Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-02-15
FRIED OYSTERS.
An Account Of the Disappearance
Of Mr.. Cassidy.

'My dear" said Mr.. Cassidy, put
on the frying-pan, and get ready to
make some oyster fritters. I'm hungry
and we'll have bit Of supper before we
sleep"
Mrs. Cassidy liked bit of supper and
oyster fritters as we'll as her husband,
and she nodded an assent; and, putting
by her work, went into the little kitchen
at the end of the fiat, and having handed
her spouse o small tin kettle with
handle, looked to the fire, and set all
that was necessary on the cooking
table. Then she sat down to wait for
him.
1t was warm in the kitchen, and COM
Portable and cozy.
Mrs. Cassidy, waiting for her spouse,
leaned back against the wall and shut
her eyes. Not sleeping; oh, no, only
think ng. The clock licked on; the tea
kettle sang its song. Mrs. Cassidy was
back in the country place where she
was born, talking at the garden gate with
Tom. Then something aroused her.
She started up.
Tom! Tom! Why, where was Tom
Cassidy? He had been gone an hour And
the oyster saloon was only around the
corner. She must have had nap.
Frightened and nervous, she ran to
the door. All was very still in the
street, and where the houses were not
utterly dark, the lights had gone to the
upper floors.
Perhaps the saloon was closed and he
had gone farther for the oysters. Yes;
that must be it.
She went back to the kitchen and
waited, but no Tom came.
In fact he did not come that night.
About dawn next morning the servant,
coming downstairs to kindle the fire,
saw her mistress crouched up in the
corner of the kitchen Fireplace moan
ing and rocking herself to and fro.
When asked what was the matter, she
said:
'Your master is dead, Sally"
Sally shrieked, but when informed
that her lady's reasons for this statement
were hat her husband had gone out in
tending to return in few minutes, and
was not yet at home, Sally grinned and
took the affair lightly.
depend upon it, num-" she said,
she's only gone of on a spree. They
all does it sooner or later. My last
lady didn't see hers for three weeks one
winter. Mr.. Cassidy II turn up all
right again SOON"
But her mistress could not be COM
forted. Neither was Sally true prophet.
It was soon evident that Mr.. Cassidy
had disappeared.
All his male relatives and connections
went to work at the search for him as
soon as they could be telegraphed for.
No gentleman of his description had in
.quired for oysters late that evening in
the neighborbOod.
At his place Of business q person |
waited for him at nine that morning, by |
appointment. Failing in this meeting |
was very disadVsntsgeous to Mr.. Cas-
:sidy.
He had bought tickets for the theater
the next evening, for Mrs. Cassidy and |
himself, and had given them to her to
keep safe. Not the most suspicious de-
tective Of them all could believe that
Mr.. Cassidy had Voluntarily left home.
A respectable gentleman Of his age,
well dressed as ne always was, prob
ably, would have been taken to q
hospital fhe had been seized with q
sudden attack OF illness in the street,
or, at least, If be had been supposed to
be intoxicated, dubbed, and locked up
in cell for daring 70 have apoplexy or
heart disease, his remains would have
have been found by this time They |