The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-18
THAT ANGELIC BOY.


Mr. Carhart looked apprehensively
round.
"Oh, he won't hear" said Mrs. Car
hart. He's up stairs, taking his after
dinner nap"
''And the boyP"
''Horrid little beastl'' cried Mrs. Car
hart, with very decided emphasis. "He's
chasing the cat through the parlors My
poor carpets''
"My dear" said Mr.. Carhart soothing
ly. TRY to be patient. Mr.. Clymer's visit
can't last forever
IF thought it would, should COM
nit suicide, said the lady Historically.
"Hear that dreadful crashl I know it's
one of my vasesp'
''Never mind, Lucilla, never minds The
money Mr.. Clymer will leave US, if be is
properly managed, will buy enough to re-
furnish dozen houses. Just think of it,
$500, Coo and not relative in the worldr'
Except this boy whom he has adopted"
Except this boy of course. But an
adopted child isn't like a blood relative
Mr. Clymer has himself assured me that
he will leave merely nominal sum to
Gustavus Adolphus. Hush Here he
comes nowH
"WeII, Gustavus, my boy" said Mr..
Carhart, assuming q playful air OF wei
come, "vIhat are you up to nowP'
ST want some jam, - was his imperious
demand.
Mrs. Carhart, inpelled thereto by
glance from her husband, turned to the
preserve closet, while the lawyer looked
more kcerly at the boy.
"Why, what's the matter with your
hand, GustavusS' be asked.
''Cut it, was the terse reply. "Cat
jumped through that there glass thing in
the garden, and 1 was a-haulin of her out
when 1 cut my hand
''My graperyp calculated the lawyer,
with slight gasp for breath as he renem-
bered the wager he had laid with his next
neighbor as to the earliest grapes of the
season.
"What have you in your pocket, my
boy?' be asked, striving to speak jovially.
peaches, - grinned Gustevus Adolphus,
with his mouth full Of strawb berry jam.
81 picked every one.'
''You little wretch!' began the lawyer,
but the entrance of old Mr.. Clymer checked
the ebullition OF well deserved wrath.
"Don't be troublesome, Gustavus, - said
old Mr.. Clymer, with tap Of his cane
upon the floor.
Troublesome, my good STRIP said Mr..
Carhart. If you only knew how the light
of innocent infancy brightens up this dull
old house.
'Gustavus, love, don't swing by those
hensively; "I' m afraid you'll hurt yourself
if they come downl''
with its musical echoes. " went on Mr..
Carhart, "you wouldn't check the dear
boy. How often my wife says to me, oh,
if we had such lovely childP''
"Ah,'' said old Mr.. Clymer sagely, Gin
deedl''
Crash went the curtains and cornices,
and down came the namesake Of Sweden s
iIlr7cfriOrc lincy t-incx cyiidcd hair
and overturning a stand Of flowers in his
fall.
Great was the family regret, and most
ostentatiously displayed, when Mr.. Clymer
announced his intention to depart
''We shall be quite lost without you,"
said Mrs. Carhart.
| ''We shall miss the boy dreadfully,"
chimed in Mr.. Carhart.
''Shall you really?" demanded Mr.. ely
meF, pausing in the act of strapping his
valise.
"Can you doubt it, my dear friend?'
Suppose, then, that leave Gustavus
Adolphus with you for a month or sop
said the old gentleman. 81 shall be travel
| ing around from place to place, and a boy
like that would be in the way. If you
would just as soon
"My dear sir, cried Mr. Carhart with
spasmodio gurgle in his throat, sit will
us!'
And to Mrs. Carhart's despair, Master
Gustavus was left on her hands once more.
The month, memorable and dreadful
80 days with poor Mrs Carhart, was draw
ing to a close when her husband came in,
carrying a black edged letter and with a
certain melancholy exultation in his face.
MY DEAR he said, 1--WE have here sad
news. Our estiInable friend Mr.. Clymer
| is
mot deadr' shrieked Mrs Carhart
Yes, my dear, he has paid the tribute
to nature which we must all sooner or
later yield up, and we are to attend the
funeral in New York at once, when his
will will be opened and read"
The funeral over, they all gathered in
the back parlor of the luxurious house oc-
cupicd by the late Carolus Clymer to hear
in what manner the deceased had disposed
of his large property.
CONSCIOUS, went on the officiating
lawyer, reading from the will in high
nasal tone, ''of my approaching dissolu-
ton, give and bequesth all the property
of which 1 die possessed, without reserva-
ton Mr.. CGrhart unfol0ed his hand
kerchief-''to the rockingham orphan asy-
1um, in the town of Rockingham, state oi
Wisconsin. And to my dear friends, Mr.
and Mrs Elan Carhart, give what they
viii prize more than any mCcleye'l remem
branoe the care, charge and sole disposi
ton over my adopted SOD, Gustavus Ado1
plus Goggins.'
Mrs. Carhart gave shrek and lapsed
into wild Mysteries Her husband sat star
ing at her, apparently stunned and Devil
dered.
Master Gustavus Adolphus went bach
to the rockingham orphan asylum.-Ex