The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-03-06
saw her enter this very vehicle an hou,

saw u6L dAbOA thA5 EOAJ 'S~~~ ~
ago"
The driver laughed again "a quizzing.
hateful laugh that made me long to
knock him down.
"Oh, yes, to be sure she was here.
She Just got in at one side of this here
coach, and she Immediately jumped out
at the other side, as pre- arrangement.
And that there Pillkins had a big wa
terproof that he slipped over her white
ball-dress and slipped her into a gig as
was waitin' for 'em at the r And
they're man an wife by this time, in
spite of all the detectives in Ilinoy.
Pillkins give me twenty dollars to race
off here and lead you a wild-goose chase,
and I'm burned if it hasn't been the
best joke in the business to see you
smart Alexis fooled so neatly. Horror
for Pillkins."
It was enough to make any man
swear, and I swore curses not only loud
but deep.
Both the drivers laughed.
"Ill take my fifty dollars, MI.
Green" said the fellow I had employed;
"and if it's all the same, I'll take it now"
In a detected and surly mood I re-
turned home.
1t was a week afterward that Mai.
Philpot Numbered down my little hall
way, and, laundering at my door once
more, Numbered himself into my small
room, and filled up my best chair with
his rotund figure.
1T a demned fine little game they
played us, Ell, Green, isn't IL" said he,
blandly, as he pulled out his big pocket
book and unrolled some bills. by
George! You know my Arabella had
Pillkins hidden behind the curtains in
the library that night of the party, and
they overheard every blamed word we
said, and laid their plans to outwit us, "
and he roared with laughter.
/ was amazed.
"But you don't mean to say, do you,
major, that you've taken that scamp into
your friendship after such a trick as he
served you?"
The major only laughed the louder.
"Alfs fair In love and war, Green,
and here's your money. I amt giving
it to you, you know, because you
succeeded in keeping my Arabella from
clipping, but just for the reason you
failed to do so. Pillkins is q brick-a
perfect brick-do you hear that?"
And the major slapped his legs with
immense satisfaction.
Hes poor, / know, but he's sharper
than lightning, and as to his politics,
while I don't vote as he does, yet they
do say that the Democrats are going to
run him for the Legislature this fall
andif he pulls in at the head OF the
race-and I'll bet my bottom dollar he
will-why Arabella's dad, sir, will stand
in with him to the last cent Of his pile. +"
what about Arabella herself? ?"
says /, completely dumbfounded at the
turn of affairs.
by CAD, sir! Arabella is actually
worth fifty thousand dollars more, In
my opinion, than before she eloped
with Pillkins. Sharp girl is Arabella-
just like her old dad, sir, for all the
world. Bless you! they came home
next morning bold as lions, and my Ara
bella pumped herself right down on
my left leg, and, handing me her mar
riage certificate, says, as smilingly as
you please: Were married in spite of
your Mr.. Green, papa; and here we
are, and what are going to do about it 2"
"And what viii you do about it?"
says
"By the Lord Harry" roars the Ma
jor, there was only one thing I could
do-and that was to forgive em and /
did it right ON the spot
So that was the kind of revenge / was
getting on Pillkins. Married to the
girl of his choice in spite of me, and
taken into favor by her father in the
bargain, his punishment was entirely
too vague to be a pleasure to me.
TITS all oyer town. went on Major
Philpot, chow they got ahead of us, and
here's your money, Green. I'm gong
to give you fifty dollars extra, so you can
set 'em up to the boys, for thereIl be
no end of the chatting you'll get in the
next ten days. There's your money,
Green, and much obliged to you"
And Pillkins?
Well, Pillkins actually did go to the
Legislature, and is quoted as one of the
big guns in his party. He literally rolls
In clover, and lives on the fat of the land,
and to this day is referred to with pride
by Mai. Philpot as "my son-in-law."
And as for me, before I ever attempt
again to head off arunaway couple, may
somebody come along and kindly kick
me higher than Gilderoy's celebrated
kite.
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