The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1870-11-10
THE ROBBERS LAMP.

Got to go over Oh foot:" exclaimed
the contractor.
"Not chance for anything else,' re
piled the agent. But, then. it's only
five miles, and you'll have better quar-
ters there than here, in this vile shanty.
The money will be safer, too--let alone
that the men won't go to work again
unless they are paid in the morning."
rs the road safe? | don't like the
idea OF Juggling 50 much money. l can
defend myself or run; but fifteen hun
ired dollars in small bills is big pack
age to run with
Send your valise over in advance
BY whom ~
| my man."
"Is he trustworthy
| "Honest as the day: hut he needn't
know there's anything in it but dirty
linen. He can start now, and you can
wait until after supper, if you had rath-
err
And so saying, the agent of the rail.
road company stepped to the door of the
shanty and shouted for Patrick; aud,
shortly, that individual came as bright,
lively, honest a looking son of the Green
AS ever helped build western rail-
road.
"Patrick ~
"Yis, yer honor"
Take this gentleman's valise over to
the village, and leave it with the super
intendent. Tell him the owner will be
after it in the evening""
"An, is that all, yer honor?',
"That's alI--onIy be quick about it,
and you'll earn an extra doilarn
"I'm jist the bye for that, anyhow.
Sure, it's a small bit of a vaii.e that it
is"
And SO saying, Patrick picked up the
| object Of his contempt, and trudged
away, with an utter absense Of curiosity
as to the nature Of that which he was
carrying.
The Temporary station at which the
reconstruction train had landed the con-
tractor, "a gentleman named Perkins,
was at the end Of the new air line rail-
road to -, and as the laborers there
on had not been paid off promptly, they
had now for some days been on as,rike,
abandoning the works, and tongrega
ting idly at a hamlet, a few miles distant.
thereby compelling their delinquent
employers to terms. Mr.. Perkins mad
brought good share of the terms
with him n,i lnll1ie,iiate distribution;
and, after plain but hearty supper
with the agent, he was about to start on
his tramp, when it was discovered that
good sized western storm was just
about to burst, and the walk was post
poned until the sky should look clear
coming down in torrents, which contin-
ued for an hour or more, at the end oi
which the contractor padded away over
the muddy road, congratuIating himself
that the vaise in Patrick's care was
waterproof. ~..
Hes had tougher time than will
anyhow; and now, if ! amt robbed and
murdered before get there, l shall dc
well enough in spite Of the mud And
so, muttcring to himself, the worthy
gentleman spIashed onward.
Our present business, however, is not
with his employer, but with Patrick
himself @..-..
The parting injunction to make haste
had not seemed to make a very deel
impression on the careless son Of Erin
and he trudged easily along, with al
occasional glance at the threatening SIX.
growing to himself:
} Faith, ;lA' I'll be there before he viii
,, av it don't rain, and nebbc will av i
does Och, but it is weak one to b
;; givin' a dollar for carryin' the Ioike q
. this" -
A little more than half way across th
, open prairie between the railway term
nus and the village was q tolerab'.