The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29

some and I went down to the kitchen to
speak few kind words to her"
Yes. she said you came down." replied
Mrs. Bowser with smile.
Il asked her after her health, after her
gave her to understand that while acct
dent made me her employer 1 had
thoughts beyond paying her every
YES, she said you had thoughts
Then she must have appreciated what
| said. l go down into the kitchen to
human being, and a few hours later you
order her out of the house like dog.
Mrs. Bowser, there has got to be chanse
in your treatment of our hired help or L
shall run the house myself. If 1 knew
where Anna had gone would follow her
and beg pardon on your account
You won't have to follow her, Mr..
Bowser. We owe her for half a week.
and didn't have the change she is to
her ringing the basement bell now. VIII
you go down and pay her and extend
return 1 shall have no objections
IF the very soul has not been ground
out of her she will be here to cook our
breakfast in the morning. observed Mr..
BowSer, as he went downstairs to answer
the bell.
It was poor Anna. She had defiant
She also inquired for Mrs Bowser
Il will attend to the matter. if you
please replied Mr.. Bowser. We were
Bowser that she had no heart"
rive come for my money" was the
stiff reply.
my dear girl. but L should like to know
why my wife flung you into the street
at a moments notice. Had L been at
''She gave me all the time I wanted!--
interrupted Anna Anna, who didn't bear her
But she claims that there were some
words. I suppose her utter lack of SYM
pathy irritated you to the point, where
you were forced to say something's?
Yes, sir. Hasn't she told you what 1t
was?"
refused to tell me, realizing, as she does,
that she was in the wrong. When you
rang the bell L told her that 1 should ask
you to come back
not while you are in the house. sir.
'tBut-but-''
Some girl will pull the rest of your
what? What's that? You say you
won't come back?''
Not while you are in the house to hen
hussy around, sir! l told Mrs. Bowser
that you were down in the kitchen last
evening Cabling to me. and that two or
three times you wanted to put your arm
over it Every girl has quit this place
on your account. If you had tried to kiss
me last night 1 should have scalded you
When 1 told Mrs. Bowser about it, she
said I'd better so. 1 haven't a word OF
fault to find with her.
''You-you know what you are talking
face grew white
Il do, sir
And instead of realizing that was
down there to show my sympathy for
you
You are a silly old fox, sir-very sly:
Give me my money and let me go, and
tell Mrs. Bowser I hope she'll get good
girl at once though you will drive her
away in a month";
Mr.. Bowser handed over the money
without another world. He knew that
Mrs Bowser was standing at the head OF
the stairs and drinking in every word.
and how he was going to square himself
was a puzzle. He stood in thought for a
couple of minutes, and then assembled the
stairs and went down the hall for his hat
Going out. dear?'' was asked.
He didn't answer He opened the front
door and passed out with volcano rag
ing within him. On the opposite side of
the street was d wooden-legged man
stumping along with a basket his arm.
Mr. BoWser uttered a long-drawn war
whoop and started for him, and from the
front window Mrs. Bowser saw the poor
cripple trying to get around the corner
and heard his shouts of terror and alarm
as the holocaust bore down upon him.
Copyright. 1913, by the Associated Liter
airy Press.)