The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-04-09

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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 dt was Loosha's day out)
to 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 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 aifectionate. 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 It was deliberately done Of
Loosha, the betraying Of That There
Brown. He wandered with the mother
and 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 to cir names,
species and general habitat, and greeted
every remark of his with admiring
"Lorsr' 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
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 record. The more
fascinating Loosha became the warmer
and more pcrspiring became That There
Brown. He nudged her frequently. All
the sensation of his corporeal frame
seemed to have taken up its abode in the
elbow to which she hung.
Was it then that the miserable mar
uttered the words which sealed his fatei
It may have been, All we know fol
certain is that those words once uttered
Loosha's manner became distant ant
off hand. That There Brown put i
down to maiden coyness, and renewed
the siege with redoublcl rashncss. i
was when the Flying Demons wer,
about to take their marvellous leaI
through space. and the popular atten
tion was uniformly diverted to the cell
ing, that Mrs. Hemmans-who was no
without n consciousness that for a suitoi
trembling on the brink of acceptanc,
Mr. Browns conduct was, to say tn,
least Of it, inadequate-felt tug at he
shawl.
1t came from the infant Emmeline
whose watchful eye, unchildlike in it
keen appreciation of the situation, hat
detected the ioiner's arm in the act o
inclosing the figure of Loosha under tn
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 t
Brompton. Mr.. Brown was not invitei
in to tea, though he fingered long upoi
the doorstep. And when he had gon
Loosha uncorked the vials of her con
tempt, and told her parent that she ha
been nursing a addick in her bosom
but, thank God, it was unmasked a
lastl
Next morning a procession of fou
started for the cemetery. Emmelin
, and Elfred walked IN front, hand i
hand and bearing votive garlands. L
the presence of the headstone on whic
the virtues of her second were recorded
Mrs. Heinmans renewed her vows c
faithful widowhood. On the way bac
the party encountered That Their
| Brown.
Mother just 'ung her ed, - said Loosh
afterward, land walked by him withou
taking no more notice than if he wa
dirt. But he spreads 'isself out over tn
path and sezee, Don't you reckoniz
your friends, Mrs. Hemmans, mum, g
this time O day, after all as has bee
said between usg And then pushes il
an he looks up and met my eye, l Civ
i'm cold stare, and you might see ii
shrink, as if e lmowed what was comil
Begging your pardon, l says, but di
you mean me or my motherF 'YoU
mother says That There Brown, 'as
think and 'ope win make a good wife
me and mGther to my nine children
Which you was of different opinio
yesterday ! sharps back on i'm, 'whe
you asst me to marry you at the World
fair Peraps you'd like to ave us both, {
the Salt Lake City Morgans amt too pa
ticular in that way, and you may beloI
to the English branch of the dinomag
ton You've been and raised a nornick
nest about my yeers, you catP says Thi
There Brown, with a scowl Maria
and he looked imploring like at mothe
the 'uman art is impulshuous, especi
when led away by gin and water. Owe
look the accident and you won't hay
no reason to complain 4 could ney,
ave no reliance ON you, Mr.. Brown
says mother, with her eyes cast dow
r and speakin as if she'd got pins in h
mouth after what has took place. 6
, make your mind NJ to it, says, .
neither me nor my mother amt goir
/ to be no wife to you nor your nine chi
. dren. neither. And he took and hook
, it, did That There Brown. ST jaime
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