The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-03

80 far as | know. She was when I
left England"
There is only one thing about your
sister / regret. / wish her name were
Diana. When l hear Charlie call you Df,
it seems as though no other name would
fit You, and your sister is your double"
Even in this respect also / think you
may be happy. Her name as well as mine
is Diana. I am Mary Diana, and she Is
Diana Mary whim of our fathers. He
said the twins should start fair, SO gave
us the same names, but in different order.
REALLY What a sensible man your fa-
ther must bel / shall certainly call her
Di. I hate every other name.
AREN'T you making the pace rather too
hot at starting, Captain Dick? Besides,
you must own your wife before you can
name her."
II shall start for England tomorrow"
"But consider the duty you owe to your
country, Captain Dick"
"Oh, that's t~ommyrotiD
"What2 And then the extra pay You
will sacrifice"
aoh, bother the payi I don't care g
red cent i'll lose it ALL"
One morning, three months after Cap
tain Richards departure, Charlie and
Diana MARYLAND were seated at break
fast when one of their ervants entered
with letters just received from England.
"Three for you, DIP exclaimed Char
lie, handing them across to his wife.
sAnd one, / see. from Mary"
tiny darling Di, ! read Mrs. MARYLAND.
"sSuch newsI You'll never dream what's
coming. I'm going to be married. And
to the dearest fellow in the world. I al
ways thought your Charlie one of the
best, but he's not a patch on my Dick, for
that's his NAME"
"Wen, I'm sure" grunted Charlie.
"Are you going to stand that, Da"
eyes, Dick Richards, resumed Mrs
MARYLAND, "'and, I fancy, in Charlie's
regiment. Isn't that stranger"
by Joye, he has kept himself darkP'
~interposed the captain.
"sWell, Captain Richards came down
for the hunting and met father. Hearing
he had but recently left India, father ask
ed him whether he knew you and Charlie.
He said he had had the pleasure of meeting
you occasionally, and that he believed you
were we'll"
Mrs. MARYLAND paused in her reading.
"What do you think of that for cool au-
dacity?" she said. why, the rascal was
always in our bungalow. Master Dick,
what she says next.
"sHe made himself SO pleasant to father
that dad brought him to the hocEe. After
this he came here or we met elsewhere ev-
cry day, several times with the hounds
he can ride, Di, and he's good enough to
say / can. Do you know, he proposed after
on1u q r,aoE'c cnr1aiptaneochi OF QO1Iran
1 thought this a little precipitate and told
him SO, though I had utterly lost my
heart to him. But he bore down all my
arguments with his i~mpetuosity, knocking
my half hearted objections into atoms, and
would not be denied. OF course I had to
give way. I was really won before he ask
ed me. He seems to divine what / like
and what 1 dislike; what / can do well,
what moderately, and what not at all;
brings me the songs that just suit my
voice and style and in every way antici-
pates my wishes. Isn't it wonderful
stNot at all, y i~nterposed Di. II could
explain it.
"tOh, I am a lucky grill And then he
pays me the most charming compliments;
says that to him there is no other girl n
the world.
stJust what he said to me" from Di.
sThe scamp, he didl'' from her husband.
"tThat, until he met me, he had never
given a single thought to any GIRL
tSaid the same thing to me, " from Di.
ibid he, indeedt' from Charlie.
"sThat had he not met me he would
have remained single all his life"
"Well, of all the double tongued crea-
lures on two legsi" exclaimed Mrs. Mart
land. stThis is really too much. / have
some slight recollection of listening to
words to the same effect. Oh, faithless
wretch!'
ssDo you mean to say, madam asked
Charlie, THAT he had the impotence to
talk to you like that?"
well, yes, dear, he had; but it was a
sort of despairing wall, when I urged him
to marry. The fact was, I was drawing
him. 1t was all for Mary's sake. I want
ed to find out how far she was his style"
"Well, there's no harm done, at any
rate. Fire away. Is there any moreP"
Eyes. Where was /? Oh, remained
single all his lifei Wasn't it nice of him?
Well, I'd no sooner consented to marry
him than he wanted it to be at once; said
he must get back to India-just like you
and Charlie over again. We shall spend
about two months in England, then see a
little of the continent, whence we shall
make our way to India, when I b meet
my Di nee more.
Writing your name reminds me, chat
we discussed what he should call me. I
told him that, my first name being Diana,
he could call me Di, if he liked. He said
that he would rather call me Mary, the
sweetest and best of all women's names;
that he had always thought Diana q bit
of a prude, which I certainly was not.
Mrs. MARYLAND put down the letter.
"Dear Mary She said; ssHething could
have pleased me half so much as this. I
was sure if she. and Dick met hey would
make a match of it. But, oh, that per-
jured villain-Dickt Thinks Diana was
a bit Of a prude, and that the name is very
suitable to me, does he?"
At that moment the servant entered
with a telegram. Captain MARYLAND tore
it open.
Hello, 2 he said. "it's all over! Listen
to this from Dick: Diana Mary Hilton is
no more. r. and D. NJ. Richards send
love to Charlie n Diana. Harms
worth's Magazine.
Sufferers.
tThere was a poor tramp here this after
noon, 4 said the young wife. "The poor
xr,e xvcrr,r;pp auor bia rpyt meal ha