St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-10
LOUIS EXPERIME NT.
By Mrs. Burton Harrison.

"But, mamma =
what, dGrling"'
II wish you would put down that
hook and listen to me, falr anu
square"
Mrs. Fenton. like an obedient motnef
of the period, as she was, lald asloe
her reading and prepared to listen lar
and SQUARE" to the conversation OF
that young. emperor, her son, LOUIS
But,as she supposed would be the case,
Master Louis wanted only an oppor-
tunity to urge again upon her the pur-
chase of a new bicycle upon which he
had set his determined heart.
Il don't see why papa can't afford
1t, mother" Louis wound up another
unsuccessful plea.
Il suppose not, Louis said the lady
with a sigh, "or you would show your
love for me by saying no more about
it"
BILLY Wainwright got a new wheel
yesterday. a bully one that cost $40
more than the one I've picked out,
for I'll take the cheaper one, mother,
if [ can't get the other" he conceded,
obligingly, and Billy Wainwright
father and mother don't live in hall as
nice house as ours.
Mrs. Fenton sighed again; she was
becoming used to these arSuments,a and
found out that they required no an
swer
81 lust wish" Louis burst out at last,
somebody that could afford things
would adopt me and be done with it.
A few days after this conversation
Mrs. Fenton went up to her boys room
just after Louis had gone to bed. He
was lying awake in the darkness,
stretching his toes comfortably IN the
clean sheets and nesting under the
soft down quilts with its familiar
wreaths of corn flowers, thinking that,
after all, life had some agreeable mo-
ments even without a new bicycle,
WREN he heard her Ell -er.
That you, mother, dear? Come and
kiss me-" said the boy, lovingly. Pre-
cious to both of them were these mo-
ments of tender intercourse, when
Louis was accustomed to make clean
breast of his offenses of the hours just
past, and to indulge in sundry caresses
he did not care to expose to the garish
light of day.
Tonight his mother knelt, as usual,
beside him, and, as usual, his arms
went around her neck. But what was
from her eyes upon his cheek. She
had come to tell him news reserved
for this moment Of confidence; that
the doctor had ordered his father to
go away from work and care of all
kind for several months to come, as
the only means of avoiding an utter
breakdown of Mr.. Fenton'S nerves and
health.
Papa go away from his Officer
said Louis in establishment at such
a possibility. and we are to stay
here without him?'
mo, l must so with him, and it
was arranged today that we sail for
Genoa next Saturday. We were for
tunate in finding some one who will
take our house off our hands for three
months if we can give possession in a
week"
land I'm to leave school and travel!
Hurrah." cried Louis, boy-like, always
ready for a change of existing circum-
stances.
mo, dearest said the mother, fal-
tering. That's what makes it doubly
hard for me. You must not leave
school, your father says On no &C
count will he hear of it.
I'm to go to boarding school?' said
Lcu.s, looking up in bed and rattle. daz
Zled by the prosTect.
Not even that. You are to stay OH
at day school, where we have every
reason to be satisfied with your prog
ress. Louis, your Aunt Maria was
here today, and she has offered to take
you into her home until we return
Aunt Maria!' said Louis, ignoring
his mothers emotion at the thought OF
giving him up. aunt Maria! Phew
WE'LL never thought of her having {
boy or a girl either in her house. l say
mother, what fun to worry that little
overfed brute of a pug she carries
around with her. And Uncle Brewster
Here a chance to find out whether his
legs are really made Of sealing wax
and to see him take little pellets with
his soup"
my dear boy how can you? You
know your poor Uncle Brewster is
martyr to Indigestion, and your Aunt
Maria is very easily made nervous. Il
you go to them and l am sure it was
very kind of them to suggest it-yol
will have to be so particular about
noise and punctuality and all that
But it's a beautiful establishment
where no money is spared, and you vii
11a ~
nave every coih4cIl anu li1c pe"I W
care till we come back"
Uncle Brewster's a millionaire, ism
he?" asked Louis, meditatively. M
thought had he of the yearning o.
his fond mothers heart over him. He
was already possessed of the fascinat
ing idea of change, and above all, O.
residence under the Brewster's i'm
posing roof Mrs. Fcnton, who hac
anticipated more of a remonstranc'
from him, found herself presently kiss
ing him good night with a rather
lighter heart than she had carried int
his room.
And SO it came to pass that on Thu
Saturday following this talk Mr. AM
Mrs. Fenton sailed away from New