The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1880-09-02

Wv aht III fhN iNNA1 lOnts
Dyer yes, seemo TO me | remem
: Der you, says Boniface.
: "No doubt, no doubt, como one
year to lose, the next TO wiu--nevef
win, but still continue to come 10
puuish myself"
After psrtaking ots hearty sup.
Ipcr, tue landlord informed Us that q
! fire bad been kindled in our room,
but. of course | expected the social
chsp would spend an hour or more
10 the barsroom on the contrary, hs
declared he must get to bod. so a.
to be clear headed ON the morrow.
and thus be able to use judgment
on horse-fosh.
! We sat some time before the cheer.
ful ire in our room, telling over
some conical or other Incidents, aud
smoking our cigars but directly my
feet feolinR uncomfortable in a pair
OF new, rather tight boots / drew
them oil aud placed my feet on the
fender. Ny companion prepared 70
do the same. Ona boot was reiaov-
cd and he began Oh the other, bat
soon desistcd with q violent contor-
tiou " the facial muscles.
"C-orns queried l.
| "Buuions---reai John Bunysns at
that"
BY and by With a huge gasp. and
q careful twisting, the useful article
vas removed.
The last uncovered foot, however.
Sas not advanced readily TO the ire,
and / really sympatniaoi with the
cork screw pain that calculated he
felt
I Af.or STOPPING forward 70 knock
the sahos from my cigar, / wss seiI.
od with All idea SO sudden aud ez~
iraordinsry that 8ondor ! dii not
cry out something aud betray my
self
What had seen that led to this
extraordinary IDEA ? Only ~ huge
buucned up place iu tic stocking
of my companion just whore the
grest toe wogld uaturallp be locst-
Ell
l felt ths. the surface OF my body
was undergoing tia. curlops trans,
Formation know o. goose hesh, 20
,6lthongl | Ut the time mentally
portrayed myself ss @ fool. IL was
= tiue time Of day II an honest mau
couldn t have sore tos jtt pleased
him without giving ucighbor sgue
its, The idea was very dissgreos-
ole, and although talked on brisk
10 and shook myself, tho thought,
ilke iseeb. still stack 10 NY Erain.
How could be so absurd as to
cling TO this idea ? How reconcile
,ho austo ny Of thls man before rne
With my pocket me.nIrsndum
"Slender, medium height and
young, suilen and lowering brow "
d Antipodes
just then my companion tipped
forward TO knock aside the ashes.
His ocst collar stood back uccJm-
} pronisingly, showing 4 slender arcs
drappoj ~ front vita a small catlr
, act fall q gray wljsEors Looking
still closer, | found ss Ae just then
laughed uproariously % something
, which | bud said, thst there Was 20
| rising falling, or wrink,iug OF vest
or coat, Tue nan WHO laughed WAS
but the core Of toe plo,boric form
p before me
What ten
Evidently the bulk was made o!
stuiiiug.
II legion Of ants hsi been crawl
ing over me Just then It would not
have produced q more disagrseable
sensation. Here WAS, clDsstei
with u ruiliau of the most ierocions
dye. whose hands were even now
stained with follow creatures :
i blood, and the least sign to betrsy
that ! suspected his identity would
. he my death warrant Yet mast
have him, and | must also have heip
10 SECURE him.
Directly | flmed out about the
CigSrs aud wondered il the landlord
had no better Ones--said I'd hud
odt before he had gone TO bed
went whistling ont, not unmiud-
ful that sharp pain from stiletto
might he the result,
As ran down stairs l tore u leaf
from nv pocket memorandum, aud
scratched upon it these words
BaErroRD, IL o'oloot p. m.-"Hsruey-
Quick get doSn on tue niiaight express.
Come prepared to 10 up sore zoe.
CARsss
"Hors landlord" l exclaimed,
, get that telograpat 10 A - IN
two minutes -quick---csution and
you shall have a suitable reward
With this | snstchei a handful OF
cigars sni went whistling back t.
my room, whla SCORE ot thoughts
! more VIVID than pleasant rau thro
. my mind.
! found him still seated unsuspect'
ingly before the ire--olerei him 4
cigar, aud again resumed my smok
, ing.
I The cautious rasder may wonder
that did not either remain at n sat
distance below stairs, or give the
= alarm aud eecure hin immediately
! Neither plan appeared fosslhlo Il
y me In Tho lrst plscs Il was IN,
, business ~ catch junt such fellow
aa this ono before mo Ia the uexI
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