The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-21

4 Paddy looked astonished at her I'M
expected energy but he did not ''go;n
INSTEAD, he answered, in tone more of
sorrow than of anger: '.Ye won stand
trase, won't We, mum? It's the right
we alters claims, an the byes Won
bring up the weights fur the big stand
in'-up bed till We gives US our rights.
The saints forgie me if lets mesel be
imposed on because I'm a poor man.
Good avenin, mum; plisint night to
ye. Whin We foind yersel ready to gle
me the dollar, I'll fitch yer weights;
ye'll fond me at me stand And
away went Paddy, and before Mrs.
/ Lightlace recovered from the shock,
Nancy rushed in to say that the wagon
had gone off, with some of the things
in it. If Mrs. Lightlace had been wise,
she would have sent for brother James
to help her out of her embarrassment;
but, alas for the foolish ambition of
women! she could not make up her
mind to sacrifice her reputation for in
dependence and strength of charac-
ter; she would win the battle herself,
and no one should know the particu-
lars Of the struggle. 1t was too late to
take any steps that evening, but in the
morning she would 'shaVe that wretch
arrested as sure as / am born.n As
nothing had been surer than that fact
for more years than Mrs. Lightlace
would have cared to acknowled we
need not be surprised that the morning
found her with no diminutlon of her
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breakfast table, and then ordered Nancy
to summon policeman; and that Off
cial presenting himself, she informed
| him that she wished him to arrest Paddy
| O'Ronrk at once. She was somewhat
dismayed at the intelligence that she
would have to obtain a warrant at the
police court before that could be done.
| But even this news did not alter her de-
| termination. At ten o. clock she sailed
| forth. Poor little timid Alice with tear
full eyes insisted on going with her.
This was permitted until they arrived
at the entrance of the formidable-look-
Mrs. Lightlace, feeling her own heart
quailing, positively refused to allow her
young daughter to go further; so Alice
retired to store opposite, and waited
her temperance.
Mrs. Lightlace, it must be confessed,
felt quickening of her heart-beats as
with tagging footsteps she mounted
the steps leading into the court of
! justice. II she had not had character
to sustain she would have turned back
then and there; but as that could not
be, she confided her trouble to the tall
policeman at the door. 1t was reassur-
ing to mark his Indignation at the
recital. sThe villain!" he claimed;
che will get six months sure just you
go in, ma am, aud sit down till your
time comes; then go up and tell the
Judge all about it, and he will have it
all right in a minute
While he had been speaking, our
heroine had been looking past the
| speaker into the untried field upon
| which she was about to enter. 1t was
a strange sight to her Inexperienced
/ eyes immense hall filled with
motley crowd of black, white. and
yellow M women, and children, Gull
minating in the judges platform at
the farther end, where he now sat adj
ministering justice by the wholesale.
His present attention was concentrated
upon sadly bloated woman who stood
before him with a little girl whom she
held by the hand. The child was
reaching backward toward rough
laboring man, and apparently trying
to get to him; the baby lip was pitiful
as the man shook his head. The story
was easy to read; the mother was a
drunkard, and the father wanted to
! take the child, to whom she clung.
About the judge were grouped men
who were writing at tables.
''Reporters!o exclaimed Mrs. Light
lace, as a recollection darted into her
brain of numerous paragraphs in which
these gentlemen of the quill had enter
tanned the public with dramatic scenes
from the police court. "Only suppose
they should make an item of me and
Paddy O'Rourk!''
The policeman assured her that there
was no danger, and she at last got up
courage enough to follow his instruc-
tons and seek a seat. Tremblingly she
advanced down the middle aisle, look
ing right and left for q vacancy. When
near the front she was arrested by the
voice of the Judge, who exclaimed with
startling severity: "But, madam, you
are drunk.
Her dismay at hearing such an accu-
sation, even when addressed to an
other, the novelty of her surroundings,
the perplexity of her position, bewil-
dered our adyenturer to such an extent
that she neglected to take heed of her
ways. She did not see that she was on
the brink of a step, and the next mo-
ment fell forward headlong, PROSTATE
before the assembled court In her
modification she would fain have lain
there forever, and it did not console
! her anguish to hear a voice from the
reporters tables say: another drunk,
evidently. Respectable middle-aged
woman in widows weeds. A terrible
example of the increase"
Just here she felt her arm pulled,
and raising her head, found bloated
woman Juggling energetically at her
arm, as if anticipating some difficulty in
| getting her upon her feet. The dreadful
suspicion conveyed by this intimation,
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. expression
upon the coarse features of her assist
ant, brought Mrs. Lightlace to her feet
/ in a second. Vainly she tried to shake
off her companion. She held her as in
a wise, and whispered, audibly: s'Niver
mind, hinny; hould on to me; SIGH ak
serdunts will happen. l fell joust here
meself six months ago, and got off with
ten days.
The judge never interviewed Mrs.
Lightlace; Paddy O'Rourk was never
arrested by that lady. The tall officer
at the door had vision of a female fit
ting past him; and little Alice, watch
ing, saw her mother rush down the
steps as if she had lost her senses.
Flying to meet her, she cried:
''Mamma, what can have happened?
| Oh, what can it be?''
Don't ask me, my child Oh, that
dreadful place! Your poor mother is
disgraced for life. Go at once, Alice
go at once to that wretch, Paddy
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