The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1902-01-17


Of It any more Get the magazine and
read me that article I was talking
about" i.
The reader win suppose that a week
has elapsed since the conversations
just recorded, and that the govt has,
to use an expression Of Johns got
de ole man foored.7 In this condition
his temper is not angelic John and
the cook have agreed on that point
and the family have been equally Ger
tain Of the fact IN question LeOnora
has heard the changes rung on her
exasperating and undutifuI and Un-
grateful conduct, every day and has
been reminded, many times over, Of
the awful fate that awaits her if she
persists IN her present most astonish-
ing and unwomanly course.
But having made this assertion for
the hundredth time, until Le0nora
may be supposed to have grown some
what accustomed TO it, the govt gave
him an extra twinge one day, just as
Miss LeOnora came IN, smiling and
rosy, and heard Of this desperate fu-
ture without a tremor.
"BUt why should I carer" roared
the judge, nursing his-foot and his
wrath with equal tenderness. "As
you make your bed, so you must lie.
Marry anybody you Ike, missI Marry
the dev-"
"Oh, Uncle Adj" cried Miss Leonora,
rushing at him jubilantly. "DO you
| really mean that you are not going to
try to make me marry Frank"
Make you marry?" shrieked Uncle
AID, wild with rage. Don't be a fool
LeOnOra!"
sob, Uncle Ad, I'm so glad, because.
you know, I like Frank-and think
he likes me-in fact, we like each 9TH
er-"
what do you mean? What do you
-as I live, you mink, you are in love
, with Frank"
fetching air-"BUt, Uncle Ad, you
know I was not going to be made to
marry anybody"
Uncle Ad, limping wildly around
the rOOm-"Ha, Ia, hal The cunning
little rascal Mrs. Martin, come hereI
Think of her fooling her old uncle that
wayl Where's Ethel2 John, call
Ethel want her-I want her this
minute. How surprised she'll BET
You little hyPOcritel That's one time
I was taken in, I'll admit that. John,
you idiot, what are you grinning at ?'
John, sober on the Instant want
a-grinnin', sch. Please, sch, heah's
note dat was jes' lef at de do by
white man, sch"
Judge, searching vainly for his spec
tacles, and unable to find them be-
cause they are on top Of his head
"COnfOund those glassesl Here, Mrs.
Martin, read this letter."
Mrs. Martin, reading-'Dear Uncle
Ad, Morris and were married this
morning at st. Paul's. We have been
engaged ever since q month before
Leonora came, and we didn't want to
run away, but what else could we do?
We know that you can never forgive
US, so we won't ask IT; and, Of course
Wen be poor, but we don't mind that.
So, gOOd-by, dear old Uncle Ad, and
dear Auntie and LeOnOra.-YOur Lit
tie Ethel"
The sensitive reader viii please ex-
euse himself for few moments and
leave the room until the worst Of the
storm has blown over. By this means
he VIII return Just IN time to see the
judge raging up and down with limp
and look Of agony, and to hear him
roaring, lion-wise:
ETHEL Ethel That child Why
I could have told every thought she
ever had, from her cradle up. She was
as transparent as glass, madam And
here she has been engaged for months
under my very nOseI Where did she
meet him? When did she see him?
How did they ever have a chance to
talk about love? And believe Leo
nora knew al about it, All, look at
her facei It makes man doubt the
evidence Of his own senses when he
can be circumvented, hoodwinked, de-
ceived, by these girls in Pinafores!
And to deceive me--mei"
Mrs. Martin, innocently-''But,B Mr..
Martin, thought II was LeonOra that
you didn't want to marry Mr. Gray.
You never said q word about Ethel
If you didn't war [ Ethel to marry him,
why didn't you say sO?-and then, Of
course, would have tried to prevent
It, for anybody might have known that
he and Ethel were in love with one an
other"
Judge, staggering back and sinking
into a chair-"Hai Another Mrs.
Martin, do 7 understand anybody
Does any man understand any WON
an in the wOrId2 Are you woman
with 4 mania for fancy wOrk?-Or are
you a female Sherlock Holmes, with
a pebble in one pocket and red eye
lash IN the Cther2"
he kicked at the stool before him,
and then remembered his govt, with
a shrek Of anguish, and threw mag
azine at John, who had forgotten to
leave the room.
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