The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-24
THE EVENING STORY
Daisy's Demise.
(By Epes w. sargent-)

f.
IT gotter die" -
Billy Seaton's big blue eyes gre"
round with surprise
Don't" he urged. tommy 1nu
| they're goin' to have five kinds OF cake
and three kinds Of Ice cream. Hniy
was sick last year. ana TINS 10 ias'
years party. too.
I'm not going to be dead tnat iv ,s.t;.
explained Daisy. This only little
II don't see no fun in dying Just Tor
| a little whilev scorned Billy. MS Ieafs
allayed IF I was to die I'd want 70
stay dead--but I don't want to oie'
81 don,t want to- admitted Daisy, |
"but I gotter. You know my lace
shawl?"
membering the shawl, Tor nao ne mo-
been spanked for throwing DIT Oh
ielIy cake at Daisy when she was wear
ing it? 1t was old and yellow put 'hes
had made a terrible fuss about II.
at cut a teenty piece often IT," con.
tinued Daisy. ut was the iittiess o od 90 90
| a niece but-" her voice husheo 70
an awed whisper. I'm goin TO q.
spanked when ma gets nome ton,sn.;
Billy nodded Understandings. II
was Mrs. Dunlop's principle to permlt
at least twelve hours to elapse pet"een
the detection and punishment Q.
juvenile offenses. during which period
~ c,,inrit was permitted to suffer
| those agonies of anticipation Tar more
effective than the gentle spanklns
which constituted the nominal expira
!, ton. t.
which the sole of the maternal slipper
followed hot upon the neeis OF olscox
cry. and he regarded the tiny cuiPri'
Ma won't be back until T." said
Da;sv "You'u help me, won't you,
Billy nodded and so it happened
: that when Mrs. Dunlop appeared on
: the piazza Of the summer resort MI
. to ask If any one had seen her small
. daughter, not even Alice. Daisys elder
, sister, could give any information.
t At this opportune moment, APP
4 peared Billy from the road leading
= from the small stream by cour.esy
: called a river. In one hand he car
: ried a pail of frogs and in the other
. battered and dripping wreck that once
$ had been straw hat; ,a -.
v With a scream which startled ine
Y other guests Mrs. Dunlop hurried
across the lawn toward the approach
: ing boy, for her mothers eyes mao
q recognized the headgear which to otn-
ers was still a shapeless mass OF wei
!. straw.
Billy" demanded the frantic mother
!, Ground it," was the prompt re-
= sponse. st was down below the dam
huntin' frogs and this come over tne
- dam"
q mother, ciasping the wet thing to hel
n breast. "She cut up her lace shaw
\ that had been my own grandmotneI
q to make a dress for her doll. and tole
n her that she should have q whipping
!. | when I came back from the village
The poor, sensitive little thing ha'
drowned herself"
In an instant all was confusion
s Kindly hands led the mother back te
s. the piazza and the men at once or
a ganized searching parties. Alice Dun
g Ion numbered her conQuests by the
: score. and each sutton was hopefu
a that, by recovering her sister DEAD o,
l. alive, he should win gratitude tina
ID should later turn the scales In M
IL favor.
e Paul Findlay was one of these
though to do him justice he woult
er have acted as quickly without the IN
OF centive. He was hurrying across tn
I'd lawn when a pudgy hand tugged
l. his coat and drew him toward cluml
Of shrubbery.
he Gross your breath never to tell?'
he obligated Billy.
~ Paul gave the desired assurance.
I'd can give me your big Jack knife !?
o. bartered Billy.
Is. land the knife" assented Paul.
is you know the old mill?" reminde'
Mt Billy. mot the new one by the dam
VS. but the one where the dam used U
IN be? Say coo-ee three times. Remem
Der. you promised not to give
away" =,
Paul nodded and rusned on. Will
r. the self-satisfied manager of the cam
ar paign went in search of the chef t
ne coax him to cook the frog legs sup
IN per.
vs turned, bearing his tiny burden an
n explaining to those who had dragge
the pond that 1t had occurred to hfr
lie to search the bank further up stream
&c "She was all tired out from he
n, tramp" he concluded, as he place
- her in Mrs. Dunlop's arms. "She neve
~ was in the water. The wind blew he
70 hat Off"
- Tears were turned to rejoicing. Al
a. of the summer girls FASTENED to offe
w Daisy candy out of their poxes, and q
AZ Daisv sleepily told her well-planne
sh story of how she had strayed into tn
~ woods and had become lost Billy stoo
beside and listened in open mouthe
Admiration to her Munchausen tale.
Then the child was carried upstair
TO be washed and dressed for dfrfnel
he and the beaming Mrs. Dunlop cooe
nd soft pleas for forgiveness.
ar Billy strolled away to one OF tn
BOO summer houses. there to encounte
Paul and Alice in the first blissfl
20 stage of their sudden engagement. The
did not see him for moment. Pau
err looking up, was the first to notice HIN
Use "Come for thy pound of flesh, o
1t Shylock ?" he demanded.
OF Billy shook his heao.
ZEN az Just was walkin' around" he e,
600 ,,ained. 1T didn't know that you ws
as here, honest.
!. "All the same declared Pau
! prompt payments make goo
tx fr;ands'
ess Ja slfpped the knife and a shin
de- ,ortar 70 BILLY and watched the be
ted race across the lawn.
at was Billy who suggested that