The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-08-01
BADLY FOOLED.
Maiden Lady in Brooklyn Flat Has too
Much Talk About Her Neiohbors.

The maiden lady on the secon'
floor Of the Peachblow fats in.Brook
Ign having disposed of everybody els
in the building, started after Mrs
June Bride. Mr.. and Mrs. June Bird
| who had just moved in, had declined
to tell the maiden lady all about thei
private affairs and had MORTAL,
offended her
Mr.. June Bride used to be CONNER
crial traveller and something Of {
sport. The ways Of the maiden lady
amused him. He resolved to give hel
something to talk about.
He noticed that when he came il
late at night the maiden LADY would
peek out Of her door at him. Mrs.
Bride realized that she was being
watched every time she..made 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
Peachblow fats at exactly midnight,
and stood there in the shadow of the
door. Bride was around the corner
wearing a raglan coat with the cellar
turned up, and a SLOUGH hat pulled
down over his eyes.
At ten minutes after midnight he
approached the Peachblow fats
stealrhily. Mrs. Bride made sign to
him from the front stoop to let him
know that tho maiden lady was
watching from her parlor window.
Rushing forward Suddenly he seized
his wife in his arms and said in a
loud whisper:
"My darling! My own darlingp'
A gasp could be plainly heard over
head.
Sis he homer" asked Bride.
she is out of town for the night, -
replied Mrs. Bride, putting all the
tenderness possible into her voice.
"Then it is safe for me to come
up?"
"Yes, sweetheart" replied Mrs.
Bride. and she and Bride went in and
upstairs to their fiat.
After they had passed the maiden
lady's door they heard it open, and
although 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 fat with
the news, and 80 that there should be
40 mistake she advised everybody to
watch the Mcbride fat. She was sure
that he had not already left.
No one in the .house sbelieved any
thing that the maiden lady said, but
put of curiosity the tenants watched
The Bride fat with more than the u.s.
1al amount of interest that morning.
Promptly at 9 o'clock Mr.. Bride came
out and started for business.
The maiden lady almost tainted.
Her neighbors retired to their apart
very much ashamed of them
selves.
The maiden lady has been trying to
explain ever since. She is still con-
WINGED that there is a scandal in. the
Bride fiat, but she can't figure out
where it is.
The sneighbors look asksnce at her
and she can't get anybody to listen to
her gossip. She looks on Mrs, June
Bride as the cause of her troubles, but
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 at the maiden lady's fiat at any
time now.-New York Sun.