The bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-1877, 1877-07-26


Outrageous said one of the night
caps, with growl Waking people up
in the middle of the night, and making
them get out of their warm beds for
nothing p and he slammed down his
window as If it was misfortune that
his house was not on fire. Luckily, the
alarm was not spread, and the fire de.
partment were not victimized as they Of
ten are.
"The second time I've been hoaxed
tonight" thought |. :" will keep my
eye upon the next customer. ] wonder
If they take me for a fool"
Feeling very much like a hi, ! tpok
my way back on my round, ~ having
a sort of spite against number 96, which
| considered hoax number one, l kicked
the door.
To my surprise, it flew open without
resistance, and found myself sprawling
across the threshold. AS had kicked
myself down, | picked myself up, and
feeling for the door, found that it had
been opened during my absence. The
bolt was wholly in the lock.
" Somebody has been here, that's GER
tain p muttered, and just then heard
Il groan inside. ! listened. The groan
was repeated. AT once | called for help,
and getting lantern, entered the store
with half a dozen others. To our horror
we there found poorly dressed, middle
aged man, lying on his back, close to a
counter, his face bruised and bloody, his
forehead awfully gashed, his dress torn
and as we tore aside his shirt, we found
deep wound in the region Of the heart
He was groaning and painting from the
recent struggle.
We Mised him at once and asked him
what had been the difficulty and who
had assailed him; but. though perfectly
conscisus, he refused to disclose any
tning, even his own name, and before
we could remove him from that solitary
place, he gasped, his head fell upon one
side, and he lay corpse, in our arms
The investigation Of the coroner's in
quest produced nothing that could give
clue to the perpetrators; nobody rec
ognized the murdered man, and he was
buried in nameless grave, at the city's
expense.
This sad affair produced great excite
ment at that time, and you may be sure
that came In for full share of blame.
| was called incompetent, stupid, q
sleepy head-as if a watchman could be
everywhere at once, and know every
thing which was going to happen--and |
believe two or three. who had spite
against me, were ready to swear that
was drunk on the occasion, and had
shouted Fire |" when there wasn't any.
Though nothing was proved against me
l threw up my occupation in disgust and
confined myself wholly to Christian
course of life-that is to work by day
light, and get natural sleep at night; and
three years afterwards | negotiated for
comforter in the shape of a pretty wife,
and became as happy as decent man
can be.
] was just making living then. My
wife was affectionate, industrious and
economical, and didn't really wish to
be any better off; when | began to see,
or thought SO, that she became melan-
choly at times, and suspected that she
was sick of her bargain, and asked her
about it.
Did you ever love anybody else ?"
said /.
Yes" said she, scrrowfuly.
" Halo |" thinks I, I'm not going TO
be SO happy, after all. Here's another
love come up, like the ghost of deg IN
the-manger, 10 steal away the happiness
it can't enjoy itself. Who was it?"
says |, all in pucker, "and why didn't
you say SO before? p
1t was my BROTHER" said sha dole
fully.
Your brother? Oh, tAAs altess the
case But didn't know you ever had
a brother, and don't see anything in
that TO make you sad."
She burst into tears. Queer creatures,
women are.
"If you will promise to forgive me,
said she, will tell you ALL"
81 don't know about that, ducky,"
said l, "lf you have been doing any
thing oery wrong
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