Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-05-20

IN lNhnDXOU Ns MDs, II
About nine o'clock Mr.. Jones and q
couple OF officers came up the road
stealthily, and secreted themselves be.
hind clump of bushes near the plac<
where the two mainroads crossed eack
other.
Now you mind what say said Mr.
Jones. :FH go for him, and you keep
out Of the way until I am done with
him. I'll make him wish he'd neye,
thought of such q thing - making love
to other mems wives, see If / don't. I'll
pommel him! IN trounce him within
IN inch Of his life, the contemptibls
puppy r and Mr. Jones stxuck oufriehi
and kft IT his yieionsxx fiirr2 -
Z1gY llklEsd md waited ana kept
waiting. The ten o'clock train came
in, whistlng shrilly. And still no sign
Of either woman or man for whom they
were waiting.
Presently Mr.. Jones babe them lis
ten; he heard steps down the road.
The night was dark, and they could
not see a rod of. But he was right in
thinking he heard steps. Some one
was coming.
IT'S him, curse him., muttered Mr..
Jones. Now you lay low, and mind
what say. Don. come till tell you
to. l dare say / shall half kill him,
but you keep of, and let me be. I'll
take the consequences, if / do kill him
completely. Great Jehosophat just
yearn to get my hands on the wretch.
He's close by now whispered one of
the men.
4 see him. answered Mr.. Jones, in an
awful whisper. Here, hold my hat
/ am going for him, and may the Lord
have mercy upon his soul!
Accordingly, Mr.. Jones went for
him. He made rush for the tall,
black figure coming leisurely up the
road. He gave it punch in the stom-
ach with one fist, aud another in the
ribs with his other fist, snorting like a
wild bull. He was too excited to talk
intelligibly. at first. The unsuspecting
recipient of such an extraordinary greet
ing seemed half-inclined to run at first,
but, on second thought, seemed to think
better of it, and turned upon his assail-
ant.
Take that, and that, and that cried
Mr. Jones, who had got so he could ut
ter words trifle more coherently by
this time, dealing blows right and left.
Run away with my wife, will you p
You old villain, I'll learn you to swoop
round the Jones family trying to break
it up. Take that-and that ! and-oh,
great Jehosophat =
Mr. Jones tune suddenly changed;
the victim of a husbands righteous
wrath had brought his cane to bear upon
his foe and was doing good work with
it.
'Smith-Dobson! help, help!' Shrek
ed Jones, as the cane fell upon his head
and shoulders in unmerciful blows
Murder! help!
The officers came to his assistance
and succeeded in securing the stranger.
I'D like to know what this means !!
he demanded. Il supposed this neigh
borhood was respectable, but I should
think you're all gone crazy, or else
turned highway robbers
Wen let you know what it means,
cried Jones. 4 don't believe you will
want to run away with Samuel Jones
wife again
is that you, Samuel Jones 2 asked
the prisoner. i thought your voice
sounded kind of familiar, before, but
you beloved SO couldn't make it out.
Are you insane, or idiotic-or what 2
Lord bless me, if you amt uncle
Joshua = said Mr.. Jones family. He
felt small enough, Just then, to crawl
through knot-hole. I'm awful sorry
that this has happened, but l couldn' t
help it, I didn't know it was you. You
see, Amelia's fell in love with some fell
low, and came across letter this af-
ternoon that she had written to him,
saying she'd meet him here at ten
o'clock, and I got these men to help me,
and We waited for him, and I thought
you were the man!
Fell in love with another man and
promised to meet him here at ten o clock?
Stuff and nonsense! exclaimed uncle
Joshua, Indignantly. You were always
the biggest fool! You're crazyr
But l tell you I saw her own letter,
exclaimed Mr. Jones. Il amt crazy
now, but l shouldn't wonder if l was
before long
You've lost all the sense you used to
have. and that wasn't enough to brag
Of said uncle Joshua, rather uncom-
phmentary. Come along to the house.
and wen ask Amelia what it means
Uncle Joshua led the way, with pain
in his stomach, caused BY Mr.. Jones'
energetic attempt to teach his supposed
rival not to meddle with the Jones fam.
lily, and Mr.. Jones followed in his wake.
with q sore head and very black eve.
There was light in the sitting room.
Mrs. Jones was there.
See here, Amelia exclaimed uncle
Joshua, bursting in like keathunderstorm a
Your fool of husband says YOU We fell
in love with some one, and that YOU
wrote him letter saying you'd meet
him at ten o'clock tonight and run
away him, and he says he's seen this
letter. Now, I don't believe a word of
it, but I'd ike to have you explain, if
you can
4 never wrote any such thing de-
elared Mrs. Jones, indignantly.
You did = exclaimed Mr.. Jones. It's
no use for you to lie about it, Amelia
You've broke my heart and you did
write that letter. I found il on your