Connecticut western news., 1892-05-05


 interval between her disappearance and her return, Loosha and MT. Brown had become quite friendly. Mir. Browns manner was quite fatheriy. and his fea- lures shone with smiles and gin and water. He had been screwlng up his courage with that fortifying beverage. Loosha, as she sent the astoniShed Elm incline out for quartern of the best and provided the visitor with a reliable chair, made mp her mind that the doom of That There Brown. matrimonially speaking, was sealed. Mother, without knowing why, felt uncomfortable when the widowed joiner proposed taking the entire family Cit was Loosha's day out) to the Worlds fair, and Loosha warmly responded to the overture.
 They took Emmeline and Elfred and the Ellington bus. and That There Brown and Loosha occupied garden chair seat together outside. mother and the children being slowed in the interior of the vehicle. Brown was fatherly when they started: Portland Road found him affectionate. By the time they were launched amid the giddy delights of the fair. he was beginning to think Deluded wretch! What matters 1t what he thought! It was deliberately done of Loosha. the betraying of That There Brown. He wandered with the mother and daughter, each on an arm. through d fairy land of mingled fog and gas light They visited the birds. the beasts and reptiles: and Loosha appealed to him for information as to their names, species and general habitat. and greeted every remark of his with admiring 'Lorsr' She never seemed to notice when he mixed up the BIctrian camel with the water buffalo.
 She went upon the circular switch back with him. mother being too timid to venture. and became nervous in the middle of the airy journey, clinging to the arm of the raviShed widower with feminine squeaks of terror. How en- thralled she was by his performance on the try-your-strength machine, though the marker on the dial indicated nothing much in the way of Il record. The more fascinating Loosha became the warmer and more perspiring became That There Brown. He nudged her frequently. All the sensation of his corporeal frame seemed to have taken mp its abode in the elbow to which she hung.
 Was it then that the miserable man uttered the words which sealed his fate? It may have been. All we know for certain is that those words once uttered, Loosha's manner became distant and off hand. That There Brown. put it down to maiden coyness, and renewed the siege with redoubled rashness. It was when the Flying Demons were about to take their marvellous leap through space. and the popular atten- ton was uniformly diverted to the ceil- ing. that Mrs. Hemrans-who was not without consciousness that for a suitor trembling on the brink of acceptance Mir. Browns conduct was. to say the le1st of it. inadequate-felt d tug at her shawl.
 It came from the infant -Ena,aeIine.- whose watchful eye, unchildlike in its keen appreciation of the situation, had detected the joiner's arm in the act of inclosing the figure of Loosha under the shadow of her bead fringed mantle. After that the widow was taken faintish, and had to be revived with peppermint drops ere the company returned to Brompton. Mir. Brown was not invited in to tea. though he fingered long upon the doorstep And when he had gone Loosha unc"rkei the vials of her con- tempt, and told her parent that she had been nursing addick in her bosom, but, thank Tod, it was unmasked at last!
 Next morning a procession of four started for the cemetery. Emmeline and Elfred w.llk.l in front. hand in hand and bearing votive garlands. In the presence of the headstone on which the virtues of her second were recorded. Mrs. Heiu.lans renewed her VOWS of faithful widowhood. On the way back the party encountered That There Brown.
 "Mother just 'ung her ed. said Loosha afterward. "and walked by him without taking no more notice than if he was dirt. But he spreads isself out over the your friends. Mrs. Hemmans. mum. at this time O day. after all as has been said between us? And then pushes in. an he looks up and met my eye. l give i'm cold stare. and you might see i'm shrink. as if e knowed what was comin. Begging your pardon.' says. but did you mean me or my mother? Your mother says That There Brown. as think and 'ope will make good wife to me and mother to my nine children. Which you was of different opinion yesterday l sharps back on i'm. when you ast me to marry you at the Worlds fair. Per'aps you'd like to ave us both. as the Salt Lake City Morgans ain't too par ticular in that way. and you may belong to the English branch of the dinomaga- tion.' You've been and raised a nornick's Lest about my yeers. you catr says That There Brown, with seowl. Maria, and he looked imploring like at mother, the 'uman art is ilnpulsnuous. especial when led away by gin ana water Over look the accident and you won't have no reason to complain. T could never
 ave no reliance on you. Mir. Brown. says mother. with her eyes cast down and speakin as if she'd got pins in her mouth. after what has took place. So make your mind up to it, says. as neither me nor my mother ain't going to be no wife to you nor your nine chil- dren. neither. And he took and hooked it. did That There Brown."-St. James Gazette.