Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1891-06-06

them up to her.
"What are they"'% %saidishe 4Theatre
ticketsl'
"Yes. Faust, by.a splendid com
pany. knew you always'wanted to hear
Faust, SO got 'em son purpose for
you
Charley looked pleased, but Kate's
fair face c.ouded as sheianswered:
"Wen, am sorry you spents the
money. l can't CO.
"Can't go! Why in,tne worlds can't
you, then2 You are so fond Of good
opera. thought this would be real
treat.
$50 it would, Charley,sif,I could leave
the baby"
"But thought you' had good girl"
"Well, have perfect treasure
"Well, don't you think she smight
manage to rock the baby for two hours
On one occasion!' asked Charley, seri-
ously.
"oh, but Charley, he might be taken
sick or something"
eyes, the house might burn down;
but don't think it will returned
Charley, more shortly than he often
spoke to Kate. ''Pm very sorry you
won't CO." he added, as he rose from the
table, his appetite quite spoiled. cit IS
a, disappointment to me-
"Why, you can go, rmsure, Charley.
I shall not care at all. )"
"No; I'll stay with you, and wet can
have our own music. | have not heard
you sing for month.
Kate hesltated a moment, then she
said:
''But, Charley, I.must stay up in the
nursery. never trzlst Johnnie to Sarah
of evenings"
Charley frowned,, stood irresolute an
instant, and said;
ooh, we'll, then, Il don't see why l
shouldn't get some, pleasure, if I can.
I'll just drop over to Johns and see if
| they are going. AS have two tickets,
| If Jess cares TO 90 we might all make a
party of it.
eyes, certainly; go, Charley. I don't
want you to stay at home because [ have
| to-"
"Tou know I had rather be with you,
my dear But it's dull work sitting down
stairs alone all evening"
Then Charley kissed her, put on his
overcoat and went away. But after he
was gone Kate began to be conscious of
lonely, uneasy feeling, and to wish she
had gone, too. Of course, Charley was
as loyal and true hearted as a man could
be. But, to think Of him sitting beside
that dashine, black-eyed Jess ali the
evening and showing her all the little at
tentions which he knew so we'll how to
give woman; it worried her, somehow,
and she could not help it. She was not
Jealous. Oh, no! She had told him to
60 and really hoped he would enjoy it.
But-but-she did wish she had left
Johnnie to Sarah for one evening and
made one of that opera-party with the
rest.
AS for Charley, as he walked rapidly
over to his brothers he wondered If he
wasn't a precious rascal for wishing that
blessed baby had never come into his
house To be sure,~ it was bright
little thing, sweet and cute, and he
would have loved it dearly and been
very proud Of it Gas he was, after all, if
he had only known it,, bat since it ar
rived, Kate had been no companion at
all for him. She was evcrlastingly up IN
that nursery, and she neglected her dress
and her hair, and never read or saug to
him or went out with him, and he was
feeling the change sadly.
sOf course, it's right to be devoted
mother" he said to himself; 'but | do
wish the mother had not so entirely dis
olaced the wife. It's hard ORA fellow,
and | don't like it. | don't wonder men
get tired of their wives, If they all do
, the same way
Just then Charley ran against passer-
, by, and as BE glanced Up to apologize,
saw his brother.
"Ah, john was his greeting. "Tn
!, just on my way to your house"
We'll, I'm on my way to yours, re
piled John, laughingly. owe want ynl
and Kate to go with Us to hear Faust
) tonight"
.'No use TO go on, returned Charley
s'I have been trying to induce Kate t
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