The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-06-06

IS hang him. hut You hated dear little
wagner always
II Gentleman YOU dotaa a him.
IandI looked on him Is ) sott 81 bind be-.
tween you andsthe nan who gave him =
you." LIS
Millicent, agIrievedly-. &, cruel sus-
lpicionsl Wagner was 70 like my grand
mothers pct, Judy, and IL some way he IL
ways recalled to me my dear grandmamma''
gentleman smokers blasphemously, but
Aillicent does not notioe). "Afterward
loved Waggy for himself in my troubled
hours he seemed to understand and sympa-
thize, and-he hated her sop' =
Gentleman, aggravatingly-"He used to
SWIVEL around her - if he adored her,
Millicent, in low interjectory, mimicking
some one else-'sC Clever little WaGner!''
It'll she boxed his ears for tearing her
lace. He was cowed, but bonbon always
brought him wriggling back, Admirable
sympathy, powerful Understandings !
Millicent, languidly Wagner, we will
| now leave, and promise Mi. Vandervere not
to disturb him again."
Mr.. Vandervere, in commotion-"liilli-
cent, you can not think of breaking OF in
this cold blooded way?''
MAicent, sighing-"You seem happy, T.
exist at least, in peace and obscurity. A
| life Of solitude and loneliness is not so unen-
durable as one in which mind and heart are
daily tortured.'' #% : p
Hi Chang, signing rcsponsively-"Sh She
get him all likee she want now. She talk
heap pity" .4&& ,~+4s*x-
Much persuasion and entreaty on one side;
reminiscence and reproach on the other.
E~nU1
admit, then, that your affair with that per-
son was disgrace to yourself and q wrong
| to me?"
Vandervere, expostulating weakly -"But,
dear Millicent, in Justice to her could not
admit that much
Millicent, half way down stairs-"So you
prefer to do an injustice to your xitef Very
well. Consider this meeting merely en-
accident. We continue apart"
Vandervere, desperately-"No;I know,
| dearest, 1 did make a fool of myself, and she
i was imprudent.'
'Millicent, with stacy mirth-"Impru-
dentl"
Vandervere- "Then, exacting of atten-
tion.'
Millicent-"For exacting, say rarenous;
for attention, say intrig~e." .
Vandervere, wildly-''Yes-yes,s she likes
somebody AROUND always, bankers after fun,
or, what's yost word.- intrigue, any thing
you choose"
Millicent, sadly-"It was unworthy of
dangling after her."
| Vandervere, recitatively-"I was un-
worthy of me.''
| They are now quite down stairs. Hi Chang
tip-to out into vacated hall, grinning and
Wabbling his chubby neck.
| "'Melican wifee heap smart; she say :;
Me do long, what you make me DOE Then
husban' think he may be so velly bad man"
He pcnsively resumes hash-chopping in
kitchen. Enter Odelia, tumultuously, max.
| ing confused EXPLANATIONS. Hi Chang chops
| on.
Odelia-'1sn't there tongue in your
head to answer a body!" Hi Chang swirls
around, waving hash-chopper and grinning
tiendishly. Odelia, desperately brave, slaps
at him with sun-bonnet, as she backs out of
door.
Hi Chang, with lightning transformation
into grotesque mirth-''Before you lose him
dog, now you lose him lady. Evly time lose
him something, you come ask me. Some
time you can no find you head, you maybe
so come ask me. Me think'' with critical
scrutiny Of Odelia's top-piece, ''you lose
him head, nobody steal him.
Odelia, gurgling with rage-"O, it's not
me that minds your impudence. It's my
lady I'm looking for, and I'll find her or die! "
Hi Chang, in squeaking whisper-"One
minuee, me show. you. Ny boss catch him
dog, then catch him lady. He take outside,
and'' Che makes few hideously significant
passes with the knife, unpleasantly close to
Odelia's throat, smiling satanic smile as
he does SOY ''you sabe-he make play, all
samee dog and chickee"
Odelia, with hollow lightness of tone
"And so you're thinking to make q fool OF
me entirely,"
Hi Chang-"You no b'lieve?" He slides
over to window and gazes around. Then
stepping out Of door, calls to the excited
Odelia: "You come, me show YOU" She
follows; Chinaman, still dangling hash
chopper, and stepping cat-ike, makes a
winding course among the out-buildings. He
stops at small Toulouse near the orchard,
and aattens himself against the wall, one
eye peering around the corner. He beckons
to Odelia: Ssh! no make him noise.'
Odelia plants herself at the wall, and
thrusts her head out above the Chinamans
I'm the name of St. Patrick!"
|. Object ofexclamation-two figures side by
side on narrow box under an apple tree, q
dog stretched across the two laps.
Odelia, after long study of the scene
'It's the live man and not his ghost. Every
thing made up, and no divorce, after all she's
been saying. And me wearing my soul
away three months in this pagan land, ten
miles from confession. The saints above
can't tell what a woman will do when she's
got husband!''
Hi Chang, reprovingly- make him
fuss, spoil evlything. Velly pletty lady
My boss heap sabe. Me sabe, too. Me work
hard, get money, 60 back China, catch him
wifee, heap fat, ittee foot. Tlee bundled
dollar wifee! You likee catch him husban'
Me flaid take big money-may be so tlee t'ou-
sam dollar-eh? ''-Leslies Illustrated News
paper.