Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-10-12
Down Cellar.

Oh, always admit it when I've done
wrong. There's nothing meaner than
to pretend that yon haven't done wrong
when everybody knows you have.
didn't mean anything by it, though,
and Sue ought TO have stood by me-.
when | did it all on her account, and
| Just because pitied her, if she was nv
| own sister, and il was more her fault.
really think. than it was mine.
Mr.. Withers is Sues new young man.
He comes. every. Monday, Wednesday
and Friday evening. and Mr.. Travers
comes all the other evenings. and Mr..
Martin is liable to come any time, and
generally does-that is, if he dosen't
have the rheumatism. Though he
hasn't but one real leg, he has twice as
much rheumatism as father, with all
his legs. and there is something very
queer about it; and if l was he. I'd get a
leg of something better than cork, and
perhaps he'd have less pain in it.
1t all happened last Tuesday night.
just as it was getting dark. and Sue was
expecting Mr.. Travers every minute,
who should come in hut Mr.. Martin!
Now MIR. Martin is such an old ac-
quaintance. and father thinks SO much
of him, that Sue had to ask him in.
though she didn't want him to meet Mr..
Travers. So when she heard somebody
open the front gate. she said: ''Oh, Mr..
Martin Pm so thirsty and the servant
has gone out, and you know just where
the milk is for YOU went down the cellar
to get some the last time you were
here do you think you would mind
getting some for me?" Mr.. Martin
had often gone down cellar tohelp HIM
self TO milk, and don't see what makes.
him so fond of it, SO he said: Certainly
with great pleasure" and started down
the-cellar stairs. 10 t.
IL wasn't MIR. Travers, but Mr.. With
ers, who had come on the wrong night
He had not much more than got into
the parlor when Sue came rushing ont
to me. for ! was swinging in the ham,
mock on the front piazza, and said:
My goodness, gracious Jimmy what
shall l do here Mr.. Withers and Mr..
Travers viii be here in few minutes
and there's Mr.. Marin down cellar and
i feel as if should fiywhat shall dor
was real sorry for, her, and thought
I'd help her, for girls are not like us.
They never know what TO do when they
are in q scrape, and they are full of alb
sence of mind when they ought 10 have
lots of presence of mind So said:
I'm fix it for you, sue. Just leave it
all 10 me. You stay here and meet Mr..
Travers. who is Just coming around the
corner, and I'll manage MIR. Withcrs.
Sue said: ''Iou darling little fellow
there don't muss my hair" and | went
in, and said TO Mr.. Witbers. in IN aw-
fully mysterious way; "Mr. Withe,s. |
hear noise in the cellar. Don't tell
sue. for she's dreadhIlly nervous.
Won YOU 20 down andsee what it is?'
Of course knew il was Mr.. Martin
who. was making the noise. though |
didn't say SO.
"oh, it's nothing but rats, jimmy"
said he. =. or else the cat, or maybe it's
the cook"
..No. it isn't.r said l. If / was
you, I'd go and see into it. Sue thinks
you re awfnlly brave"
Well. after i little more talk. Mr..
| Withers said he'd go. and showed
him the cellar door, and got him started
down the stairs. and then | locked the
door. and went back TO the hammock.
and Sue and Mr.. Travers they sat in the
! front parlor.
Pretty soon ! heard heavy crash
down cellar. as ii something heayy had
dropped. and then there was such
yelling and bowling. just as if the cellar
was full of murderers. Mr.. Travers
jumped up, ard was starting for the
cellar. when sue tainted away. and hung