The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-11-02
Jeremy, just entering the front

into the kitchen. The fire was roar
ing wildly, and the Swede was seatet
by the window admiring the pros
pect. With an ejaculation of disma,
she threw open the oven. There wer,
the biscuits, blackened and crisped
She turned upon the phlegmati'
Inga. didn't you know enough tt
shut the draughts?"
"Yess." was the placid response.
"You should never havesuch a fir
when youare cooking anything"
"Yess. You say make hot. Burr
SO. Yess."
"Oh, well, but -. There! Isup
pose there's no use talking. Just Cut
up some cold bread"
Jeremy, being the b~est-natured fel
low in the world, said not a wore
about the loss of biscuit and the in
Fiction of boiled tea. Lou was toe
much heated and too much out O
temper to eat her supper.
1t was not until the meal was
nearly finished that Bob appeared
He tookh his place atthe table without
a word and with and injured look.
"Well, did youget it?"
Bob shook his head. His mouth
was full of jam.
"Didn't get it? Why not?!"
"Twarn't my fault. Mr.. Batchel.
der'd gone to supper and the clerks
didn't know what color"
"Why, l told you blue"
"No, you didn't neither. You said
like what you got this afternoon"
"Itell you l said blue" indignant
ly. "And after you've eaten supper
you can go back and get it,"
"Huhl / can, can 1? Don't the
stores shut up at six Wednesdays?"
"No, not ALL" Jeremy interposed,
seeing signs of storm in his sisters
face. Gone or two are always Open"
"He wants to sneak out of getting
the ribbon. | misunderstanding
away her chair, and taking refuge in
the window recess to hide a few tears
of veXation-''small boys are Just
unmitigated nuisances! Of course
he'll go back"
elbow about big boys?" Jeremy in
quired, following his sister.
"Oh, big ones-like you are very
nice indeed"
"Thanks. | must be nice since you
me to escort you tonight and
turn your back on the comet and the
fixed star" These were the nick
names Jeremy had bestowed on his
sisters two chief admirers. "Was it
because you couldn't go with both,
and SO wouldn'tgo with either? Eh?"
cit was because l wanted to 60
with you. And you're very"
"No, Pm not. Pm your humble
servant. You know it's the first
time you have wanted to go with me
since you put on long dresses. l was
. little surprised, that's all. And Pm
afraid Mr.. Marston may lie in wait
to assassi-nate,' and that Walter
may send a challenge round''-
"Don't be n%onsensical, Jeremy"
"Well, let me say one thing sober
y, then; I'm glad it's blue, and not
crimson, that Bob is going after.
Very glad"
His sister flushed, thinking of the
crimson in her pocket. But at that
moment came crash from the di-
'ection of the kitchen that drove
everything else out of her head. Ar
on the scene, she found frag-
nents of crockery and a deluge OF
mix on the floor. The Swede was
surveying the ruin with arms
akimbo.
Il hat upsided it," she remarked
n explanation.
Unfortunately her mistress temper
vas also ''upsided." She proceeded
o give Inga a scolding, which made
10 more impression upon the recip-
emit than it did on the wood-box she
vas filing. Seeing this, Lou desisted
S abruptly as she had begun, turned
Ter back on the offender, and went
Jack to the dining-room just in time
o see a figure dash down the garden
'ath and out the gate. 1t was Bob
Il o was thus decamping, having
tuffed his pockets with eatables.
70 second walk to town for him!
What was to be done? There was
o use in pursuing; no use in getting
ngry. Everything seemed against
lue; for that reason, if for no other,
~ heroine made up her mind to
ave it even if she had to go for it
erself. There was not time enough
,r that, however, and she did not
Ike to ask Jeremy, who was enjoying
cigar on the piazza before dressing.
ut there was Igna; she could go.
The Swede was not perceptibly as
at her mistress sudden
nange of tone when she came back
} ask her to leave the dishes and go
n an GRAND. She made the unfail-
lg rejoinder, "Yess," and was ready
two minutes. Thinking to be
ute sure this time, Lou wrote what
lie wanted on a slip of paper. The
.ede departed, holding this in one
and and the money and the
Dor Key IN II OUner. Having
'en her on her way, Lou was at
5erty to commence her toilet.
was already past seven, and dark
ecause of impending storm. There
as ominous mutterings of thunder.
Ding through the process of dress
g mechanically and hastily, my
in half an hour stood before
lie mirror fully arrayed. Now in
eed the time for decision had come.
lga would be back soon, and there
ould be plenty ottimeto knotupthe
Iue ribbon should she wish to veal
:. Or, she might begin now on the
imson lying on the bureau. Which
lould it be?
How foolish! How like the ira.
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