The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-05-20

bred, but they told their tale to Mrs:
Trumpet as clearly as u
they had been azure or jetty orbs, slg-
mailing from the most delicate environ
ment of hair and cheek. Mrs. NAM
waring Trumpet saw that the Rev.
Arthur Arrowsmith had fallen IN love
with her. To show her appreciation OF
his taste and her reciprocity, sne
bounded into love with him-tooK
kind of header into the sentiment, ana
herself with an amazing
splash. They were engaged two Gays
after. Mrs. Mainwaring Trumpet talked
about the affair everywhere SheA
laughed over it, cried over it, grew
crimson, about it, published 1t on the
housetops, swore her friends to secrecy
about It, and generally behaved ike
Mrs. Mainwaring Trumpet gone MAD
outright, which may be taken to denote
mania of sevenfold power. So,
She courted Mr.. Arrowsmith at the
Sunday school, and stood so close TO
him when he came to visit her class that
one morning she trod on his corn ana
made him Jump three PAGES clean, with
q squeak that frightened the wnoie
room. She ogled him from her front
seat in the gallery with such directness
and power that several times ne lost MS
place and spoiled his best sentences.
She ran after him in the street. coming
up to him-sly, solemn and cad .verous
as he was-all breathless and heat:
which, at her time of life, did very well
for bushes. She sent him presents OF
slippers that he could not wear because
they were too small, and worsted jack
cts for the cold weather, which hung
about him in vast loose folds, because,
in her headlong way, she had taken the
measure of her own frame TOR the pat.
tern. She never lost an opportunity OF
talking about him, praising him, drag
ging him forward and linking him with
herself. Mrs. Mainwaring Trumpet
vowed and declared that every night OF
her life she dreamed of Mr.. Arrowsmltn
without ceasing, and awOke calling upon
his beloved name. In fact, her love
was a perfect cataract, always going on,
and making q most tremendous noise III
the meantime.
At last q grand idea struck her. in
pursuit of which she started for London
by the early express, getting to Padding
ton at ten o'clock. She gave the porter
q half crown to catch her the very hrs'
cab. She told the cabman that she
would give him half q sovereign If he
drove her to Dollond's in twenty hive
minutes. She sprang from her cab ano
rushed into the shop painting, and de
manded to see the very best telescope
manufactured for field use. She saw
one with stand complete for fort!
! pounds, tried it in St. Paul's Churcn
| yard, bought it, paid for it in five pount
I notes, got her discount for cash, was II
her cab and rafting back to Paddingtol
, again exactly in ten minutes and hall
She caught the return express and wa
home again before lunch, having Travelled
between two and three hundred mile
3 and transacted all her business. he
, lunch was a pheasant, and she ate tn
' bird to the bones and then set abou
t completing her design.
Mrs. Mainwaring Trumpet's boudol
. window looked straight across to tn
t rectory, at distance of about one mule
!: In her boudoir window she erected ne
d telescope, aimed full at the dining.roor
J. and study of the rectory: She adJuste
e the focus, and, scarcely breathing wit
e excitement, applied her eye to the glass
A long silence ensued. Adams, tn
II maid. who stood by, with serious e.
preston carefully spread over a derisl7
e grin, began to think that the experimel
n had failed, when, after q long interva
le Mrs. Mainwaring Trumpet sprang
l. her feet with a violence which upset tt
telescope, stand and all.
!, 81 saw him." she cried, triumphan
IS ", Gas plainly as if he were in tn
le room!"
+. With trembling fingers she set up Il
glass again, and now, in more COZ
3 posed frame of mind, began to explo
'e anew. Another long silence followed
ne and then Mrs. Mainwaring Trumpe
a, never taking her eye from the glas
III called out in q grave voice, like an
t, tronomer who discovers a comet, b
y who, having expected it, is not amaze
wv only gravely elated:
Us "Adams, Adams, he is at his dl
- ner. l know everything: Soup thr
~ times and fish twice; shoulder OF mi
u ton three times at least, and am
n sure about a fourth, for l breathed
gu gu the glass and had to clean it; Swe'
" twice, for certain; cheese, dessert a
ne six glasses Of wine in all. l thlr
~ Adams, do think"
~ .sThey requires it, ma'am," Ada
af said. firmly; "it's the call OF natu
~. that's what it isl
sr, "Well, I suppose so," the mlstr
.at .aid. reasoning with herself, as her m:
IN. prepared to 60 down stairs. !" You
IF INV size, and how little l eat"
he !. Just so, ma'am," Adams said;
;tS "The doctor says" continued NJ
re-. Mainwaring Trumpet, laughing, 1T
of 1 live on my fat"
RE "That's just it, ma'am," Adams So
leaving the room; only when the q
"A. was closed behind her she added:
,ys "Three eggs and bacon to break
nv this morning, and q cold trout. "
90, marmalade to follow. That's living
at your fat, I suppose. Well, IT'S g
.ck knowing what your fat lives on"
Ar Under the most favorable circt
~: t AZ, Mo;nwarinQ TrumDet ne