The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-01
Just an E pisode,
(From Chambers Journal In -Four Parts.
PART ".


ing, 1 had driven her TO Harry. I took
her into my arms and kissed her again
and again on her soft hair, for her face
was hidden on my breast. l thought with
a smile of my mornings resolution, and
in imagination 1 snapped my fingers at
it.
"Mimsy,''I whispered, will you marry
me and stay with me always, the one
dear, sweet love of my life? You, whose
every tone is music to me, whose every
football makes my heart rejoince. Listen.
1 have tried hard TO give you up 1 have
shrunk from asking you 10 bind your
fresh young life TO a man old enough to
be your father. l knew Harry loved you,
and when 1 sent you 10 him this morning,
it was with an ache at my heart that has
refused all day 10 be stilled. 1 could not
dare TO think that you cared for me 9TH
erwise than as your friend and guardian.
Now that know, will not part with you
to any man living. You shall be mine ir-
revocably, irretrievabIy if you will. VIII
you Mimsy?"
/ sat down in my own particular chair
the chair from whose majestic proper
tions 1 daily q hope impressed my pa
tients with a sense of my profound knowl-
edge and skill; and Mirnsy nestled in my
arms, holding one Of my hands tightly in
both her own.
Il am ever so willing, Guardy; but I
can not realize my happiness yet. 1t has
come so suddenly, just when I had made
up my mind to go away and leave you"
THAT wasn't kind, BIimsy.'
mo; but never thought of that, then"
We talked until sounds of a tray being
carried into the drawingrOom reminded US
of something we had both forgotten.
THAT is the coffee going in" said
Mimsy, springing up. 81 had forgotten
Priscilla
/ rose and took her hand
Come. we will go and tell her"
Priscilla was knitting by the fire. She
looked at US keen1y as we entered, her
eyes resting first on me, and then on MINI
sy, who, clinging fast to my hand, hung
back shyly. Then Priscilla darted at
me.
John, you don't mean" she began.
Eyes, do, Priscilla. I mean that Mimsy
and 1 are tired of being guardian and
ward, so we are changing the relationship
and are going TO be husband and wife in
stead"
Priscilla drew my face down to hers,
and as she had often done when 1 was
a boy, pressed her lips TO my forehead
in a long, loving kiss. Then she turned
to Mimsy and folded her in her arms.
"Oh, my darling, I am so glad, so gladp'
she murmured. as she cooed over her;
its what I have longed and prayed for,
and now it is really come. John, l saw
how it was with you, and 1 was afraid
you would not speak; L feared that your
grand quixotic notions would keep you
from your happiness, while all the time
this child was eating out her heart for
you, and you did not see it, and 1 could
say nothing. You have given me many
an anxious moment, especially when this
morning l thought you were willing that
Harry should take her away. But,
there, it's all settled now, so let us have
some coffee; am sure we need something
after all this excitement"
Early the next morning 1 heard Mimsy's
voice from the garden singing:
John Anderson, my 10, John.
When we were first acquaint,''
and l knew that she had recovered her
usual spirits When l joined her a short
time after she was fitting from bush to
bush gathering roses-fer the consulting
room, she said; and then added. with a
furtive glance into my face: Il am not
going to hate the patients any more now;
L can even afford to respect them"
When the basket was full she suggest
ed: Don't you think, darling, we might
belong to me somehow"
So we wended our way to the stables,
Mimsy. with all her gayety and light
heartedness restored, dancing along by
my side
Jenkins was an old soldier. He had
served under Mimsy's grandfather. He
was with her father when he died of sun
stroke in India, when Mimsy was born.
He brought her mother home to England
and when she died a few years later he
came to me with the little one, her de-
voted servant and slave. He was in the
act of wringing out a leather from pail
of water when we appeared. and when
he caught sight of us he drew himself up
sharply to attention, his hand to his cap.
Il am going to be married, Jenkins
announced Mimsy, without preamble.
We'll, to be sure, Miss replied Jen-
kins. looking inquiringly at me: Well
to be sure
Yes, Jenkins; and to the very best man
IN all the world
Yes, hiss, yes" and again he glanced
at me-
There he stands before you, Jenkins;
and just think of it, I'm going TO be Mrs.
Travers, and never, never going away
from the dear old home"
I'm very glad, sir. that ! am I know
ed Miss Miriam she worshipped the very
ground you trod on, strand you deserve
ii, sir. And 1 knowed what store you set
by her, her. And now I'm as glad as
ever l can be-
John, darling" said Mimsy. as we
strolled back to breakfast. I've been
thinking of lots of things since yesterday,
and do hope Priscilla will live here with
US, always"
NO. sweetheart. Priscilla confided m
me last night, when you had gone TO bed,
that she would like TO carry out project
she has always had in her mind in case
1 married. She would like to have little
house near, and see US often, and yet be
quite quiet and independent"
But need We let her go. John? l want
to keep her.
L know, little one: but Priscilla thinks
you ought TO rule here with an undivided
sway-be a sort of queen, in fact She
has nothing but praise for you, Mimsy.
and thinks you viii make an excellent
housekeeper. Priscilla is wise woman;
and. somehow. I fancy we shall do well
10 be guided by her"
We stood for few moments on the ter
race, and the pigeons came and cooed
around Mimsy as she apostrophized the
garden and its belongings: You dear old
garden, And you sweet flowers and trees
and grassy walks and shadows and sun
shine! l said good-by 10 you all yester-
day, and you would not respond. And
now know why; you never meant me TO
leave you"
Singular Accident TO a Lady.
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