Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-05-30


A good deal of animated discussion fol
lows. Hi Chang deliberately retires int
the small room, keeping one eye fitted Il
narrow chink Of door. His refiections-.'Mt
sabe now what for he so much tlinkee. and
likee give dog sheep, bull, chickee. Have
big fuss; he go way. He sit down, think
think, all samee not plentee womee in
world. He heap mad; he likee never more
get please. She come; she look velly niece
he forget one minnee. She no forget-she
talk make him solly-womee heap smart
man no can all time find OUT
Lady-"You grant that you gave me more
than provocation!"
Gentleman, abiectIy-''Yes, you were
justified, entirely. But a man can't helI
the mad things he does when he is Jealous
Millicent, speaking fast-''I don't in the
least refer TO things you did when you were
iealous-if you were so. 1t was the real in
dignities l suffered through her. And, by the
way, where is she nowi"
Gentleman-''I have not seen her since
that hideous week at Tumido Park
Millicent-"Ah, really! how wonderfully,
with what fortitude, you endured the hor-
rors of that week. We noticed, didn't we,
| Wagner!r
Gentleman, graphing at diversion-''No
wonder that beasts howl was so familiar -
Millicent, reproachfull y-"Yout threatened
to hang him. But you hated dear little
! Wagner always
Gentleman-Because you dotted on him,
| and looked on him as sort of bond be-
tween you and the man who gave him to
you"
Milliccnt. aggrievedly 30, cruel sus-
| picions! Wagner was so like my grand
mothers pet Judy, and in some way he al
ways recalled to me my dear grandmamma"
| gentleman smokers bla5phemously, but
Mllicent does not notice.. ''Afterward /
loved Waggy for himself-in my troubled
hours he seemed to understand and sympa-
thize, and-he hatcher sop
Gentleman, aggravatingly-''He used to
SWIVEL around her as if he aiored her.
Millicent, in low interiectory, mimicking
some one else-''Clever little Wagner!'
It'll she boxed his ears for tearing her
lace. He was cowed, but tom5on always
brought him wriggling back. Admirable
sympathy, powerful understanding
Millicent, languidly-"Wagner, we will
now leave, and promise Mr.. Vandervere not
to disturb him again"
Mr. Vandervere, in commotion-''Milli-
cent you can not think of breaking off in
this cold blooded way"
Millicent, sighing-'You seem happy, l.
exist at least, in peace and obscurity. A
life of solitude and loneliness is not so unen-
durable as one in which mind ano heart are
daily tortured
Hi Chang, signing responsibility =" She
get him all il1ee she want now. She talk
heap pity"
Much persuasion and entreaty on one side;
rcminiscence and reproach on the other
Millicent, finally, with decision-"You
admit, then, that your affair with that per-
son was disgrace to yourself and wrong
to me!"
Vandervere, expostulating weakly-"But,
dear Millicent, in justice to her l could not
admit that much.
Millicent, half way down stairs-''So you
prefer to do an injustice to your uJs? Very
well. Consider this meeting merely an
accident. We continue apart"
Vandervere, desperately-'No; I know,
dearest, did make fool of myself, and she
was imprudent."
Millicent, with stacy mirth-" Impru-
dentr'
Vandervere-"Then, exacting CT atten-
tom
Millicent-"For ezacting, say ra0enb,s;:
for attention, say intrigue"
Vanderyere, wildly-''Yes-yes, she likes
somebody around always, bankers after fun.
or, what's your word!- intrigue, any thing
you choose"
Millicent, sadly-"It was unworthy OF
you to allow such person to keep You
dangling after her"
Vandervere, recitativcly-"I It was IN
worthy of me-"
They are now quite down stairs Hi Chang
tip-tOes out into vacated hall, grinning and
wabbling his chubby neck.
Mclean wifee heap smart: she say;
Me do long. what you make me dO:' Then
husban' think he may be so vclly bad man"
He pensively resumes hash-chOpping in
kitchen. Enter Odelia, unanimously, max
ing confused EXPLANATIONS. Hi Chang chops
on.
Odelia-'Isn't there a tongue in YOUR
head to answer body?" Hi Chang swirs
around, waving hash-chopper and grinning
fiendishly. 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 Pm looking for and I'll find her or dier'
Hi Chang, in squeaking whisper-"One
Gninnee, me show you. My boss catch him
dog, then catch him lady. lie take outside,
and' Che makes few hidcously significant
passes with the knife, unpleasantly close to
Odelia's throat, smiling satanic smile as
he does sO) ''you sabe-he make play, all
samee dog and chickee.'
Odelia, with hollow Eghtness of tone
"And so you're thinking to make 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-lilze, makes a
winding course among the out-buildings. He
stops at a small tool near the orchard,
and fiattens himself against the wall, one
eye peering around the corner. He beckons
to Odelia: 'S'h! no make him noise"
Odelia plants herself at the wall, and
thrusts her head out above the Chinaman's. |
In the name of st. Patrickr'
Object ofexclamatiOn-tw figures side by |
side on narrow box under an apple tree a |
dog stretched across the two laps.
Odelia, after long study of the scene |
its 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 woman will do when she's |
got husbandr'
Hi Chang, reprovingly-"No make him |
fuss, spoil evlything. Velly pletty lady |
My boss heap sabe. Ne sabe, too. Me work