The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-10-14

4 OOl hGhl II Vi Il AbNh-llZ "AAeAb ~ Asth~
was hisi" Narcisse wandered feebly
in the neighborhood of his old shop.
What! Was it possible? 1t was not
closed. There it stood "The Queen of
the Roses" Then somebody had
bought it. The Widow Dolores, had
she found purchaser? The new mas
ter might want him as an assist
ant? He went slowly on. There were
two BARRIERS there-one a German, the
other a native; he knew them both as
good, civil workmen.
Welcome, sir,n said the German.
Welcome back. We have been wait
ing for you"
How waiting for me?"
"When you are well and strong it
will be explained to you. Now sit down.
Your hair wants trimming. After a
fever nothing is more salutary to the
hair than slight cutting. Would ii
please YOU to take this chair? Then
YOU will be satisfied to keep me in your
employ"
"Keep you in my employ? l do not
understand. amt out of my wits yet,
am I?''
Receipts average some $50 day.
The water-carrier acting through Gen,
Avillon-bought the place for you
/ Texcoco brings the water every day,
and takes away the money. Though he
cannot write line, he knows to reaI
what the business comes to-"
Narcisse IsidOre Dupont sat down IL
the chair, dumb with astOnishmcnt
The assistant might have cut his ears
off and Narcisse would have thought i
was part of dream.
That afternoon the water-carrier came
in as usual with his jars of water
- Last time spilled my water; | must
be more careful, d" was all he said, anC
he was about leaving when Narcisse de
tanned him, having dismissed the jour
neymen.
"Texcoco, what does all this mean?'
gasped out Narcisse.
"Why, master, the shop is yours
You owe me 400 pesos. 1t was 800
month ago. | have paid myself the 1O'
from what the shop has taken in"
"How? how? | do not understand. L
was kind of you to come and see me
TeXcoco, at the hospital"
"Not understand? Why, it is just a
plain as can be. You had 800 pesos
hadn't yOu?"
Yes, had once, but when l wa
stabbed | was robbed"
"Of course you were-what's tn
novedad about that. Don Miguel Stable
you"
"Can it be possible! Are you sure @
it?"
"And robbed you"
"Good God!"
"He stabbed you in the back an
robbed you. l stabbed him IN tn
breast, and did not rob him-only | &C
) YOUR money back. Nothing was sin
pler: your 500 pesos, and 500 pesos
lent you, bought the shop"
"But that is horrible, TeXcOcO!"
"It is Mexican justice, or the way W
ignorant Indios understand it. Nov
master, but four people in the wOrl
know any thing about it, and yol
, and his Excellency Gen. Avillon, for
told him all about it."
Ills Excellency! but who is IL
: fourth!"
:, "Ah, the fourth! Well, hope he
in purgatOrv, for I have had masses sa
; for the repose of his soul. For mass
L are expensive-I have paid out % pest
= already-and Father Dominique sa..
g % pesos worth more will do the bus
ness. As it was your affair, you W
have to pay it back to me-in time
= hurry. | suppose you will let me su
= ply YOU with water?"
= but, TeXcocO, suppose l had die
y what would you have done with my D
= pesOs?"
> "You should have had the han
y soonest funeral in GuanajuatO -wh
- was over, to the last real, would ha
!, gone for masses"
y This is exactly what my friend,
u small, handsome little old Frenchm
> told me a summer ago, as | admired
, skv-colored house, Bleu du Roi, and
!. strawberry-cream roof? "My tree h
u u grown said NJ. Dupont, and he poll
ie T ed to a stunted bit of foliage on one 81
IN \ of the house. 81 have not advanc
\ ~ any thing in my story which is not tn
=. =, That Indian had bought my store
- - me. l kept my secret. | did not MAJ
- Dolores, though she and the Pac
Io wanted me to do it. In ten years | ma
~ : lust enough money to leave MeXi'
II come to France and settle down in t
- little property, in the Batignolles-t
~ ~ place of my dreams"
y ~ s'And the water-carrier?'' | asked.
" 81 paid him every cent before
- year was out"
81 "And what else?n
y "ApreS? Well, my friend the inst
" ments Providence chooses are sol
a. a. times bizarre. am afraid Texc'
~ dispensed Justice according to his o
~ light, in peculiar way. EnfH, wit
y knife. This was at the least mono
ont nous, Five years after the Occurrel
~ ~ [ have had the honor of telling !
IN about, Coco was shot, for murC
nv the circumstances of which | ne
w could get exactly at the bottom of.
~ went down on my knees before the G
l ernor, and sued for his life-but it :
"a of no avail My good NarciSse, :
~ y" the Governor (his EXcellency was q
. familiar with me, for | dressed
daughters hair), when TeXcOco n
7 aged YOUR business so cleverly that
-. !, - well. But that was not his first muir,
u" Nv As he has passed his sixteenth mur'
aI ~ you see / am forced to stop it, [
: '' :, TeXcoco. may be hardly called pi'
-. but | had masses said for the repOs
iLa i his soul, for he was the most relig
@I't @ Indian | ever met with. You need
2uS @ smile sir; he was. When my tree ]
','- %' out more branches, it will add gre
" r. to the establishment of my grounds
lelI THE French provincial papers re
M the drowning of an English lady,
lhd scribed as a reljgieuSe Pr0teStdnte,
see Mont st. Michel. Accompanied
lea young lady, she started on foot,
ing without a guide, for Tombelaine,
the rock about two miles distant from
tne mount The tide was due in an b
lie and they had hardly reached the
ear when it began to rise. The elder
NO, aged 35, considering herself a {
was swimmer, left her companion to z
leet boat sent to her rescue. Some inl
Jon tants of the isle, seeing her surroul
by the waves, raised an alarm, and