Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-15

night"
And MIR. Egbert bowed and found
himself on the other side of the front
door with no interest whatever as to
who climbed Mt Mckinley or whether
II was ever climbed at all. Laying
down the law to the girl is all right
and very interesting up to certain
point. but when it goes beyond that
the orator feels jar. Mr. Egbert
felt one and went home in sort of
mnze. His sister said he must be
coming down with the grip and ought
to soak HE feet and bring about a
sweat; and his mother, who had had
years more experience, darkly limited
at overwork and brain fever and mus.
tard plasters.
As for Miss Mabel-no matter how
she looked and felt. She couldn't have
done less than she did. Had Mr.. Egg
bert called the next evening with a
smile on his face the matter would
have passed like a summer shower.
But did any one ever know of young
man doing the sensible thing in a
case of this kind? He knows the girl
can't, and his silly pride won't let him.
And there you are.
For the first three days and nights
the young lawyer was determined
man. For the next three he was a
martyr. For the third three he was
hunting through Blackstone and Coke
for advice on how to patch up low
ers' quarrel without losing every shred
nf his dignity. Those volumes, though
SO full of legal lore, gave him no help
on the subject nearest his heart.
The moon was more kind, however.
one night, as he tossed on his sleep.
less couch and called himself names
for the hundredth time. the full moon
shining into his window brought a
sudden recollection with it. Miss
Drake had once mentioned that on the
full of the moon she had been known
to rise, throw a wrapper around her,
and walk forth on the lawn in a state
of somnambulism. Here was the full
of the moon. Might not she be walk
ing at this very minute? Why
shouldn't he walk too? He was on
the ragged edge, and that was next
door to somnambulism. Two somnam-
bulists might accomplish what two
persons, awake, had failed to do.
With heart beating high, the young
lawyer hurried into his clothes, tip
toed down the stairs and five minutes
later was two blocks away and gazing
at human figure slowly walking
across a lawn. 1t ives the figure Of
Mabel Drake. She was walking in
her sleep. There is no law laid down
in such cases. Attorneys must act for
themselves. Young Mr.. Egbert acted
He became a somnambulist and be-
gan pacing the lawn almost within
reaching distance of the girl.
For five minutes the two sleep-walk-
ers paced. They turned at a goose
berry bush at one end, and at crab
apple tree at the other. Then the
sleeping Mr.. Egbert said to himself in
sleepy voice:
Il shouldn't have said that to the
dear girl-no, I shouldn't"
There was a long-drawn sigh from
Mabel.
"She meant no harm, but in my jeal-
ousy l accused her!"
Another sigh, and just as they
turned, the soft words fell from the
sleeping girls lips:
'If l had known-if / had known
that he once called my George a
young squirt of lawyer l should have
told him that hated him."
Then the couple stood at the goose
berry bush moment, as if listening
to the sad refrain of the katydids, and
George murmured:
Il was wrong-I vas wrong! Earth
holds no nobler girl than my dear
Mabel"