Evening star., 1898-11-12

| Three days ago-I came here happy man;
l was t4ifbe married The wedding day
was set fr day after tomorrow. Night be-
that is rty beSfotihed's he ' nameAand an AN @ she s' re-
ce1ved me cooHy.2 She declared that she
s mad seenl me On the street that afternoon
biondegaHa ofhat when she bowed and
m2tloneSsta-mS l kept right on with the
ONE otner woman and paid ne. attention to her
whatever' she swas ~astotnded at my con-
duct, and austA naturally. and when she
nisI me 5ha8, 8,ssfening she let me see how
ppnehoed p Shs was. L protested that 1 had
oeen waking With, no brunette, nor, in fact,
with anysladysfh AFTERNOON, and assured
her thatosare must certainly have mistaken
some othfffr. man for. me. l succeeded in
par5ly nds c9ayyneing hsr, think that she had
about tJVentefaa a carriage, 1 saw a very
pretty hsunette looking at me rather
strangelys thvught She looked as if she
thought she knew me, but l had never
seen her before turned away.
Ihat was my wife, ~ inter- Jected.
es, Doubtless" continued Carr. Miss
Dalton caught sight of her, and said,
There, Philip; there is the woman 1 saw
with you yesterday 1 reasserted that 1
had never seen the lady before; and from
my conduct Miss Dalton was inclined to
oeLeve De % me- L think If it hal ended there,
all might have ended well. But it
d'dn I. Two hours ago l called to
see Miss Dalton. She met me, and
oeciared that it was all over between us.
one asserted thae Sne nad again seen me-
on the street with that brunatte, and that l
mad kissed the, woman before her ve.y
eyes She thinks that / have deceived her,
betrayed her trust in ma, and she declares
that she will never marry me- Until l mes
you was in despair"
Well, cheer up, my friend 1 said.
hen she sees and my wife matters
VIII ba set straight with her"
we mad been walking along the street as
we talked, and l noticed many people turn
to look as we passed. Sir sularly enough,
our dress was quite similar, and people
&c ubtlasS mistook for twins.
l need not describe the surprise depicted
on Miss Dalton's face when she me,
nor Is 1t necessary to state that she was
speedily reconciled to her lover when 1 as
sured her that it was and not he whom
she had seen that afternoon. l explained
that had seen her a moment afterwar1
lying in faint, and recognized her as the
lady whom my wife and | had seen on the
street two days before.
Nor need describe the merrilnent We all
indulged in when Mr.. Carr and Niss Dali
ton, agreeabIy to their promise came out
to see my wife and me that evening. We
had merry time of it, indeed, and when
the two ladies' saw us together they began
to wonder how they could have mistaken
one for the other, for it transpired that
was taller by full inch than Carr, and a
good fifteen pounds heavier. n averIheless,
they acknowledged that the likeness was
really startling.
No, all that need not be coI1, for it isn't
part of the story. 1t only remains to
say that the wedding set s1r the second day
after not deferred. M wifi and I re-
ceivad an urgent invitation to be present,
ard overlooking the fact that we bad
known the contracting parties Il matter Of
some forty-eight hours only, gladly ac
cepted and We were sincere IS any Che
in extending wishes for their future happi-
ness.