The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-08-02
An Adventure Of Lovers

| Charlotte Grape, aged fifteen, We're
causing their respective parents some
uneasincss. They We're constant COM
panions, and it was feared that COM
panionship would ripen into love. In
deed it had ripened into love, though
none but the young couple knew it.
One thing they were forbidden and
that ON the ground that Charlotte was
| but Il schoolgirl Asa wished to take
her to places of amusement. That
which was unattainable openly was
undertaken by stealth One evening
they stole away and visited a theater
together. When the play was over and
| they had started home it suddenly be-
gan to rain. Charlotte was frightened,
and Asa was, to say the least, worried.
BY the story they had concocted they
We're supposed to pass the evening near
Charlotte's house under cover If she
| went home drenched the story must
come out Something must be done to
| prevent wetting.
| Standing before a house was q car
rage, the driver apparently asleep on
the box. No street lamp was near, and
the location was quite in the dark. Asa
| put his fingers to his lips and, leaving
Charlotte, tiptoed to it, cautiously open
ed the door and beckoned to her. She
came. got into the carriage. and Asa
followed, softly closing the door be
hind him. They We're beyond the reach
of Il drop OF rain.
The situation to the children-they
We're little more-was delightful First,
they We're plucking forbidden fruit in
being there at all; second, they We're
| saving themselves from discovery by
occupying Il carriage in which they had
no right. The rain battered merrily,
but no more merrily than they chuc-
kled. But suddenly their satisfaction
was changed to fright. The front door
of the house before which the team
stood opened. a man came out and,
after hasty glance up and down the
street, came toward them. The Win
dow of the coach was down, and he
threw in bundle, which fell in Char
lottes lap. The man whispered some
thing to the driver and away went
Their CONSERVATION was great They
did not dare call to the driver to stop,
and they We're in an agony as to where
he would take them. The consequence
was that they did what they had never
done before-clasped each other tight
ly and waited as if they expected to be
driven over precipice. They We're
taken they knew not whittier for half
an hour; then the carriage stopped. 1t
had hardly done so before man, who
, must have been waiting for it, opened
: the door. Charlotte gave a bit of q
S Shrek. The man, who had extended
Z his hand apparently to grasp some.
: thing, suddenly withdrew it with an
5 exclamation and took to his heels The
driver jumped from the box and fol,
4 lowed him at full speed.
> Asa got out through the open door
q followed by Charlotte and they were
# about to hurry away when a bit of curl
q osity supposed to pertain especially t.
the softer sex stopped them.
9 II wonder what's in the bundle
said Charlotte.
Never mind
:, ut may be something nice. Are 70,
:. going to leave it,"
= "Yes-no." He darted back, seized i
:, and the two walked rapidly away.
Asa soon recognized the street the,
We're on and knew that they were no
far from Charlotte'S home. The tim
10 which, if it accorded with their story
o. they We're to have been at home, wa
| nd of In
Y to do. After discussion they decided
that Charlotte should go into the hous
d. openly and make full confession. He
e parents We're waiting in much trepida
n ton and before she went to bed sh
+, had made her confession, was forgiven
g and, leaving the bundle With her athel
f. went up to her room to sleep as tran
quilly as il nothing had happened.
id But the next morning at breakfas
t. Charlotte ventured to ask timidly:
f. Papa, what was in the bundle?'
Paper, my dear; nothing but pa
per-" And, taking his morning paper
he left the table
rt After the episode Asa and Chariot
1t We're left to follow their own swee
S, wills. No opposition was made to thei
is going where they liked together anC
10 although this spoiled the fun, they ha
had one experience together whc
le formed Il strong bond of union. BE
a. sides, there was u mystery connecte
la with it, for Asa told his sweetheal
d that the morning after it occurred he
.r father had come to his fathers house
9 A third gentleman was called by telt
i. phone. and the three held long cor
sultation They had called Asa in an
10 asked IL he could identify the two pei
"a sons connected with the mystery
which, of course, he could not thong
- he gave locations accurately.
:, Asa and Charlotte's love grew strol
- :, ger as they grew older. Asa went int
= business. and when he got $50 a wee
y salary he marched up to Mr.. Crap
u and asked for his daughter.
Asa" said the old gentleman, I'd
IT. Won ramamhar yo,,r cn rrio ua drivo co,