Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-18
ROMANCE or A GLOVE.
$ IL please you. KittyY'

"Does IL please you, KittyY
"Oh. II Is splendid / could not have
suited myself half so well. had 1 been
left 10 choose"
"But you have not seen the wine.
cellar yet. It's treasure of its kind.
Let's go down again"
They went down the stairs together,
he talking gaily, she with a troubled
look ON her face. After duly admiring
the place. she put timid hand on his
arm and said: "But, Arthur, dear, let's
have no wine in IT,"
"WhyY he asked i'm surprise.
because have resolved il am ever
the mistress of house, there shall be
no liquors In it-no social glasses foI
friends"
"Why. Katy, you are unreasonable
i did not know that you carried your
temperance opinions so far as that. OF
course ! shall keep wine I'm my house
and entertain my friends with IL, too
She raised her face appealingly.
Arthur she said, in a tone of
voice which he knew how to inter.
pret.
Arthur's brow grew cloudy.
''But you cannot fear for me2" he
said with half offended pride.
~ must fear for you, Arthur, il
you begin as he did. And / fear for
others besides-for the sons and hus-
bands and fathers who may learn at
our cheerful board TO love the poison
that shall slay them"
They went up the steps again and
sat on the sofa, in the dining-roOm, for
u few moments, while Katy put on her
hat and drew on her gloves.
The argument was kept up. IL is
unnecessary that we should repeat AL
that was said on both sides. 1t ended
ut last, as similar discussions have end.
ed before. Neither was willing 10
yield-Katy. because she felt that her
whole future happiness might be in
volved in IL; Arthur, because he
thought IL would be giving way to a
wOman's whims, and would sacrifice
too much of his popularity with his
friends.
lie had bought this house, paid foI
u, furnished IL handsomely, and i'm 4
few weeks expected To bring Katy as
its mistress. AL the afternoon they
had been looking ii over together, hap
by as two birds in a newly-flnished
nest. But when Arthur closed the door
and put the key in his pocket, in the
chill. waning light of the December af
tenoon. and gave Katy his arm TO see
her home, II was all "broken up" be
tween them, and ITO Let" was put or
the door of the pretty house the very
next morning.
It was the most foolish thing TO do
but then lovers can always find some
thing 10 quarrel about.
They parted with u cool "GOOd-even.
ing" at the door Of Katy's lodging
house. She went up TO her room tC
cry; he went home hurt and angry, but
secretly resolving TO see her again, and
give her a chance TO say that she was
in the wrong. lie would wait few
days. however; II would not do TO lei
her see that he was in hurry to "makC
II up"
lie di1 wait, nearly week, and
when he called at the modest lodging
house where he had been wont 10 Wis
II so often, he was told that Mis-
Gardiner had been gone three days.
'GOne whereY' he asked, slow TO be
lieve.
''She did not tell me, sir. She sale
she was not coming back. Her aun
lives at Bristol"
lie then took the next train TO Bristol
and investigated; but neither there moi
in any other place, though he searches
for months afterward, did he find sigI
or trace Of Kitty Gardiner.
All this happened more than yea
before saw Katy; but we three ''fac
tory girls" who lodged at Mrs. Howell.
with her, of course knew nothing abou
IT, She came to the factory and ap
piled for work. The superintendent
thought her too delicate for such work
but she persisted and in fact she i'm
proved In health, spirits, and looks az
ter she became used to the work and
simple fare of the factory girls.
She was n stranger to us all, and Il
seemed likely that she would remain
so. But one day Mary Bascom's dress
caught In part of the machinery, ana
before any one else could think what
to do, Katy had sprung to her side and
pulled her away by main strength, from
the terrible danger that threatened her
After that, Mary and Lizzie Payne and
i, who were her dearest friends. were
Katy's sworn allies.
We all lodged together then in the
big Factory boarding-ho But
Katy took II into her head that ws
should have so much nicer times In J
private lodging to ourselves: and wher
she took anything into her head sh.
generally carried IL through. In les.
than week she had found the yer,
place she wanted, arranged matter,
with the superintendent, and had a,
sheltered under Mrs. HowelPs vine anI
hg tree. We four girls were the proud
possessors OF tolerably large, double
eedded apartment, with queer litti,
dressing room attached-"and the lin
erty OF the parlor 10 receive callers i'm
a prOviso at which we all laughed.
This was "home" to US after the Ia
Dor OF the day. Indeed and in truti
Katy made the place 80 charming tha
we forgot the factory girls when we q
70 IL She improvised cunning litti
things out OF trihes that are usual