The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-12-28
GROWTH OF A STORY.

He had DIRK eyes. decent clothes, Wa
named Beauchamp ead wore an usual asS
Of. silent criticism. The combinataeo
struck several women "a pleasant, two OF
them frankly admitting their pleasure
and another, too, almost unsSnsciously
approving of him. The first two natural
~ became the mans friends and SO pass
out OF the novelist's ken. Th01yther two
became respectively particularly indiner-
emit and slightly anxious, either OF which
Is o very bad sign. One Of them, young
Hoskins' sister. black eyed streak OF q
girl, talked very freely to Beauchamp,
and the other, Cissy Bell, listened when
he spoke. So friendly relationship was
maintained, and tho mans summer was
gay TO festivity.
But one day, - August glowed and
painted, Hoskins' sister got out of the
yacht first, and turning watched laxily at
Beauchamp's helping of Cissy Bell The
man was unconscious, but there was q
look in Cissy's gray eyes as he took her
hand which revealed 70 the other girl not
only Miss Cissy's innsr emotions, but in
cluded il q dashlighs her own. Both girls
looked at each other q moment, and then
each knew that the other knew.
So the story began 10 walk alone.
Yeang Hotkins' part had been to talk
to C.ssy, while Beauolamp held his sisters
open attention and tissy's furtive defer
ence. Being o young man who liked to
talk of himself, it took him some days to
find out that the young lady did not listen
when he held forth. When he made che
discovery, he began 20 feel an aggrieved
interest in Miss Cissy. From that he
walked across the country Of tenderness
into love.
So q strong young story sprang up.
With Beauchamp it was presently case
Of 'how happy could I be with either!"
as it occurred to him to make the most of
his opportunities. There was keenness
about young Hoskins' sister and fierce bit
OF temper which was peculiarly piquant,
but there were few days, hours even, In
which he did not think OF the way Cissy's
brown lashes lay on her cheeks and her
slow blush, which faded away as it caMe.
On the whole Cissy quietly led
There were several things which made
the story grow and develop in different di-
rections.
Beeuohamp discovered that young Hos
kins also admired the coloring in Miss
Cisay's face.
Young Hoskfns' sister suspected that
her rival was gaining ground.
Young Hoskins began to call Beau.
champ 1.-THE fellow
Miss Cissy cultivated lisp Of her child
hood, which made her adorable
So the story came to mans estate.
1t was young Hoskins who did himelf
an injustice and made black spot on tho
story. His sister listened with burning
cheeks. r was an unhallowed treaty, bat
they both subscribed to it. BeauohamI,'s
character was 10 be mildly slsndered and .
few trifling stories set af1oat to Miss Cissy.
A friend of Hosbins abroad wos to %
posed as Miss Cissy's present fiance, aud
so on, the usual stupid Safeguarding.
So the story sowed its wild oats.
There were several entanglements, and
the Hoskinses, on whom the burden of
cleverness fell, made q fair amount OF
margin out of each. The day Miss Cissy
displayed unwon ted temper over the loss Of
the box Boat beside Beauohamp it was tha
lack of = letter from the flance. The "a
hours Beauchamp spent in business in
New York were to dispose of certain tre u
blesome psople. Miss Cissy and Beau
champ were quite easy subjects to work
upon At the end of q week both wsro
distinctly miserable. There were CIV an
signs of mutual turning to the HoskinseS
for consolation.
So the story began to know itself.
The conspiracy succeeded. In the bright
gayety of latter August, with its tenuia
tournaments, its yacht races, its picnica
by day and its moonlight strolls by night,
the people enjoyed every day of it, and an
other two tried honestly not to think Of
each other. Beauchamp devoted more
time to young Hoskins' sister, and Miss
Cissy gave closer attention to that young
lady's brother. 1t was presently thought
safe to hint that young Hoskins' sister
had undertaken the reformation of Bean
champ, with the ultimate intention Of
marrying him, while Beauchamp WAS CIV
en- to understand that Cissy's fondness for
young Hoskins was viCariously eiysn to
the man in Europe.
So the story chose its path in life
1t was sD very well until the day young
Hoskins took Cissy canoeing and Incl
dentally mentioned the fact Of his sisters
engagement to Beauchamp. Glssy looked
at him moment with quiverine mouth, |
and then, without a seconds warning, |
burst into tears. That broke up the con-
spiracy. Young Hoskins discovered that
he loved Cissy better than his sister and |
better than himself. How he managed to
put things right does not matter. Neither |
do his sisters remarks when he protested |
plaintively: Hang it ALL Her mouth |
quivered, tell you. felt as If 1 had
struck a baby"
SO the story retired into virtuous old |
sge.-Madge Robertson in New York
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