Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-10-03

jeweled arrow; on the reverse was the
word "Mizpah." It looked very strange
to Lizette who did not understand the
significance of either the hearts, or the
word. While she was turning it over in
her hands and half fearfully wondering
about it she forgot sauce that she was
preparing and it was scorched. Laying
the trifle down she tried to undo her &C.
cident with havoring. Again she re-
turned to the pretty trinket and just as
she got it into her hands she heard her
mistress coming. Looking around for a
suitable hiding place for her prize,
Lizette saw her white loaves of dough
which seemed to be a secure and secret
place of hiding. Accordingly she pushed
the amulet down into one and before
Tony could open the door the loaf had
assumed its former shape.
"How very nice your bread looksr' ex-
claimed Tony in real admiration and the
best French she could command. She
realized that her French, as Jim had sug-
gested, was very inferior to the Partisan
French in general and Lizette's in par
ticular. For was not Lizette of stock
that had always and always been French,
pure and unadulterated? So when Tony
had any thing to say to Lizette she said
it in few words, and never argued any
matter at all. After admiring and COM
everything, Tony at last made
known the real object of her visit to the
kitchen. She told Lizette of the loss of
her amulet that had received the blessing
of three holy fathers, and how it had
brought good luck to her mother and to
her it had been present from Tony's
father, man of the world, to his Catho-
lie wife who had, before wearing it, had
it consecrated by the priest.
Lizette listened almost in terror. The
vein of superstition in her nature would
not have allowed her to keep the amulet
knowing all this, but she did not want
to acknowledge her guilt to her mistress
by returning it at once. There was no
but to brave it out after the
manner of such. Lizette was a good
cook but her code of morals was bad,
very bad. Like some other mistaken
people, she persuaded herself that what
she found was hers. This is an idea
wrong in itself and injurious to any one
entertaining it; for one will soon get in
to the habit of finding things where they
are not lost.
Tony left the kitchen in distress. She
had felt all the time so secure in her be-
lief that she had dropped her charm in
her own house and would find it again.
Lizette was uneasy but she could not
bring herself to take the loaf apart and
return her mistress property. "Pl
bake it in there, she thought, "and that
will give me time to think about it."
She hurriedly took up her pudding
dish, thinking to make up for lost time,
and started for the table, but somehow
through haste and nervousness the dish
slipped from her hands and its contents
were spilled. While trying to repair her
loss, for she could not think of q dinner
without pudding, her bread burned, and
yes, it was the loaf that held the amulet.
1T wasn't blessed for me" thought the
cook as she remembered the train of bad
luck she had had since the charm had
been in her possession.
When the bread was done, Lizette
placed it on her white bread board near
an open window to cool while she served
her first course Imagine her surprise
on going to get her bread, to find one
loaf, the burned loaf gone. A gamin, or
street arab, as we say, had seen the hot
bread and determined to possess himself
Of q hot dinner. It was only bread. A
dinner Of bread was q long ways ahead
Of no dinner at all, and that was his
usual kind. he observed the burnt aide
q he was running away with the Loaf.
but he reflected that there would be-
enough for grand dinner and ths burnt
to throw away.