Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-04-28

bis feef all the time. and took ii in to Dime,
with kim. and wuuldn'f let the conductor
nor noeEe handle it. One time he went inrG
| the baggage ear TO ind the boy with ths
4 cigars be Left the box with me and told me II
/ be all fired paTTic'lzr that no one else didnsl
touch IL for ii Was filed with money rs BIZ
was using, buying up wheat for shipmenl
i TO Chicago. No woman with her fusf baby
wornr so pzrtic'lar as be Were about thai
bex- When we GET TO the hotel and slicked
ourselves down some, he says, NY friend
W sat YOU 10 come alsng with me 10 the bank.
| while take this box and deposit it there
don't KNOW but what, out West here, some
ern-cisp0sed person might not attack me in
| the street. they saw me carving II. IL
You are with me 1t viii be Safe j waited
outside while ne took the box in; and after
| right aud his mind was easy. Then he went
back 10 the hotel TO eat, and he said he was
a-goiny out. 'I've got to see
the freight-agenf of the railroad,
he, says the iyin- scziaway; he
didn't want no freight-agent. Pm a-going
To see him to make arrangements for the
shipment Of some carloads OF wheat have
down here to the depot, tn go through by
the freight ira IN tonight. When I've fixed
that III come back, and Wen 30 together
TO the show up here, to the theater.' Good
for Fou,' saws /, for I thought he was little
on the minister side of the trail, and didn't
60 To no shows. leastwise not to that kind,
as the pictures was about all over the walls
W All, WAlb6u AD0uI al 1Ddr, 03sln- u uFlnk
or two with the boys round, for they had q
fust-rate elegant bar down TO that hotel,
when back come nv friend all of q faiher, as
If he'd been running afore q war party.
What's the matter: SAYS l.
It's real bad,' he SAYS. I must find
that bank cashier somehow; the freight
agent won't let the wheat 90 on tonight to
be paid on delivery. He wants the freight
charges paid in advance or the wheat can't
go; and it's got TO 60, for it's sold for deliv-
land then be stood thinking. a-gathering
his brows, and then figuring on a slip Of
paper, and muttering about dollars and
cents and carloads, and every once in a
while sayisg rs it was toe provoking he
hadn't left his money with the hotel clerk in
stead of taking il TO the bank.
".Why in thunder don't you take il out
OF the bank again. asked him
can't he SAYS, the banks closed and
j can't get il till the morning. And then he
and muttering all about figures and bushels
and such like, and once and again looking
over at me. At last he saws, IF you'll wait
here for me I'll go up to that bank cashiers
private residence and explain the case
Mebbe he'll come down TO the offioe and let
me have that box out again this evening: for
get ii must, or Pm clean busted on that
wheat
'"That's all right, pard,' SAYS; step
right up TO the cuss's snanty and bring him
Il
won't come, by thunder, it wouldn't be much
OF a job for you and to handle him our
selves
- No, no, no; that won't do he says.
If be saw another person he might think we
meant no good and might refuse TO open the
bank till the clerk did it in the morning.
I'll 60 alone and you'll wait for me here
- W aal. was agreeable, and so stepped
down and set 'em up again with the boys at
the bar: and then it came over me why in
\ l,-1k h
morning instead Of fooiing away the time
arter that cashier, when we might have been
having high old time at the show. So when
he came back in hslf an hour, looking as il
he'd seen all his relations scalped before his
eyes, and said that the bank cashier had
gone into the country for the night, and that
il he couldn't get that wheat on he was q
ruined man. COS wheat had risen ten cents a
bushel, owing to seme scalawags cornering
it. saws right Off ~ -
asHew niue does that freightman wante'
Let me see, says he, looking. as bright
as new dollar: six car loads, sack freight,
To Chicago And then he got to figuring
again, and says at last, With what hs' in
my poeketbook. guess can nix with $4S1-
It's new proprietor at this hotel, or I guess
L could have borrowed it at the Office till the
morning. I've the best part Of 81 900 kft in
box up at the bank
flour hundred and eighty says I: well.
I'H let you have it till the morning;' for i
II
that iron-bound box myself: land then
We'll git right away and see that show
- took out bear-skin pouch j had, and
counted out what money 1 had left. There
was $3.50 rolled up there, and / asked him If
$3.50 would fix it up.
:. Let me see,' he says, $780, and then
he began to figure again Yes, that is more
than enough with what have. Four hun
Gred and seyenty-ffe will do. j need only
keep enough TO pay the theater, because in
k.,lf Il
WAL, gentlemen" he continued. adj
dressing US all collectively, including the
conductor and the boy that sold the cigars.
apples, books, ETC., on the train. II counted
out $40 to that everlasting thief, and when
he had jaw'd his thanks for my timely aid,
and told me to wait a quarter OF an hour
while he paid the freight bill at the depot
be went Of. Wait, ] waited, j guess did. |
waited until felt a kind OF cold sweat over
me when he didn't come back, and / went
Just born, TO the Office, for / thought if any,
thing goes wrong with this here business my !
gals chance is busted / kinder staggered
up to the Office and told the clerk was
afeard something had happened TO my friend. |
Then he asked me the particulars. and got
to looking mighty cross as told him.
=" i guess you'll not see him again. said
the clerk. There's alwavs some galoot go
ing through the greenhorns in this hotel.
Why in thunder they don't try the other
hat said he, madeira Texas COW, tand
come along with me-
- There was bit Of a crowd had gathered
round the counter, and one of the BOYS
wanted me to have drink TO set me up
bit, for / felt pretty bad, but / hadn't no |
heart to drink.
..'He ain'i got no time to drink now said /
The clerk, as he came out Of the side door. |
Here, hurry up, and Well go TO the depot |
first
:. WAL. gentlemen, we tried the depot. |
and found there warn't no such wheat going !
through; we found the chief of police and !
told him, and he said he'd set his crowd on /
the tracks, but il was a pretty slim chance.
and / went back 10 the hotel. and hauled i
mrseH up them stairs step by STEP As il I'd /
osi the use of nv limbs, and laid down on |
The bed aud cried like q gal wnese levers |
gone back on her
1.In the morning I got that clerk TO send /
The balance Of the cash, after paving the bill, /
TO nv gal; for hadn't the heart 10 see her !
md 7ell her, and allfhe while she thinking i /
was coming with my pocket full of dollars. |
W hen she got the news she pofd her man,
and he behaved like yAller dog he did, /
.be blamed eur. He made excuses; said he 1
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