The Sunday morning news., 1889-08-25

Agreed. " was the unanimous verdict
''We'n wait and watch.
Meanwhile 8 o'clock had arrived, and
with it Mrs. Claypoles expected visitor.
From her cozy little sitting room upstairs
came The rhythmic thuinming Of the
piano and the soft contralto voice singing
in delightful unison, You'll Remember
Nc"
Zone of them's there" said Miss Cog
giles in a stage whisper. ''She always
sings that song when that curly headed
boy comes Bat it's getting late--I wish
you all good evening" .f.f5.
And Miss Goggles glided swiftly from
the parlor and went upstairs
'"The games begun" remarked Mr..
johnson, with significant shrug. vs.
Glow soY" asked Hadley.
Miss Goggles Is first on watch.
Mr.. Johnson was right. Miss Goggles
was first on watch.
The watery eyed spinster foresaw many
personal advantages in the scheme of es-
pionage agreed upon by the boarders In
the first place. nature seemed to have'en-
dowed her with especial gifts of poking
and prying into the personal affairs Of
others.
Her eyes, expressionless though they
were, were remarkably sharp both at
short and long range. Her ears, which
bulged out like miniature cornucopias,
had very susceptible tympanun1s, which
accurately received and registered the
slightest undulation of sound Her nose,
long, sharp and pointed, seemed framed
to scent out scandal; while her high. mar
row forehead betokened intellectual quail
ties in keeping with those other tokens Of
inquisitiveness and cunning.
Then she had football as soft and vel
vety as that of cat She glided noise-
lessly about the house, and was con-
stantly turning up in the midst of inter
esting domestic incidents. The servants
said she had d disagreeable habit Of looking
through the keyholes. One night, when
young Mr.. Jobson came home slightly un.
der the weather, and Mrs. Jobson began
to moan and cry and threaten to return
to the aching bosom of her mother, Miss
Goggles was caught peering through the
transom of their room. She excused her
self ON the ground that she thought the
wretch was numbering his unfortunate
wifo, and she wanted to be able to testify
against him In the criminal court.
Mrs. Jobson came near tearing her eyes
out the next morning, and Mr.. Job
son, mortified and humiliated almost be-
yond endurance, consulted scientific
friend as to the pfacticability of
securing the germs of some malignant
disease with which to quietly inoculate
the innocent, saintlike Miss Goggles.
This showed Mr.. Jobson to be bitter,
spiteful man, quite capable of the awful
crime which the spinster suspected him Of
contemplating; but man cannot feel
friendly and dovelike toward woman
who has witnessed and gIoated over his
first connubial tiff.
Then, Miss Goggles was pleased with
the new programme because it emanated
from Mr.. johnson.
The old gentleman had been particu-
larly attentive to the spinster of late. He
had taken her to the theater several times
and grc wn tenderly sentimental over the
subsequent oyster stews. More than
once he had waxed confidential over the
parlor stove, and spoken of his financial
affairs in way which excited her to envy,
if it did not warm her to love.
She felt herself blpshing whenever
those kindly, twinkling brown eyes looked
into tho literally liquid depths of her own
passionless orbs Affairs had reached
such pass now that Mr.. johnson had
only to whisper an affectionate word, and
she was ready to fop into his arms and
proclaim VOWS of undying devotion.
But Mr.. johnson did not whisper that
word, contenting himself with an occa-
sional sigh and glance of respectful adj
oration. He sometimes called her Hen
rietta" that was her given name--but
the word seemed to come from him una
awares, and he lapsed into moody silence
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