The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-06-05
How Jack Forbes
Was Avenged.
BY MAX ADELER.

Everybody agreed that Jack
Forbes had not been treated fairly.
The squire, theclergyman, the cac-
King old ladies at the sewing bee,
the baker, the milkman, the mem
hers Of the Cecilian society, in fact
all the prominent people Of Bangle
bury, admitted that the treatment
which jack Forbes had' received
from Jenny Brown was the rough
est that had ever been inflicted upon
clever young man by good look
ing girl.
The whole story was as follows:
In May Miss Brown had come to
a,anglebury fresh from winters
sayety in the city, where her par
enis lived. II was whispered about
that she was sent to the village to
remain with her uncle, Judge Bates,
in order to separate her from G
youth who had made a deep impress
sion upon her at home. But this
was merely a rumor, which seemed
to be denied by the light hearted
mes, and joyous spirits Of the fair
maiden.
At any rate it did not deter Mr..
Forbes from falling in love with her
after a very brief acquaintance and
showing 4ler. that devoted attention
which is the usual method Of ex-
pressing such tender passion.
Miss Jenny received these little
demonstrations as If she liked them,
and although Forbes never could
get his courage quite up to the point
Of declaration he did not entertain
Il single doubt of her devotion to
him. Night after night he took her
10 concerts and lectures and singing
schools and sociables, dancing and
singing with her and walking home
with her in the moonlight and the
starlight, with his heart knocking
at his ribs as il it was bent upon
fracturing them and his soul SO full
of tender fear that he could t-lk of
nothing but the most absurdly COM
monpiace and pnosy subjects.
OF course Forbes behaved very
fooiishly. Flo could not reasonably
expect Miss Brown to papade around
the. country with him forever With
odt having an understanding, par
ticylaAy when the whole village
talked about the matter, and Forbes
therefore had no Mght to complain
when Mr. Dulcitt, the new singing
WaAtcr, soon after his ezriyal in the
i1Hh, began to trsspass in Forbes
bailiwick and to engage an unpleas-
andy large share of Miss Browns
time and attention.
Mr.. Dulci&t was mild young
man. with light hair and weak eyes,
which were protected by spectacles.
He had q room at AIRS. Megonegal's,
where he used to practice upon the
flute until the other boarders would
rage and tear up and down the en-
tries and consign Dulcltt and his
flute to place which L ulcitt, we
sincerely hope, will never, each and
where flute under any circum-
stances would be entirely useless.
But Dulcitts strong point was
yocalism. He could sing with such
Tremendous power that people won
dcred how he contrived 20 get SO
great a volume out of so small
body. A rumor spread abroad that
his legs were hollow and construct
ed like organ pipes and that he had
bellows in his boots. However, he
was good singer. There was no
manner of doubt aheut tasat, and
when he stood up in front of his
class in the town hall and led them
through some spirited chorus he
created SO much enthusiasm for
himself that the miserable Mr..
Forbes covered in the back art Of
the room, SO angry that he could
hardly help along the chorus with
that dreadful bass voice of his.
But his anger was mere good hui
NOR at such times to the ferocious
i rage with which he regarded the
mild eyed Dulcitt when he descend
! ed from the platform and beamed
through his spectacles upon Jenny
as he offered her his arm and swept
her past poor old Forbes without
even glance at his rival. To make
matters worse, everybody in the
class understood the situation, and
all eyes were turned upon Jack to
see how he would bear it.
i Everybody considered Miss Jen-
ny's conduct highly improper. The
young ladies thought so because
Mr.. Dulcitt had neglected them,
me young gentlemen entertained
the opinion because each man had
Ia private impression that such be-.
havior would have been justifable
only if Jack had been forsaken for
him. 1
q One cold night in December the
cecllian society met to practice
some music for concert which was
Ito be given during the HOLIDAYS.