The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04

lyon m$lly me DlmeDy, SAID Ling, as
Though he telt sure he would win.
ESQ long joint" she said, as she went
ont munchsng the candy. That was the
first of the queer coursship. 1t struck
Maggie seriously, as though she thought
she might 30 worse.
81 don't know but what I'll marry the
CEink, "shs said to her;elf. ''Fn get all
thtr clothes an money want an I'll be
boss, you can bet"
There was a cat whi4h used to sleep
u1 Ger Ling's counter. IShe grew fat on
THE scraps of chow chop suey and chue
| yunk which fell from the table, and al
tog ether lived life oflpeace. But the
day Ling proposed to Maggie Sullivan
the cats Ilanner changed. Instead of
sleeping under the counter all the day
she took to walking in the counter,
mkwing ,ineasi1y in h wailing voice
which filed the room With a distressful
so;1nd
Then she would pausd in her walk, and
sitting on aer haunchSs glare at Ling
with staring eyes, Oace or twice be
drove her away, but sh > came back and
glared until her eyes turned from green
toipurple. Once he strslck her with his
bamboo tang, and she retreated to a
high shelf and watched him.
1.-THE evil ons possesses her, said
Ling, and he burned more prayer sticks
before his s1ashat JOSS, but the wailing
ofIthe cat never ceased. She crept under
Ling's bed that night and scratched at
TIL mating on the floor; she paraded the
little room, and her pig shining eyes
seemed to light up the dark place. From
that night the cat was never at rest, and
Ling became so stricken with silent
terror that he would go out into the
street rather than crossiher path.
He forgot about the scat couple of
days later, when Maggie Sullivan came
in She was better dressed than usual
i'Hello. john" she began, 81 had a
row with the old woman, and I've CHM
out. I'm DEAD sick of aittin jumped on.
Now, if you wanter marry me on ther
square, I'm. with you, but I don't want
any funny business in rainep'
s'You mklly me?" asked Ling, while
snsile crept over his face. ''Allee lite, I
m4lly you
But I'LL tell you, JOIN, the girl Invent
on, ''you'vt got to cut that pigtail off
and wear dftizen's clothes. You got to
be pretty NEAR white man. You got to
be as white as clothes can kin make you,
an you got to treat me white, too, or I'll
shake your
Ling didn't want to lose his cue and
he fought against whats he considered a
sacrilege, but he found Maggie relent-
less.
81 curl him up SOB he said, as he
twisted it about his head; :" N l puttee
on HAT, SOP and he pul led an old SLOUGH
hat down over his head "n' nobody slee
him, ha?"
No, even. that wouldn't do, and Maggie
went away saying: I'm goin up to a
lady friends O. mine Ter stay ternite,
John, an iii see YOU tomorrer, an if
ther pigtail don't go cont git married,
see?"
Ling didn't quite see,i but he thought
lot He thought Maggie was the pref
test girl he had ever seen. There was
nothing chan about hee. She had fine
blue eyes, trim fgulie and shock of
golden hair that ATTRACTED the China
man. The old cat JUMPED on the coun-
ter and yowled and stared at him, and
he went out to get away from those
green eyes. He went to the Joss house
and buried thirty cents worth of prayer
sticks and paper. He 1hade up his mind |
quickly after that, almost ran down the |
dark, creaking steps ana across the way
towhere the taltau' 10 lived and did |
business.
-'Take off this thingrT he said, when he
sat dawn on the stool III front of the lit
tic razors and scissors.
i'Whatp said the barber, "are you
crazy, or have the foreign devils got you
too?'
"Cut If of, tell you'll Are you not
here to do such work as this?"
''No, shat is wrong; | knew your
mother. What would she say if did it?
Her cursss would come, to me as well as
to you, unworthy sons
Ling ran out while his courage lasted.
He wenf 20 a Kwang-tung man who
lived ne9r Pell street aid had no cue.
''Cut this thing OFF, he said; he did
not need to beg this TIM e
''Ha, hal" laughed the Kwang-
man, ''you are going to be one of us;
gGodl" and he picked; up big pair of
shears. Snip! and Ling's cue was gone,
cut close to his head; Out Ling ran,
leaving his cue behind him. He went
lOfO his stOra and eaS down IN think
when up jumped the cat. Her eyes were
yellow this time, and site howled mourn
fully.
'Get away, you evil thingp and he
pushed her off with a stick. He did not
sleep thati night; he dreamed strange
things ana saw strange sights; he
thought Of his home in far off China,
and lis mother and she little Chinese
maidens whom be had '1nown before he
came to the new country. He smoked
and saw faces in the clouds. In the
lis eyes were heavy and red
with the opium, and he:let his hired man
do all the work. He lay in his cubby
bunk and smoked the opium until he
heard voice. 1t sounded as if it came
from a gre ut distance. 1t said:
Hello, where's the boss? In the back
room? all Iightr"
The curtains were pulled back and
Maggie Suss livsn came IN.
"Hittin ,ther pipe, eh2 Well, that's
bad for the blood. How's yer pigtail;"
81 cut hlim. He glone," said Ling
half stupidly.
That's good knew you'd come