The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-04-13
AN uNEARNEp VICTORY.


| l said you wouldn't and you won't
I'll do what 1 please she replied, get
ting red in the face Most Of the fur
niture is mine. anyway. You can stag
here If you like.
| Nonsense, Cora he sad.
She hounced away from the breakfast
table and reappeared a few minutes later
in her cloak and hat,
Where are you going?' he asked.
To rent that fat told you l wanted.
she snapped
But l won't move into it, Cora" He
laid down his paper and frowned.
Then stay where you are. I'm sick OF
your stubbornness Stay or get cut; !
don't care what you do. I'm not Deepen
dent on you. thank the Lord And she
| slammed the door and left the fat.
Professor Edwin Pettingin waxed wroth
at this subordination. He was peta-
gogue of pedagogues, and could not i'm
| agine himself in any position which he
did not rule absolutely. Cora. his wife.
| was also a teacher, or had been, up to
/ the time when they had discovered a
mutual affinity" When they married
a year ago and set up housekeeping each
/ had contributed half the domestic out
| fit" The question OF moving had been
| a bone of contention-the first TO mar
their calm contention nearly month.
! The professor didn't want TO move, be-
cause he was deep in an abtruse DISGUST
ton about the "Etheric Double" what
ever that may be.
The row at the breakfast table was
the result and by this time both husband
and wife well knew that the other was
adamantine in resolution.
For two days they sat at the same
| table, but neither spoke TO or looked at
the other She tried to harry him into
o,,s, nd
papers, but he refused to be drawn into
1 another wordy bout. Then she deliberate
/ ly destroyed page of his labored manu-
/ script. and the enraged man Of letters.
/ instead of demanding an explanation. re-
| solved 10 get out his wife's way alto
/ gether even TO the extremity Of mourning
( a charge of desertion and a possible d.
vorce suit. With this quickly formed
! resolution he bolted from the house break
/ fastless and pounced upon the first fiat
( he could find. That afternoon, without
a word OF explanation. he packed his
/ trunk, carried of his papers and sent a
drayman with the list of his personal
! belongings. Mrs Pettingill, in an ecstacy
of silent rage, saw her husband 5 stun
carted off with a feeling of vindictive joy.
The next morning after her unruly Ed
/ win had vamoosed she sailed forth 10
complete her arrangements for the cove
ted fat.
The Budds will finish moving this af-
! ternoon. Mrs. Pettingill,' said the jani-
/ tor. They have cleaned out the front
rooms. you know, and the last stick will
/ be carted off this afternoon. You can
! have the whole fat in the morning, sure.
4 So the highheaded young woman pranc-
| ed away and hired a moving van, which
was to call early next morning and con-
vey her stuff to the new tabernacle of
/ her desire She found Budds fats appar-
1 entity empty, but the departing tenant
( had carried off the keys to the two
front rooms and the newcomer was OBJ
liged to lares and penates in the four
rear rooms of the suite. BY noon the
| moving was finished and she tied towel
round her head and set to Arranging
/ her new home. She tugged and wrestied
with all the fierce. joyous enthusiasm
of a mercurial female in new home
| She went to bed, but was annoyed dur
| ing the night. when she heard the foot
/ steps of man in the hall She listened,
heard him open the parlor door, tiptoe
| across the floor and drop his shoes upon
the hearth.
THE Budds must have some Of their
stun in there yet she thought. and dozed
away But in the morning when she
! awoke the sun was high. and Mr.. Budd
/ had gone away TO his business and locked
/ the doors in the front rooms. The JAM
/ tor tried to unlock them, but when she
/ explained that Mr. Budd had slept there
and that some of his furniture was yet
| in the fat. the january Of the building
! became cautious, and cutely opined that
as Mr. Budd's lease wasn't out for nearly
a week. and as tenants We're generally
superstitious Of janitors it might be best
/ TO get permission from them before
| breaking into their departments.
! s'You see, your lease don't start in till
| May ] -" explained the janitor. and under
! the law Budds got a right 20 hold onto
| the fat till then.
! This put the matter In a new light. and
Mrs. Pettingill like a sensible woman,
! resolved to keep to her own rooms Till
/ her predecessor saw fit 10 remove the
| last of his belongings. For two or three
| DAYS she failed To catch sight of him. He
always came home late in the night, and
| she was asleep, and left early in ,he
| morning, before she was awake. She
! realized that il was very considerate OF
4 him. but when the end of April came and
| he showed no signs of moving, she began
/ 10 get annoyed. on the night of May /
she resolved to accost him, very respect
| fully. OF course. but yet so as TO give
\ him TO understand that she really wanted
/ her two rooms. But as luck would have
/ It he didn't come home at all that night.
| She sat up till past midnight waiting,
! but no sound awaited her vigilance, and
she was obliged 70 retrench her lost rest
| sleeping late the next morning
| It was nearly . O'Clock when a prodig-
! ious clatter from the front rooms awak-
ened her She heard mems voices. and
/ hastily scrambled into her house gowns,
determined TO catch Nj Budd before ne
got away. The scramble of feet in the
/ hall assured her that he was at last NOV
/ ing out, but when she ventured into the
hall she was astOnished TO see four men
( carrying furniture in instead Of out OF her
/ fat They had gone when she had com
pleted her toilet, but she was in fine
frenzy when she went to Mr.. Budd door
and raped.
Come in" said a mild voice She
pushed open the door, assumed an in
jured expression and went in
Good morning. Cora, said a voice
/ through the cloud Of tobacco smoke
Thanks for the visit. Won't you sit
DOWN."
It was Edwin. her Edwin. who pushed
| a chair toward her and quietly resumed,
How do YOU ike my bachelor quarters
You see. I've put in a billiard table. Co
/ ing to have my friends come up. Was
afraid it'd be rather lonesome you know.
Il
You viii leave this houser' sh.
| screamed. How dare you,
Bat YOU see I've already left the house
This IS my new place. L
This is my house. II you please
"yVcU. Cora. OF course, II You want
/ 20 come back 70 ne III forgive
Forgive fddIesticks" she screamed
4 rented this house q week aE9.
SO do T." he exclaimed, qglte calm
Is. See here's ny lease, al signed As
soon as the Bud5s get their stun ont q
those back rooms he paused fer Mrs.
Pcttiugii-s face was q composite = con
+ sternation. grief and anger.
surely Cora. you don't mean % say