The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-06-28
HOW KATY CAUGHT HIM.

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Katyp"
20 no, fatherr'
g But lilly is so deaf" added Mr..
Dillingham;, pausing with his foot on
the carriage step. g Sha mt stop and
ask Aunt Priscilla to let one of the girls
come up?"
g No indeed father; I won't be a bit
frightened.''E
" Well, there's nothing to hurt you,
and | shall he back with your mother
some time tonight if it's a possible
thing. Good-by, daughter
Mr.. Dillingham; seated himself in the
vehicle, touched the old gray lightly and
drove away. Katy stood in the door
and watched her father off. She was
just thirteen years of age, and she
didn't feel a bit afraid, and when the
carriage was out of sight she bounded
off the doorstep and across the road to
the big barn, whence she presently re-
turned with her apron full of eggs.
Tilly," she screamed, going into
the kitchen ''oh, Tilly, let me make
sponge-eake, all myself, for dinner to-
morrow. I've found some eggs and I
want-to make-a sponge-cake.
20 yes, I said lilly, quite with the
air OF one who can hear as well as
another one, but who like to play some
times at being deaf, s'make half dozen
Of sponge-cakes if you want to, dearie. y
So Katy beat the eggs, whites and
yelks separately, for ten minutes; she
put in the sugar and beat five minutes,
and the -four and beat three minutes
more, exactly by rule. and when all this
was done, and the cake Drowned to de-
heious perfection in the big oven, the
short November afternoon was already
halfway through.
I'm going to put my cake in the
preserve closet, Tilly.n
lilly didn't offer any obiec.., n md
Katy carried her sponge-cake through
the pantry into the little dark closet be-
yond. There were rows upon rows
Of preserve jars, and above them on
: lhe upper shelf Katy caught white
gleam from the silver-the ever and
sugar bowl and cake basket and tea
pot, besides a quantity of spoons that
had belonged to her great-grandmother
Ihey were very heavy and all of pure
silver; and suddenly, as Katy stood
gazing up at them, she remembered,
with little shiver of dread, the face of
a tramp who had looked in at the door
the day before while lilly was cleaning
the silver at the table He asked for q
drink of water, and when he had got it
ne went away; but 1t seemed to Katv at
this minute that he looked at the silver
agreat deal longer and sharper than
was at all necessary. What if he should
come back2 He wasn't vicious
looking tramp; indeed, Tilly had
.nought and said what pity it was
mat ne should be q tramp at all-such |
bright face he had and such pretty |
way OF speaking, but
:" You cant tell much by looks" said
Aaty, wisely, to herself. 81 believe
mother ! would almost rather lose the
lafni than that silver. Anyway III put
on the paddock before ] 60 to bed. /
suppose it's foolish though
Terhaps that was the reason she for
gol all about it. She sat at the window
lor long time, busy with her knitting
ahu with thinking of how glad she
w would be to see her mother again.
I,!,,! hMe weeks is SO long q time; and Mrs.
nllliingham - had been day more than
sqat with a sick sister in Wakefield
almost q twenty miles from home. The
clouds had shut down heavy and gray.
alla it would be dark early.
but BY the time KATY was ready for
pea sne had forgotten all about the pad
.oek, though she was really little
nervous and frightened, and wished
,h siore than once that Tilly's cot bed in
sae little room over the kitchen would
,S' moiu her with lilly. But she felt better
,,l'' mnen l. she had gone up stairs into her
ysh II httle chamber, and had fastened
sa l',e aoor; and pretty soon after saving
f,es tsa. prayer she erept into bed and fell |
,,anen nnen she awoke the clouds had
taesfed t,,sss. away and the moon was shining
aa,a, a1,a m at her window. She awoke sud.
Se,, H.. y !. With thoughts of the silver in
Is! aE mind. and presently she heard the
sta snll,les OF the old clock rin9 throuph
'pe p..I nouse like ben-twelve.
s;,.;. ueclare. said she. to herself then
Ting - upright in bed, Il didn't think
= sock that closet door. But it's safe