The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-18
HOW HE KNEW.

asked. ibid you meet CarterH
ST met him, yes-we didn't go to the
theater. We went up town to call
f'OnIy to bless her, DER and DER
And in her smile to-
"Carter is a conceited donkeyP'
SIS heP''
''With women he is Well, I'm going
to bed. You'd better too. One O'Clock.
Good night.
HOnly to catch the light that lies
Within her glance divine"
Miller heard Willard singing as he moved
about.
Three months after the early morning
hour in which Willard had called his friend
Carter a donkey and had left his over
coat in a heap on Miller's sofa he came in
late with springing step. He crossed the
room and sat down opposite Miller with
meaning in the act.
sit is the finest night that ever came to
me- he said apturously-"the greatest,
the sublimestI Do you know that, old
bOyP''
Eyes, - said Miller, with calm decision.
"Well, you don't, - the other responded
triumphantly, because you can't know
it. am going to tell you, though. am
going to astound you"
He leaned forward, putting his hand on
Miller's knee and looked at him with smil
ing, sparkling eyes.
F'You don't believe in mind reading, by
the way" said Miller, taking the hand
up and shaking it absentmindedly, "but a
very curious instance has just come to my
notice. 1t is by a new process.
''Oh, bother mind readingI have
something important to say to you. I
want you to listen.'
"Suppose tell you what it is"
''What what is?''
''The something you are going to say"
''It would not be possible for you to tell
me. No one knows Of it except myself and
-, r7o l. Jaf
hap
''HaI hap said Miller rather gravely.
He wheeled around to his desk and took
from a small drawer some slips of paper.
He then put on his glasses.
"Just listen a moment and show me
where my mistakes occur and excuse me
for presenting to you in detail what you
would probably impart to me in more
concrete form. On the evening of Thurs
day, Sept. 8, you intended to go to the
theater with George Carter. Instead he
took you up town to call on some ladies.
He introduced you to beautiful girl in
whom he was interested. You also became
at once deeply interested in this young
person. J. could almost call it a case of
love at first sight. For some days there
after you tried to catch a glimpse of her,
but failed. Then quite accidentally you
met, and the meeting was pleasure. You
began to pine for an invitation to visit her,
and in some occult manner it came.
''In the third interview you realized
that your heart had gone beyond your
keeping. Jealousy, however, soon crept
in and caused you days and nights of an
guish, which were followed by period of
melancholy. This ended in a burst of
healthy defiance. You then encountered
your divinity at some outdoor function
in a garden, I think-and subsequently
drove with her or in her eompanionship.
The next day you sent her flowers. She
received them graciously. Finally you re-
solved to ask her to be your wife. You
feared her answer. When it came, it spoke
of possible parental opposition and advised
waiting. Your reply was urgent and pas
sionate, and her rejoinder raised you to
the seventh heaven of delight. You be-
came formally engaged last Saturday, and
tonight she named the wedding day"
Miller took off his glasses. Willard had
fallen back in his chair in sheer amaze
ment.
''Why-what-do you mean to tell me
you have found out about all this by read
ing my mind?"
"Not by reading it-by hearing it,
Hearing it? I never uttered one sylla-
ble'
my dear boy, you did You told me
your story in the choicest of languages,
but unconsciOusly, 1 must admit"
"What-on-earth- do-you-mean
Miller readjusted his glasses and again
Thursday, the Sd, was the first even
ing you saw your fate, and you came home
humming Only to love her; nothing
more Do you remember?"
"Ye-es, 1" said Willard refectively.
"You sang and hummed it for full
week. Then you began on Some day,
some day will meet you, and you sang
it until you did meet her, after which it
was we met by chance, the usual way
Then you told me you were yearning to
see her again in Gould but come to
you This you murmured in a pathetic
undertOne till it gave place to joyous
caroling of Over the desert fly to thee
and you flew to her that very evening. I
love thee-thee only I love, was the next
number, which you sang constantly and
with deep feeling. You were then silent
for some little time, and when heard you
voice again in My dream of love is Ger
Maid of Athens, ere we part, and Love
not breathed forth with deep sadness, I
felt on the point of offering you sympa-
thetic advice, but was deferred luckily by
"shan l. wasting in despair,
Die because womans fair2
(which, must say, you rendered in fine
style. 'Whene er see those smiling eyes
Come into the garden, Maud, and Wait
for the wagon informed me of a happy re-
encounter. These flowers for thee were
culled, love, told its own story, and I'd
offer thee this hand of mine, and 'Oh,
promise me, explained the feverish eager
ness with which you awaited the postman
on certain morning last week. 'RefIain,
audacious tar, and We'd better bide wee
gave me some moments of anxiety, but I
cannot live without thee She is mine,
the word is spoken, and 1T is thy wedding
morning closed the sequel of events in a
most satisfactory manner, and can con-
graduate you on a very successful pro-
gramme. Have misstated the casef'
We'll, of all aston -ish-ing thingsl You