Morris tribune., 1884-01-23
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Young Mr.. Gordon. !"
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WoAags Ma Gordon. will be hsre hext.


WoAags Nta Gordon. will Sbe hsra hext.
Miss Moliie Henderson, Familiarity known
as "Pansy presumably because she did not
In any respect resemble that Flower or
thoughts, being of an exceedingly vlvaclous
temperament, and addicted in the earlier
days OF her existence totop-spinningSmar
playipgh AAde other sannusements RppsiiAriyT
suppdseT M be tbeS exclusive sRraRerty Of
boys-looked up in very placid manner as
her father made this announcement, and
answered it fully and effectively by an exs
presSiwS shTtg OF shsr petty shSiilasFs and
o very decided poutfng of her small mouth.
Them sac psgSG tasestoos which hasp been
engaging her attention on the sofa by her
sidSf4lsts gna Nsfest tto swiftly desSNbds
semiscircIe, and when the flash of brown
hosa yfsEasa as ansygs Ses gxss gyss;ans ans
attitfdiss eaSins hssa oas sf pfsEsaple nut
Blsssa sSE sas s. sssas1 sss ssIa! hers
Is Arapahpe eesnng, too9T9yIiu
Mr. sHAaeAsohS manner changed at once.
YES che spEsd \ s; SAy Mr. Gordon wilfaccem- (.
pans AhsssassSS and + Want you, Margaret to
sssss egs eI E syssy T. PsSPss' sA4'A
The figure on the sofa saw that a mistake
had been made early in the campaign. When
her father addressed her as :" Margaretnn it
also meanfs that he must be placated at once,
for Mr.. Henderson was one of that rather
numerous class of men in whose minds q real
or fancisd injury continues to magnify with,
eackTU6elka ISstah ahts unta st finally wraps
their whole existence in an artificial but none
the less effective gloom. Molhe was well ac-
quainted with the disease, and on equally init
mate terms with the remedy. Consequently she
atonce bounded from the sofa, flung her. arms
around the paternal neck, squeezing that
useful portion of mans anatomy until
fracture of the ceryical, vertsbra seemed
imminent, bestbwing at the same timesnponA
her sire a large number Of kisses, these being
punctuated with ejaculatory and highly
incoherent remarks to the effect that the
object of. this tidal-wave of oseulation was
the dearest, darlingest old papa in the world,
SO he was, andTthaS the Soratrix, on the con-
trary, was a shaus ushty. wicked gira, swho
didn't desetSeAte have such a sweet, lovely
papa, who was always doing everything in
the world for her. And then having fin
ished this wild lutter of disjonted English,
Miss Molie nestled closely in her fathers
arms and indulged in that never-failing pam
acea for all the woes to which female flesh is
perpetual heir-a good cry.
cts all right, Pansy, darling, . said Mr..
Henderson, strokings gently the mass of
brown hair that lay upon his breast, the re-
mainder of the head to which it belonged
havingYhesa ytfrust Violently under his left
arm is an apparently wild endeavor to dis
cover by burrowing any stray suspender or
other article of gents furnishing goods that
might be concealed there. 81 was a little
hard on you, perhaps, but you know MIR.
Gordon is lifelong fsiend of mine and
don't like to have You allude to him in
careless or jesting manner - - &
The face was slowly withdrawn from be-
meath the paternal arm and looked u. at Mr..
Henderson. 1t was not exactly pretty
face, there being tip-tilted nose somewhere
about the midhsegf 1t and the features were
not at all regular or classic. But the big
brown eyes and their long lashes would have
attracted attehtiSa from any one not pro
fessional cyhiea Or nlisanthrope, and when
these, looking up appealingly, called to their
aid dropping mouth white, regular teeth,
and lips that seemed qtliyering with the
agony of great mental suffering, the imme-
diate and pomplete capitulation of whoever
NOA4ol1GtAeSo 1OICC was q l1lcUUCk
of course.
And here little explanation is necessary.
From th ssdaYs .sefN her infancy, when, her
mother b hing died, she was relegated to the
;Ae1l.aant whose spinsterhood, in
view-oA fact that Mr. Henderson had
loved his wife very dearly, and did not at all
desire to replaeeswith another helpmeet, ap-
peared to beEagpecial dispensation in favor
of the moaherless little gill, Mollie had been
treated by her father to remarks concerning
Mr.. John Gordon, who, she was Informed,
had goneta the far west several years previ-
ously, and been left a Eidower with Jne child,
boy about five years older than Mollie. One
of the first facts impressed upon the child's
mind was that MIR. Gordon lived In Idaho.
Subsequently in her infaHtile perdsal OF the
misrepresentation at the age of ten she
read regularly, and with great fidelity to de-
tail-she CLEANED the information that Idaho
was the home of the Arapahoe Indians, and
at once identified MIR. Gordon with the noble
sons of the forest, and pictured him to her.
self as a ferocious person of caEInine hue
(having seen Indians alluded to in the public
,rints as red mem carrying constantly with
aim lanserppfT Of toHnahawks and other
strucss IS SAsaefs Whife there dangled at bs.
long string of particularly CORY sc the
knoWleGssgjtla ineEsaEnes vears, asnot an
Indian, Mol1fe STUCK heroicaily to the name,
and spersistently alluded to him as "the
ArapahoeEs9H9 hS 80 EaRE &
1t hadeesSA BEEN b faaacgy Il y ST Mr. Hender- :
sons that he should like to see his daughter
married to the son of his old friend, and he
had not failed to mention the fact to Mellie
when that young lady reached the age at
which the feminine mind is supposed to take
more or less interest in such matters But
Miss MohiebaaJ shifted the air disdainfuuy
through her 'sretrousse' nose, and replied that
she hoped papa would succeed in getting rid
of her to some aborigine, throwing out at the
same time dark hints to the effect that in case
the child of the prairies should suddenly be-
come deceased, ,shesh had no. douh., s. Barnun
would part yitH one Of his. Wild men from
Borneo, in oder Chat an hopes of suitable
alliance for her might not be frustrated. At
the close of one of these outbursts. she would