Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-09
RECONCILED AT LAST.
After a Separation of Two Long Weary
Years-He Performed Some Wonderful
Feats on q Visit to His Girls Summer
Home

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Years-He Performed Some Wonderful
Feats Visit to His Girls Summer
Home.
'1'll break it to you gently, old man.
| marry next week"
''The devil! Whoses the other I'M
fortUnate?"
"Grace-Grace Oldstock.''
you've told me time and again that
there was no chance on earth for you
two to become reconciled."
And | was right at that, for we
made up in the water. I'm going to
tell you the whole story now, but if you
ever peep, we're quits"
You'll hear oysters shouting when
l give anything up. Fire away"
You know two years ago | went to
spend a few days with them at that
summer residence her father built on
his big pine tract by Clear lake"
Yes. You came home peaked as
Ratchet and saturated with bile"
No wonder. | got there pretty
nearly as soon as they did, and, of
course, everything was haphazzard in
the house as yet. Grace and l sat up
till the short hours the first night.
After | had gone to my room and pre-
pared for bed | decided a good wash
would help me sleep, so / dousad my
head, neck and face" u
Come to look around there wss
nothing to throw the water into SO
went to window that opened on q
wing, and ment to pour the water out
noiseleasly, but the bowl slipped and
clattered down to the eave-trough
where it found anchorage.
That's easy l says to myself. and
let myself down five feet to the roof
I'll bet you it was soft-soaped, for nv
feet few up, | struck the roof as
though | had dropped out of balloon.
tCbogs8ned down the steep grade, left
several ounces Of myself on the sharp
edge Of the tin gutter, and was spread
out like a toad on fish-hook when 7
brought up in a clump of rose bushes"
Great heavens! Were you hurt?''
''Oh, no: | wasn't hurt; l guess not.
I was as full Of three-quaraer thorns
as chicken is full of feathers. end at
every move they stabbed me deeper.
held my breath as | heard a hurried
step along the veranda Then Grace
appeared just above me, held a lamp
over her head as she leaned towards
me, and let out a screech that froze me
solid"
Pardon my laughing, Charlie"
Help yourself. Of course my night
gown was spread out over the top of
the bushes as though to dry. The
only way l could intimate proper
sense Of modesty was to jump up in
stead Of squatting down, as one naur-
ally does when seeking concealment.
All this only added to her terror, so
she dropped the lamp, which exploded
and blasted me full Of fine glass, while
she was getting into the house as
though chased by catamount."
Wonder she didn't faint"
Not a bit of it, If there'd been a
fellow in a dress suit with her It's doll
lars to campaign buttons she'd have
keeled over. She just hustled to bed
and pulled the covers over her head.
Gut what in thunder was I to do? ~
yelled Id advertise the show to the
whole family | must act for myself.
So | broke away with a skin punctur-
ed like the lid Of a pepper box and
made race for the barn with the idea
OF capturing a horse blanket and
sneaking to my room after the servants
opened up in the morning
'At the stable door dog as big as