Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-08-11

country chemist might have given the poor
thing What am sadly afraid she wanted,
and / wasn't going TO have anything hap
pen in my keb, if ! knowed it-out at Eal-
ing.
but no more physic shops for me. II you
would take my advice, You would lot me
drive You to public house, fora drop of
somethink better than physicn and ofwhich,
am suro, you stand in need.
I" As you please says she, 'kebman,
such soft and miserable voice Ms went to
nv heart; lust rs though she did not care
where she was druv to, if it couldn't be ont
of the world. So pulled up at a public
and gaye her some bread and cheese good
Wiltshire il was and yet she took no more
than mouse might nibble, and littlO sup
of porter, which she drank rs though it was
black dose, sitting all the while in the keb;
while / made goodsh meal, l promise
you. Then we went back to the station,
and che gave me her purse to get her ticket
first classic Bath for her, ior, says
she, q can trust you with untold gold
(which was also very kind Of her, and, |
hope, the TRUTH Then | gives her the
ticket and her purs6@ 'And will you stay
here in the keb. says !, or wait upon the
platform, momY
"I will stay in the kCb, says she, and
upon my life, sir, / do believe it was be-
cause | had been tolerNbly kind to her, and
she did not like to part company with me
before she was obliged. She had 'hard
lines in the world and been very badly
treated by some one or other, you may take
your dNvey, poor soul,
/" Il did not like to trouble herwith such
matter, but NJ the time was getting very
short, says, Please, mem, you have fer
got to give me thetwelve-and-six,' for as for
the bread and cheese and porter, that she
had paid for on the spot
Z" 20 dear, l am so sorry, says she, i
iancied you would have paid yourself when
gave you my purse.
T" No, mem, says l. 4 should never have
thought of taking any such liberty.
Then she paid me, saying with sad
smile, 4 am afraid have been very trou-
blesomo,' and wished me good day. And
then the station bell rang.
"I had the curiosity to keep through the
door when the train came and watch her
She ran down the platform, looking ear
nestly into every individual carriage, and
would have been left behind altogether but
for the guard. who opened the door and
popped her in at the very last moment. /
was sorry to leave her, for I never took n
fare who was more perfect lady; but was
somehow glad. too, to get hor out Of my
keb. There was sOmethink very queer
about her, that you may depend, and if she
were mad (Which, however, don't think as
she was) she must ha' been dIUv and druv,
by some wus-hcarted chap than me, until
she was druv out of her wits.
"Perhaps ho is sorry for what he has
done by this time saysI to myself and this
here partywill will advertised, and took
gr-,.t count of her dress and appearance, in
case she would. But, curiously enough,
nothing came of il at all; and yet, even as
it stands, il seems to me one of the queer
est starts rs ever | came across since ha'
been on the rank"
"It was undoubtedly very queer" said /.
'l3ut you hinted something, my friend, OF
q certain terrible adventure that had once
happened to you; should like TO heai
that, too, please" "
"Why, this is what call regular suck
ing cOyo's brains, "respondodmy cabman,
looking up nj me with cunning lear. al
| didn't see rs you was q family man, with
luggage and that, IshOuld beahmost inclin-
cd to believe MS you was some literary car
atktar. There's many on EN- ridesabout;
MAZDA Ill way; only, when they rides Mt all,
they takes 'Ansom."
Remembering what Mr.. Pickwicl had
suffered at a claimants hands, from using n
notebook, hastencd to clear my character
from the imputation, and toassurc my COM
panion that had no other idea in question
ing him beyond that of increasingmy know
ledge of human nature for observing which
he must have had so many and exceptional
opportunities.
"WelI, that's true, said he, greatly NOR
tilted Considering tho various parties rs
uses four-whoels, knows Of nobody Tex
cep perhaps some as keep public) who is
so likely to know thing or two as one of
us Deary me; the games as has been n
going on in this here very kebw
Games" said |. "WhOt games can
people play in cab?"
"Why, bless yer lots of games. don't
mean cards and that though have known
'cm play cards, with my ind cushion on
their laps for a table but all sorts of
schemes and devices, played by all classes
Of folks, | have druv marquishes, anu ]
have dray parties as you would not have
thought could over stand shillin' fare /
have druy The perlice, and | have druv
thieves don't care who it is, so long as
they don't want TO bodruv 10 the Fever 'Os-
pital."
"Was The horrible case you spoke of n
case oimlocton?" inquired |,
''No; il was n deuced sight worse than
that, sir. II was summit ms sends cold
chill 10 my mamer, whenever | thinks
about IT. And yet it began 10 cheerful. -
just after first began to bo kebman, /
was 'ailed in the Kilbum Road by couple
of fares; two middle-aged, comfortable Ia
dies, small tradcsmen's widows, as / should
set en- down as, and they asked mo how
much IL was to Bhckfriars. t1alfa crown,
says j.
Very good, young man, says the fat
test of EN-; then drive away, and inst stop
Mt the first public house, will ye?'
"Well, pulled up, willing enough, at
the first public, and they gave mo shil-
ling, and had some gin and beer, and Ne
yer mind the change, young man, says the
latest but drive along sharp, and stop 1T
the next public house.
"Well, between Kilburn and Blnckhinrs,
| should think that they stopped at mat.
tor Of iour-and-tweIity public houses. The
lady with tho chemists was nothing to
thom moreover, unlike her, they never
failed TO got what they wanted at each, un-
til they had tooka good deal moro than was
good for them, and must say ~ they had
made me little fresh myself Andevery
time it was; You may keep the change,
young man; 10 that I had at last more that
iivo-and-twenty shillings of il (mostly in
coppers0 This Is all VERY nice, thought
], as long as it lasts; but sooner or later
these here parties will be doing of, and
expoc' me to SEQ 'em home, which maybe
will belhe perliCe station, for they had not
told me their address yet, but only Black.
iriars. They must ha been very much ac-