Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-06-18
IN A TIGHT PLACE.

How an Accident Determined a
Young Lady's Choice.
It was at that time Of the year when the
period technically known as the season
had closed, and the symptoms, natural and
artificial, which accompany the progress
of the month of September into its second
half were present in their usual preva-
lence, when Ned Chiffon found himself
pecuniarily justified in purchasing an ex-
cursion ticket, good for ten days only, and
avaiiing himself of the ''greatly reduced
rates" at the Mendon House, under the
shadow of Weehausett, for a brief outing.
1t must be brief indeed; for even the small
piekings that come to young lawyer just
admitted to the bar were of importance in
his calculation of ways and means, and he
must be on hand in his little office-shared
by real estate agent, and with desk
room to let, where the promoter of a Mex
lean railroad had just failed-for fear that
his great case should come and find him
absent. And it was the very day follow
ing his arrival that, at three o'clock in the
afternoon, he was stumbling along the
powders that fret the current of Rocky
Branch, with the recklessness which comes
of frequent submersion.
His fish basket thumped lightly against
his side, for the spell of preoccupation was
upon the eager and not unskillful fisher
man, and sadly interfered with the exer-
else of his craft. For, early as he de-
sceIt1ed to breakfast, there, in the breezy
dining-room of the Meudon House, he had
seen an apparition which caused a thrill of
mingled alarm and delight in his soul.
A round faced boy, with short hair,
brown cheeks and other physical evidences
of an outdoor life of some months dura-
ton, sat alone, engaged in the demolition of
hot soda bread, thin steak and cakes with
maple molases, with one of those appetites
which are unappreciated only by their
was got ssm@the boy as
the contingencies which the boy repre-
sented that caused the commotion in the
young lawyers breast. Where George
Burleigh was disporting himself, neither
his devoted mother nor his comedy sister
Alice could be far distant; and it was Alice
Burleigh who had, short three months
before, displayed an amount of worldly
wisdom little less than incredible for her
years In declining the possible honor and
preferment of Mrs. Ned Chiffon. How
much of the purpose of his sisters sutton
this youth had OWNED can not be known:
but it was with sort of reminiscent grin
Is well as start of genuine surprise that
he raised his eyes to encounter the glance
Of Chiffon, and instantly exclaimed in
voice largely mingled with potato,
Mast;cation interfering with the further
expression of the bows Sentiments. Chiffon
VAS ahie tn retnrn the Sanitation before
George recovered his speech and began to
display the usual volubility of his age.
- say, why didn't you come up here be-
fore - Chiffon! It's been getting awful
is no fun At an. and there's nobody else
that's good for anything. Mother thinks
M too for 7 heard her tell Alice that she
hardly expected any coneenial society
tbat,c What she saidEafter Anpnst Sbs
saws her health forbids her to return: hut
know better. IF Il wasn't that Somebody
M. com;ncn-and here the hov,s toned
.uroestad cerf,dence and bntterei biscn;t
-Hf haI;eve ehe,d 0o t,-morrow
ano Won expect friends.n manfred
chiffon.
aNo. don,t. frankly answered the bow
ssbut mother's hound til at he shall see Alice
1 heard her talking about it with Uncle
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vou kuov Vas ont On the niaSza root
BENDING tn INV snake. and / heard mother
tail him they could stalk freely. because
Aiice va. awav and George was in he'd
II INV snake hadn't got out of his box
could have heard it all, though it didn't
tonr thr NJ . the mortsins. and would be
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