The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-01-15
VOL. XLU---NO. 3

new voice; and Gilbert recognize it
as her cousins.
Il shall do no such thing Get tut
| of the way, and there was sometI ng
| like a bottle whizzing through he
room and crashing up against he
wall. Then mans groan was he I'D
| distinctly.
"Oh Kitty, how could YOU stid
her cousin, reproachfully. "You We
cat my cheek terribly; see how ,he
blood runsi'
Gilbert didn't wait to hear ny
more, but fed from the house, re OIL
Veu that he would not marry sUcl a
vixen, though she had the face nd
form of Hebe.
The front door had no sooner clio ed
on him, than the actors in the ab We
drama went oil into spasmS of me ri
meut. Kitty stood revealed in he
gas-light with dress uniniured;tl re
was not a cut to be seen on J0e's fl ce;
the child was nowhere visible.
"Oh OH. twas too funny gas ed
Kitty; that whine would have lie
ceivcd anybody, twas so natural. |
half started myself, thinking twas
really a child's voice instead of yours.
lon deserve reward OF merit for ST eli
spieEding acting
Give me one OF them and let me
choose it myself" whispered Joe.
We'll, what will you have - and
she .ooded MP archly.
"Iourself''
'"What Il modest demand. :" There
was knocking smile on his lips, but
her eyes fell beneath his.
DO you think so? and taking the
michievous little face between his
hands, lie scanned it closely. What he
saw there was evidently satisfactory
for he kissed it over and over, and
Kitty, though she resisted little at
first, finally submitted with very
good grace.
Its well to be Off with the old love
before you are on with the new
whispered he, silly. "Gilbert's done
for, and I've stepped into his place.
But he didn't treat Inc in this
way" pouted she.
Il hope not. 'Vwouid he worse for
him if he had. I'd shoot him III IL
minute;n and Joe tried to look bellig-
erent, but failed woefully.
Mr.. Day was surprised the next
morning by a call from kitty's sutton.
The young man seemed i'll at ease,
and stalnmered IL good deal in making
his erraud known.
Il understand, sir, that insanity is
hereditary in your family he began
awk wardly, "and-and-'' he paused
ana tried TO collect his ideas that
kitty's aunt and grandmother died in
a lunatic asylum.
Day, pompously, there never was u
case of Insanity either among my own
kindred or that of my late wife,
But your daughter has a peculiar
and find that it isn't
suited to mine at all. We should be
miserable together. | desire, the re-
fore, to withdraw from the enga re-
ment.n
And have you told her this -
thundered his listener, white til
rage. For Mr.. Day really haC Il
violent temper, and didn't need to
feign its possession, like Kitty.
Dear me-! the father is worse tLan
the daughter thought the young
man, and he answered aloud. "Ch,
no, l came to you first. (The f.ct
was, he didn't dare face Kitty W tn
such a proposition.)
We'll, sir, ali | have to say is, tIat
you are a mean contemplate Will q.
aud if you don't get out of my of ce
this minute, III kick you do IN
stairs" and before the words w.re
fairly out Of Mr.. Days mouth he
started to make his threat good.
Young Gilbert made hasty retrc at
convinced that not only Kitty, lut
Mr.. Day also, were partially insane
Kitty listened demurely to err
fathers version of the affair, and The
he hurled against her e.
creant lover. Once, though, dur ng
that narration she shook so III
laughter that he looked at her sIs-
piciously. But she put on at oI.ce
such an air Of Indebtedness that he
ascribed it to be wounded pride. twas
not till TWO years afterward that he
learned the truth, and Kitty Y as
married TO Joe, who, forgot to s. V,
was not her own cousin, though she
called him so, but sort OF dist Mt
relation. Mr.. Day received his re-
lation good humoredly, Joe had
always been his special favorite,) AID
was ready enough to laugh with the
rest over the way in which he had
been outwitted.