The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-04-28
Win. we have always held the opinion

~ W uas~, SAhs, SSt'~Na@a! "~ she's yonng.
 And you know. Wiii.r went on Mir. Greeley. that one of the conditions on which VIC took lodgings with Mrs. Dun nIng vas th Il no other dodgers, and Tn particular no ladies were to be admitted. And don't you remember that affair al Hammersmi,h the other day, when a young woman took lodgings for the one night in small respectable house, and nearly s;ransled an elderly gentleman m his bed. n the middle of the night: We are neither of us strong men. Will"
 That's true. Sam. didn't look at it in ,ha; light. Perhaps you had better have an explanation from Mrs. Dunning I'm la,e. and must go. Good night. Don't get too low abou, II. old fellow. and bol; your bedroom dco..'
 NIT. Wylie went out. and Mrs. Dun- ming brought in Mir. Greeley's tea-tray.
 Wha, is this. Mrs. Dunning: X new lodger, and lady
 Yes. Mir. Greeley said Mrs. Dun- hing setting down the tray and in,erpos- ing d couple of chairs between her iodger and herself. But a huncommon case, sir-qut;e case as l said to myself
 
 move Mir. Greeley $ art. The young lady flor I'm sure she IS a lady. sir--cane and sad. sad she. she is but eighteen years old and obligated 10 live alone becos oi a sep mother as uses her that shame .,l. Lett house in the next street, she says. no, through liking te meet on the stars two young nien winch lodged there :: bein' alone. and no protectin and. Ge:s her own iiein'. sir. though she didn't say how. ard desires ot quici omc Tn re- speciahle 'oase. where kitchen tire is no, :, hex;ra. and a mother influence. as you might say, SIT. ,hto@ed in with ,he table l,nen.'
 You say that she is young, Mrs. Dun ning::"
 Saws she's IS. sir, and don't look hardly that. Was gong right away when said my dodgers was gentlemen but sad. quite solemn. they was both old enough to be her father"
 "Eh:H sad Mir Greeley :" old enough to be her
 Father sir-you and Mir. Wylie, sir; and such lodsers. said. as a lady obll gated through cruel fortin ,o let apart men;s al twenty-five shillings-which they'd be cheap al fifty never afore blessed with. When l mentioned your ages. sir-youts and Mir. Wyiie's the yoaas lady sad she'd stay at once The name on the box Is Chester Miss Rose Chester
 And where Is Miss Chester a, this moment. Mrs. Dannlng
 In me back kitchen. sir. a-curlin of her hen, hair.
 Thank you, Mrs. Cunning You may go.
 "Thankin.s you. sir. which aili,
 That interesting operation Tn the back kitchen referred to by Mrs. Cunning. and but dirliy apprehended by Mir. Greeley being a, length completed there was a sound of light feet tripping briskly up the stairs and presently the same feet ripped down again. the front door was opened. and Miss Chester ran down the garden and into the street. Mir. Greeley craned his neck petilousiy behind the window blind, but saw only the back of the new lodger-,hough. 10 be sure, il was ,l very pretty back. By and by ;he garden gate swung open. and she re- turned. \ latch-kcy turned in the door Jus, then t occurred 10 Mir Greeley he
 
 into the passage to take it from the peg. The passages in the houses at Sunnyside. West kensington, being con- s,ruc,ed on severely economical princi- ples, there resulted Il momentary encoun- ter between NIT. Greeley and Miss Chcs, ter. Miss Chcsters hands were full of packages. and in her maidenly eInbar- rassment she le, one of them fall. Mir Greeley picked Il up and replaced II. Miss Chester blushcd and laughed a lit- tle musical laugh. and sad. Thank you" Al the foot oi the stars the same ridicu- lous package escaped again. MT. Greeley picked II up and replaced il, and Miss Chester blushed and laughed, and sad. Thank you" as before. She had hardly set foo, on the first landing when that same absurd package and another pack age slipped from her arms and rolled to the bottom of the stairs. Mr. Greeley was equal 70 the occasion, gi,hercd them up, and carried them to where Miss Chester stood-no longer laughing, bu, blushing in a more desperately bewitch- ing way than ever. She said, Thank you so much: how very careless of me '" took them from him. retIeated into her room. and shut the door.
 Wha, a very odd thing said MT. Greeley as he returned What an ex- ,raordinay thing" he said as he reached his si,tng-room. ]" never saw packages behave n that way before. \ most in- ,eres,ing face" he went on, as he filled his pipe and seated himself by the open window; and quite pretty little man ners. don't know that Mrs. Cunning ought 10 have acted otherwise than she has done: she could scarcely have re- fused to take Miss Chester in. Old enough 70 be her father, eh: Let me thinks. and Wills $. WiIfs older than am"
 In this way did Mir. Greeley mediate IS he smoked his even ng pipe.
 Miss Chester's $ face was more than in- ,eres,ing. though; it was exceedingly pre,;y-an open, girlish face, with fresh completion: short. curly, yellow hair :; and slender figure. which showed to ad- vantage n gauzy summer dress.