The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-11-01

zle OF q pistol, which the garden
held directed toward his master
r breast.
5 81 didnrIIike The domestic disciplil
s and least OF all that of Schonen
3 said Blom with low distinct voict
e $50 l will tell you, 1 pay for ever
t blow with bit of lead, and every ri
] in nay skin with hole in your brsi
d l will be generous debtor promii
/ you"
!, Tue major, pale as a corpse, stoc
2 q while as if petrifiea then hurrie
. to the window. opened it and shoul
,, ed for help. Lawrence Blom seate
, himself quietly upon a chair. I'll
! Office door opened, and in hurrie
! servants and other laborers on Il
: estate, who accidentally had bee
outside the wing in which was IL
Office.
? "Seize him! he is q robberl
/ murderer % shouted the majo
! pointing to the new gardener.
''It can't be all right with master,
said Lawrence Blom, with an EXPIRE.
sion Of the deepest sympathy; ''hs
he been so long ?'' he added, ba
audibly, turning to the servants, an
pointing to his own BRAIN.
!, 20, what q villain Il Kissed th
msjor: "sesrch his pockets immedi
ately! he has murderous weapons
and has recently threatened to shoe
me !"
''Heayen pity our poor master |!
exclaimed Lawrence Blom, shakin,
his head. swell, the major shal
have his own way, and here are M
pockets! Search them closely, good
people, anG convince the major tha
this is empty Imagination
So saying he turned his pockets
inside out, while all present, of whom
some had already made acquaintance
with the new gardener, stared will
astonishment, now at him now st the
major, but made at last the recon-
mended search, without finding any
thing more than a little paste-board
box containing snuff. The major
himself assisted, without better snc-
cess.
"But" he exclaimed, foaming with
rage, 81 did myself see the pistol the
rascal recently pointed at mel Per-
haps he has thrown it down some
where here in the office.'
So they commenced searching ev-
erywhere, under writing-deske, sofas
and chairs: but in vain.
"Perhaps we ought to inform the
gracious lady concerning the condi-
ton of his grace, so doctor can be
brought Immediately" proposed
Blom.
The major, agitated st an occur
renee to him so entirely new, began
to tremble as il in a fit OF sgue, and
at LAST sank upon q chair. Thinking
it an attack Of apoplexy they pour
ed water upon his kead; Lawrence
Blom doing bis best to help in the
relief Of the master, but in bis zeal
he mistook and caught hold Of the
colossal inkstand that stood upon the
table, the contents of which be pour
ed upon the gracious majors" head,
soon after, having committed another
like blhnder, left the office, taking his
way toward the garden. But had
he stayed o short while In the yard,
he could have witnessed how the men
ran shrieking from the Office pursued
by the gracious major" swinging
his dreadful gutta percha to right
and left, roaring like lion, and with
face as black as 8 nego. Lawrence
Blom first witnessed the new spects-
Gle between the gracious major and
his servants, when as he stood in the
doorway of a tool-room by the green
house, they fed past, followed by the
dresdful master.
"Hs r. shouted the major, stopping
at the sight Of the gardener
the root and origin Of all the trouble.
Lawrence Blom could not help smiling
st sight Of the mas, er's face, in whica
rollea a couple Of blood shot, fire
emitting eyes. He retired a little
within the room,'uhich was lighted
only from the openjdoor. The major
came dashing in after him with the
gutta percha raised, but stopped sud.
denly, for sgain he discovered in the
gardeners right hand the same pistol
which had threatened him in the Of.
ice, and for which be had sought In
vain.
''Don't look this wsy,'said Blom,
"it is possible that / may
be over-manned and lll-treated, but
be sure that the whip for me to-day
Is the same as the requiem for you
Not for your.garden's
sake alone am / come hither but
also and perhaps chiefly, 10 tame the
man Of whom / have long heard as
number one among all unjust and
cruel masters. But It is awful how
black you are in the face" be added
smiling. "You surely must have
turned yourself inside out to-day"
When Lawrence Blom had conclu-
ded, the major retired by degrees
toward the door, his eyes constantly
ixed upon the dreadful pistol, still
pointing toward toward him, but as
soon as be had stepped outside the
sool-room, he slammed the door snut
with. .the:quickness Of lightning, so that
ere Blom was aware he was caught
and in dark arrest He heard the
major give out a laugh Of scorn, and
hurry away; but soon he heard out
side the steps and voices OF several
persons.
ayes, s,gentlemenr' heheard the ma
or say, "I have encountered Satan
limseffi but here / have him safely
Iocked up.'
Lawrence Blom saw the door open
and the msjor again enter, this time
accompanied by the overseer, come
of the farm hands, and two elderly gen
.leme1, ,asheafterWard, learned the min
ister and justice OF the place, who,
being invited to dine with the major,
had just arrived and met their host
IS he was on the way to the overseer's
house for help.
"There now, you vsllsin! = the ma
jor began, "out with the weapon, with
which, for the second time, you have
to murder me; and confess
the truth, so the process can go OFF in
3 hurry"
al take the gentlemen a. witnesses,
the major has called me villain, and
me of having intended to
murder him. uttered Lawrence Blom
with the greatest composure in the
world. "This is the second time to-
day have been exposed to such out
rage in the presence OF others"
dOut with the pistol! continued
the major.
"If you can find pistol, or any other
murderous weapon, even 3 garden
knife" declared Blom, 81 will openly
plead guilty to all the gross crimes Of
which my master accuses me. But
you will find none, and Ifesr now,
- before, that The gracious major
has q disordered brain, for
The nsjor raised, his gutta percha
to rush upon the gardener. when the
minister and justice stepped between
sae could not possibly have got
from this room since the major, him.
self, closed it." remarked the lstter,
'sand, consequently, he must have
the pistol either upon him, or con-