AN OUTRAGED PARENT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 146, 20 June 1879, Page 4

AN OUTRAGED PARENT.

Old Bazembee was returning from his club the other evening, when, as he bung up his overcoat on the hall batrack, and prepared to go upstairs, be heard such strangely excited voices in the front parlor tbat he paused to listen A voice that he recognised at once as belonging to that fast looking young Snyder he bad warned Maria to be careful about, said, contemptuously: " Peace, woman, and weary me no longer by your reproaches. I tell you the. day of my wedding with Alice Montreasor is fixed, and, by heavens, nothiog shall prevent oar union !" Could these words be addressed to his own daughter ! Yes, it was, indeed, Maria's sob-choked tones that replied : "This, then, is the reward for my sacrifice— my devotion. At the very moment when our guilty secret oan no longer be kept, you: coolly tell me tbat I have no hope. Ruined and forsaken, you taunt me with your latest conquest. Monster— coward !" It "ouly required a second for Bazembee to rash up the stairs and get bis shotgun out of tbe closet. The next moment he burst into the parlour with blazing eyes, and, hurling the blackhearted betrayer to the floor, he placed the muzzle of bis breeoh-loader at bis temple, hissing : "VilliaD, swear to me that ybti will make an honest woman of this poor duped angel or I will strew the floor with your devilish brains 1" *« Hooray 1" sbonted young Snyder, sitting np and clappicg bis hands. "That's way ap. Maguif. Sperlendid I'" " Beautiful, papa. Encore ! Encore ! Bravo !" added Maris, delightedly. „" Never saw anything better at Baldwin's." "Eh ? What? J-er-er?" stammered tbe bewildered parent, grounding arms. " We were so afraid tbat you would ! object to my takiog part in the private | theatricals. Ma said you'd never listen to it. But you act better than any of us —doesn't be, Bobby ?" «' You bet," replied Bobby, fervently. ," Guess you must have been a regular amatpur Macready once, air ?'' Then Mr Baaembee coughed, and wiped his forehead, and mumbled about his having seen a (jobd deal of that sort .of thing when ba was young, and that Maria muat be aura to ; take in, the mat when her young friend had gone, and then went up to bed, aod dreaded he was playing an outraged community to crowded hons.es.all. night. ,