The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-06-26
A Musical Program.

| coat on Miller'S sofa and was walking
| aimleSsly about the room humming. "On-
| ~ to love her, nothing more" in soft
undertone He also glanced at himself
in the mirror. but furtively. not openly.
His frank vanity had often amused Mil
| Ter (the men had been living together a
year(. but he appeared now quite sure of
| his good looks. He eyed the mirror ques-
| tioningiy as well as furtively.
Where did you go tonight?" Miller ask
! ed. Did you meet Carter?"
Il met him, yes-we didn't go TO the
| theater. We went uptown to call
Only to bless her. Ger and Ger,
And in her smile to
| Carter is a conceited donkey"
Us he?"
with women he is. Weir I'm going TO
| bed. You'd better. too. One o clock. Good
night"
Only to catch the light that lies
Within her glance divine.
| Miller heard Willard singing as he moved
| about.
! To possess a fine voice and to know how
| to use it may mean a great deal TO the
| fortunate being thus endowed. 1t may
mean a great deal to others as well. But
the meaning will not be quite the same.
| Willard sang more than he talked, but he
said more in his singing-this also hap
| pens sometimes-than in his converse
| ton.
Three months after the early morning
| hour in which Willard had called his
| friend Carter a donkey" and had left
| his oyercoat in a heap on Miller's sofa he
came in late with a springing step, his
hair slightly disordered. breathless lit
tie, but very good to look at in the de-
bonnair grace of youth and the exhuber-
| ant strength of manhood. Miller took off
/ IL. - ,s-t,f,
and expected to talk awhile.
Fine night" he remarked, as brill
liant beginning.
Willard crossed the room and sat down
opposite to him. with meaning in the
act.
1T is the finest night that ever came
to me" he said rapturously-'the greatest
the sublimest! Do you know that, old
boy?"
YES" said Miller, with calm decis-
ion.
well. you don't" the other responded
triumphantly. because you can't know
it. L am going to tell you, though. l am
going to astound you"
He leaned forward, putting his hand
on Miller's knee, and looked at him with
smiling, sparkling eyes.
You don't believe in mind reading, by
the way" said Miller. taking the hand up
and shaking it absent-mindedly, but
very curious instance has just come to my
notice. 1t is by a new process"
"Oh, bother mind reading! have some
thing important to say to you. l want
you to listen"
Suppose I tell you what 1t is"
what what is?"
The something you are going TO say"
cit would not be possible for you to tell
n Of
and one other-Whom you don't know!
Ha! ha!'
'Ha! hal" said Miller rather gravely.
He wheeled round to his desk and took
from a small drawer some slips of paper
and then put on his glasses.
Just listen moment and then show
me where my mistakes occur, and excuse
me for presenting to you in detail what
you would probably impart to me in mere
concrete form. On the evening of Thurs
day, September 8, you intended to go to
the theater with George Carter. Instead
ne took you uptown to call on some la
dies. He introduced you to a beautiful
girl in whom he was interested. You also
became at once deeply interested in this
Young person. I could almost call it a
case of love at first sight. For some days
thereafter you tried to catch a glimpse
of her, but failed. Then, quite accidental
ly, you met and the meeting was a pleas
ure. You began to pine for an invita-
ton to visit her, and in some occult man
ner it came.
In the third Interview you realized that
your heart had gone beyond your keep
ing. Jealousy, however, soon crept in and
caused you days and nights of anguish,
which were followed by period of mel
anchOly; this ended in a burst of healthy
defiance. You then encountered your di-
vinity at some outdoor functon-in gar
den, l think-and subsequently drove with
her or in her companionship. The next
day you sent her flowers. She received
them graciously. Finally you resolved 10
ask her to be your wife. You feared her
answer. When it came it spoke of posi-
bic parental opposition, and advised wait
ing. Your reply was urgent and pas
sonate, 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? l never uttered one sylla-
BILE"
My dear boy. you did You told me
your story in the choicest languages, but
unconsciously, l must admit"
arth-do-you-mean?"
Miller readjusted his gasses, and again
glazed over his little slips.
''Thursday-the 3rd-was the evening
you saw your fate, and you came home
humming, Only to love her nothing
more. Do you remember"
"Ye-es," said Willard. refectively.
"You sang and hummed it for a full
week. Then you began on Some day.
some day I 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 1 but come 70
YOU This you murmured in pathetic
undertone till il gave place 10 d Joyous
carOling of over the desert / fy to thee.
and you flew TO her that very evening.
1 love thee. thee only / love was the
next number, which you sang constantly
and with deep feeling. You were then
silent for some little time. and whep I
heard your voice again in Ny dream Of
love is GER Maid Of Athens, ere we
part and Love not breathed forth with
deep sadness. I felI on the point Of offer
ing you sympat hetic advice. but was de-
tered luckily by
Shall I, wasting in despair,
Die because = womau's fair?
which. / must say. you rendered in fire
style 'Whene'er I see those smiling eyes
Come into the garden, Maud, and Wait
for the wagon informed me OF q happy
re-encounter. These flowers for thee
were cuHed. love told lis own story. and
I'd offer thee this hand OF mine and
on. promise me explained the feverish