The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-20
THE EVENING STORY
When Like Cures Like.
[By TroY Allison.l

/ 1t0eQ almost ran GOWN thS
steps from the house bearing the sign
Madame Voirsi, Clairvoyant." The
| lady's communications had upset all
| her preconceived plans and ideas. Her
| anything of the kind, but when she saw
the sign an overwhelming desire to in
quire into things unknown had beset
her. The rest of the party had gone
| down to the beach. and after staying
in her room at the summer hotel for an
hour with a headache, she had slipped
out to buy fascinating kimono she had
| seen in a Japanese store the day before.
The clairvoyant's sign had caught her
| eye, and for whole hour she had SAT
| in the darkened, stuffy little room with
her nerves all at strained attention.
| She went back to her room, and walk
| ing straight to the dresser, looked re-
gretfully at the picture of frank, boy
| ish face surrounded by a little plain
| gold frame.
| 81 never would have thought it, she
| whispered. 81 thought you were the
| truest. noblest thing on earth. And she
| said the man with black eyes, now one
| OF my circle of acquaintance, was de-
| ceitful to the core, and that If did not
| separate his path from mine he would
| prove the blighting sorrow of my life.
| Jimmy, dear, 1t seems impossible to
| believe you could bring sorrow into any
| ones life-but 1t must have been you
she meant-for you are the only man
| of my acquaintance who has b-black
| eyes," and being only 10, and believing
| SLe naQ GOIHo lace 10 lace with Lie OlS
sorrow of her life, she threw herself
across the bed and sobbed because she
| felt that she must Immediately take
| steps to separate Jimmy Kents path
| from here-Jimmy-wh had lent her his
red ball to play with the very first day
| she went to kindergarten.
| James Kent, unconscious of the heavy
cloud of suspicion lowering over him,
came from his ocean swim and lay idly
| on the sand, hoping Minna would get
| ever her headache and walk down to the
beach. Finally. sunburned and glowing,
| he went back to the hotel and found her
on the veranda, gazing listlessly at the
sea.
SIS it as bad as all that. little girl?
You are the most forlorn looking
| specimen I ever saw" he said. as he
| sat on the porch rail and eyed her
| commiseratingly.
] Minna, seeing the sympathy in his
eyes, wished fervently that they were
any other color than-black.
what on earth made you have
| black eyes, Jimmy? dislike them sol"
| she said petulantly.
Jimmy opened the offending orbs
| very wide in his surprise.
| by Jove, you are a queer one, Min
| na You told me yesterday down on
| the beach that 1 had the most beaut1-
| full eyes you ever saw. Positively made
me blush to know I was so beautiful.
| 'Fraid to sleep in them last night lest
| should spoil 'em-and now-Minna,
you haven't met any fellow with gray
eyes, have your" he asked suspicious
| ly.
mo, I haven't" Indignantly, but
black eyes are treacherous-and-l
never could trust them"
Whether they were treacherous or
not was left an open question, but they
certainly proved persuasive, and final
ly Jimmie was in possession OF the
whole story.
"Minna Reed. you ought to be
ashamed of yourself. Do 1 look like
blighting sorrow?" mimicking her
forlorn tone, 81 might be mistaken for
cular arm with pride. but I'm blamed
if I'd know how to start out in the
blighting sorrow business"
Minna, anxious to believe, still look
ed dubious.
eff your eyes only weren't black,
"Now look here, my child. I'd get
a special act of congress to change
them to suit you if I could-you know
rye done everything 1 could to please
YOU all my life. why will you believe
tat utter rot? Did she tell you any
thing tangible that you absolutely
know was true" Jimmy was in train
ing for a lawyer and wanted to contest
all evidence in the case.
"She told me my name and age" trl-
umphantly.
'Didn't you have to write it on
piece of paper first?" suspiciously.
1-Y6S-DuI SI10 5CC
ly, she didn't. I folded it tightly and
put it on the table, and she sat and toy
ed with it while she talked"
1.-THE mischief she didn't see it!'
growled Jimmy: "Anythin 1 else? =, tho
spirit land that was trying TO guloe
me- hesitatingly.
"See therei You never had an Aunt
Mary in your life! It's all plain hum
bug" Jimmy spoke with the satisfac-
ton of one willing to leave his case in
the hands of an intelligent jury.
"No-I never had, but mama had, and |
the clairvoyant said aunts and great
aunts were all the same in the spirit |
world
Jimmy positively groaned with dis
gust.
s'she might safely hit on an Aunt
Mary-nearly everybody living has an
aunt or great-aunt, or great-great-
greater aunt Mary. But she had no
business fooling with my eyes"
He sat sulkily silent, then grinned
with a thought that made him wonder
If he would not some day bear to the
realms of the metaphysical the same
relation that Edison bears to things
physical.
homeless verdict upon my eyes from
any one oculist-neither will 1 have
them condemned by any one clairvoy-
ant. 1 demand a consultation. If 1 get
the party together, will you go to an
other clairvoyant TINS evening ne oe-
manded.
IT would be so glad to find that the
1rst one was mistaken" she said fer
vently.
II was a very busy evening for Mr..
Kent. Finally he found a seeress suf-
6cfently good-natured and pliable to fill
his requirements.
Remember you are to entirely free
her mind from the idea-Ill send her In
third-you couldn't fail to know her,
anyway, she's the prettiest one in the
bunch. It's cheap at s10-and If she ]
gets over her fear of black eyes. by