The Forrest City times., 1892-03-18

interior of the vehicle Brown wao fatherly when they started; Portland road found him afcctionate By the time they were launched amid the giddy delights of the fair. he was be- ginning to think-! Deluded wretchi What matters it what he thought! It was deliberately done of Loosha, the betrayiug of That There Brown. He wandered with the mother and daugh- ter each on an arm through fairy land of mingled fog and gasliRht They visited the birds. the beasts and reptiles; and Loosha appealed to him species and general habitat and greeted every remark of his with ad- miring .i,orsp' She never seemed to notice when he mixed up the Bactrian camel with the water-buffalo She went up the circular switch back with him. mother being too timid to ven- ture-and became nervous in the mid dle of the airy journey. clinging to the arm of the ravished widower with feminine squeaks of terror How enthralled she was by his performance on the try-your-strength machine. though the marker on the dial indi- cated nothing much in the way of record The moro fascinating Loosha became, the warmer and moro per- spiring became That There Brown lie nudged her frequently. All the sensation of his corporeal frame seemed to have taken up it's abode in the elbow to which she hung. The widow was . dead weight on the other Ho and Loosha got lost for moment in the Channel Tunnel.
 Was it then that the miserable man uttered the words that sealed his fato? It may have been. All we know for cor tain Is that those words once uttered l Loosha's manner became distant and of hand. That There Brown laid it to maiden coyness. and renewed the seige with redoubled rashness It was when the Flying Demons were about to take their marvellous leap through space and the popular attention was uniformly diverted to the ceiling. that Mrs Hemmans-who was not without a consciousness that for suitOr trem- bling on the brink of acceptance Mir Browns conduct was, to say the least | of it inadequate--felt n tug at her shawl It came from the infant Emme- line whose watchfnl eye. unchildlike in it's keen appreciation of the situa- tion had detected the joiner's arm in the net of enclosing the figure of Loosha under the shadow of her bead- fringed mantle. After that the widow was taken, faintish. and had to be re- vived with peppermint-drops ere the company returned to BromptOn. Mir. Brown was not invited to tea though he fingered long upon the door-steps And when he had gone L0osha uu- corked the vials of her contempt and told her parent that she had bean nursing addick in her bosom; but thank God 1t was unmasked at last!
 Next morning procession of four started for the cemetery. Emmeline and Elfred walked in front hand In hand and bearing votive garlands. In the presence of the head stone on which the virtues of her Second wero recorded Mrs. Hemmans renewed her VOWS of faithful widowhood On tho way back. the party encountered That There Brown.
 Mother just lung her 'ed.'' said Loosha afterward. and walked by him without taking no moro notice than if he was dirt But he spreadl 'isself out over the path. and sezee:
 Don't you reckonize your friends, Mrs. Hemmans. mum. at this time Q day. after all as has been said between usP' And then pushes in an he looks up and met my eye. give I'm . cold stare. and you might see In shrink. as if he knowed what waa comin'. Begging your pardon, I saya
 but did you mean me or my mOtherP
 Your mother says That Thers Brown. as think and 'ope will mak< good wife to me and mother to my ] nine children Which you was Of | ] different opinion yesterday. sharpi back on i'm. when you ast me tO mar
 " you at the worlds fair. YOu'v< been and raised noruick's nest Abou
 my yeers. you cssl' says That Ther< Brown. with scowl. Maria aud h<
 looked imploring like at mother. th< 'uman 'art is impulshuoua Overl0U1 the accidence and you won't have n< } reason to complain I could nevc' lave reliance on you Mir. Brown say mother with her eyes cast down. ant speakin' as if she'd got pins in he' mouth. after what has took place.
 So make your mind upon it says
 as neither me nor my mother ain'l going to be no wife to you nor you } nine children. neither And he tool and hooked it did That There Brown.
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