Connecticut western news., 1888-10-10
A RECEIPT FOR A WIFE.

Harris Holbrook, college graduate of a week, prospecting around ia harum- scarum fashion to work eff some cxub- erant sense of freedom, dil not count upon an adventure when he ascended the roof of the old brown church wherc the workmen were chipping and ham, mering and jabberin ;. H, had climbed up for a view of tho buildings of the ty and 'the glory of them."
 He was good looking, compactly- built fellow in cool linen suit, as he balau ced him elf up on the staging, in- d,lently, and exchanged civil words with tho workmen. His eyes came lack rom Trinity and tn, ''New South" to his inn diate surroundings. A park and two tall family hotels bounded threo sides of the church. Directly be- low him were tho roofs of dwellings with blooming back yards. The stag in extended up to the brown east wing, which folded itself against the body of the church. From his point of view he could look into the back third story window of the wing, which had beon converted into homelike board ing house. He had fco.ing glimpse of airy muslin draperics, which betok- ened feminine occupant. Hi, curiosi- ty was excited at once. He could sec pictures hung low against a delicate wall paper, a well-fiilcd bookcase, and pale green and salmon carpet. A writing desk filtered with papers stood near the farther window.
 He was weaving Q Lit of romance around the occupant when shapely arm and shoulder appeared in the win dow next him, and slim white hand which he could have almost touched drew down the curtain quickly.
 Feeling as if his curiosity had been rebukcd, he turned and walked along tho staging slowly to tn, rear of the church. AS he retraced his steps he had another glimpse of tho arm and shoulder clothed in cool lavender at the desk, writing, but h, could see nothing of the face except the tip of pink ear and brown frizzes stirring in the breo 70 over her temples. He felt something of the student recklessness of his sopho- more period urging him to vault into tho room from his perch and apologize afterward for the intrusion. He had been invulnerable to the smiles of Sweet girl graduates, but he was pos sessed to mako tho acquaintance of this denizen of the wing under the church caves, who kept out of his range o1 vision and gave him no chance for bit of sly Irritation.
 She had an atmosphere. He felt it. in fluenco in widening circles around him. He half believed shc was no pretty. Pretty women were not apt tt have this magnetic, far reaching atmos phere. He could sec the arm moving a. she wrote. Was she novelist, or poet or copyi,t2 he wondered.
 H, dir, ctcd his glass over the cit, and watched the window, alternate ly. Presently he could sec the pen lui' down, impationtly, it seemed. Thel the shoulders and frizzes disappeared | from the desk and soon he felt sure h. heard her door op,n and shut. She hal | gone cut.
 'If it wasn't for the eyes of thes workmen I'd climb into the room ant l leave note on her desk, or couplet t her shoulder and frizzes," he though daringly.
 Just then a paper sailed out througI
 the window, whir.ing and turnin.
 summersaults as if mad with delight i
 it's mission. It circled round the chin ney on roof below, peeped into sky light, dipped down like bird upon
 vine creeping over trellis in the yard
 flew back to the open wind ow as If
 return home, changed its mind and gy
 rated within range of the linen clad fl
 ure with tantalizing "cat ch- me-if-yor
 can'' expression. At the risk of losin
 his balan co, he captured the half shce
 of note, with words upon it, and WI
 debating whether to read or not reae
 lest ho should encroach upon privat
 matter, when he became aware that
 was merely prosaic receipt for son
 money paid to B:own 6 Co.,, furnitul
 dealers, by Kate Goosechase.
 Goosechase! ye gods The name Wi
 like dash of ice water. Could it b,
 long to the graceful arm and should ard crimpling brown hair2 Should l make the paper an excuse for calling return it7 But ho couldn't mako up h mind to ask for Miss Gooscch sc. TT romance seemed to bo oozing out of b
 little adventure. Psshaps 1t dida't D