Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-06-02
JUST A SLIGHT ERROR
ONE, MOREOVER, THAT ANY PERSON
is LIABLE TO MAKE.

is LIABLE TO MAKE.
But when 1t Happens to SHcrson-
nIly You Are ns Likely to BE Angry
over 1t ny the Man In This story
WAS
$50 You and Ned went to his broth
er's wedding, did you?" qucricd the
girl with the appealing eyes. do tell
me all about it. Was the BRIDE
"l-cr--l was not there" sighed the
young woman in the tailor made gown.
You see. Il
/ Il see, you poor darling. Ned wouldn't
give you Il new gown for the occasion,
and you very properly refused to-
Il did nothing of the kind; neither
did Ned. Even the drcssmakcr was
nice. took the prccaution of telling
her that the wedding was to take place
IS hours earlier than the invitations
announced it, and, in consequence,
She
Got it home just in time? | know
/ it. And yet they tell us that truth
is
/ Nv ''N' l''liNN Nil'N bN'll'
/ Well, that gown fitted me so W. II that
l could not grudgc even the money for
the present Ned had given them. You
see, | wanted 20 look especially well,
becauSe"-
"You wanted everybody to say that
/ Ncd'S wife was handSomcr than his
/ brother : bride. OF course, you needn't
have mentioned such an obvious wish"
at wasn't so much that, dear, as the
fact that the brides brother once de
clarcd that he would shoot himself if
didn't marry him. and
didn't do it? | see"
"IIc didn't. Instead he married n
girl with Il lot of money and actually
had the-thc bad taste to be happy
with her.
console yourself, dear You could
never have been happy with person
/ who
"WhO didn't even keep his word! |
know it. Still, | wanted to look my
bcSr when he saw me for the first time
since his marriage The bride lives in
Rochester, and Ned could not arrange
to get off in time for any but the last
train, which would reach there in time
for the ceremony. OF course | refused
to go on ahead, bcCauSe"-
'Iou were afraid you'd have TO buy
your own ticket. OF course"
Not that, dear. Ned doesn't care
much to have me do that. | always
make him pay me back, and sometimes
| forget just how much | have spent
and make him pay more. No, it wasn't
that II didn't want Stuart-that is
the brides brothcr-to see me without
Ned, for fear he'd think we-well,
weren't quite as happy as | wrote him
while on our wedding trip"
"Ii'm!" said the girl with the ap-
pealing eyes. "That wouldn't be half
as bad as if he lived next door to you.
My sister BcSS lives right next door to
the man she used to be engaged to, and
she darcS not say Il sharp word 70
Dick, because the party wall is so thin
| that she might as well shout it through
a mcgaphonc."
But the man she was engaged to is
married, too, isn't he? Then
He is-tO Il deaf mute. But 90 on
with your story, dear What did STU
art say when he saw you? DID
"I-cr-Ill tell you all about it," sigh
ed the young woman in the tailor made
gown Il haven't been out anywhere
for several days, and Ned has been so
| quiet that am glad to have somebody
to talk to. don't know why it is, but
Ned has an idea that don't appreciate
] bp ral,,n nf To hn I
times keep him waiting, but T.
always have II good excuse? OF
course you have. Did he take you
down to the train an hour ahead of
timc!"
"N-no. You see, he went down to
business as usual, warning me to he at
the station on time, as he would go
alone if was not there to meet him.
knew what Stuart would think if he
saw Ned alone, so | ran into the din
| ing room as soon as Ned left and set
my watch"
81 only hope you remembered to
wind 1t up, dear. BeCause'-
"Of course | remembered. You don't
suppose I'd do anything so silly as
that, do you?"
"ITm. Perhaps not. Well, tell me
all about the wedding. VAS
81 wish you'd let me finish one thing
at a time" said the young woman in
the tailor made gown, with great dig
nifty. 'Wcll. | sent off our luggage in
| plenty of time. and even put on my
hat so early that had to sit and wait
90 minutes before it was time to start.
l never knew such a long day. And
when | reached the station r.
"Found that Ned wasn't there? How
provoking! When
"IIc was not. Neither was the train.
1t had gone half an hour before and
! IL couldn't persuade the officials that
they had made n miStake,"
$50 you didn't go to the wedding,
after all? But how could that happen
when you wounl up your watch and
''rhe clock by which | set it had
stopped" walled the young woman in
the tailor made gown. 'and you should
have heard the things Ned said when
he got home" e!"-Philadelphia North
American.