The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-18
HIS NEIGHBOURS BEES.

1t was a still, frosty evening in October,
with the moon just old enough ocast rudy
light on the 39af carpeted path, and the an
cient stone wall, all broidered over with
lichens and moss. The air was instinct with
sweet aromatic scents, and one red light
burned like q beacon Star in the cottage win
dow on the hill
''Lookll said Fleda Fenwicz mamma has
lighted tie lampl It's high time we were
home.n
And you haven't said yesr' mourufully
uttered Jack Trevelyn.
And don't mean to SAY yesr'
Jack seated himself on the stone wall, just
where the bars had been taken down He
was a handsome, sunburned fellow. with
sparkling. black ewes and a rich, dark COM
plexioa. as if II us far back ancestry, there
had been some Give browed Spaniard Fleda
leaned against the bars, the moon turning her
fair hair to gold and lingering like blue sparks
In the deeps Of her laughing eyes. If ever op-
posites existed IN nature, they existed there,
and then.
I've great mind TO 90 away to sea" said
Jack, slowly and vengefully.
DO" saucily retorted Fleda.
"And never come back e6ain"
"Oh Jack.7
''The idea,n he cried, raising both hands as
II to invoke the fair moon herself by way Of
audience of a girl refusing. to be married
simply because she hasn't got some particular
sort Of a wedding gown to stand up in"
''f l can't be married ike other girls,
won't be married at all" declared Fleda,
COMPRISING her rosy lips.
''The idea Of keeping q man waiting for
that-1 GToanei Jack.
"It won't be long" coaxed Fleda.
But, look here, Fleda, why can't we go
quietly t. church and be married, any day,
and yet the gown afterwards!7 pleaGed Jack.
But, JACK, it wouldn't be the same thing
at all A girl gets married but once in her
life, and she wants TO look decent then"
Ny own darling, you would look an angel
IN anyrdinEw
Nov, quit that. jack" laughed Fleda.
''Its what my school children call tafy.'"
Il hate your school children said Jack,
venomoUsiy. AZ hate your school desp;se
the trustees, and I should Ike TO see the
building burn down. Then you would have
to come 10 me-"
NO, I shouldn't = averred Fle5a. 81 should
Toke in millinery and dres1aaling until had
r earned enough for the white silk dress. l
never would-Oh, Jackl Who's that's"
"A traupl III soon settle him with my
bIackthoru - cried TrevC-yn, s1ringing up.
"No, don't" whispered Fleda, shrinking
close to him; Its Mr. Mingdsn. Hes on his
own premises; these woods belong to him.
It's We that are treSspasssrs. Hsit! Stand
stu until he has gone by. He's very near
sighted aud he VIII never sec isl"
md who" bre2-hed JACK, as a stout,
elderly person tTot5ed slowly across the
patch Of moonlight, and vanished behind
the stiff laurel hedge, us Mr.. NiHgdanf
..Do7'5 veu know? Our nai~hbor. The
new gentleman WHO has bought Smoke hail"
''Tno CID cove W1o IS always quarreling
with youg'
"Ycs-the very man who hates bees 50 in
tolerabIv, and wants mamma TO take away
ell the .. lovely hives, down by the south
fence. 10 SAYS Ee can't ta1e his constitu-
;ioual in peace, because he's always afraid Of
being stUng."
.sY-hy don't he take it somewhere else,
then"
That's the very question" said Fleda
.'---u~s,7. en-? believe he must be Harry
,Ifngocr's Uacle-i.s not such very com
mon nameo SAID Jack, releeJively. And
Tgarrv's ms college chUrn-aEd I'm going TO
ask him to be NY best man at the wedding"
Oh, jack! hope he isn't as disagreeable
Is his u1ca.n cried EIbeda
lies trrr.p''
Besides, / don't believe his uncle win let
MIN CONS" added the girl.
Not let him comet Why Shouldn't he!'
Because he hates US So"
ION account Of tie beesg"
80 'sYes. on accouus Of the bees"
- drr,a - nj ar nr-q3-
ness, is 1t, chg
Rather s., Tn afraid, " sighed Fleda-
But l say, laJain cried the young man,
'Jhis compLscaUes matters l promised 70
60 and see larry AIngaen when l was down
here"
go and see him, then; but don't mention
the name Of Fglwick FOR your life"
Indeed / shall Isn't 10 the name OF ali
others in which take she most priIas'
'.Oh. .TaCE, You VIII only u1Aa more troU-
bel IN be worse than the bees Promise
me. Jack, or I'll never, never speak to you
aSaia."
and Jack had 10 promise, after some IN
wiling fashion.
Mrs Fe-.vi k 2 pretty, faded little widow,
was NIL charged WIKI Indignation when Fleda
returned from hzr stroll ~ tbs woods.
Mamma. what Is the uatl1r37 said Fleda.
"Onc Of the hives was Tipped over to
night" sobdej Kris. Eenuick; and I'm sure
hed.Ga"
''Ly WAC The wind mamma
"Nc wind ever did that, Fisda. Bat | set
1t Up sca'n. VII never, never sacrifice my
apiary To his absurd PvejuSloes.'
Dear mamma, II You would only have
tie hives usvrj 70 TIE othe- side Of the gar
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