The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-06
WHY SADIE QUIT MUSIC.


shops and artificial puns cherries and garden
their Sunday Sadie the es-
ohewed all tawdry limitations and made point of sim
rlicity."
Sadie Quinn had lead pencil in her hand
all day and she was glad discard each evening
higher Not having yet hit particu-
social excellence aectaton to aim" she just
did best general results She got raglan with
a higher collar anybodys She wore fchu and had
extension soes on her called them boots
every mentioned shoes, and was glad when
she read in the Ladies Fireside freckles
and hips de trop She had the former and
lacked yet in spite Of all these advan-
tages dimly conscious that she AN imam
cipher when it came to scoring with The men,
the meantime she wasn't much help TO her mother.
who was poor and when Miss Cookies engagement to
the corner storekeeper announced Miss Quinn
couldn't make up her mind whether 70 wear old
oxydized silver and give the bride present, or
buy bauble and get her mother 10 make an angel
cake the festivities.
II was then that fortutous thing happened. Jerry
Quinn who was an oiler at the power house and
Sadies younger brother brought home stranger named
Harry BIount who. Jerry. -lookn' fur board
an ogn'" Would Quinn board him2 She looked
him over needed money and thought that she
would. she consult Sadie. That young
woman being at the deeply absorbed in
covered which she holding upside down, was
sitting in dark of the parior goatng over the
prospective boarder who all of her presence,
sat absractedly by window, with the street lamp
lighting up his a broad -shoudered swarthy
young fellow with frank, dark and lot of oily
black hair. looked what Jerry said he was ma
chinist.
l.F,xcuse rs = minute Mr. Bount" said Mrs Quinn
as she touched sades shoulder and beckoned Jerry.
They together in the back yard and sat upon
the wash-bench to talk it How much would he
pay would carry lunch had he steady job? These
were the things Mrs Quinn wanted to know Did you
ask him to come think keep boarding house
where did he useta liver? were the questions SADIE
asked. But Jerry answered them all satisfactorily ana
Harry Bount was quickly advised that he might come.
Before o'clock had brought his old leather trunk.
a paper telescope and-to Quinn's joya gull
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second story front room when he said goodnight
and closed they went down stairs to discuss
him. Sadie who had her new kimona, had begun by
saying that he "acted like perfect gentleman when
they waverng wistul notes of his guitar
Praise God" whispered Mrs Quinn, opening the
door tbs the Kerry dances"
And now voice, light. meodous and tender tenor,
was added to music of the instrument Sadie went
out into the yard but she back in moment
with Hes playing in the dark" officer Casey, who
had walked that beat for four years, dropped in next
TO ask WHO the divvel playin' the hdde?" And
thereafter. evening always in the dark, Harry
Blount machinst played the guitar and sang. and
pass that everybody glad they knew the
Quinns because music their boarder made
had been heard in Loom street 1t then that
Sadie quite captvated with Harry decided take
piano from Miss Kelly. the music teacher But Bount
was shy lion even for diplomacy
Saddle Neither awkward bashful he would never
to play anybody. Friendly to degree,
gauehery confident with holiness he would
do anything to please the Qunns except play before
them
one night when they had urged him over-much he
said: "All right but you must put out light
then dark sitting them in the parlor he
played sang So that sades heart quite
But he had betrayed his secret, Sadie, for
glimpse of his soul set about
finding him out. Miss McAtee, at whose house Harry
had boarded. and reasons OF her for dis
closing the facts, Sadie ali she wanted know.
him practcing night" said Miss McAtee.
"He studying opera by note, and he had to
light. Oh, he plays by note. and learned
himself, too Well. oughta him. He sticks his
tongue and his legs together, an opens
his mouth an makes faces an looks like he was agong
o 1t gave the horrors Just a-ioOking
him. an I wanta hear him play again Funny.
alnt t$ He amt such bad looking Teller either only
he's aplayin the guitar.
That enough for Sadie She had a grip
Harry and she meant use if Meanwhile
she yearning for the day when She the piano.
and Bount. the guitar, might play together" She
began attend concerts the operas and carried
roll with her every day to the But
night having been detained the muse-teacher did
not until after supper and when she walked in
Biount was in his room. as usual, playing tie guitar
He plays well" whispered Miss Kelly, taking off her
lace and sitting the piano stool in the dark
his is singularly and sweet
He singing the "Dairymaids Dream" and after
listening silently the minutes the
panste's fingers began stray mechanically the
keys. An oblgato, faint and first then gaining
and feeling the singer in the dark above
her. the piano. When the piece finished
the teacher sighed, and said:
Il think heard anyone-at least never
heard sing quite So"
Then Harry came in and seing the stranger at the
piano said oh Excuse miss. Was that you play
ing? thought it Miss Quinn perhaps. and wanted
to thank her" But Mrs. Quinn and Jerry who
sitting front listening the little concert came
in and asked for duets Blount agreed II
they would put the light" try more ballads
with Miss Keny's accompaniment. Miss Sadie who
all this time consumed with fierce overnasterng
hatred for her teacher turned pae-green
strange, fascinated IN which Miss Kelly and
Harry Bount regarded another The teacher was
pretty and young. The young machinst stood by the
piano. close TO the payertoo close thought
IS she turned down the paror lamp and gnawing
her lip he commenced TO sing. she did
he singing the malignant voice which sang
n her Turn the light Turn the light,
sncied how ridiculous. how how hdeous Har-
", her Harry. would the Fascinated teacher
he should appear OF sudden. contorted. grtmacIaE
going into TT Miss McAtce described him. He
night stand his head for she Miss Quinn cared.
She loved him and ne might the guitar with
without 5arring determination and
% have him for her Miss Kelly The elegant
lurtured Nstuckup7 Miss Kelly why not turn VI the
ieht7
He in the midst Of telling passage q the
origin Of the Harp when sudden the room vas
ooded with yellow lght-
Sadie. affecting terror sHreksd 7 fslt mousse but
Ter Harry. she quick trenor pass