Wichita eagle., 1889-01-09


| in reEuke. he was simple looking fellow,
| with wa brown hair and biue eyes, and
| scarcely ndered at Rosiaa's desperate
! Efforts to get MIN. he resented snappishly
my first questions but I took him to the
other end Of the bench and gradually talked
| him into better mood He would not say a
word against the fortune teller, and evidently
believed that she was In league with some
| evil spirit, and therefore to be dreaded as
| much as believed
ibid you ask her to tell yonr fortune, or
| did she ask youip poiDtedly inquired at
| last.
''She asked me, and wouldn't take a re-
fusal, as she said there was a great danger
hanging over me-"
SAY, and what was the danger7n asked,
with sheer.
He hesitated, and then said he would rather
not tell
Il couldna but believe her," he added, ''for
she told me that night no mortal but myself
ever knew. She told me two Iassie were daft
about me- and that had gone home with one,
and stood with her for half an hour, and kissed
her, and then net the other and stood with
her half an hour and kissed her."
Goodness! and was it truei What Don
JuanI"
SIT was kind o true. l went home with
my lass, Bella Richardson, and then l met
another by chancs. She was daft to get me,
and went bit with her, and she some way
got me to kiss her, though l was angry wi
miser a. the time"
''Tout, mani she might have got all that
out OF the second lass"
mo, she couldn't, for Rosna has never
seen her,"
"Oh, indeed. I suppose Rosina told you
soF'
eyes"
Has Rosina black eyesT
Eyes; whys"
"Well, persons with black eyes ere usually
inclined to be liars"
His face flushed up to the very roots of his
hair, and the flash of his eyes showed that he
YVES inclined to strike me in defense Of his
beloved calmly ignored the look and at
titude and he slowly subsidized.
NOW what was it that the old bag told
you that you don't like to repeatF'
He shook his head, and remained silent.
did she say that something dreadful
would happen to you If you told it9'
he nodded, with a little SURPRISE at my
penetration.
Gay, that's a common dodge of these
wretches. when they have cause to fear be-
trayal Well, you tell me what she said, SO
that something dreadful may happen to her
and not to you"
The significant tone staggered him, and he
appeared TO waver and think.
''Do you think she ever saw Rosina before
she came hereF he faltered at last, with pitt
full simplicity.
GaI iyvox., Sba did
He palsd to sckly hue, and then under
stood what the old man had described as
white as corp"
"But-but'-- be family stammered,
''RoSina didna set her on to ;tf'
Something of that kind, think, but |
am only getting ct the facts now. She Is
Matchmaking the girl well now, at any rate
know that, for I've seen it."
Marshall uttered a cry, and family sat
down. l offered to get him water, but he
declined huEriedly, and said there was moth
ing wrong with him. Then Of his own ac-
cord he said:
''The aud witch tellt me that 1 had two
sweethearts-one fair and the other dark
and that 1 was set on marrying the fair one,
but that il | married her | would have moth
ing but misery and misfortune, and die in
side of two years, but that if / married the
dark one / would have long life and happi-
ness, and come into fortune through my
wife"
And you believed herr"
81 had to believe her, after the things she
had told me. And Rosina declared that she
had never seen the woman, and laughed at
the idea Of any one being able to tell for
tunes"
"And you asked her to marry you, of
course, so that you might get the long life
and happiness and big fortune. Well, I've
often thought women silly creatures, but
here is a man silller than any women / ever
met"
He appeared to agree with me- for he
groaned aloud over his mistake, but declared
that it was too late to retract his promise
that he was bound to marry Rosina now that
he lad asked her and won her and begun to
furnish a house.
Il doubt you'll have TO wait till she comes
out Of Jail, then" l callously remarked, ''for
at present she Is charged with conspiracy,
and it looks like she would be convicted"
Give hated her all along" he impulsively
added, "but somehow she always got round
me when we were together"
"Oh, you fool-now you make me ashamed
of my own SEX" angrily answered
II think III shoot myself" he helplessly
added
Don't, please, till after the trial, for / (
shall need your evidence" politely request
ed, and then l managed to add some things
about Bella Richardson which seemed to con-
vince him that life was the least Of the two
evils. He was now as incensed against the
fortune teller and her employer as before he
had been awed and captivated, and hoped .
that some sentence nearly as bad as hanging
would be awarded to both.
After getting him into that reasonable T
state of mind left the shop and went to /
Rosina's, but was tod that she had been alb .
sent the whole day. In moment it flashed
upon me that she might have scented danger
and escaped, but on reaching her home i was
asreeably surprised TO learn that she was in
and would see me in a few minutes sat /
down in the kitchen and began to chat with
her mother, who seemed in a very bad tenn
per, and soon revealed to me that the cause
was the visitor then with her daughter.
''She's some Of Marshall's friends, but she
Nv leaves Roslna IN bonny state. and is
never dune Begin money. The lassie has
hardly a shiilin' she can ca her ain"
'An elderly woman carrying basket I
returned.
NO sha has nae basket. but I'll warrant
she has a pouch" snorted the mother, and
Just then the voice in tie next room rose to
angry alteration, and we heard Rosina
exclaim:
Its his money, and l Gamma give you
penny of it."
The answer was spoken so quietly that it
did not reach our ears; but, after a quieter