, 1888-11-17
MURDER AT R%0SEM0UNT.

The Wentworth cottage was ''for sale,
Ar to LETT" the pretty Wentworth cottage,
built by a young millionaire for his bride,
TO crafty every possible or impossible
idiosyncrasy of millionaires and brides.
Such a lovely cottagel such q perfect
verandal such roses in the gardeni such
a bay window in the library and such a
view from the windowsl And all, all, even
to the beautiful furniture, to be had now
for a song. The young millionaire had an
opening offered to him in California, where
there seemed to be n prospect for him of
doubling his millions; and l have noticed
it as a popularity of human nature that
the more money a man has, the more anx-
ious he is to double it. So Robert and
Lily Wentworth gave up at once the ele-
giant New York residence, and wanted to
give up the charming suburban villa, to
move on to California and chase the beck
oning millions. The cottage could be had
for a song, for a mere song; and Richard
FRirchild leaned over the little gate every
evening on his way mp from the station,
and wished he had the courage to suggest
to Kittie that If they practiced some small
economics, they could perhaps indulge in
the one great luxury of getting married
immediately and going to housekeeping
in the Wentworth cottage. But, o deari
he would be a man of courage who should
dare to suggest to any girl of the Nine
teenth century those dreadful small econo-
mics. No; they must go on waiting; and
with a sigh Richard woul detach himself
from the dear little gate and go on up
the hill.
And every morning, as she came down
the hill to market, long after Richard had
taken the cars to town again, Kittie, too,
would lean on the little gate, and think
that perhaps if she Just had the courage
TO let Richard know that she would be
willing to practice all sorts of economies,
If only they could indulge in the one
great luxury of getting married and be-
ginning housekeeping in the Wentworth
cottage. why, perhaps it might come to
pass. But then-what girl would think
of suggesting to her lover that he hasten
their wedding day? And so Kittie, too,
would detach herself from the dear little
gate and hasten on her way down the
hill to market, where, in her abstraction,
she came very near ordering the things to
I've sent up to the Wentworth cottage, and
actually went so far one morning as to
order string beans because Richard was
particularly fond of them.
When matters have come to such a
pass as this it is easy to forsee what will
happen. On n certain Monday Kittie was
still declaring that they were not to ba
married for years and years, n probation
which even the impatient Richard dared
not shorten to less thar months and
months; and on the Tuesday following 1t
had been unanimously agreed that the
wedding should take place in a month.
AS to the occult processes by which the
transformation was brought about, the
outside world knew nothing. They them
selves knew nothing. Kittie would deny
Indignantly that she ever suggested hast
en1ng their marriage; and Richard is
equally sure that he never, never was the
first to propose that his dainty, charming
Kittie should be reduced to the necessity
of small economies. But there is a
strange freemasonry between two people
who love each other, even before they are
man and wife; and somehow Kittie and
Richard became simultaneously aware,
without any requests or protestations,
that both of them were willing to sacri-
fee everything else in life if only they
might be married in June and go to house.
keeping in the Wentworth cottage.
When a man has seen the woman whom
he would marry if be did not think it
unwise for him to marry, his remaining Il
bachelor, George Eliot says, will depend
on her resolution, not his. And When two
young people have mutually come to the
conclusion that they would be married in
June, it is safe to say that the wedding
day will be before July. At any rate,
Kittie and Richard were married in June,
and for their wedding tour walked down
the hill together to take possession of the
coveted Wentworth cottage.
The great small economy that Kittie
was TO practice was that of doing her own
work. OF course, a woman was TO come
in to wash and iron, land to sweep" ad-
ded Richard, with all the beautiful
thoughtfulness of a lover before marriage;
but Kittie was privately determined that
no woman should ever sweep her house if
she could help it. She was sure it was all
going to be perfectly delightful. She be-
lieved in Mrs. A d. T. Whitney, and now
she would have a chance to prove all those
beautiful theories about beating eggs for
the cake while somebody else read aloud
from Ruskin- Somebody elsel but, o
dearl after she left home, and separated
from the little troupe of sisters there, of
course there wouldn't be anybody else to
read from Ruskin. After Richard went to
town in the morning, she would be quite
alone in the house till he came home at
night. But never mind: she was not go
ing to let a little thing like the absence of
Ruskin interfere with her satisfaction in
beating her own eggs. She meant to write
q book about it herself, and go n step be-
yond Mrs. Whitney to prove how charm
ing it was, if you only thought so, to beat
eggs by yourself, without anybody else in
the house to disturb you with reminding
you of the necessity for culture. And
then if it shouldn't be charming after all.
though of cours it would be, why, she
could give up beating eggs entirely and
buy her cake.
Strange to say. things did go very
smoothly, and the little bride, every one
said, did admirably. One afternoon, late
in September, she had been preserving.
and had had the woman in to help
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