The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13

hearted and an excellent neighbor. ana
well, | suppose l am not as adverse To
hearing little gossip as ] ought to
be, having such a heightened husband
but | wished she was in Guinea Just
then. She and Augustus both looked
sheepish when they saw each other.
and she set down the cup of
starch which she had borrowed,
and, saying that she could not
stay a minute, turned again TO
the door l followed, for l thought [
ought to be civil. She stopped to tell
me that the head of the family that
had moved in opposite was detective.
and that there was a case of scarlet
fever on the next block. Augustus had
a resigned look when I returned, but
he magnanimously said nothing. In
five minutes more the grocer's boy
came for orders, but that did not de-
tain us long. 1t seemed as though my
rolling-pin had never made so much
noise, and my head began to throb with
the effort to listen, and 1t became still
worse when began the lively process
OF baking and rolling out at the same
time; every now and then Augustus
would glance up. as much as to say:
There's fine passage for you," and
would smile in vacant sort of way to
show him that / appreciated it. At one
place he stopped and enlarged upon the
subject in a way which was very inter-
esting, but knew ought to look in
the oven, and hated to interrupt him,
so waited till he turned to his volume
and then found two tins of cakes
burned black. / was so thankful he
did not notice it-he is such an econo-
mist; but it is very true that he is not
a man whose train of thought is inter
rupted By trides.''
After the cakes were rolled ont and
had nothing to do but watch the oven I
managed to grasp the thought a little
better; but just IS was removing the
cakes from tin and my attention was
momentarily diverted he turned to me
with the exclamation: There! isn't
that well putt" "Yes, indeed I said
with emphasis; and the lie troubled my
conscience for two days thereafter.
Our little three-year-old Isabel. who
had been playing in the sunshine on
the front porch, now came in, wheel
ing her doll-carriage. You must be
very quiet if YOU stay here,"f wills
pered; papa is reading" The little
darling meant to be very obedient and
it was amusing to hear her talking to
her doll in pretty. broken accents:
100 must bs till, dolly. and hear papa
wead-" In spite OF myself. / was more
in her than IN the monentous
questions which were being settled by
her father aud his old instructor
had turned toward the child, and sup
pose Augustus glanced up as he had
done before, expecting 10 meet a re-
Spouse on my face. and found me nap
ping. He came to an ouinous stop. 'Is |
it possible. Maria. that you are not in |
terested?' he said. colby "Oh. yes"
| answered, humbly. do excuse ne.
Augustus, but She Is so cunniny.' /
THAT is true" he replied, his severity |
as he looked fondly e. the |
little prattier; for. as ! remarked be- /
fore. he is very affectionate father.
oven, and sat with eyes fixed upon the /
reader, determined that nothing should /
divert eye or brain; but there came a /
knock at the door; / answered il; i. /
was a tramp, Misunderstanding fell /
ow who wanted something TO eat /
Augustus never allows me 20 feed these
and / dismissed him quite
:urtly, and turned away. He opened /
.he screen door and followed me into /
-he kitchen; he beat hasty retreat as
'oon as he saw Augustus. who has such
/ commanding presence that even .
ramp is affected by IL
seated myself again, end In about
hree minutes Isabel, the enforced
!uiet having become irxsorne, began 20
-undie the doll carriage over the bare
,oor ii most distr@ciing manner.
oh. do wait minute, uatil can dis
'ose Of this childT' cried. I took her
ato the dining room a1d brought out
ONE tors which she IL allowed 70 hsY.
'ElT on state occasions, and hurried
'ack. The end Of chapter was soon
cached, and Augustus announced that
&c thought that would do for that
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