The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-11-11
selfrt Mistellany.
A Midnight Tryst.

ne age Oh nlthElfS Us past, -
marked Chail.y Ingram. giving q
meditative glance to his long long
legs, as if they we're somehow respon.
sib]e for the present dearth of mirac.
ulous occurrences and thus kindly, if
unintentionaly, affording me an op
portunity to admire his resolute pro
file, the boyish freshness of his com
pleXion, and other details that went
to make picture of earnest young
manhood
"The age Of miracles is past. Raw.
ems or other thoughtful birds no longer
fly about desirous OF feeding the de.
serving poor. | must go to work."
In other words te must tear him
self from my enthralling presence and
betake himself to a distant State.
there to embark in mining venture
"a plan of ancient date in bis life,
and upon which we built our Utophia
Of future bliss.
81 am going: Rosa, soon"
| suppose | looked like Grief on a
monument turning up her nose at Pa
tience, for he said:
"Ob, you'll! get along all right The
dust of my footsteps won't have been
blown by the wind before Tom, Dick
and Harry will be spoonng here"
| left his side and walked to the
tall glass suspended between the end
windows Of the old parlor.. that had
witnessed so mu;h of our love-making.
1t seemed worth while to take a fresh
inventory of my charms, in view OF
the imminence Of my conquests.
WAS it mad?' he mocked, coming
oehind me and trying to meet my eyes
in the mirror. "You see, l envy
them-confound them! See here, sup
pose you 60 into a nunnery till come
back"
"Thanks! not even to oblige your
Sultanic Magisty, I'll compromise
though; VIII go into a nunnery,. ii
you don't come back
"Wlll you?' encouragingly. II will
give you five years of gracious free
dom, and if don't come back in that
time, make your vows Gin an austere,
sepulchral tone) and, coifed and clois-
tered, pray for the repose of my rest
less soul; for if l don't cone back it
will be very restless soul. >
He brushed my cheek with his sof
mustache, which, despite his assured
carriage and bis fierce self-asse rtion,
gave him such nave, adolescent air
Then slipping his arm around me,
and surveying my prcpossessiny fig
ures:
"What a strikingly handsome cou-
pie we are! You have way of draw
ing me to this mirror to harrow my
soul with that picture"
"If you could only conjure this old
mirror-fiN that image there, visible
to me only could steal in here, and
looking at it, persuade myself that
maybe You had not laid your gold
mine at the feet d."
paused from deficiency Of informa
5iop, not knowing whether senoritas
or geut,e savaecs predominated in the
gold mine regions.
"W ha: lots OF run We had at this
mirror Halloween, year ago-don't
YOU remember? See here'-with a
sudden change of manner-"are YOU
in earnesr about my showing up there
some time in the futurt"'
"All right; will make an engage
ment with you. Let's see-this is Jan
uary--say next Ho!Ioween, the MIG h,
of nights. lfyon want to see me, and
you have not forgotten me, look in
this glass next Halloween, and my
face will appear there as sure as
fate
"Nonscnst!"
Nonsense? You don't know any
thing abont it. Why, bad grand
mother who could do the queeres
things you ever heard Oh. You jus
come in here on the night of the 3ls
of next October. Come alone, a