New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-03-31
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first &c one l,:lnk. then at the. other; Ill
eyes travelled everywhere. resting no.
whore his hands fidgcted and trem-.
bled;; he seemed I'll sof 3 culver. sex-
Apected him TO sbIxak into q paroxysm.
every second. lf hadn't called ont
he would have run MS right into the
shore; when I called he clutched the
other string violently, jerking the boat
almost round. heartily wished him
q jericho before he had come near us,
No one spoke. We wcnt slowly
along, watching each otner. At last he
said omething.
. 8. Il win get out" he said. IN an.
odd, nervous way. 6 5sszs
{. With pleasure Z said All; Gin 8
minute. = SEE So
!. w ny not now? Why not now, STRIP,
he said, seeming to shake from head to;
foot. 75.357 17s1s#
s Where are you going to gete into
the riverf'' admired A1f's GOODNESS; I.
envied him. ] only hoped he wouldn't
Let it carry him too 81. IS
The man glowered at him; for mo-
ment he looked him full IN the face. i
never saw q look in h MANS eyes ike.
that in his. All returned look for look.
Slightly almos imperceptibly he quick
ened his stroke. a little lower down
was 9 little hamlet with well-known.
inn and capital landing-stage. When
we came alongside the stranger said,
:. This viii do; T u get out here.
He turned the boat inshore. No SOON
ser were We near enough than he rose
IN his seat and sprang on to the beach.
There were several people about, wa
termen and others. ALI was after him
in an instant; he rose almost simultane-
onsly and leaped on shore; he touched
him on the shoulder.
!" Now come, = he said, don't be fool
ish; we know all about it. .
The other turned on him like 8
fash Of lightning. I. What do you
meanp'
But Tom was too quick for him; he
was on the other side, and took his
arm. 8 Come, = he said, :. don't let's
have a row.
The stranger raised himself to his
full height and shook off Tomwith ease.
He then hit out right and left in SPLEEN.
did style. Tom and ALI went down like
ninepins. But my blood was up. I
scrambled on shore and ran into him,
lodged his blows, and closed. / am
pretty strong. He was old enough to
be my father; but l found had met my
match, anu more. was like q baby IN
his arms; he lifted me clean off my
feet and threw me- straight into the riv-
ser. It was splendid exhibition Of
strength.
Tom and ALI, finding their feet, made
for him together, and scrambling out
as best could, I followed suit. You
never such set-out. We chung to him
like leeohaa, The language he used
was awful, his strength magnificent;
though we were three to one, he was q
match for all Of us. OF course, the by
ISLANDERS, seeing row, came up; they
interfercd and pulled us of.
Here's pretty go!''' said one.
"sWhat's all tlis?''
Stop him! lay hold Of him!'' said
Alf; she's lunatic..''
what?" said the man.
zt He's u lunatic, escaped from DR..
Rawlc' $ asylum.
Instead Of lending hand, the man
went of into 4 roar Of laughter, and
the others joined. The stranger
looked literally frantic with rage. A
gentleman stepped out from the crowd.
- There's some mistake he said;
this gentleman is Mi. Trayers, Of
Tollhurst tall.
You could have knocked us all three
down with a feather, I do believe.
Could it be possiblep Could we have
been such cOnsummate idiots as to
have mistaken q sane man for luna
ticp and that man Lillian Trayers'
father! could have shrunk into nv
boots; could have run away and hid
myself in bed. To think that we
should have dogged, and watched, and
insulted, and assaulted the man Of all
others in whose good books we wished
to stand Lillian Travers' father!
Never did three men look such fools as
we did then. We were SO confound-
eddy in earnest about it; that was the
worst of all. ! don't care what you
say; y0!, may think i. 4 tirst-rate ie,kc;
but he must have been an eccentric
sort Of elderly gentleman. II lie had
behaved sensibly. if he had made one
sensible remark. he would have blown
our Ielusiors to the winds. (
We rendered our apologies as best
we could to the man we had SO in
suited: but he treated us and them
with loftiest scorn; and we got one.
after another into the boat amidst chs
g'bes and Jeers OF an unsympathetic
crowd. And as we rowed from the
wretched place as fast as our oars
would take us, we each Of us in our
secret heart declared we should never
forget our adventure up the river with
q lunatic. And we haven't. From
that day to this / have never seen
Lillian Travers, nor do / wish to.
Hn1,cr's Weeklv.
Not Bit Astonlshed.
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