The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-29
DONE BY A WOMAN
Her Way OF Winning Back a.
Recreant Spouse.

light of me, but it is only justice to he
10 say that she was not at all Hurried
Not so much as flush of her smooth
sheck betrayed that it was any sur
prise or annoyance to find me there.
had considerable curiosity to Sc,
whether Rex would evince the same
mpassiveness, and quietly resumed my
book after the first greeting.
Rex did not come to his appointment
punctually, or perhaps he had scented
ny espionage.
The widow, after one or two turns
tcross the terrace, approached me and
Ieated herself on one of the steps at
ny feet.
Us that something very interesting
you are reading, Mr.. Nye?" she asked
presently.
Not absorbingly So" responded,
partially closing the volume and smil-
ing down at her; felt no malice to-
ward the handsome widow
''Yet you keep a finger on the place
Is much as to say you did not like be-
mg interrupted. I wish I could find
bnything worth reading these stupid
days"
You are welcome to this" said,
extending it toward her. 1t was a
bopy of the revised statutes
She glanced at the title and haak
Ut me.
The next instant she snatched the
book from my knees and threw it as
Jar as she could into the bushes.
l gazed stupidity after the vanished
volume. Mrs. Warburton laughed sl-
most naturally as she rose from her
peat on the STEP
There is Rex, now" she said,
tweetly, and foated away to meet him,
nperb in sang froid and effrontery
She whispered him something as she
look his arm, and he looked over his
lhoulder at me and laughed immoder-
ttely. He had not felt in the least
like laughing when he first saw me.
His face flushed uncomfortably and he
trowned, but he was merry enough
hinder Mrs. Warburton's beguiling
Rex" said 1. entering his room an
hour after, unannounced, what is the
meaning OF this? Did you not promise
me"
BOTHER the promise, Uncle Nye,"
blurted Rex. "a fellow isn't RESPONSE
BILE for promises or actions when a
pretty woman is in the question"
There is but one pretty woman in
the world for your o.
"Amy?-0h, Amy is an angel; love
her to distraction"
The deuce you do?" said I. 1T wish
the widow was a man. I'd shoot her,
by Georgel"
There wouldn't be any need in that
case"
III disinherit you and marry Amy |
nyselfr' he said angrily.
"Oh,. you will, will your" said my |
nephew, grinning. at is very fortu-
nate that the widow has handsome
income. as in that case l should marry
her"
"You-why, she is old enough to be
your mother"
six months younger than your UNI
worthy nephew, uncle. We made the
calculation not half an hour ago."
Shes false, maneuverlng flirt as
ever lived, and l believe on my soul
there's pair of you;" screamed /, as I
banged out of the room, leaving Rex
IN commissions of the most unaccount-
a bic laughter, and running against
Is, the widow-in the
passage.
If she had not been one of those
gliding creatures who seem to move
On air; If she had not gracefully re-
ccded before my onset, there is no con-
occurring what the consequence would
have been. As 1t was, she recovered
herself at once, or rather did not
seem to have lost herself at all, and '
stood smiling sweetly at me- !
Il was just coming to ask You to
end me- the charming volume you
we're perusing this morning" she said,
n the most matter-of-fact manner pos I
ible. ,
"Ah, doubtless you wish to examine /
hat portion which treats of the legal !
ty OF marriages contracted under J
alse-" I began. tartly. l
Precisely" she interrupted me; 1
that was just what l wanted to do. Y
Women are so lamentably ignorant on j
VI legal matters. Poor me-, have no Il
dea whether bigamy is considered a I
rhine or not" C
She smiled again with an air of be- a
ng the simplest of creatures instead b
f the most artful, tripped me the v
lost charming of courteSies and glided h
way. il
Could 1t be she was in earnest about a
lex! L had my fears about him. I h
ad not been free from anxiety lest W
he should SO far entangle him in her n
leshes as TO induce total forgetfulness h
f the claims of the lovely girl TO whom t
~ nephew was already betrothed: / /
ut that she could herself mean any N
ling beyond defying and provoking Y
lie to the utmost had not dreamed. fl
II she persisted in her course what
lould do? What could do q the last a,
Ut the very thing | had so often and ST
'IemnIy vowed to myself [ would not W
the truth concern a.
e the so-called Mrs. Warburton. I a
ncied the flash of Beatrix's mag
fcent eyes when she saw me forced
this extremity. the triumphant
lrve of her scarlet lips at my discom- be
ture. nr
A bright thought struck me. Iwould B,
I've Amy up here. 1t was all nom te
nse her staying at stupid farm TO
hen we were at gay watering place. N
wrote directly an odd sort of an
'istle, and one that showed had not
I1ach sense as Rex. IL / were his co
NOR by almost twenty years. Any la
'dy but Amy would have refused TO
'cy such q perernnfcrv ard ,,nreason- Ge