St. Landry democrat., 1883-01-20
- and then he

and Bell or for me ---'' and then he
would have fallen but for my assistan ce.
Clearly the man was fainting, and
from starvation. We had walked some
distance. In tempting proximity. at
the corner of side street. was house,
over the door OF which, in great gold
letters, cleaned the words Luncheon
Bar Into this, quite instinctively, !
half dragged, half hustled the man.
1t was the middle of the day,
time, brisk hour for busl-
ness in the city, in the eating and drink
ing line at least, and the place | had
entered was full of customers, young
men mostly, noisily chatting over Their
sandwiches. As | flung open the
swinging-door felt sure that caught
a glimpse of my uncle's confidential
clerk on the pavement outside.
2 Mr.. Jenkins.' ] called out, but ne
evidently did not hear me, but passed on
There was a rush of excited young
fellows toward US. Bet you he's
drunk -Four to five he's dead1
. Run over?'' and so forth-and it was
not Immediately that could get some.
restorati e. But the poor countryman. 8
face was livid, his eyes closed. his teeth
fast shut, and he could swallow MOTH
ing. Then a doctor was sent Tor, and
the doctor was slow in coming, and |
had explanation ter explanation to
give, first TO the dull-witted landlord,
who came blink no out of a back parlori
then to inquisitiye customers; and when,
at last, GREATNESS surgeon, hastily
summoned, came painting IN at the
heavy swing-doo amid the surging
crowd, there was necessary word or
so with him. a..s .3|. Sss, :,
3.5.. But where is my patienta' asked
the bewildered man of science; and, in
deed, the .spoor fellow who was the
oh, ,ect of all this str had disappeared
in the midst OF the hubbub, and with
him had vanished the heavy. steel
clasped, black morocco pocketbook,
which I remembered too late to have
incautiously laid on table in the furry
and confusion of our sudden and awk-
ward entry, and which was gone, pitt
| lessiy gone. ,
.sCyril Vaughan. / always deemed
YOU to be a simpleton "a soft. as we
Yorkshire chaps but now / know
/ YOU to be knave Numbered out my
!roto Ynolo tho north country accent in
h;s @ wrathfnl voice beeoming unusually
nradnm;nant ssHad Won not been nv
ra,at;aa pleaua'Ihad had not u NV gd girl0who shall
,,a.n,. ba tho 4he u;fa If sucR q scoundrel-
hss hessa ~ ~, w. atf would have nrosecuted
/ YOU as I would any other rogue, and
sent YOU to quarry stone among convlcts
at Dartmoor or Portland. AS it is, ]
rour excuses. Go. 90! or I shal forget
I @ ucv,s headings and act as a citizen,
and I not No father The confidence
! 4r;nLN, | ahp TIE enunfrymanA the =
49, = IA Tour d,,nae lad 90 and DE,
.a,,rs ~ aH a,f bsnred @ aIlsawhera, I'D Yon won
stan,.,, ~ Al s,,,o ~ which Won have
shls.a ses.t ~ VI 10 s - M = - - -. o. s..
1o ,Tla, 1a.s 10 ! ,ar,;hla threes months
i ,.,as 90 that ~ mora time Of depres
a:sm :, - . ar,,sho sn;r,ts half broker
Ion' a4 :. - :. ,,,o T,hat was wrongful,
agaa .s,s,.aotad - = 1ava M INT cold com Fort.
- I Sa,aa ;rnasnt INIT T,ncv .wyras lost to me
va an,rnsnant .n \ ~ ware bliohfed. no on,
4 sm ,,,f ], r. S,,.L - me and was rt,or
and sinking fast into the direst depth
4 81 want. / remember how pale, ant
thin and shabby I had become, when
!. racaived ; ! visit from nv uncle slawser
Mr. Mor,lannt. u II &
~ y. Nh VanoI,an. YOU wonder 70 SCI
IA I, said the sh,eWd solicitor, las b.
Z took the hrok en chair I offered him
nv I wretched ret room in suburban lodg
;ng-b ba,,sa contained but one-.s3but
nn7oa nny a. J messenger. of good It'd
mos mos Dovon remember d serving man
IEnach clint nv name. who n your uncl
J INV cliant M Braithwaite, en- gage,
m some six weeks before the unlucky al
fair of the stolen money!: He was
sna # = .ro,,n ,,, ., fellnw with excellent test
non: T ) aisaI1 forced. gbysthe bye-an
, made himself useful both in the hous
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