Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-27

| anu neT SlSleT, NlTS. heppleT, were dI luS
Cavendish for two months. Perhaps
they were there when you wer5?"
IL left on the seventh of March for
Los Angeles" Austen said, after a long
pause.
Then they were! Oh, I'm sure you
must have noticed her They are both
lovely brunettes, two sisters, but Mar
guerite is slender, with such wonderful
coloring, and such dear, winsome
face"
Like a dark red rose, just newly
budded, and not very anxious to be
looked at-seemingly?"
Yes, indeed-just!"
"Well-I noticed her."
ANY one would! oh, like her i'm
mensely. 1t just happened that we had
a long talk by ourselves, and she told
! me one such funny experience they had
at the Cavendish your speaking of the
hotel brought it to mind. 1t was really
her experience, and it did not strike her
as being so very amusing, but thought
it exceedingly amusing"
"You often find things exceedingly
amusing"
"Oh but this was! You'll say so, too.
1t seems a lady, an old friend of hers
they had been estranged some little time
through misunderstanding to
the Cavendish, not knowing they were
there, but Mrs. Keppler had seen her ar
rival, and glanced at the register to find
the number of the room assigned to her
l-139. Meeting in this way in strange
city, and far from home, the sisters felt
they ought to make some little overture
of friendliness, so they talked the mat
ter over. Miss Darlington did not feel
exactly free to call, informally, and well
come her friend, but toward evening she
concluded, as they would probably meet
later in the dining-room, to take her
card down with rose"
"What?" Austen sat back and looked
| fiXedly at his sister. "Why?-why-
Millicent! Oh, go on-do-do!"
"Austen!" She returned his look
with mirthful eyes. well, wonder?
Could it be possible?"
"Millie let me hear the rest. Yes!
Anything is possible in this ridiculous
world! Go on"
"Well-Marguerite took the rose; but
meantime, Austen-and this is the funny
part-there was a nice, melancholy
young man staying at the hotel, who
looked like a doctor, and who seemed
TO be, Marguerite said-a foreigner-he
was fair, with fair beard"
Exactly" said Austen.
Both the sisters had noticed him, be-
cause he seemed so solitary and-sad.
Marguerite, | would say, had especially
borne him in mind However, she took
the rose and the card downstairs, and
explored until she found 1879, and tied
them to the doorknob, and was not
caught in the act, and came up, tri-
umphant. Now, when they were ready
to go down to dinner and opened the
door into the hall, what do you suppose,
Austen?"
"0h, don't ask me, Millicent"
why, there. was the rose she had
tied on !sar friends doorhandle tied on
her own, the card with it. There it
hung! You can just picture how they
felt"
Eyes, oh, yes-I can picture it."
"Ah, but wait! They were dreadfully
| anu ulu SO uO" IL W
at all, and when the waiter brought them
up something to eat they learned that
there had been a mistake about the num-
Der of the room-that the new arrival
was in 1877, and he also told them that the
occupant of 139 was gentleman from
New York, tall man with a light
beard, who sat near them in the dining
room, and, of course, he was the nice
man they had noticed and liked! He had
found the rose at his door and carried it
back to theirs. What a thing to dol"
at was wrong, l suppose, but had
seen her tying ii on the door-my door
the poor child"
you were the nice, melancholy man
OF course, you were! Oh, this is fine,
Austen, and so funny! Now you can't
say it isn't funny! OF course, the ladies
encountered their friend later, and all
was explained in that direction, but poor
Marguerite was overwhelmed with
shame. Why in the world did you take
the rose back to her door, if you thought
it was meant for you?"
Because / concluded girl like that
needed a lesson, Millicent."
"Oh-h-h, but, if she were a girl like
that, she would not take lesson, so
where was the use? Never mind! She
is coming to us to dinner on Tuesday
You must be here-remember, nowl
Tuesday"
"I'll be here. Millicent, and there will
; also be some dark red roses; when
used to meet her in the hotel corridors
called her "a dark red rose!'
Millicent. feel as if ought to meet her
on my knees"
THAT may be in order, later" said
, Millicent.-BrooklynL Life.
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