The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-06
.HE sALT LAKE HERALD: SUNDAY sEPTEMBER g. 1908

with her and he said that he was after
some money, and as soon as ne got it
they would leave town. Then he
laughed. But she told him that she
knew how he was going TO get the
money and that she would not let him:
so then he slapped her SO hard it
knocked her against the fence. and he
made her go away. and he swore,''
Mr.. Pearson turned with stern inquiry
TO the would be groom.
It's lie,' blurted that young man.
''Oh. no, it isn't shrieked Katie.
checking back the flood of hysterical
tears that had threatened 10 over
whelm her and pouring out her accu-
sations in one breath: You have been
wanting my 500 that I've saved up all
my life TO help fix up home with,
and l wouldn't give il TO you-till we
were married and you made me go to
the bank and draw it, and l have got
1t in my pocketbook now: and Til have
you jailed IL il takes every cent OF
it. and If there's any left I'll give ii
TO your poor wife, You hear that. Mr.
Harter-if that's your namer' and Ka-
tie smacked her red fist in her hand
while she filed her lungs. "O-o-o-o-o-
h." she screamed. with the fullness
of that long breath and startled Mr.
Pearson into immediate action.
Never mind" said he to Katie. re-
straining her from her obvious inten-
ton of doing harm to Mr.. Harter's fea-
lures. You are lucky TO get rid of him
so easily. Young man, please leave my
house"
Mr. Harter escaped quietly and will
ingIy, with a parting scowl and a ludi-
crous shake of his fist at the extremely
small boy, leaving fortunate Katie to
her fit of Mysteries. in which she had
the full sympathy of Nora and Mrs.
Pearson. Those two good women, made
sisters for the moment by common
emotion, finally achieved the triumph of
their sex by getting Katie settled down
to good cry She could not weep COM
fOrtably, however. without Skeezicks in
her arms. Even when she left the
house, she insisted on carrying him, fol-
lowed, as far as their own gate. by the
small witness and her sister, who,
merely on general principles. were ex-
cited to the highest pitch. though they
had not the slightest conception of
what il was all about.
Now SkeeZicks was a young gentle
man who had a brightly glowing rep
utation throughout that suburb as one
who never cried, but this situation was
too much for him. For one thing,
Katie's depth of woe was in itself cal
culated 10 arouse his ready sympathy.
and, for another. the mere fact that she
cried at all was a terrible catastrophe.
Why, plumb. jolly Katie-but what was
the use. AS he realized the thing in its
full enormity his breast began to heave,
and suddenly he buried his head on her
shoulder and himself gave way to loud
grief. so astounding to Katie that she
Immediately forgot her troubles in try
ing TO soothe him. Comfort was of no
avail, nor was the suggestion of cold
chicken. In fact, neither Katie nor the
chicken could hold him: he had great
calamity to avert al the earliest posi-
BILE moment Rushing through the house
with but one fixed idea, he finally found
the objects of his solicitude in the sew
ing room. where his uncle was most
exasperatingly pretending to ignore a
pile of fluffy garments upon which Miss
Elzner had been engaged.
Under most circumstances Skeezicks
would have paid his first respects to
Uncle Joe. but in this stress he threw
himself into Miss ElZner's arms, where.
his overweight emotions mastering
him. he sobbed Historically.
why. you poor little, dear little
Skeezicks chap" she cried and the new.