Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-26
San Francisco Cali.

A Hack Adventure.
San Francisco Cali
One evening last week there was a
wedding in this city, at which quite
number of the elite of San Fran
cisco were resent. The affair passed
of most pleasantly; the fair bride
and the manly groom received the
congratulations of their friends; their
happiness was toasted in bumpers of
champagne, and it was late ere any
offered to depart from the pleasant
scene. One lady was there whose
good husband had been forced to re-
main at his Office to prepare business
Of moment for the morrow, and upon
an intimate friend he imposed the
pleasant duty of waiting on Madam
to her home. The friend most gladly
accepted the task He had known
the lady long, and knew her to be as
charming companion as she was a
devoted wife and mother. Even the
fact that he was lawyer and used to
deep plunges in the opaque waters of
probate proceedings had not left him
devoid of all human sympathy;
neither had it quite extinguished
those qualities of politeness for which
he was noted in earlier days.
AS the night grew long Madame
expressed desire to depart, and her
cavalier rushed forth and about the
clustered carriages until he found the
special John with whom he had made
Il specific contract.
With her nubia twined about her
head and her cloak snugly drawn
about her that the fog might not pen
citrate, Madame tripped from the
house to the hack and entered the
vehicle, followed by her escort, who
shut the door and cried out "All
right Then the hack moved slowly
off.
Now it requires about twenty min
utes sharp driving to reach Madame's
residence from where the wedding
took place, and when this time had
more than expired she interrupted
the conversation by saying: ''lt is
time we reached the house, is it
not?"
81 think So" replied the lawyer;
''pcrhaps the man has mistaken the
street. Ho! driver!!"
There was no answer, SO the law
yer poked his head out of the window
and yelled, clio! driver"' again.
BLESSED if l don't believe the
mans drunkw he exclaimed, pulling
in his head and addressing his com
panion.
"Perhaps he is only asleep" re-
sponded Madam, with true won anly
charity.
"Well, if he isn't tight the horses
are" the lawyer replied; 'just see
how the carriage goes from one side
Of the street to the other!!"
"My goodness" exclaimed Madam,
gazing out through the fog, ''this
isn't our neighborhood. Where are
we?"
"Blessed if | know" answered the
attorney, with deep caution. "Say,
you! Bill! John! Bob! George! Hen
ry! Augustus! Driver! Wake up,
confound your But there came no
reply.
Then the lawyer let down the mar
row sash at the front of the carriage
and peeped upward to the drivers
seat. 1t was vacant! "Blanknatlon!
there's nobody on the box" he roar
ed. The two stared at each otl.er for
a moment, the horses meantime keep
ing up their monotonous trot.
"Well." sighed he.
She sighed without saying swell"
BLESSED if there is but one thing
to do" he exclaimed, and in jitfy,
to her horror, she saw her cavalier
soul ming upward through the mar
row window.
"Oh! supposing he should stick
there!" she said to herself, with 4
hopeless groan; but he didn't stick
he was not constructed on the primer
pie of Daniel Lambert-and after 4
fearful struggle succeeded i'll reach
ing the drivers place and obtained
possession of the rcins. He stopped
the horses, and then followed a con
sultation, he talking from the box and
she from withi.l, the result of which
was that he turned the horses and
drove back over the route they had
come. The fog was dense and bit
terly cold, and the impromptu driver
was arrayed in lavender kids and a
suit of light broadclo,h, the coat be-
ing of Il style known as clawham-
mer. He had driven about ten min
utes when Madam felt that the hack
had come to a standstill. The next
moment the door opened and she be-
held her guide, philosopher and
friend, his teeth fairly chattering
with cold
lis there an-n-n-nything | can
wr-r-r-r-ap my self i-i-i-i-n?" he asked;
''it's ht-t-t-tle coolish outside" She
uncoiled the nubia from her head and
wrapped it about his neck and chin.
''Thanks," he murmured from under
the layers of split-zephyr, and again
resumed the position of hack driver
without a license. 1t lacked twenty
minutes of two o'clock, a. IN. when
he discovered the residence Of his
charge and pulled up the horses at
the door. She led him into the house
His face was generally b.ue, but 8
flaming rcd knob shone forth where
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