The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-11
i'm some milk and sent him back over

him some milk and sent him back over
the wall
The next morning she came out to
the porch, and there, curled up sound
asleep in her rocking-chair, lay the
white kitten
Miss Lucia looked at him helplessiy.
Then she sat down on the steps and Tell
to thinking. Reuben Spofford would
be very angry if ne knew where his pet
spent most of its time And it should
not--a soft furry body came creeping
up over her shoulder and rubbing itself
against her soft pink cheek. A small
paw caught fallen tress of hair.
The white kitten declined to go home
at all He enjoyed himself at Miss
Lucia's for two days. Then one morn
ing his master came around to the side
porch and there he saw the white
kitten climbing up over Miss Lucia's
shoulder. The morning sun shone upon
her head. turning the stray tendrils.to
golden. She was laughing merrily.
Reuben blushed and stanmered some
thing unintelligible. Miss Lucia turned
quickly and the crimson surged up in
her face also. She felt as if she had
stolen the white kitten.
eyes" she said, hurriedly, ''he-he
would not go home. I tried to make
him.
She held out the kitten to him. and
Reuben Spofford thanked her and went
away.
The kitten stayed at home for week.
Miss Lucia knew he must be shut up
in some room, for the plteous occa-
sional walls she could hear went to her
heart.
Perhaps, Martha" she said, per
haps they forget to feed him sometimes.
It's too bad
The white kitten escaped at last. He
came back to Miss Lucia When next
she saw Reuben Spofford pass, she ran
out to him and handed him his pet
But it was of no use. 1t came to pass
that nearly every evening Reuben Spot
ford was obliged to come over to. Miss
Lucia's and take home the kitten. The
white kitten was larger ball of furri-
ness than ever. He had not any 'name
except Puss, but he did not seem to
mind about that. And by degrees it
began to seem quite natural that Reu-
ben Spofford should call for his pet,
and sometimes tarry little. After
awhile the two even joled little, in a
half embarrassed way, about the. pref
erence of the white kitten for Miss
Lucia.
But Puss did not remain kitten al
ways. and when he became big, soft,
contented cat, lying upon the rug in
front of Miss Lucia's fire, and just at
her feet, it was not SO easy to take him
home, for he decidedly objected, and
mentioned the fact quite loudly.
Then Reuben Spofford offered him to
Miss Lucia, as he had done several times
before.
'sYou might as well take him." he
said, looking at her very earnestly.
''You see he won't stay with me-"
sob. could not rob you of your pet"
she said. "You-you think SO much of
him.
'Yes," he said. "But, see now, Miss
Lucia, you had better take him. He is
only happy with you.
She looked at him with troubled eyes.
She knew it was true.
Il don't know what to do about it."
she said. 81 don't want you to give him
up to me-"
Reuben Spofford suddenly forgot
about the old feud, and how long they
had been at war.
Well" he said, there is another
way. You-you can take ne, too-if
you will"
Miss Lucia turned her head aside with
little startled movement. He was re-
garding her so earnestly.
The movement awoke the white cat
at her feet. He rose, stretched him
self and arched his back, and in his
own audacious fashion climbed right
into Miss Lucia's lap, and curled him
self up to sleep again.
And of course that settled it.-Times-
Democrat