Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12
Where are you to be the coming

Where are you to Be the coming
week." ri 7 ... ..'s. $ II
Il am en- route for Newport, and ]
will give you my card. I" \:
How extremely fortunate!'' returned
her companion. II am expected at
the same place tomorrow. There is
no danger then, we will certainly meet.
If you will write the number and street
Of your Newport friends I can easily
find you. May Icall tomorrow even
ing?"
II know Of nothing to prevent
1t was but two stations from New
port, and early dusk, when our friends
separated. Miss Hobbs, on looking at
tho card left in her hand, read: Mr..
Runyoa Mckenzie. " It may have been
owing to. the softening influences of
the hour, but certain It was that that
little bit Of pasteboard received very
tender treatment. It was held ,caress-
ingly in Miss Hobbs two soft hands,
as though it was a very precious
souvenir, and she did not put it away
until the conductor called out: New
port" "a ss'@
"Dorothea, dear Dorothea!" ex-
claimed Mrs. Gordon. Chow glad I
am to see you! Let me look at you!
Not one bit changed except for the
better! And I always did think you
tho handsomest, best, most charming
creature that ever lived. Can you be-
lieve it is five years since we were at
the seminary together? I have been
married four and half years, and
have two of the sweetest little cherubs
you ever saw, and the best of husbands
of course every good wife thinks
that
Little Mrs. Gordon said all this and
a greet deal more while driving her
friend up from the depot in her pony
carriage. They had quiet dinner by
themselves, as Mrs. Gordon held to
the good old custom of giving her chill
dren a five o'clock bread-and-milk re-
past and putting them to bed with the
chickens. After dinner they sat on the
piazza and talked.
II am sorry Otis was called away
professionally, this morning, to an ad-
jacent town. He will come back to-
morrow morning, however, and be on
hand to take us to the polo grounds in
the afternoon. There is one thing 1
sincerely regret, and that is he is ex-
pecting, tomorrow, q friend whom I
know we shall neither of us care any
thing about. I should rather imagine,
from what Otis said of him, he is
'howling SWELL They are always so
disagreeable you know"
"Why, my dear Laura! Why did
you not tell me you were going to have
other company, and ask me to postpone
my visit. could have done it just as
we'll as not"
''Not a bit of it, my friend. Our cot,
though small-looking on the outside,
has plenty of room within, and we can
have three rooms full of company if
we utilize the gable floor. But, how
ever spacious the accommodations one
never feels that there is room for dis
agreeable people,"
Dorothea Hobbs drew deep sigh as
she thought of the difference between
the hero of her afternoon adventure
and this unknown but already disliked
person. How much in the way this
latter individual would be! And as the
moon came slowly up and shed it's soft
light through the vines where they
were sitting, Miss Hobbs grew conf
Dental, and gave her friend detailed
account Of her detention at New Haven
and it's pleasant results. Little Mrs.
Laura listened with the most rapt at
tention, and when her friend conclud-
ed she got up and kissed her warmly
on the forehead, and said: "Dorothea,
how like story that reads! I am so
glad he is coming to see you to-mor-
row night. Otis shall take his stupid
friend off somewhere, I don't care
where"
The next morning when DR.. Otis
Gordon reached home he found a note
in his Office from his wife. 1t ran
thus:
DEAR Or1s:-My friend and have taken the
nurses and babies down to the beach to spend
the morning and take lunch. When you and
your friend get ready to 60 to the backgrounds
this afternoons come this way for us. We will
be on the lookout for you ON the piazza of the
b House. Hatsily, LAURA.
''That's cool piece OF business,
must say" grumbled ''dear Otis'' to
himself; ''leave q fellow to receive his
company all alone. suppose she does
it because I was not here when her
company came; but there is some diff
ference between a simple school-marm
and Runyon Mckenzie, only she won't
see it. I believe will go to the livery
stable and order single carriage for
them. 1t will be a great deal more ap-
pcopriate for Runyon and me to have
the victoria and grays to ourselves"
DR.. Otis Gordon received his guest
with stately cordiality, and they sat
down to lunch alone. There was an air