Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-03-05

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Loosha in that minute. Mrs. Hemmans
had glided away 10 put her cap straight
and smooth her sleek parting. In the
interval between her disappearance and
her return, Loosha and Mr.. Brown had
become quite friendly. Mr.. Browns
manner was quite fatherly, and his fca-
lures shone with smiles and gin and
water. He had been screwing up his
courage with that fortifying beverage.
Loosha, as sheisent the astonished EN-
incline ont for quarterm of the best
and provided the visitor with reliable
chair, made up 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 it was Loosha's day OUT
10 the World fair, and Loosha warmly
responded to the overture.
They took Emineline and Elfred and
the Islington bus, and That There
Brown and Loosha occupied n 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 affection,te. BY the time they
were launched amid the giddy delights
of the fair, he was beginning TO Think
Deluded wretch. What matters IL what
he thought. II WAS deliberately done Of
Loosha. the betraying of That There
Brown. He wandered with the mother
AMI daughter, each on an arm, through
a fairy land of mingled fog and gas
light. They visited the birds, the beasts
and reptiles and Loosha appealed to
him for information as 10 their names,
species and general habitat, and greeted
every remark Of his with admiring
"Lors!' She never seemed to notice
when he mixed up the Bactrian camel
with the water buffalo.
She went upon the circular switch
back with him, mother being too timid
t. venture, and became nervous in the
middle Of the airy journey, clinging to.
thu arm OF the ravished widower with
f. mime squoaks Of terror. How EN-
thralled She was by his performance OH
the ,ry-your-strength machine, though
the marker Oh the dial indicated nothing
much in the way Of record. The more
fascinating Loosha became the warmer
AMI moro perSpiring became That There
Brown. He nudged her frequently. All
the sensation of his corporal frame
seemed TO have taken up its abode in tho
elbow to which she hung.
Was it then that the miserable man
uttered the words which sealed his fate7
II may have been. Al we know for
certain is that those words once uttered,
Loosha's manner became distant and
off hand. That There Brown put II
down to maiden coyness, and renewed
the siege with redoubled rashness. II
was when the Flying Demons were
about to take their marvellous leap
through space. and the popular atten-
ton was unifornly diverted 10 the cell
ing, that Mrs. Hemmans-whow was not
without consciousness that for "a suitor
trembling on the brink of acceptance
Mr. Browns conduct was. 10 say the
least of it, inad"quatc---fclt tug at her
shawl.
1t came from the infant Emmeline,
whose watchful eye, unchildlikc III its
keen appreciation Of the situation, had
detected tho ioiners 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. Mr. Brown was not invited
in to tea, though he fingered long upon
the doorstep. And when he had gone
Loosha uncorked the vials of her con.
tempt, and told her parent that she had
been nursing addick in her bosom,
but, thank God. it was unmasked at
last
Mother Just 'ung her ed, said Loosha
aftcrward, "and walked by him without
taking no more notice than if he was
dirt. But he spreads 'isself out over tho
path and sczee, Don't you reckonize
your friends, Mrs. Hemmans, mum, at
this time o day after'all rs has been
said between us? And then pushes in,
an he looks up and met my eye. give
i'm cold stare, and you might SEQ i'm
shrink, as if o knowed what was comm.
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 sharps back OH 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 amt too par
ticular in that way, and You may belong
to the English branch of the dinomaga.
ton 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 inpulshuous, especial
when led away by gin and water. Over
look the accident and you won't have
no reason to complain Il could never
ave no reliance on you, Mr.. 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 amt going
to be no wife TO You nor your nine chill
drcn, neither And he took and hooked
IL, did That There Browa. st. James
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