The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-10-07
A soRRowFuL INTRUSION.

/ accomplished Hiss Whately, had ''ac-
eepted a position as s2leswonan in
cradle excitement in certain circles Of
| the Back Bay. For the Whateiys had
been an old and exclusive family In the
neighhorhood and though in reduced CIR
| cumstances. ii was never suspected that
! the daughter of the house would have
| been brought to such straits. As matter
! o. fact, there was no special necessity for
the young woman TO earn her living. Her
/ brothers, though younger than she, were
/ doing well and would have been glad 10
/ have her always al home But she was
q girl of spirit. as everyone knew, and
! she offered no further note of explana-
ton than that she preferred TO be in
! dependent Besides. she was no longer
/ a girl, but a woman set in her ways,
| mentally and physically sedste. phenom-
| enally reasonable. wholly paszioriess. and
| therefore q parsonage utterly superior and
remote IN the minds OF such young men
| as might have weoed and welded a less
perfect creature.
One OF her brothers who had argued In
vain against her going 70 work, finally
! lest his temper and accused her OF seek
| ing TO excite conamiserating attention.
| but she only smiled patiently at his out
break. and went stately and deliberately
! TO the store And she was a model sales
woman. as she had been a model daugh-
| ter. a model sister. a model character in
| all things She dressed 50 we'll though
yet in mourning for her father. who had
| died many years since she spoke so de-
| Eberately, Sc correctly, SO deiEurely. Old
maids who taught in the Sunday school
With her, prim mothers OF Wild sons who
knew how good she was, homely girls
who hadn't half the chances she had. all
wondered why it was that no enterpris-
ing young man made bold TO carry off
so rare a prize among women.
But there was one man, Horace Gorse.
who had thought" of Miss Whately in
| a matrimonial sense. He was q we'll
! preserved man of 50 and a bachelor Of
manners and habits so irreproachable
! that every mother with q marriageabie
! daughter who had the good fortune 10
know him hoped that he would notice
! her girls" And he did notice them. He
noticed everyone and everything, but par
! ticularly. in his own mind, he noticed
| Miss Whately. Mr.. Gorse was self
made man, who was PROUD of his per-
/ Torrance and determined that nothing
should occur to mar the perfect symmetry
! OF his own handiwork. So far as known,
/ he had never made a mistake. He had
/ be gun TO save as Office boy, and now
! h was the owner of small steamship
! line. a fine home, and consi6era Bile in
/ come property" He looked healthy. but
! nobody had ever suspected or accused
/ him of having had any 'entanglements.
/ He dressed with perfect Judgment.
! Some people call it taste" but with
/ GOrse it was judgment. He was vestry
man in the same church in which Miss
/ Whately taught a Sunday school class,
and in the eyes of many of the congTe-
cation were born for one another"
( Miss Whatelys acceptance of a position
! pleased Mr.. GoFse. To his extremely prac-
/ teal mind it proved that she was a wo-
man of sense and spirit. that she had
/ notion of the value of money. that she
| was superior TO mere appearances and
| unhampered with any false pride. To
! mark his approval of her course, ne walk
/ ef home with her from church the very
/ first Sunday after her appearance as a
! saleswoman. Everybody noticed how dig
nified and correct they both seemed. how
sensible. how well matched. how thought
/ full, as they walked down the avenue to-
ward her house. She had always been so
| much more sedate, so much wiser, better
! poised. calrner than other young women.
! that it seemed meet and proper, this evil
dent Partially for a man perhaps twenty
/ years older than she.
J. And so nobody was surprised when the
/ engagement was announced. or when
| Miss Whately quit her place in the store
| OF when the quiet but eminently correct
wedding took place, or when they went
about housekeeping In a business-like
! tEOroughgOing way in his splendid man
/ sion in the Back Bay drive. There was
nc dancing at the reception or after it,
! No wines were served. and, take il all In
! all, it was the most perfectly ordered If
/ the least exciting wedding that had oc-
/ CURED within the memory of anyone
present. The fact that no children came
! II enliven their splendid home only
! seemed to intensity the decorous devotion
| % this model couple Although he was
/ obliged to make frequent and unexpected
visits to New York. she often accompa-
ried him, but when they were at home
/ neither was ever seen apart from the
! other. Every Sunday at exactly the
same hour they could be seen, faultlessly
attired. slowly pacing their way to the
morning service. They never missed an
afternoon drive through the parks ex-
Cept when the weather was nasty: their
entertainments, always of an Intellectual
sort. were the admre ton and the envy
J of their acquaintances They never COM
nitted the coarse mistake Of giving the
world any ocular demonstrations OF their
/ mutual affection, but everyone knew that
they never quarreled and that life within
/ their home was the contamination Of all
! domestic peace. order and harmony.
But one day it came to pass that Mr..
/ GoTse fell i'll with a lung fever. and al
though the best physicians that could be
( found were brought 70 minister TO him.
and his wife and many nurses and as
s,stants tended him ceaseless and with in
I finite care, yet he died. and the young
/ widow pale but yet calm. bore herself
I with Incompatible courage. silence and
( disuified resignation There wera some
I who said that II would have been bette.
/ for her surcharged heart II she had wept
/ but the fountains Of her grief seemed 10
/ be frozen. and her thin pstrician face
{ gave forth no sign except the fixed pal
{ Tor Of WEAKNESS and the heroic meekness
( Of calm. wstchful eyes.
There were no flowers, no crowds no
/ music. no pageantTy at the church or az
/ the grave but when the coffin had been
/ lowered and the first clods fell dismaliy
/ upon the padded Id. woman. strange.
{ Hsvering. sobbing young woman. came
{ n,curners and flung p little bunch OF with
/ cred roses among the clay. And Mrs
! Gcrse. her head bowed piously. looked
quickly up and wondered who il ~as
/ this strangely sympathetic person who
I rad come 10 throw flowers into kis grave
and now yelled and sobhing went hack
/ 70 sit alone upon the naargin q the tomb.
John Y. Rsftery.
How Could She Tell7
C7rom the Philadelphia Telegraph
A rather good story Is tod az the ex-
/ pense 81 JACK Daily By Special 0Ticer
Carr. OF The Eleventh and Race streets
/ police station. Daily. before hecor1irE a
( n.ember Of tho force wss one Of ire
/ hest-knowR liEhtweights who ever step
I ped in the squared circle and his trim
athletic hEurs shows 20 advantage IL his
I policeman uniform. 4 few days sga
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