Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-02-13
SYNOPSIS.

Mr.. Solomon Pratt began comical mar
Nathan scudder of his town. town. and Edward
Van Br9nt and Martin Hartley. two rich
latter pairs lavish expenditure of money,
Pratt,s first Impression was connected
was the successful sutton for the hand
1 or Miss Adx AgneT Pagg WhG gave Hartley riley
brat1on at Eastwich Hartley rescued
horses feet and the urchin proved to be
one of Miss Pages charges. whom she
Out sailing later. Van Brunt. Pratt and
Hopper We're wrecked in squall- Pratt
two revealed an island upon which they
Were found Van Brunt rented it from
charge of company of New York poor
CHILDREN Miss Talford and Miss Page Wis
tied Ozone island. In another storm Van
Brunt and Hartley narrowly escaped be-
, nisss Wrecked f having V aboard chickens
farm Eureka Sparrow, a country girl,
and Hartley paid a visit to her father
who for years had been claiming con-
CHAPTER xI.-continued.
Washington Sparrow was there.
There want but one comfortable
rocking chair in sight and he was in
that, with his stocking feet resting on
the ruins of a haircloth sofa. He was
pretty husky looking, seemed to me,
for man complicated with consump-
ton and nervous dyspepsy, but his
face was as doleful as Grape bonnet,
and twas plain that he could see no
hope, and was satisfied with his eye
sight. He had a clay pipe in his
mouth and was smoking like a peat
fire.
How are you, Mr.. Sparrow" says
Martin, bright and clipper. "How's
the health this morning."
The invalid rolled his eyes around,
but he didn't get out of the rocker.
Neither did he take them blue yarn
socks off the sofa.
obi" says he, grooming something
awful. I'm miserable, thank you. Set
down and make yourselves to home"
There was only three settable pieces
of furniture in the room. He was
using two Of 'em, and t'other was a
child's high chair. So we decided to
stand up.
Don't you find yourself improving
this beautiful weather." asks Hartley
sympathetic.
Washy fetched another groan, so
deep that 1 judged it started way
down in the blue socks.
mo-" says he. I'm past improving.
Just lingering round now and suffer
Ing WdlIlnS LOT the emu. L pose EI0ky
told you what I had, didn't she?"
Hartley looked troubled. Why he
says, ''she did say that you feared
tuberculosis. but"
Undertaking, That's just like
her! making fun of her poor sick IA
Their. What I've got is old-fashioned
consumption" Here he fetched cough
that was hollerer than the grooming.
.Old-fashioned consumption and nerv-
Gus dyspepsy. Can't eat meals Wit
ties in comfort. But therei I'll be
through pretty soon. The sooner the
quicker 1 say. Everybody II be glad
when I'm gone. Don't 1 says to em,
don't rag out in no mourning for me.
Don't put no dollhouse wreaths on my
grave. L know how you feel and
Get off my feet, you everlasting young
one, Think I'm a ladder?''
The last part was to Dewey, who
had come in from the kitchen, and
was trying to climb onto the sofa.
Martin looked like he didn't know
what to say. BY and by he cleared his
throat and threw out a hint concerning
Eureka's coming to Ozone. The sick
man shook his head.
No he says. I'm self-sacrificing
and all that, but somehow 1 can't make
bear to have her out of my sight a
minute You can't begin to think, Mr..
Whats-Your Name, what comfort
it's to me, agonizing here and suffer
ing, to have Reky setting down along
side of me day after day, the way she
does. You can't begin to think it, mis-
ter"
l couldn't begin to think it-not
without what the doctor calls 'stimu-
lants." The amount of setting down
that poor Woodworking Eureka got
time for wouldn't comfort anybody
much, it seemed to me.
..She's my favorite child went on
Washy, swabbing his eyes. she al
ways was. too. Even when she was a
baby 1 thought more of her than
done of all the others
Eureka must have been listening,
for she called from the kitchen:
why, pa" she says. When 1 was
baby there want any others I'm
the Oldest
The invalid bounced up straight in
the rocker That's it," he honers.
Make fun of your helpless, poor old
father Go ahead, pick at me and
contradict me, 1 s'pose when I'm
dead and in my grave you'll contradict
me every time l speak
He blew off steam for much as FIVE
minutes. Didn't ever remember to
stop and get his cough going Hartley
turned to the door. / could see he was
disappointed
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