The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-09-19
Dayy Jones, Junior.
CHAPTER Nv.
BIZ BUTTON COOK.

| start 30 mucn-Sne was 0ys no means
person given to starting-that she
dropped and broke jug she was fill
ing, with hot water from the bar fire
| "Why, God bless mep she cried !;
what can have happened? As I'm a
living woman, there's been another
| shot fred on Blocks wharf. I heard
| the report distinctly. Please God no
harms happened to old Biockf And
what's come to my nerves, I wonder?
I've broke my jug. / never did such
thing before in all my ife.7 My best
jug too" ~ Z, 1aH = -
A few minutes, and .Davy Jones
came running into 1.-THE Travellers
JOY" breathless and pale, and trem B.
ling all over. -gez.l
IFS the boy mad2" demanded Mrs.
Barford. He was clutehing her arm
s''Ohl please, Mrs. Barford, will you
come directly" he gasped. THE
masters been shot by some william
outside the wharf and Miss Nancy
twill kill herAit will kill hert. Help
her. please help herr As he spoke,
Davy tottered, threw up his hands,
and, but for Mrs. Barford's aid, would
have fallen on the floor of the bar in a
She dashed cold water ON his face
and poured brandy into his mouth.
Poor Had how -desthly white he
looks And he weighs mere moth
ing. Chafe his hands, Betsy-hell
come round in q minute" She had
taken him up in her arms-she was
strong woman-as though he had been
tiny child, and carried him to sofa
that stood at the end OF the room.
Sine had disliked 1therboy previously,
holding him very cheaply, but she
couldn't have been more tender with
him now had she been bis mother.
In truth, a woman's heart beat within
Mrs. Barford's sturdy and substantial
frame. And it was. noticeable, that
from the time when Davy Jones had
tainted in her arms she took up with
milder notions concerning him; left
off calling him "a limb, seemed rath
er to pity than to eensure him,
and in some sort, constituted herself
his friend and protectress. She was
satisfied, probably, that hisemotion at
the troubles affecting his masters
house was the result1of genuine sym
pathy and serrow.ssas rwo 4s,s. i-.i,.l9
biz Presently he had recovered sufici-
emily to accompany her to Dir. Blocks.
u "A strange scene presented itself In
the ship breakers parlor fronting the
river. Mr.. Block, frightfully pale and
weak, lay stretched upon the floor, his
head propped up by pillows. Mr..
Jasper, the medical man, looking very
grave indeed, was in attendance, rem
deriug such aid as was possible.
Close beside him stood Mr.. Starkie,
who seemed to be almost paralyzed by
anxiety and alarm, Miss Block, with
face like a ghost, was on her knees
by the side of her, father, bathing
his temples with vinegar, while she
with difficulty restrained herself from
swooning away.
1t was whispered that poor old Mr.,
Block had not long to live. A lawyer
had been sent for to, make his will,
aud a messenger had been despatched
to Bow Street to give inf rmation to
the police authorities Of the crime
that had been perpetrated. The shot
had taken effect In the left lung.
Whenever the wounded man attempt
ed to speak, his mouth flied with
blood. As q measure of relief, and
possibly because it was held at that
time proper operation to perform in
almost all cases demanding medical
aid, Mr.. Jasper had advised that his
patient should be bled in the arm.
This had been accomplished amidst
strange aud awful silence. The suff-
erer, much weakened was by this
means enabled to utter few words,
but only at long intervals. and in
whisper that was but just audible.
A justice of the peace was brought
in to receive the deposition of the dy-
ing man. He had but a simple state
ment to make.
God knows" he gasped, ~ never
injured any man so as to lead him to
take my life like this" ~ Attssss
"Truer words were never spoken"
murmured Mrs. Barford. And then |
she whisperedt to Davy, while the tears
filled her own eyes, Don't cry my |
t tis t hes going so to a better world
he had been sitting all the evening
in his parlor facing the river, Mr..
Block deposed. = HeShad5 been going |
through various papers and books of /
account with shiszy partner. GODFREY T
Starkie.o Once or twice he had been
left alone while Sfarkie. in aid of their
examination, had gone to fetch further
papers from the Office on the other
side of the house, They had had tea
together i'm the parler. AT Mr..
Blocks desire, -Starkie had gone to
bring IN the cash book of the past
year; be had not been gone two miu-
utes when Mr.. Block saw the window
raised few inches from the outside;
Al 4
nistnl ord b,, i h;rnsal fat-unL.