Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-05-31
Mistaken Identity.

1t was Mamie Herbert's Easter Vaca-
ton. Even a drudging governess In
school, where every one seemed 10
think she was made of adamant or cas5
iron, has an interval of leisure once IN
awhile. 1t was just year since Nam
MES twin sister who had also been IN
a scaool, had been taken out of II by
the blessed interposition OF Cupid.
Rosie Herbert was very pretty
Charles Courtenay, whose eldest sister
was being educated under the care Oh
Nine. Briccoli, went to one of the ex-
hibitions and fell in love with Rosie
after the good old first s;sht' fa1nlons
and married her before she had time -
consider whether it was true or only
dream. They had taken little fur
nished cottage at Wickleicld, just big
enough for them gelvess a pair q scarf I
love birds and blue-Tibbcned poodle,
and they had written joint letter to
Mamie, entreating that she would
come and spend her Easter vacation
with them.
In the little furnished cottage next
door, divided from them only by gar
den hedge, dwelt a second married pair,
Mr.. and Mrs. Peckaby, but they were
by no means after the turtle-dove
style. The first gloss had worn off
their honeymoon some years ago.
Peckaby was handsome and hem
pecked. Mrs. Peckaby was very plain
and very jealous and engaged the
homeliest maidservants.
shall we call on those young people
who have taken the next house?' asked
Mr.. Peckaby of his wife.
what should we call on them for?'
retorted Mrs Peckaby irritably.
"Oh, nothing that know Of" said
Peckaby, feeling at once that he had
been snubbed; "only they seem to be
nice folks enough, and she is very
pretty"
"Prettyi" retorted Mrs. Peckaby,
acidly. ~ never did fancy that wax
doll style of face, and it fairly makes
me sick to see that girl hanging on her
husbands arm and simpering up into
his face"
Rosie Courtenay wrote her sister
comic account of their neighbors. an
enraptured account Of darling Char
lie" and a romantic account of the
neighborhood in the letter that reached
Mamie just before the school vacation,
ending after this wise:
Charlie will be down to the train to
meet you at o'clock, Tuesday after
noon, and mind you give him great
kiss and hug, because he expects you
will greet him exactly like brother.
Ever your affeetionate Rosie.
P. Sob, dear, had nearly forgot
ten, after ALL Charlie says you are to
know him by his fur cap, his long black
mustache Ga la Dundreary, you know,
and his new pearl-gray overcoat. R.
And so, upon this bleak March even
ing, with large fakes of snow drilling
through the air and the treetops bend
ing nearly double in the gale, Mamie
Herbert stepped out upon the platform
of the Wicklefield station, pulling aside
her veil and glancing eagerly up and
down for some one who was very hand
some and tall, with long. brown mus
sache, fur cap, and pearl-gray over
coat.
Now, as ill-luck and Mr.. Peckaby's
evil star would have it, that unlucky
individual had come down to the depot
to meet a new housemaid, whom he ex-
pected up on the o'clock train from
New York And, still worse, Mr.. Peck
ably was tall and handsome, too. with q
sealskin cap, pair of long, blonde
mustaches, and--a fine, new spring
overcoat Of the palest tint OF gray.
And, after her usual fashion, no sooner
had Mrs. Peckaby seen her liege lord
off the premises than she suddenly re-
membered an errand she had down at
the village store. which was diagonally
opposite the depot. and, putting on her
things, started off.
In the tangled web OF circumstances,
it also came to pass that Charley
courtenay was little late in conse-
quence of having stopped to kiss Rosie
on the stairs after he was all ready to
start for the train.
do make haste, DEAR" Rosie called
after him. "or you'll be late for the
train
"All right" Courtenay responded, as
he strobe down the neatly gravelled lit
tie garden path. I'm never late for
the train. though, my Rosebud"
" Vain boastl As he neared the bend
OF the road Witch bro' = view of the