Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-10-23
NUMBER 43.
a SENATOR'S FIX.

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mansion close with Il spring lock, which
arrangement recently caused one Of those
accidents which no amount of care can
prevent. The wife of high official Was
suddenly taken i'll in the night. Her sis
ter, the wife OF Senator ---, lives in the
next street to her. She felt the need Vt
this sister at once, and the husband started
after her. In answer to his knock tho
Senator thrust his head from an upper
window, and learned the particulars. He
then aroused his wife, and with his help
she was speedily dressed and ready to
start, The Senator accompanied her to
the Goor in what might have been toga,
but was really II night shirt. He oven
stepped out on the stoop with her 1T was
rather dark, and stood there until no
heard her pass out of the gate. Then he
cast look up ut the heavens to sue IL 1t
was going to rain, and was about framing
his mind into the belief that it was, when
sudden jar and slam behind HIM sent
his heart into his throat, aud nearly throw
him from his feot. Whir,ing about with
lightning ropidity, he mado desperate
plunge Tor the door. But it wa, too late.
With hysteHc oagerness he prectpitatcd
his full weight against 1t, but 1t did not
give. 1t was one OF those lew houses in
Washington built 10y the day. He looked
hopolossly over the dark front of hi.
nI al, tt,t.
the street. He dared not knocl, to arouse
the servants for fear of attracting tho ut
tenton Of the neighbors. 1t was mot
trying position for United States Soma
tor to bo in. lie drew his toga ABOUT his
| Imposing presence, and moppcd the pcr-
spiration from his brow with his sleeve.
! Then he cast his mind over the past, wnl-
ing unhesitatlngly through the mold of
hoary centuries, but he could not find
anything to parallel this atrocious affair.
| What on earth should no do2 IL was
three o'clock and in an hour Tho wci.d
gray of dawn would tinge the noighbor-
hood. lie smote his head as only "a Sen
ator can do it, with IA view to shake up
the contents in the hopo that something
tangible would come to the top. But tho
only effect was to make him moro luIv
reolize tho damning grotesquoucss Of his
peril. lie tried to forget that he was
Senator, to forget that he hAd wakencd
startling echoes in the halls OF the national
council. lie would have given all his
! al |, l,,l, /. a, /,
! bad never been public man ut all.
| Would TO heaven he had stuck to his ma
| tive farm. He would now be in the sweet
sleep OF toll, instead OF drifting irressti-
! bly, into II conspicuousncss that promised
to be appalling. Dancing about on the
stoop, shifting his head, and picking out
the most parliamentary language ho
could think Of it suddenly struck him
that his yard ran back 20 the next street.
1t ho could got around there and scale
the fence he might possibly find back
door or window untusteucd.
Drawing his togo still closerNbou, him,
and assuming the heavy tread Of II Sena-
tor about to walk over twelve dozen eggs,
he proceeded through the darkness, paus-
ing every other step to listen, and hug
ging up close TO tho fence ut every sound.
He got around to tho back street after
passing through series Of imaginative
difficulties, which caused his hair to stand
scnsitively on end and turned his spinal
column into nm unbrokcn current Of cold
air. The fence was II high one, and there
was nothing to stand upon, but he man
aged, by desperately jumping upward to
actually catch hold OF the top, and then
he worked with all his might to bring his
body to the samo altitude. 1t WAS
heavy body, broad, well .raundcd, Son
atorial body. 1t rubbed up and down
the boards, or vibratod across them in
series Of contortions, while his eyes, both
single to the public good, grew restless in
their sockets, and his feet whipped about
with such velocity rs to shed II pairoR red
morocco slippers in almost 10 time atall.
But he worked faithfully, and he saw OPP
pOrtunitios to say something, but couldn't
do it, and Mt last he got his breast on top,
and then he balanced uncnsily for ono
the other side, going down with ease and
rapidity, which fully compensated for all
the trouble and labor of coming up the
other side. lie reached the grass plot on
his back, and with heartiness that left
no doubt Of his sincerity. At the end Of
fifteen minutes he regnined his conscious
ness and ultimately his feet, and as no
moved weariedly away on them to the
house, he hoarsey whispered:
BY the gods ! can it be possible that
Pm man of wealth and influence ?"
lie tried the basement door and the
floor door, and the basement windows,
but none Of them showed tho lalGtost
weakness. He was irretrievaDly locked
aud barred out, both he and his toga.
The stoop to the first door was high aud
open at the side toward the basement
door which is closely adjoiued The Sem
atog--a man Of the people, and thirteen
pairs of pants, with hardly break in any
Of them-crawlcd under this stoop, and
sat huddled up on his launches waiting
for day and the coming OF one OF tho SER
wants, and quoting at short intervals such
paragraphs from the Senate proceedings
us he could remember.
Al the end OF an hour and and a half
the basement door was opened, and tho
cook came out and hurried across the
yard. At the same instant United
States Senator in toga jumped across
the area, shot through the door and up
the back stairs with all the grace and
agility of scared rooster.
lie was eating bis breakfast when bis
wife returned.
40, -" she exclaimed with b7eath-.
less eagerness, "MaIy has got baby !,
~ don't care il sho has ten cords or
them" shouted the United states Sena-