The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-04
He FOUND THE RING.

giant cherry tree. whose broad boughs
were all sparkling with ruby pendants,
and then walked to the house.
"HelloP' said the doctor.
He shaded his eyes with his hand and
looked in at the kitchen window. There
was the trim figure of his pretty daughter
standing at the table, her sleeves rolled
back, and a white apron tied about her
taper waist, apparently deep in the sac
charine mysteries of pie making. That
was nothing surprising, but DR.. Gray
could have sworn that a minute ago the
apparition of young man was manifest
ing a remarkable interest in the sliced ap
pies, spice boxes and sugar bowls, and yet,
now that he looked again, Kitty was trim
ming off the edges of her pie crust all
alone. He walked straight into the
kitchen.
''Kitty, where's Harton Browne?"
Kitty cut little star in the center of
the sheet of pie crust before she answered.
81 don't know, papa
"Yeu don't, eh?'' said the doctor. SCI
supposed notf'
And the doctor proceeded through the
hall into his little Office, where sat his
hopeful student, Harton Browne, deep in
the pages of medical dictionary.
'Hard at work, eh?'' said the old gen.
tleman, taking off his hat.
Yes, sir, =" said Browne. give written
out that abstract you left and looked over
the papers on fractures, ana
Gan right, your a most industrious
fellow said DR.. Gray. "You don't be-
Iieve in stopping work on all sorts of friv-
olous pretexts, do youf''
'tNo, SIR
''You are convinced that nothing but
steady perseverance will enable a man to
succeed in the science of medicinef''
eyes, sir, - replied Browne, moving I'M
easily. on his chair.
Every sensible - said DR.. Gray, shrug-
ging his shoulders. "And now-but what
are you looking for?''
my ring sir. 1t was on my finger but
a minute ago. You have not seen it?''
'tNo, not that I know off,
ct hope it is not lost" said Harton. ct
value it very highly as my fathers gift.
Where can it have gomez
Don't know said the doctor. "Give
me that list of patients we expect this aft
ernoon, and then go and ask Jake to keep
a lookout for your trinket. That boy has
more eyes than most people, believe-I
know he has more mischief!'
Browne adopted his preceptor's sugges-
ton, and the old gentleman was left alone,
cogitating whether his daughter was really
deceiving him as to her innocent love af-
fairs.
"Cenfound isp' soliloquized the doctor
petulantly. cit takes sharper eyes than
mine to see through a woman's ma
though, hanged if don't!''
The brazen tongue of the old kitchen
clock had just uttered in a sort of shrill
treble the fact that it was 1, and dinner
was nearly over at DIR. G1ay's. Somehow
dinner tasted better in the long, shady
Ginning room of the Gray house than it did
anywhere else, for the honeysuckIes at the
window stirred SO pleasantly in the wind
and held back their green leaves to admit
such delicious scents that the most delicate
appetite could not help being tempted.
And Kitty looked SO pretty at the head of
the table, her brown hair brushed back,
and her white throat edged with lace and
the color coming and going her cheek
like rosy shadows. No wonder young
Browne looked at her SO often.
"Iu take another piece of that pie,
Kate said tho old doctor. f'Capital piei
Where did the apples come from?''
II believe Patrick gathered them from
south wall of the orchard, papa, and I
baked the pies this morning"
"Upon my word, you re getting to be
quite little housekeeper," said the doc
tor, chuckling. ''The first thing know
some young fellow will be-why-hello
here-what's thisp''
For DR.. Gray's teeth had struck against
some foreign substance under the crust of
the much praised pie, with a jar that set
every nerve on edge.
''Do they make pie nowadays out of
stocks and stones?'' demanded the old
gentleman tartly. '|No-I'm mistaken
it isn't stone; it's a ringl'
And the doctor quietly held up Harton
Brownies missing ornament a carnelian,
set in gold Kitty turned scarlet; Browne
looked COMPOUNDED.
How a ring should happen to get baked
in a pie don't know, said the malicious
old doctor, enjoying the confusion of his
companions. "Can you tell me what all
this lneansf''
81 can tell you SIR said Browne val
time. ''It means that am in love with
Kitty, and that If you will give your con-
sent to our union we will be grateful to
your
Papa whispered Kitty, ''now be good
and say yes! I wanted to tell you before,
only IL didn't dare!''
"Ob!' said DR.. Gray dryly. 81 thought
should find things out by and by. 1
wish, however, it nayn't be at the cost of
a swapping toothache!'
MAY have her?'' pleaded Harton, who
| had by this time got his arm round Kit
tvs waist.
WELL said the doctor, 81 don't know
that I've any objection. Have it your
own way. young people. Only, if you
have any more counting, 1 beg you won't
do it up over my apple piesl'
| Browne was rich man that July after
! noon. He had two treasure troves-a
promised wife and a ringi And the doc
tor was happy, for he had found some
thing to tease Kitty about.-New York
| News.
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