The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-11
A LOVES LIKENESS.

Next TO a requited attachment one Of
the most convenient things that a young
man can cGrry about with him at the be-
ginning Of his career is an UnreqUited at
tachment Il makes him feel important,
and business ike, and blase, and cynical;
and whenever he has touch Of liver COM
paint or suffers from want of exercise,
he can mourn over his lost love and be
very happy in a tender, twilight fashion.
HGnnasyde's affair Of the heart had been
a godsend TO him. II was four years old,
and the girl had long since given up think
ing of it. She had married and had many
cares of her own. Ia the beginning she
had told Hannasyde that, while she could
never be anything more than a sister to
him, she would always take tie deepest in
terest in his welfare" This srartlinglynew
and acknowledgements gave Hannasyde some
thing 10 think over for two years, and his
own vanity dl!ea in the other twenty-four
months Hanuasyde was quite different
from Phil Garrcn, but, none the less, had
several points IN common with that far too
lucky man.
He kept his unIeguited attachment by
him as men keep we'll smoked pipe-for
comforts sake, and because it had grown
dear in the using. 1t brought him hap
PLY through the SiUla season. Hannasyde
was not lovely. There was = cTudity in his
manners and Il ToUZhness in the way in
which he Helped & lady on % her horse
that Gid not attract the other sex to him,
even if he had cast about foF their favor,
which he did not. lie kept his wounded
heart all TO himself Tor awhile.
Then trouble Geme to him. All who go
to Simia know the slope from the tele-
graph to the p0bhc works Office. Hanna
syde was loafng up the hill one September
morning between calling hours when a
'rickshaw came down in hurry, and in
the 'rickshsw sat the living, breathing
image Of the girl who had made him SO
happily unhappy. Hannasyde leaned
against the ratings and gasped. lie wanted
to run down I'LL after the 'rickshaw, but
that was impossible; 80 he went forward
with most Of his blood in his temples.
It was impossible, Tor many reasons, that
the woman n the 'rickshaw could be the
girl he had known. She was, he discov-
cred later, tho wife of man from DinGi-
gul, or Coi1nbatore, or some out-of-the-way
place, and she had come up to Si1nla early
In the season for the good Of her health.
She was going back to Dlndigul, or wher-
ever it was, at the end Of the season, and
Simla again, her proper Hill station being
OotacGnu-d. That night Hanpasyde,
raw and savage from the ralSiug Up of all
old feelings, took counsel with himself for
one measured hour What be decided
upon was Dslis, and you must decide for
yourself how much genuine affection for
the old love, and how much a very natural
inclination TO so abroad and enjoy himself
affected the decision. Airs. L2ndys-Hag-
CERT would never in all human likelihood
cross his path again. So whatever he did
didn't much matter. She was marveloualy
ike the girl who took a deep interest"
and the rest of the formula. All things
considered, it would be pleasant to make
the acguaiEta8co OF Mrs. Landys-Haggert,
and for d little tiIne-only d very little
time-to make believe that he was with
Alice Chisane gam. Every enc ia more or
less mad on enc point. Hannasyde's par
tirnlaF monoLuania was his old love. Alice
C9Iisaae-
Flo made il his business TO get introduced |
to MTzs. Haggert, au3 Standardization pros
pered He also made il his business to see !
as much as ne could OF that lady When a
man NJ in earnest IS to interviews the IA
cilities which Sinla offers arc startling 1
There are garden parties and tennis parties |
and picnics and IUncheons at AnnandaIe, !
and rifle matches and dinners and balls; !
besides rides and walks, which are matters !
Of private arrangement. HanBasyde had |
started viii Gls in.Va ricn Of seeing a like |
ness, and lie ended by doing much more. |
He wanted to le-decel7ed. he meant TO be |
deceived and &c deceived himself very thor |
oughly. No cuIy Wece the face and figure |
the FACE and figure 81 Alioe ChisGne, but /
the voice anG In s-cr tones were exactly the |
s218e. aud 81 T7sgo thc turns Of speech; and |
the little maEEcEIsE-s that every woman |
has Of gas snH gcGS5cI7iatica wcre abso-
iuSely and iIenflcS-ly the saric
The turn OF the kaad was the same; the i
tired look in the eyes At the end Of q Iongl
walk was the sa1lc; tho stoop and wrench /
over TIE sac['c u hold in q pulling horse
was tar SaEns; and once, mos marvellous |
CT all, Mrs. LGE65s-iIaggert singing toI
herself 10 the next VooEl. YLiic Harnzsyds !
was waiting L. tzilo her FOR =. ride. hum
med nole f5- ncte- with : taroz-v 0Igiyer
If the voice Il the aSccra line. Poo Wan