with any
young woman
"And, to mako IL long story short, by
the time the storm was over and we be-
gan to descend was engaged to her.
subject to the consent Of her parents.
As we settled toward the earth and /
gazed across into her great, liquid eyes
and saw there tho light Of awakening
love WINS the happiest man above tho
Australian continent. But one dark
thought crossed my mind--that Of my
utter poverty.
"We soon reached terra firma, and u
delicious thrill shot through me M l
touched hor hand for the first time in
assisting her from her basket ! then
turned and picked up stone to use in
stalking down our balloons. l saw some
thing CLEAN on 1t. examined closely.
Goldi A glance showed more all about
ON the ground. used my stakes in
marking out claim. 1t became the cell
ebrated Gas Bag mine. Of which you
have heard, and month later sold 1t
for G2OO, 900 We were married in
Woolloomoolloo. "
"See here, Judge" broke In the
dominic. II thought this story was no.
ing TO introduce an incident to prove
that lying Is not demoralizing"
II promised nothing Of the sort. I" re-
turned the judge "This story Is All ex-
ample, not an incident TO prove any
thing. However there may BIO proof In
Ii after all. have told II, and I'LL
leave it to any one hero II am democrat
ized. "--IIaydcn Carruth In Chicago
Post.