The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-04-01


disappearance and her return, Loosha
and Mr.. Brown had become quite
friendly. Browns manner was quite
iatherly, and his features shone with
smiles Mother without knowing
why, felt uncomfortable when the
widowed joiner proposed taking the
entire family Git was Loosha's day out)
10 the Worlds Fair and Loosha
warmly responded to the overture.
They took Emmeline and Elfred and
the Islington bus and That There
Brown and LoOsha occupied garden
chair scat together outside mother
and the children being slowed in the
interior OF the vehicle. Brown was
fatherly when they started; Portland
road found him atfectionate, BY the
time they were launched amid the
giddy delights OF the fair he was be-
ginning to think Deluded wretch!
What matters it what he thought! 1t
was deliberately done Of Loosha, the
betraying Of That There Brown He
wandered with the mother and daugh-
ter each on an arm through a fairy
land OF mingled fog and gaslight
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 ad-
miring "LOrs" 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 tho mid
die 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.
Gated nothing much in the way OF u
record. The more fascinating Loosha
became, the warmer and more per.
spring became That There Brown.
lie nudged her frequently All the
sensation of his corporal frame seemed
to have taken up its abode IN the elbow
to which she hung. The widow was u
dead weight on the other He and
Loosha got lost for a moment in the
Channel Tunnel
Was it then that the miserable man
uttered the words that sealed his fate?
1t may have been. All we know for Ger.
tain Is that those words once uttered
Looshas manner became distant and
off hand. That There Brown laid it
to maiden coyness and renewed the
scge with redoubled rashne5s. 1t was
when the Flying Demons were about to
take their marvellous cap through
space, and the popular .tontion was
diverted TO the ceiling that
Mrs. Hemmans--w who was not without
q consciousness that for sutton trem-
bling on the brink o. acceptance, Mr..
Browns conduct was to say the least
Of it. inadequate felt II tug at her
shawl. 1t came from the infant Emme-
line, whose watchful eye, uHchildlike
in its keen appreciation OF the situa-
ton, had detected the ioiners arm in
the act 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-
vlyed with peppermint-drops ere the
company returned to Brompton. Mr.
Brown was not invited to tea, though
he fingered long upon the doorstep.
And when he had gone Loosha UNI
corked the Walls of her contempt. and
told her parent that she had been
u addick in her bosom; but,
thank God it was unmasked at last!
Next morning u procession of four
started for the cemetery Emmeline
and ElGred walked in front hand in
hand and bearing vOtive garlands. In
the presence Of the maidstone on
which the virtues of her Second were
recorded Mrs Hemmans renewed her
vows Of faithful widowhood, On the
way back, the party encountered That
There Brown.
Mother just Jung her ed said
Loosha afterward. land walked by
him without taking no more notice
than If he was dirt. But he spreads
'isself out over the path, and sezee;
Don't you reckonize your friends,
Mrs. Hemmans, mum, at this time o
day, after all as has been said between
usP And then pushes in, an he
looks up and met my eye. give i'm
a cold stare and you might see i'm
shrink, as II he knowed what was
comm. Begging your pardon, l says
but did you mean me or my motherP'
Your mother, says That There
Brown, AS think and 'ope will make
u good wife to me and mother to my
nine children Which you was of a
different opinion yesterday | sharps
back on i'm, when you asst me to mar
ry you ut the worlds fair You've
been and raised a nornick's nest about
my yeers you cat!' says That There
Brown, with scowl. Maria, and he
looked imploring like at mother the
'uman art is impulshuous Overlook
the accidence and you won't have no
reason to complain / could never
ave reliance on you, Mr.. Brown, says
mother with her eyes cast down, and
speakin' as II she'd got pins in hen
mouth, after what has took place.
so make your mind upon it says
as neither me nor my mother amt
going to be- no wife to you nor your
nina childrnn moi lhnrl And hn knhk