The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-19

Z pianAs Of the
station, and the train gone like flash
she realized for the first time that
she had task on her hands such as she
had not contemplated.
1t was all well enough to become
violently and righteousiy indignant at
Mr. Pilsbury's outrageous desertion of
his wife and fiErniiy, and to VOW ven
Eeance.upon the prepossessing servant
girl, who had disappeared as suddenly
and as HlySterlously as he had-and at
Che very same time, too. But that
aeither brought the deceitful husband
within srauge of Mrs. Bob Pilsbury's
thoroughly prepared tongue, nor the
saucy and pretty face of the house
nlaid-thousth Mrs. Pilsbury strenu-
olsly denied that such a creature
rculd be pretty-within reach of the
iady's -nails-supposing, of course,
that the charming little mistress of Rose
cottage could 80 far forget herself.
But there she'was, was Mrs Pilsbury,
Gad Portsmouth was not Ciderville.
Mrs. Pilsbury was made painfully
aware of this lattetr'faet in about three
minutes, when She perceived that not a
single man, woman or child in all the
crowd at the station, seemed to pay the
slightest attention TO her-something
that she could not remember ever to
have happened to her at home, Gin her
born days" as she afterward expressed
it. No, she was in real city now,
where every body did not know every
body else, and where nobody at all
knew her, or cared a button for her or
the great wrong that, but day before,
had excited all Ciderville and the sur
rounding country.
But Mrs Pilstalry was shortly moved
60 action by the recalling of the taunt
of that hateful Mrs. January-that
'she would soon settle her husband if
he had ebopea with the servant-girl,
with someshing more effective than
tears"
Mrs. PilsbuTy waited a moment, till
the busy ticket agent seemed to have a
seconds rest from the inquisitions of
the ever-inquIring public, and then ap-
preached him timidly with the direct
question:
did you see a'tall. darl-looking gen
tleman with side whisl1ers get off the
early morning train from Cidervilie?"
Accompanied by a rather pretty
looking young lady-tsll and blonde,
and-"
Mrs. Pilsbury had to catch her
breath.
''Yes!' was all she could gasp. though
she wanted to deny the 'pretty-look-
Ing part.
And wearing a light blue hat,
with large ostrich feather?"
Yes gasped the poor little woman
again, and this time harder.
And did she have a very pleasant
smile asked the ticket agent, evident
" interested.
This was too much.
The hussey!' exclaimed the indic-
nant little Mrs. Bob Pilsburv. very
much to the astonishment of the man
of the tickets.
Before he had an opportunity, how
ever. TO elicit further information than
the mere fact that the tall blonde
young Lady was, according to the
sweet-faced distressed little woman at
tie window, "husSey," Mrs. Bob had
diappeared through the door.
A sudden rush of the throng. and
some screaming on the part of the fe-
male portion of il. had caused her 10
run suddenly out into the street with
the rest to see what the excitement
WAS.
Flames were bursting out of the up-
per window of large chair-faetory on
the block below, and engines were
tearing down the street, followed bv
the usual crowd Soon the street was
black with heads.
One OF those heads belonged to the
husband of Mrs. Bob Pilsburv. Thourh
only rear view was obtainable. the
excited. euterprising little mistress of
Rose cottage succeeded by hard push
ing IN getting so good a rear view that
she could almost have thumped Mr..
Bob with the end of her parasol
l,ut her moment of triumph had not
yet come The derelict husband Gisap-
peared from her field Of vision quite as
suddenly as he had appeared thereon.
and Mrs Bob was bewildered-
The FIRE belched forth from the third
story, and-horrors,-three girls faces
came for an instant to the windows of
the fourth, and then drew back!
Mrs Bob was all of tremble. She
had never witnessed such a sight be-
fore. She admitted. when afterwards
she recalled this scene, that her grace
less hufhand's escapade did not exclu-
sivelv absorb her thoughts and emo
tions for that one moment
But chance remark of benevolent
looking old gentleman beside her
eaEgkt her ear, and MIR. Pusbury and