Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-17
promptly, as innocent as q dove about

Jennie proceeded with rare caution
and tact to her labor OF love. Cousin
Mark, at her request, read aloud an
article from the Popular Science
Monthly, drawing Miss Kent into the
discussion as deity as was ever fly
drawn into the web Of the spider.
"Who was that lady, Jennie?"
Cousin Mark inquired in the evening.
"You mean Miss Kent?" said Jennie
looking up from her paper. "Oh, she
is a lady / have known for along time.
She is making some dresses for me
now. Why?'' ,
"She seemed uncommonly well post
ed for woman"
Under any other circumstances, Mrs.
Carlisle would have resented this, but
now she only queried, "Do you think
so?" and that ended it.
Two or three invitations to the sew
ing room were quiet sufficient to make
Cousin Mark perfectly at home there,
and after q week, he became as famil-
lar as this:
III you are not too busy, I should
like to read you this,article;" and this
is what Miss Kent would say:
"Oh, I am never too busy to be read
to- Sit down by the window in this
comfortable chair and let's hear it.''
After a couple OF weeks, when the
gentleman came in, hoarse with a sud-
den cold, Miss Kent hustled about,
her voice full ofsympath thy, and brewed
him q dose which hedeclared he should
never forget to his dying day; but one
dose cured. After this, Miss Kent was
a really wonderful woman.
All, what all arch-plotter. She let
them skirmish about, but not once did
she give them a chance to be alone to-
gether-her plans were not to be de-
stroyed by premature condolences
until the very evening preceding Cousin
Marks departure for California. Then
Miss Kent was very demurely asked to
remain and keep an eye ON Master Car
Isle whom the fond mother did not like
to leave quite alone with his nurse.
"W e are compelled to be gone q couple
of hours but Cousin Mark will read to
you, won't you cousin?'
"Ccrtainly, if Miss Kent would like
it, replied the gentleman.
The infant Carlisle, thanks to good
management, was never awake in the
evening, SO the victims Of this matri-
monial speculation would have plenty
OF time. The back parlor was the
room most in use during the evening,
and out of this room was q large closet
with a large blind ventlator, and out
OF this closet q door leading to the
back stoop and garden. Imagine my
surprise when was told that Mr.. Car
Isle was going to the lodge, and that
we, after profuse warnings about the
baby, and promises not to BECOME too
long, were to proceed to this closet
overlooking the back parlor, via the
back gate and garden. In vain | pro-
tested.
"N'hy, you little goose" laughed
Jennie, "there'll be fun enough to last
lifetime John wanted to come aw-
fully, but ! knew he'd make an aw.
full noise and spoil everything, SO
wouldn' let him.
The willy schemer took the precal.
ton to lock the closet door from the
outside, SO there was no fear of detec.
ton. On a high bench, still as two
mice, we awaited results.
Cousin Mark las if aro11sing from a
protracted reverie): "Would you like
to have ne read!'
Miss Kent: ooh, am not particu-
lar"
Cousin Mark: "Here is an excellent
article On elective ahinities. How would
you like that?"
Jennie elbow in my side almost took
away my breath.
Miss Kent: "Who is it by"
Jennie (clear in my ear): "That's to
gain time; see If it ain't
Cousin Mark: cts by prominent
French writer, I beleye.''
Miss Kent: II don't think care for
a translation tonight"
Cousin Mark: "Nor I; nor reading
ofany kind. This is my last evening in
New York, Miss Kent !;
Miss Kent: "Ihope you have enjoyed
your visit"
Jennie Unto my very head this time)
'sShe's as shy as a three-year-old colt. ,
Cousin Mark: II didn't think
should feel so bad about leaving.
Jennie: "He is the wreck, you re
member"
A long pause.
Miss Kent: II think T hear the
baby"
Cousin Mark: "Oh, no. You arefonc
OF babies are you not, Miss Kent?
No answer from Miss Kent.
Cousin Mark: II have been a very
lonely man. Miss Kent, but I never
realized how lonely the rest Of my lif'
must be until I came to this house"
Jennie: "Oh, how lonely!'
Cousin Mark: "Now must return tt
my business and my boarding house
clearinghouse for q man so fond o
domestic life as I am, Miss Kent
just. then we very distinctly heard {
little kind OF a. ;purr, which sounded
very like note OF intense sympathy
from Miss Kent
Cousin Mark: II have friends in Sa1
Francisco of course, but no firesld'
like this, nobody to care forme if Ian
i'll, nobody to feel very badly if die.
Jennie: "That'll fetch her"
Miss Kent (voice little q,,ivering
II wish lived in San Francisco. You
could always call upon me if you need
ed anything"
Jennie in convulsions).
Cousin Mark abruptly: eff yo1
will go to California with me, Mis-
Kent, I'll wait another week"
Miss Kent: "Why, Mr.. Lansing
what do you mean? What woult
folks say?'
Cousin Mark: eve don't care TO
folks, Miss Kent If you'll 60, we viii
| have a house as pleasant as none,
can make it. You shall have bird
and flowers and horses, and all tn
scientific monthlies you want-deucet
if you shan 't-and you shall never sey
another stitch for anybody but me
Will you be my wife?'
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