The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-24
ABSOLUTELY PURE

''.Oh Amt it too sweet for anything?
Hes coming soon, Mr.. Russetshoe! He
clings so that know he is almost here
now
Now. may be I'm little over-sensi-
tive, out Miss Gushley looked at ME in
a way that thought was expressively
personal and l believe felt scared.
OH she exclaimed again, with a
perceptible shiver. TO think that the
lover mightnt haye chung to the spoon.
but might have SHE'D off to one side OF
the cup and staid there! Then 1t
would have. meant that he wasn't COM
ing soon. and maybe not at all, On.
Mr.. Russetshoe, Wouldn't that have
been too, too horrid?'
Now you must know that this i'm
pulsive and sanguine creature sat dl-
rectly opposite to me at the table, and
when she looked at me at the close of
this outbreak | give you my word that
it took my appetite away and by and
by / excused myself and went upstairs
and locked myself IN my room.
The next afternoon at tea took up
the cream jug to pour cream in my cup
of tea Instantly Miss Gushley gave a
terrified little shrek and gasped:
.''Oh, Mr. Russetshoe, Wait Have
you put sugar in your tea yet?'
Il replied that l had not, holding the
cream jug in the air Then she screamed
in more terror than before and ex-
claimed:
''.Oh. Mr.. Russetshoe. How horrid.
Put your sugar in before you turn in the
cream, Oh, If | hadn't discovered it
in time how horrid it would have been"
The ardent little thing seemed SO
alarmed that ! did as she requested
and then asked her what would have
been the result if had done otherwise.
oh, Mr.. Russetshoe.' she replied
intensely. 1t would have crossed your
love. If you had put the cream in your
tea before you put in the sugar some
thing would surely have come between
you and your sweetheart, Oh, wouldn't
that have been too. too horrid? But
it is all right now, Mr.. Russetshoe.'
Il may be wrong, but the glance
Miss Gushley sent across the table at
me had language in it At any rate, it
unsettled me so that | couldn't find my
tongue to tell her that had no sweet
heart, and when | got away from that
ia bic / left the house and didn't return
until everybody had gone to bed.
The very next day at suppertime,
when Miss Gushley's cup of tea was
passed to her she shrieked again and
clapped her hands
ooh. Mr.. Russetshoer she exclaimed.
too lovely? Two spoons in my saucer.
Two spoons, The sign never failed,
Oh, It's too lovely for anything. But,
OH Mrs. Chophas", and her face fell
and she looked at the landlady re-
proachfully, may be you put them in
on purpose? Oh, did you, Mrs. Chop
hash? 1t will be too, too horrid if you
did,
Mrs. Chophash assured her that the
extra spoon had got in her saucer by
accident.
oh, shrieked Miss Gushley. joyful
again, then it's just too perfectly sweet
for anything. If you had put them in
on purpose. Mrs. Chophash, it would
have been oh. so horrid, for then it
wouldn't have happened for two years.
But two spoons in a saucer means that
it will surely be this year The sign
never fails. Oh, it is too lovely
1T means that what will surely this
year?' inquired Mrs, Chophash, and she
looked good deal pat out.
Why, Mrs. Chophash,' said the
ardent young lady, don't you know?
Two spoons in the saucer means that
there will surely be a wedding in the
house within year Amt it too, too
sweet, Mr.. Russetshoe?'
Now, when You know that the only
people in the house were
Miss Gushley and myself. perhaps You
may not wonder a nv failing TO do jus
tice to my supper that evening. And
my conscience does not prick me bit
for telling Mrs. Chophash that same
evening that ! had received q telegram
that called me Immediately out of town
and indefinitely. SO have got new
boarding and now you know the
reason. chicago News.