The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-01

Millccnt, sardonically-- did I-by an
unfortunate coincidence OF IDEAS"
A good deal of animated discussion fol
lows. Hi Chang deliberately retircs into
the small room, keeping one eye fitted TO
narrow chink of door. His srefections-"Me
sabo now what for he so much tlinkee, and
likee give dog sheep, bull, chiclSee. Have
big fuss he go way. He sit down, think,
think, all samee not plontee womee in
world He heap mad; he hkee never more
get please She come; she look velly niece; I;
he forget one minnee. She no forget-she
talk make him solly--womec heap smart
man no can all time find out,n
Lady-"You grant that you gave me more
than provocatonm
Gentleman, abjectly-"Yes, you were
justified, entirely. But man can't help
the mad things he does when he is jealous"
Milliccnt, 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
dignites suffered through her. And, by the
way, where is she nowl"
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,
WagnerW
wonder that beasts howl was so familiar"
Millicent reproachfully-"You 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 tho man who gave him to
you.n
Millicent. aggrievedly - o, 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 blasphemously, but
Millicent does not notice.. "Afterward
loved Waggy for himself-in my troubled
hours he seemed to understand and sympa-
thize, and-he hatedher soP'
Gentleman, aggravatingly-"He used to
snivel around her as if he adored her"
Mllicent in low interjectory, mimicking
some one else-"Clever little Wagnerl"
"-Till she boxed his ears for tearing her
lace. He was cowed, but a bonbom always
brought him wriggling back. Admirable
sympathy, powerful understanding
Millicent languidly-"Wa we will
now leave, and promise Mr.. Vandervere not
to disturb him again"
Mr.. Vandervere, in commotion-"AIilli-
cent, you can not think of breaking off in
this cold -blooded wayl"
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 and heart are
daily tortured"
Hi Chang, signing responsively -" She
get him all likee she want now. She talk
heap pity"
Much persuasion and entreaty on inc side;
reminiscence and reproach on the other
Hnnl1u with 1ppiCipD --ttVp1
admit, then, that your affair with that per-
son was disgrace to yourself and wrong
to mel"
Vandervere, eXpostulating weakly-"But,
dear Millicent, in justice to her could not
admit that much.
NIillicent, half way down stairs-'So you
prefer to do an injustice TO your witef Very
well. Consider this meeting merely an
accident. We continue apart"
Vandervere, desperately-"No; know,
dearest, did make fool of myself, and she
was imprudent."
Millicent, with stacy mirth - "Impru-
dent!"
vandervere-"Then exacting of atten-
tion.m
Millicent-"F exacting, say ravenous;
for attention, say intrigue"
Vandervere, ,wildly-"Yes-yes,s she likes
somebody around always, bankers after fun,
or what's your wordi- intrigue, any thing
you choose.n
Milicent, sadly-"It was unworthy OF
you to allow such person to keep you
dangling after her"
vandervere, recitatively-" was un.
worthy of me-"
They are now quite down stairs. Hi Chang
tip-toes out into vacated hall, grinning and
wabbling his chubby neck.
"'Melican wifee heap smart; she say;
Me do long, what you make me dof Then
husban' think he may be so velly bad man."
He pensively resumes hash h-chopping in
kitchen. Enter Odelia, tumultuously, max
ing confused eXclamations. Hi Chang chops
on.
Odelia-''1sn't there tongue in your
head to answer bodyl" Hi Chang swirls
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 rll find her rdie"
Hi Chang, in a squeaking whisper-"One
minnee, me show you. My boss catch him
dog, then catch him lady. He take outside,
and" (he makes few hideously 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 lightness of tone
Sand so you're thinking to make fool Of
me entirelyl"
Hi Chang-''You no b'lieve2" He slides
stepping out of door, calls to the excited
Odelia "You come, me show you" She
follows; Chnaman, still dangling hash
chopper, and stepping cat-like, makes a
winding course among the heout-buildings. He
stops at a small Toulouse near the orchard,
and flattens himself against the wall, one
eye pee.ing around the corner. He beckons
to Odelia: Ssh no make him noise"
| Odela plants herself at the wall, and
thrusts her head out above the Chinamans.
''In the name of st. Patrick!'
Object of eXclamation-two figures sideby
side on narrow box under an apple-tree, a
dog stretched across the two laps.
Odelia, after a 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
Lcen 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
a hushandp ~