Connecticut western news., 1888-10-10

Suddenly he remembered he was to meet his cousin Bertha at the depot on the ii 30 train. There was no time to spare. He sli ped the paper into his laen vest pocket and hurried down to tho street. In the excitement that fol- lowed Berthas arrival and the drives and harbor excursions to bo planned he forgot Miss Goosechase and the folded receipt, which bided it's timo quietly in the unused linen vest pocket until Har- ris and the rest of the Holbrook family got back in September from their sum- mer sojourn in their ''cottago by the sea-"
 The very first night he got back to the city he dreamed ho was standing on the pale green and salmon carpet of tho pretty room under tho church caves, trying to compose poem to the laven- der-draped divinity of tho place, and racking his brain to find word that would rhyme gracefully with Goose chase. He awoke with feeling that, either directly or indirectly, his dream was to meet with verifcatioa.
 A week passed. Harris's chamber was to be newly furnished. and he set out ono morning, commissioned to se- feet something that would satisfy his rather fastidious taste. As he walked up the large furniture rooms of Brown & Go. he caught sight of roll of car peting, the identical pattern of that in the chamber of the brown wing. De- ciding that it would suit his chamber also, he passed along looking at furni- ture, and balancing the comparative merits of oak and walnut.
 He stood before pretty dressing case, that took his fancy, testing the truthfulnoss of the oval mirror, as it re- fected his embrowned face and clear blue eyes, when ho heard voices on the right, near him, the owners being hid- den by tall cabinet.
 'Mr. Brown, I am positive I paid that instalment,' clear, decided femi- nine voice was saying.
 "Durell says ho knows nothing about it. He keeps tho books, you know," returnei an unpleasant mascu- line voice. 'It is strange you cannot show the receipt, if you had one.'
 T did havo receipt" returned the first voice, slightly tremulous, yet with a touch of defiance. T went out that morning I paid it, feeling an- noyed with the noise of the workmen repairing the church, and carelessly left the window open near the desk where the receipt was lying. It must have blown out, for never saw it afterward.
 ''You must produce the receipt, Miss Gooscchase, if you expect us to believe you," returned the dealer insolently.
 The name made assurance doubly sure to Harris. He wheeled round from tho mirror, as he saw the two fig ures, who had stepped from behind the cabinet reflected behind him. He v.rlookcd the man and saw only tall, slight, graceful young lady with re- iued, interesting face, which had g flush of something like in dignation upon it at present.
 'NIiss Goose chaser' he questioned, lifting his hat and ignoring the wiry furniture dealer completely.
 ''Yes," she returned in scmc sur. prise.
 'I beg pardon. I have overheard your conversation. Twas on the root with the workmen that morning. caught the receipt that llew out of the window and must apologize for not re turning it to you nt oace. It slipped my memory afterward. You shall have it now without any delay"
 The dealer eyed Harris with a half beaten, half-incredulous look, and th' right, sweet smile with which Mis- Goose chase thanked him banished hi dislike of the name forever.
 Ho asccrtaincd that she still occupied the same room, and rode uptown il some excitement H., rushed to hi room and luadled out the linen sui with fear and trembling lest the rcccip should not be forthcoming. He waltzet
 across the room with an imaginar,
 partner when he found it folded ava
 in the small vest pocket. It seemed t
 wink at him knowingly as he unfolde'
 it. The suit had not been worn on ac
 count of some misfit since that mornin
 on the church roof.
 Ho would not trust 10 the mail, an
 within an hour he delivered the pape
 to her in tho pleasant pallor of tn
 brown wing of the old church. } 'I was paying for my room furnitur on instalments, sho remarked with
 smile. '1 thought the firm was fai ard square in its dealings, but it seem
 therc is something wrong. canne thank you sufficiently for tiding me owe this unpleasaatness."
 : Harris found her atmosphere so rat and magnetic upon Q nearer view tLs
 he went out from her with his Lea turned completely.
 She smiled a little when his not : came asking permission to call upo . her.
 So it came about at length that Ha t ris was admitted into the pretty roo whose owner had so tantalizcd him tn, Juae morning, and found it permeate 0 with her gracious atm osphere, just as I t had expected. They became fa e friends. She corfidcd to him her lite n ary ambitions, successes and defeat