The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-29
KENNETH KYLE.


ready capital to remove his One Price
Gents Clothing Emporium 10 Kaskaskia,
in the same state. where he soon became
the Beau Brumnlel of the city and had a
great graft on the social leaders OF the
metropolis of Randolph county, which is
the Oldest town in Illinois, if not in the
Middle West.
Such had his prestige become that when
Kenneth Kyle received a new invoice of
hand-me-downs from the Chicago per-
spiration shops all he had TO do 10 or
ganize a boom and institute a rush on
his stock that would clean the shelves
off was to wear one of the suits around
| the Kaskaskia Kibosh klub and make a
killing or two among the heavy swells-
Kenneth Kyle wore the first shirt waist
! ever seen on a man in kaskaskia, and
ere fortnight had waxed and waned he
had sold a car load.
AS he was the glass OF fashion and the
| mould Of form among the gentlemen, so
! was he the observed of all observers
among the ladies. and Kaskaskia pointed
10 him with pride, wondering how it ever
got along before his advent When Ken
| meth Kyle came 10 Kaskaskia he wore
| six and three-eighths hat. but at the time
| of this chronicle he could not have got
! that size on his head with shoe-horn.
| Among the large though select sum-
uler colony at Kaskaskia was the charm
| ing and accomplished Kathryn Kismet
| Koy, st. Louis belle-"Sang Louie" she
| called it-whose picture graced the So
| ciety columns of the Sunday papers of
| that town with such frequency that If
| an issue appeared without this popular
| feature thousands of indignant subscri-
bers wrote TO the editors, saying if they
were going TO treat Miss Koy in that
manner 10 stop their papers at once.
When Kathryn KOy met Kenneth Kyle
! society lifted up its voice in loud hosan-
| mas of admiration. crying: They were
meant for each other" They thought so
| themselves at first, but Mr.. Kyle was too
popular a man TO be steady for long,
and after blowing Kathryn off to several
dinners-an excellent ''tobbltdehoty, as
they call it there, with cider or butter
milk on the side, may be had in kas-
kasllia for forty cents. net-and doing
several other social stunts with her, his
love underwent a slump, and he began TO
neglect her cruelty.
Omar khayyam, or somebody, has said:
Love is of mans life a thing apart;
tbs woman's whole shooting match and
as Kenneth Kyle grew cold Kathryn hoy
redoubled her fiery efforts TO maintain an
average temperature, but her struggles
were in vain There was a marble heart
in the bosom of Kenneth Kyle, and the
glacier glance was in his eye. The day
was cold enough for Kathryn, and she
was trapped TO a finish.
Kenneth Kyle" she Kissed. when all
hope was gone, lin your naughty pride
and wide personal popularity you may
think that you will so unscathed for this
cruel indifference, but 1 tell you now and
here sir, that you cannot scorn my love
and not go unwhipped of justice. The
time will come when 1 shall gloat over
you. Mark my words, Kenneth Kyle"
"Pshaw Kitty" he responded, putting
her claims aside with a wave of his full
jewelled hand, you'll be all right as soon
as you get back to st. Louis. The life
there will make you forget all your other
troubles" And he laughed with coarse
brutality at this burst of keen and cut
ting Chicagoesque repartee.
st. Louis had long been rival of Chi
cago, and Kenneth Kyle was ever ready
to thrust the dart of envy.
Kathryn Koys cup of bitterness was
filed TO the brim, and she turned from
her erstwhile hero to brush away the
scalding tears ere they SCARED her dam
ask cheek.
The following day she returned to her
home, now so desolate and drear, and in
her soul We're growing the details of her
plot to avenge the coquetry Of Kenneth
Kyle. Ere a week had elapsed Kenneth
Kyle, being off with the old love, had
taken on a new, and had not only for
gotten there ever was such a girl as
Kathryn KOy, but was having the time
of his life with a rich widow from Kan
sas City.
But summer time does not last always
except in a place which shall be name
less here. and Kaskaskia babe her sun
shine friends farewell and exchanged her
gay garb Of green. for sober brown. The
melancholy days had come and on one Of
them, when Kenneth Kyle was feeling
the need of a stimulant, he received |
letter from a member of a st. Louis firm |
putting him on to money producing |
scheme that was a gem of purest ray Sc |
rene. 1t was simply this: The writer in
formed him sub rosa that his firm had |
recently secured by accident a bankrupt |
stock of green goods amounting to $4,000 |
in greenbackS made from genuine plates |
and overlooked in the rush. Knowing |
Mr.. Kyle to be all right and a response |
BILE party. he had taken the liberty 10
drop him a friendly line to inform him !
that he (the writer would let him in on |
the ground floor and ne could have the |
lot for only 5000.
Il wonder If he thinks I am sucker |
from Kaskaskia." said Kenneth Kyle, |
giving the whole proposition the resonant |
ha Ia, and he put the letter into his |
pocket to show 10 his friend the Chief 1
of Police But Kenneth having an idle !
brain at the moment. and an idle brain /
is the DEVILS workshop. read the letter 1
again that night before he went to bed /
ana concluded ne would not show It to I
the sleuths but would see what he could /
do with il on his own hook. He had heard /
of the man who had bluffed the bunco- I
lists with a revolver and got away with /
the whole output. and he thought IL /
Chicago chap like ne was couldn't get the 1
keen edge on any st. Louis sharp that /
ever worked the innocent. then he would !
take in his sign. He dreamed about Il all |
night. and the next day he wrote 70 his |
good friend for further particulars. Il /
took about three weeks To get all the pre- |
lirainarfes arranged. and Kenneth Kyle /
made date To meet the parties and ef- /
feet an equitable exchange AT the rate 4
II ten TO one. Kenneth got his FIVE /
thousand by gathering what money he 4
had IN hank. discouuting his outstand- /
ing accounts at twenty-five per cent and 4
mortga gfng his stock OF goods 10 the limit i
for the balance.
Then he went to St. Louis on 4 business
trip OF importance. so he told his friends. !
His grandmother had died. he said. and /
there YVES more than n fighting chance !
that he would come in for S5a.019--a mere {
.riie. If course. tut stiil enough 70 COM
.,ensate him Tor going 70 -. Louis
re went. but let rs refrain from the
narrowing details OF hts experiences from
the time Re met his friend at East St
Louis until he woke IN hospital. band
ared ike a mummy. He had gone
through the rill. hut he dropped coz
somewhere and he came out picked clean.
Everything Was gone bat the conscious
ness II hts loss.
As he gard about him n dazed Ferpiex-
IT'S trvin- 70 recall wEerc - vas At. q
beautiful nurse stood before hiTn- X was
kathryn kisnget Eoy-
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