The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25
LAUNDERING MATRIMONY.


Erom the New York Evening World.)
mi, MIS- Cram t, wealthy young widow
desirable quarter of the city. Her per-
sonaI attendant. Susie Moore, was young,
pretty and coquettish, with half score Of
wondered at that she was at times absent
Mrs. Cramer had gone out calling, and
susie re MaI eoifn og t tWo things at t Gnee &
iaration of love she had received that
morning, and busting a marble-top table
ominous crash which followed an unIucky
whisk of her buster caused her to drop
MY goodness'' go ----~-
On the carpet lay the fragments of a
dear departed! Instant dismissal was the
least she could expect in case of DETECTION.
one else had access to the apartment. and
there Wasnt cat on the premises:
bright idea struck her. and she ran to the
iarge hen g a dahed it tHrough
one OF the panes of a rear window: Then
stone and laid it among the pieces of the
But will that look rightP' she ejaculat-
ed. people don't throw stones through
wind windows WIS for nothpg; and :. this being
Her love letter lay at her feet 1t had
neither address nor signature, though well
the missiye and the missile, she hastily
wrapped the one around the other, secur5
ing the parcel with thread, and placed
Having avn g finished her work, Susie closed
be there when her mistress returned.
If Mrs Cramer was vexed when she saw
her broken cup and window, she was in
dignant when she came to investigate the
who can have dared to have taken such
a liberty she exclaimed, crumpling the
asked the Question when a dark suspicion
took possession of her.
ed her own back yard, but the garden of
an ADJOINING proprietor gentleman pas
Cramer and occasionally busted herself
for a few minutes in looking out upon his
giances, but never the the slightest token Of
recognition. She had thought him proper
tie longer at his work than he probably
would have done had the bright eyes of
To suspect was to resolve. and, instantly
tying up the stone in the letter, she walk
hurled back the hated message beyond the
enemy's confines, and at once retreated.
Dor. who CHANGED to be STOPPING out of
sight. digging weeds in the midst of the
might be some meteoric body whizzing
past in dangerous proximity to his head,
glimpse Of the widows receding figure .-- :
But judge of his, surprise as his eyes fell
, missed knocking him down. With trem-
Pnd its e0n ne Hndf his the heP Rd
than Susies had done in the morning.
the widow and had secretly sighed for an
opportunity to tell her so, but to receive
was little more than he had ever dared
to hope. Some fastidious people might
widow had evidently taken pity on his
backWardness; besides, wasn't IT leap
been better, and her spelling was. to say
the least, Indifferent But then he wasn't
Vas What he wanted and the WIDOW vas
the picture of that. The note said some
he Wouldn't forget it, and he. didn't.
AT o'clock sharp Elijah Rogers pre-
scented himself at Mrs. Cramers door and
Tell your mistress he said, "that a
please walk in invited Susie.
The fair widow was prompt in making
Mrs. Cramer, I am Mr.. Rogers Elijah
R93giersy93ur nedighbor said the ft caller
nervousness and heightened color.
Rogers though better dressed and better
looking than she had ever seen him in his
ruthless trespasser who had broken her
window and smashed her china, and had
been guilty of other acts against her peace
Il scarcely know: madame. Mr.. Rogers
ace what I am about to say. but the
That indeed. REQUIRES an explanation"
And yet | had fiattered myself that it
R Rog i someWRat td dPPsconcerfed ufneo MI
"Sufficiently explicit: no doubt" conced-
DO not say it was to deceive" inter-
"And the method chosen cried the
widow: perfectly unheard Of
Whatever others may think" said Mr..
Rogers, between us two it can never be
misinterpreted.'
And Mr.. Rogers told his love, told it so
much better than the stray note could
have done, that the widow would have
wondered how much his tongue was
mightier than his pen had she ben in any
mood for such comparisons.
She and Mr.. Rogers have now been mar
ever discovered how the broken cup first
broke the ice between them is more than
1 can tell