The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-06

EAdry Snc tossed her head at hrSt and
was rs Independent as you pl ease; as
good as told me it was none of nv
business.
WELL says /, sf you think it ism,
LII never try to make it SO but the
once, and got up to take my leave.
That startled her bit. for she saw l
was serious and in her heart she
thought as much of me as did of her,
and, forbye, she knew she was wrong,
SO, womanlike, she commenced to cry.
But that didn't fetch me then. SAYS /,
with my hand on the door latch:
Give me your Brithiser's address and
I'll send him word to come and dry
your tears
"Oh! Joe,' she snuffied. you're
wicked to talk so. He isn't my Brit
lsher. He's nothing to me and you
ought to have sense enough to know it.
He met me on the street and asked his
way and, he being stranger, what
could do but set him right? And then
he asked me some other question about
the village and l answered him, and
before knew it we got to talking as
we walked along, his way happening
to be the same as mine; but I'm sure he
didn't mean any harm and know 1
| didn't He was a real civil, we'll
spoken young man.
L suppose there wasn't man in
| sight he could ask, SO he must need
seek his information from YOU SAYS I.
for felt ugly, and her praising him
| didn't mend matters.
'He-he-said-he-p to ask
me- she stammered.
Because you were such pretty
girl He mentioned that. didn't hep
81 think-he-said something of the
Sort
1.-THE art of the chap and her inno-
cence made me mad, SO that snorte6
in my wrath and broke out: a fine
gomns am, to put my faith in girl
that lets herself DE soft sawdered by the
first thing with brass buttons that
comes along
Don't be angry with me, joe she
pleaded. i didn't mean any harm; in
deed / didn't, and won't ever do it
again. AS true as you live, Joe. won't
won't even see him when he comes
again
"'Oho" says I. he's coming again, is
hep
He-he-said he would, but didn't
tell him he might. He said he would
come Thursday evening and take me to
grand concert in the city; but didn't
say l would go. Indeed didn't And
l wouldn't, Joe, even if 1 knew you
could never hear of it.
''Well, we made up and before we
parted she told me everything The
fellow said he was Lord Fitz-Eustace
Blakely and that he was a lieutenant
on the Avenger, but with all the ad-
vantages of the high society he moved
in at home, and even at the royal court,
he had never seen girl SO lovely as nv
Mary. OF course, you know, a young
girl likes to hear that kind of stuff,
even if her sense tells her afterward it
isn't true. SO he just charmed her into
listening to him. And nothing must do
him but he must have the honor of es-
corting her to the grand concert, to
show his brother officers, who would
all be there, how fair flower grew on
American soil. l said to myself as I
walked home late that evening: IF
you go to that concert yourself, my
fascinating lieutenant, it will be be-
cause / fail of throwing my shuttle
across your web as / mean to- And
the next day 1 had talk with three
other young fellows, friends of mine,
and we made it up between us to give
the lieutenant a reception if he came
again after Mary, such as he would not
be likely to forget the longest day of |
his life
Sure enough, he came; rugged out in !
such style you might think it was his
wedding he was going to and golG lace
enough on him to make the worlds |
eyes ache if he walked in the sun. But |
we were not blinded by the glory of
him, for he didn't come until after
dark. fine carriage brought him and
he left it a bit of ways off met
him where he had thought to meet
Mary, and civilly bidding him good
evening asked if he hadn't lost his way.
whats that to you, fellow?' he an
swered me- as proud and insolent as a
parish bull Stand aside!' and he put
out his hand to push me out of the way.
But before he could touch me l gave
aim such clout under the jaw that he
spun around, and as he did SO / back
1eeled him. All. l tell you we weaver
ads were handy young fellows in those
lays The first thing he knew an old
;loak was over his head to smother his
,owls, his august nose was boring tho
'idewalk and we had his hands turned
behind his back, where we tied them I
Then we dashed his feet together and
%. having made neat package of him,
arrled him along, soft and easy, down
o the river. where we laid him in the
,ottom of a boat we had ready and
owed out to mid-stream. From the
l thumped him until we
topped in the middle of the river not
ne of US said word, and the silence |
nd system of our proceedings must
ave been, l judge. good deal of a
train on his nerves. Il
when we laid to, with a couple Of
ars just keeping the boats nose
gainst the tide, we took the cloak from
round his head, first warning him that
he man who sat behind him had q big :
ammer to smash his skull if he made c
oud noise But, by the way his teeth
battered and the huskincss OF his c
DICE when he spoke, it hardly seemed
s If he could have given one good shout
men II have saved his life. G
Take nv money. my watch, my =
ewcis. everything. but spare my life,
g stamnered in a qulvering voice that
ounded almost like crying L