The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-05-30

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THAT VOICE.
A day in june, 1903. and one Of the
loveliest early summer days the world
ever beheld-a cloudless sky, golden
bright sunshine, soft fragrant ar. joy
ously sweet songs of birds. faint music
Il murmurs of brooks and plashings of
fountains. d~elicasely green grass, lin
gering violets and budding roses
On the lawn in front of the elegant
mansion of Leon Fishback. Esq, a
party of young people are playing
Observation-Disclosures game
somewhatresembling 80 their mothers
and grsndmothers tel them) an old
game called "puss In the corner"
played = quarter of q century or more
ago. only in "Foiiow-f0ll0w the
players. instead Of reckoning to each
other, beckoa to . group Of metallic
balls. around which they stand in =
circle and he or she who proves to
have most magnetic force the balls
follow with . rush, while the remainder
of the players rush as wildly in their ef-
forts to ecure the place left vacant By
the flying one
At this moment the balls are rolling
pell- nell, h~elter-skeiter, knocking
against each other with > pleasant
ringing sound. after a pretty. fair
haired maiden, whose little feet, clad
in slippers all cleaning with silver and
gold, fash In the sunshine beneath her
blue satin Turkish trowseriets as she
springs lightly over the green sward
amid the exquisitely moduIated laugh
ter-no n shouts loudly in this ne
fined twentieth century-of her merry
companions
In the back garden, on q green
cloyer-sweet gTass-piat. stands 3 broad.
deep basket of newly-washed. snowy
white linen. and hanging-out machine,
planted firmly in the middle of the
plat is industriously raising and lower
ing its wooden arms, grasping various
pieces in its wonderfully constructed
hands, and hanging them upon the
stout no-clothes-pins line which il slow
IL revolving around it, and to which
they adhere without farther trouble
In the dairy the rosy-cheeked dairy
maid is reading q love poem while the
automatic mixer is milking the beau
tful white COW that stands Just outside
the door; In the kitchen the cook is in
dolenfly rocking to and fro In a low
rocking-chair, watching the "magic
rolling-pin'' roll u the paste for her
pies, ready 10 stop its pendulumlike
movement the moment the crust is
smooth and thin enough, and q small
seryant-boy. with his hands In his peck
cts, lounges against the wall In one
orn near 3 tall stool, whistling soft
IL to himself as be waits until the
pair of shoes the electric backing
brush is polishing thereon attain the
proper degree of briilianey and mirror
likeness
This is q prosperous place, this do
main of Leon Fishback, ESD, and Leon
Fisbback himself is q tall. handsome.
energetic, positive man Of one-and-
thirty bachelor. who gives a home
to his widowed sister and her four half
orphaned children, and In return is
taken carr Of by her, with the assist
ance OF the old housekeeper-to tell
the truth, with 3 great deal Of assistance
from the old housekeeper-as well as
any brother was even taken ARE of by
any sister.
Still. people. as people wiIl-es-
pecially people with grown-up single
observation-disclosures that he had new
er married 1t was not for want of
opportunity he had not done so-oh,
no indeed,-for q dozen lovely girls,
half q dozen more or less charming
widows. and several ladies of neither
class, had, since his coming into the
property of his uncle and godfather,
Leon Eshbabk. Sen, (whose ashes in a
solid gold easket stood in sort of
shrine, made of a hundred rare woods.
in the south drawing-room), intimated
to him. In every way that the shrinking
low, their perfect willingness-nay,
anxiety-to assume the role Of mistress
of the Fishback mansion
But Leon had walked calmly among
them. dispensing hospitality. kind
words and gracious smiles with the
strictest ~impariiality, distinguishing
none by the slightest reference, until 3
few weeks before this beautiful June
day when his young guests merrily
called, Observation-Disclosures me- to
their highly-polished admirers on the
elosely-shayen lawn.
Then came to visit mis- sister an old
school friend, Laura Beardsley by
name. who had been residing in a far
distant State, but with whom the sister
had kept up a warm correspondence
ever since they parted at the college
door the day IN which each was pub
licly hailed with loud acclamations as
Mistress of Arts
Miss Beardsiey is q lovely voman OF
eight-and-twenty summers, looking at
least 1--WE summers less, with an excep-
ti~onaliy-sweet voice. Al exceptionally
bright smile, an excepfionaily-Rrace-
fnl figure and exceptionaIly-win-
ming Ways. And t this bewifching
woman has Leon Eshback, the hitherto
apparently unimpressible bachelor, de-
voted himself since the moment he took
her slender little hand in his and babe
her welcome to his home And it is
BY her side he ~loiters, interrupted by
the merTiment without. in the deep.
pleasant, yine-enwreathed bay-window
Of the library ~ tine fair-haired girl
comes flying n the garden. pur-
sued by the tinkling balls.
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