Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-09
SHE WAS BADLY FOOLED.
Newly Married Couple FIX Trap fOR
q Eazden Lady who Talks
Taa Mich


Toe Much.
The maiden lady on the second fo0E
OF the PeachbIow fats In Brooklyn
having disposed of everybody else in
the building, started after Mr.. and
Mrs. June Bride. Mr.. and Mrs. June
Bride had just moved in, had declined
to tell the maiden lady ali about their
private affairs and so had mortally of.
Tended her. says the New York Sun
Mr.. June Bride used to be CONNER
ciaI traveller, and something of a sport.
The ways of the maiden lady. amused
him. He resolved to give her some
thing to talk about.
He noticed that when he came in late
at night the maiden lady would peek
out of her door at him. Mrs. Bride re-
allied that she was being watched
every time she made a move.
Mr.. June Bride completed his ar
rangements for giving the maiden lady
something to talk about last week.
By arrangement, his wife went quietly
down to the front stoop of the Peach
blow flats at exactly midnight, and
stood there in the shadow of the door.
Bride was around the corner wearing
raglan coat with the collar turned
up, and a SLOUGH hat pulled down over
his eyes.
At ten minutes after midnight he
approached the Peachblow flats
stealthiIy. Mrs. Bride made a sign to
him from the front stoop to let him
know that the maiden lady was watch
ing from her parlor window.
Rushing forward suddenly, he
seized his wife IN his arms and said in
a loud whisper:
''Nfy dariingi Ny own darlingi"
''Is he homer" asked Bride.
''He is out of town tonight" replied
Mrs. Bride, putting all the tenderness
possible into her voice.
''Then it is safe for me to come up?''
eyes, sweetheart" replied Mrs,
Bride, and then she and Bride went in
and upstairs to their fat.
After they had passed the maiden
lady's door they heard it open, and al
though they didn't look back, they
felt her taking a. last look at them.
The maiden lady was up at day
break to begin the dissemination of
her news. For once in her life she
didn't have to invent. This time she
could tell things that she had seen
with her own eyes and heard with her
own ears.
She fastened from fiat to fiat with
the news, and so that there should be
no mistake, she advised everybody to
watch the stranger leave the Bride
fat. She was sure that he had not al
ready left.
No one in the house believed any
thing that the maiden Lady said, but
out of curiosity the tenants watched
the Bride fat with more than the usual
amount of interest that morning.
Promptly at nine o'clock Mr.. Bride
came out and started for business.
The maiden lady almost tainted.
Her neighbors retired to their apart
ments, very much ashamed of them
selves.
The maiden lady has been trying to
explain ever since. She is still con-
yinced that there is a scandal in the
Brides fiat, but she can't figure out
where 1t is.
The neighbors look askance at her
and she can't get anybody to listen to
her gossip. She looks on Mrs. June
Bride fat, but she can't figure out
to all her scowls Mrs. Bride only re-
turns the sweetest of smiles.
The other tenants will not be sur
prised to see the furniture van back
up to the maiden lady's fiat at any time
! now.