The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-07-08


this. 1 fancied I heard the old gentle
man chuckle to himself as he shut che
J, street door on me.
| Then I thought about my eye. Could
tell them, after deceiving them hitherto !?
1.-THE worst of the first step in deception is,
it makes the others so easy. I did not
see that / could. Besides, surely it was
no crime to have glass eye; it was my
misfortune Why should I go and tell
| people :'tLook here; this is glass eye"
u when they liked it better for believing it
to be real It would be cruel, heartless
Besides Laura did not love me for my eye
No; I would not tellher yeti determined,
4 would rather she would find it out
Perhaps would lead her on gently to the
i discovery, and so break the blow, and be
able to say, "La bless me-what! didn't
you know it?'' That would be theprefera-
BILE course. 2-e a by.@
i When next saw Laura, she was very
/ eager to know if her father had told
lime ANYTHING about the reason which
brought them to settle in Stepminster. /
mentioned, his reply, and it caused her a
GOOD deal of apparent uneasiness
"He ought to have told you that, Pen
don't think ought to be your wife
till you know" or
I'protested my utter Indifference to the
cause that brought them here, whatever
1T might be. 49,
! "But, Pen" she said, plucking at her
dress--"O dear, you ought to know it. |
wish could tell you. am sure you will
regard me with an eye OF scorn by and by
when you find I have kept something
from you" The tears were coming up in
her beautiful eyes as she looked at me.
"No," said nothing would ever make
me change my opinion of her as the dear.
est darHng-Well, we will leave the
epithets. In fact, as / thought Of my
secret, which had not disclosed, 1t was
rather a relief to me that she should not
tell me why they came to Stepminster. 1t
encouraged and excused me, as it were,
for my own reserve But would much
have preferred, though, she should have
said 'eyes of scorn, instead of an eye.
Everybody seemed to talk about an eye
to me in a way which seemed quite per
sonal. sbis lsd5oadt go ataeaI..;.{ gas
care you sure, Pen, you will forgive
me, whatever you learn about me In the
future?'-
aCertainly,"I said. a q +. .a ...r
Well in course of time we were married.
still maintained my Office as inspector.
No one ever had such wife as mine-the
best-tempered and most loyable creature,
really believe in the world. Our con-
geniallty of feeling was something Won
derful. Even down to little matters of
the most trivial character in likes and
dislikos there was perfect unanimlty
between US. lie may seem a very absurd
instance to give of this unanimity, is so
trifing. But I have always a great
antipathy to flies. very nearly exposed
nv secret on one occasion before the
Board, owing to flies. 1t was autumn,
and aldv had been buzzing about my
face, singing me for a long time, whilst
reading report. Then I missed him;
thought he was gone Meantime, that
fly was intently engaged on my glass eye.
It was wonder they never noticed 1T; If
they had, [ should have been round out.
At home, had devoted great deal OF
my leisure in the fly season, to deyising
! traps and poisonous sweetmeats for tnem,>
land have fly cages In ever. room. l
was almost afraid Laura would think
this suspicious but no, she never did,
Her skin is particularly delicate and SEN
sitiFe. I Laura did not like. flies; l was
Tglad of that. heAeoa see TsfeT SGT s.
There was one thing, must say, caused
me no little annoyance about Laura. 1t
was. only little thing in itself and no
doubt 1 ought to have been above feeling
hurt at such a trife. Still, ever, SO little
a thing wheu it's in your eye, for instance,
as speck of dust, does cause a great deal
Of annoyance. With the congenialityl of
feeling between us, 7 certainly did feel
hurt that Laura did keep her desk con-
stantly and persistently locked from me.
wanted some ink one day. knew she
4 had scme in her desk, and asked for the
keys. The way she hustled around to
open that desk herself, and the excuses
she made to prevent my going to it, was
La masterpiece of female diplomacy. It
was not that wanted to go to her desk
so much as that I didn't like being locked
away from it. 1t preyed on my mind
when / considered the mutual confidence
that should exist between man and wife.
To be sure, had not told her about my
glass eye that was the only secret | had
4 from Laura-but then she didn't know
that, and she, at least, believed had
withheld nothing whatsoev yer from her, so
there was no excuse for her Withholding
anything from me. Another thing to do
with the desk was this: Laura had re-
ceived at least two letters since our
marriage, not in female handwriting,
which She very artfully cajoled, and per-
suaded me out of wanting to see. l knew
they were in the desk. And there was a
certain neat little parcel ia present, "
she said, '''fronl a friend." That went into
the desk, too. But why this mystery ??
A harmless deception on my part was ex
cusable, hui I could not bear deception IN
other people s4la9 Sd, .e 1l33