El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-14

L inquired that | ought TO get 500 out
Of it, and I figured just what ! would
do with that extra money. Half an
hour later | felt a curious sensation
stealing over me. l began to feel sen
timental. l began to connect that dear
little ring with a dear little blond hair
ed, blue eyed girl. l got up and kicked
myself three times and called myself IL
fool. but the feeling did not go away
To my establishment and Indignation
found il growing stronger. and before
l knew it the grip of romance had got
me by the neck.
l was a man of leisure. though / had
no great amount of money to my cred
it l would hunt up the owner of that
ring. and if all things went well
would marry her. | settled on that
even as L kicked myself again. Com
mon sense told me that l might better
fall in love with the old apple woman
at the Waterloo terminus. but when
romance takes hold common sense has
to let go. For week l watched all
the papers. hut the ring was not adver
tiSed- This seemed to prove to me that
the loser was either rich and indiffer-
ent to her loss or that for some reason
the loss had not yet been discovered.
Romance made me anxious, and L
therefore went to the expense of adver
Using in five different papers. l sim
ply stated that diamond ring had
been found on a railroad train and ask
ed the loser to correspond.
Inside of three days I received about
$50 letters in reply. They came from
all sorts of places and from all sorts of
OF ctr
given all the way from one to ten. and
almost every railroad in the kingdom
was mentioned. The $50 writer's were
fakes and liars. and the true loser had
not answered me. i was a bit nettled
at this neglect ON her part. She was
nat meeting my romance half way. II
advertised a second time. and this time
1 gave date and day and train. Again
got peck of letters. and at least hall
OF them were from people who had an
swered before. AS none of them could
describe the ring l was no better OF
than before. Indeed l was worse Of. !
A railway official wrote me that liz |
keeping an article of value found on
the line l had made myself a thief and
that he would take great pleasure i'm |
seeing me behind the bars.
] was now I'm love with the loser of |
that ring Sentiment had a firm grip
on rue. and l got all sorts of silly no.
tons into my head. | must see the af |
fair to the end at whatever cost. and |
the end must be my marriage with the |
fair haired Beatrice. That was the |
name l gave her. and | put her age at |
Ii without stopping TO reflect that ! |
was probably as old a man as her ia |
Their. third crop of advertisements |
went ont. This time | called II a hoop |
ring, and I got 200 replies from losers /
of hoop rings. In sending out the |
fourth batch of advertising | described |
the ring with the exception of the ini-
tials. The replies numbered over 400.
l also got something beyond replies. A
detective followed me To my lodgings
and was insulting enough to ask
Look here. old man. what sort of Il
game are you trying to play on the
public with that ringt"
None of your business" | replied in
my anger at finding had been dogged.
But il is my business" he insisted.
Il don't exactly twig your lay. but III
have an eye on you for the next few
weeks and he prepared to make it hot
for you
IF you want to know who | am, go
to Brown X Brown, solicitors"
I'll find out soon enough without
any help from them"
For half an hour after he had gone l
was too put out to feel mucb-romance.
but as cooled off il came gently steal
ing back. and | was more than ever de-
termined To find my unknown love.
with that Independence which should
the actions of fairly
honest man l advertised for the fourth
time This time ! asked "B. p To
with me in case she had
lost anything. There were just 107 ''B.
y" answers, but among them l select.