Litchfield enquirer., 1875-12-02

gave ne one glance 5of pikY hh Pc came in to breakfast, but mmda mOi0tmar sign. Ellen vas 4 ifstIs nor qniess tH@m usual, and she did come ko nc hs s6oon saS she found ( chance, and said i'm @n awkward. confused way: '1 am glad yCM d5d send that horrid man oas IaAk higDk kDow he was bad now. MRAe Geers (wi5e of our prOprietOE) told me she was glad he was gone, for she had been watching him, ard thought he was not very nice. Not very uiceI Mrs. Seers might have watched, simply, until the girl was actually carried of, and all her watching would have done
 no good without some action. Do yOu suppose it was mere chance that sent nc down that path just when went. that
 night? Ten minutes later. might have
 been just too late. Such things make one
 think all sorts of strange thoughts. as you
 would know if should write them out, Well, this letter is like dime novel :;
 but this is all the startling yOI will have, We all go away soon now, and pOtbi3g more can happen. Bat, my dear girl, Jt 1s glorious not to have speezed siDgle
 sneeze while have been hereto be able
 to shake my fist ct tbat box of baBdkcE-
 chiefs (geBtlemen's size) which is down in
 the bottom of my trunk, Not tO be Obljg-
 ed to say ''kepubdIckad kpnb" when 1
 am talking politics, and no not to haye,as you would say, the long lasbeS of my star Y eyes hung with tears. and the eyes
 themselves red and green with Kubbing. Here's good night and q good conscience.
 As ever, BEcKE GRAY.
 Dear Gustava The thing have dread
 ed ever since have been here has come to pass. 1 have lived in MicawbeEish fear
 that something would turn p,snd yester- day dust and ashes were on my head be- cause something did. !. saw some we'll known trunks in the hail, and tO make as- surance sure, theEe was ''H. l. Ce- cl, and on another, 'tF. s. C." There the game is up. You know how ifnpuIsiye
 our intimate friend Fanny Cecil. is felt it all, and ran along to thes office tO find her room, winch discovered. made line shot of myself for her door. Alas
 as I was turning from the passage way to
 go along the passage-way to hez room, be-
 hold, she had come halfway along i;, and Ton of Ton emerging from his room at that moment. Ihad the pleasure of see ing him bow and go up to her If she had seen me, she would have gwen LaI- 10, and fallen upon my neck My move
 ments were of the lightning kind for the next five minutes. and prayed. in the
 
 came m to supper, they might be placed
 back towards me, and at a distance Of
 course that perverted head waiter placed
 them so that Mir. Cecil faced me l Te-
 membered that he was short-sighted, and
 trusted that he had lost, left, or smashed
 hls eyeglasses. No, the wretch calmly
 put them on, and gazed sersnly around the dining room. Of course turned my
 back toward him, but knew when he
 came around, to the region where T was,
 in the course of his lsisurely surveyI
 could have told when his dear old eyes
 rested on my back hair ss certainly as if an OxyhydrOgen blowpipe had been open
 ed on it full blast Bless him :? What
 good times had with him and Fanny m
 Europe. and how hated him now Ab-
 stractedly presented q young lady of the
 party vas waiting on with pickles, when she asked for some more sugar, and tried
 to pour mllk into the babys tnmbieT out
 of the carving knife, I was indignantly
 sent to make hot toast, and managed to cool down a little, hot as that operation is generally considered on a summer night. hoped MT. CeciPs attention would be turned upon something else by fhe time got back But you cannot throw a keen old lawyer oil the track. He had evidently spoken to Fanny, who was looking around full of curiosity, and. what was worst of all, Ton of Ton was regarding us Withss an eagle eye, and evidently thought there was Q situation somewhere. saw it all in about quarter 0f glance, and how I felt. Don't talk to me about leading a fOrlorn hope, it IS a mere joke to facing inquiriDg friends, under unexpected cir cumstaDces with a dish of toast in yOur hand, especially when the aWkwardness is all Tn the toast and your conscience Is clear.
 l expected Fanny would get up, tear across the room, call me by name, and de- mand an instant explanation, and that made me desperate. Putting down the toast, and putting on q cool, quiet look, walked over to them, asked Fanny if thete was anything l could do for her, and said, in an imperative whisper, Keep still Don't say word" Like an angel, she ID loud voice, T want the butter," n was within an inch of Der nose, and 1 pushed it half sn inch bearer, snd went back to my own table, leaving Mr, CecIl very much tumbIed up and down in his mind, What Ton of Ton thought 1 had DO means of knowing, for did not dare 20 much as move an eye-IId in bis direc- tiOn. There was one consolation is his being gentleman. I knew he wOuld Dot ask Fanny about me, because hs must have seen that did not Wish to be knowD. But felt ss if g peck Of bnmbIe-bees were up my sleeves until about half,past 3, when Fanny went to her room, and 1, on the watch. tapped on the door, aITaCst as she had closed it. She gave one small howl and seized me about the, neck be- fore could stop her, and had a good CIi- time hug, and then she asked me forty questions in less than the fourth of q sec. Ond, finishing up with, Nov BecI.ie. what does it mean = did nOs fake bong to explain, and she laughed over my being incog., and declared 1t was good enough for story. Then Mir. Cecil, whose room was next, heard us, ard came Humping on the door, and relieved his mind as soon as he saw me, knocking of his spec tacles in his excitement, and giving rae two kisses, which pleased me, because hs IS usually so reticent and dignIfed. Then had to explain and expouBd to biE1, and swear him to eternal secrecy. which had the greatest difficulty in doing, and had to knock him clean of his feel, so to speak because he was deteEInined siIOuld stay the rest of the time at his expense. I talked and reasoned, and he declined to listen to reason. ''Sif," said I, ''wbep, in the course of human events, IL kecOInes necessary that decent regard fOr One's eyes and nose Beceszitatss an uDprecs- dented fleeing to the..mOuntains for fefuge. stand not upon the order of my going. but go. Sir, my independent flag is nailed to my mast sand no man shall haul IL down and pay my bills for me-" At this flight of unTeason he became reasonable. and be went to talking about Europe About half-past 10 l came away to go up to nav garTet, and of course came upon Ion of Ton going to his room. The creature ts always around, and believe now be saw me jump back when be met Fanny in the afternoon, and fathomed ny inten- tions. He fingered q little when 1 came along, and ! caught the words. Princess, you have not -as I flashed past hizn. Suppose I had not 2 Did he think l was goIDg to stop there at that t:me of night to explain anything? Be-