Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-08-22

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and dreamingof them. Most OF all, sns
was puzzled as to how one story es.,
got upon another; and at last, dliseJ
almost to despair, she seized pencil guy y,
Idrew plan of q two story cottaee VI
eight rooms "out of her own heao' oo
to sneak. and carried it to builder sre
knew of down town. nice, fathefly
man who had once built piazza Iof
Tom, and had recently been elected sup
lerintendent of the Sunday school. 4,
"Plan for a small, but happy home
it was headed; and she placed 1t IN the
good mans hands silently and with q
sense of exceeding relief.
The builder smiled and said:
"Well, I've seen worse;;" and Corona
said family:
on close inspection that che had neg,
lected to put in any chimneys, and had
forgotten the stairs, and had not had
any fixed scale in her mind. and had
overlooked the points of COMPASS en-
tirely. And so he suggested plan from
one of his books email, snug, story
aud-a-half structure of six rooms.
IF you don't object to the name OF i"
he said, "it is called the Old MAIDS
House-in the book"
"Mr. Timbers," returned Corona, with
decision, "why should we seek further
than the truth? I will have that house. y
Corona had now decided, therefore, to
build her house, and how to build It
Then one day Toms wife asked bel
carelessly. where are you going to
have i,?" Corona had not thought Of
that, but she rose promptly to the neces-
sity of seeming to have done so, and an
swered, Il viii build my house in Fair
harbor." It had been Corona's privilege
to spend several summers in Falrharbor,
and she knew it to be one Of the falrest
spots in Observation-Disclosures, restful
lpictureeque-with the grand sweep and
rapture of the sea at its modest gates.
She went there with the builder in
March, to select and lease her land; and
they stood together on the cliff side
which it suited her to take, and yelled
at eachother through the thunder of the
wind and surf.
Beautiful view" Corona screamed,
trying to look POLITICALLY upon the famil-
lar scene.
slave to change her, though" said
the builder, abiding to the projected
house. OF course Corona could not think
OF having house chained to a rock, as if
it were her slave instead of her best
friend; and so it was left to the builder
to chose q proper location and put the
house on it at once. Gall I ask is per-
mission to live in it," Corona said,
meekly.
When, after much delay and annoy
ance, the builders work was finally Gin
ished, Tom went on to make the place
ready for Corona; and she followed with
her baggage, lame ankle and servant
woman named Puella Virginia, who had
once Ia long time ago) nursed her
through the measles and had given her
grapes when nobody was looking. It
was little house, a very little house,
Corona thought, as she first came in
sight of it; and it stood on stilts-"piers,"
Corona called them-and there was
clover growing beneath it. But it had q
piazza-and in front of it the waves toss
ed high, heavily bronzed and gilded by
the colors of the sky. Itwould do,small
as it was, Corona decided, considering
the close glory of the sea-and certainly
it would he q solace and Joy to watch
the clover growing right under ones
dwelling place. Tom had done his best
to put things in order, but it was a chaos
for all that, and Puella's practiced hand
had hard task to surmount it. A neigh
Dor asked them to tea, and they went
gladly-Tom and Corona-and it was
late before Puella called them back and
hurried them them off to bed, each with
a candle set in bottle. ooh, yes! said
Corona, II forgot candle sticks" And
"Oh, yes!" said Tom, II forgot the kero-
sene." There were no holsters, either,
ard no soap or towels,it was ascertained;
and in the night Toms bed came dow n
with crash. "Oh!" he exclaimed. when
the two terrified women stood before
him, IL remember; forgot the clamps!"
1t was not until the evening of the sec
ond day, when she heard for the first
time in her own house her own supper
bell, that Corona's heart leaped and then
it seemed to kneel. Tom did not usually
TASK erace"at the table; but that evening
he bowed his head and prayed that the
life might be blessed that was sheltered
there, and peace and comfort abide in
these walls always. And Puella, stand
ing in the kitchen doorway with wafles,
S0lU Amen!
Tom departed in few days, and then
Corona wandered restlessly about the
rooms, Puella reminded her from the
kitchen that there was enough to do in
that house to keep two people busy for q
month. "Pll 60 to walk" Corona said to
herself, decidedly. "I'm going to walk"
she said to Puella, family. Up to this
time she felt as if she were visiting Tom.
Now she felt as if she were boarding
with Puells. She walked q long time,
gazing at the beach, leavinga web of soft
shades by the departed tide, and at the
vessels moving in and out of the harbor
through silver atmosphere, and at the
soft, warm clouds overhead, that had
gray hearts. The scene exhilarated her.
She had good appetite!.and large aspira-
tons, and she ate an extra piece of cake
at dinner, out of sheer sense of life. But
she could not work. The world was too
fair-or the cake too full of saleratus.
And toward night, the express man came
in with dog, . present from Tom, and
it's name, he wrote, was Matthew Arnold.
If Tom had sent q baby, Corona would
not have been mere bewildered. She
told Puella to give the dog his supper
and-whatever dogs wanted, and in q
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