Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-03-11
scared faces, half of them women's, and

scared faces, half of them women's, and
his first impulse was:
"How many can save-who shall |
save firstph
In No. 81 the occupant had no toilet
to make. She was still standing in the
ghostly moonlight and was the last to
be reused from her numb pain that
made sleep impossible by the commo-
ton outside her door. As she joined the
crowd of excited men and hysterical
women, the highly @rated and now I'M
comfortable Browne was still shrieking
"Firer' at the top of his lungs, while
the whole office force were engaged in
trying to drag him downstairs.
Miss Eggleston recognized the strug-
Cling cause of the commotion and shud-
dered. She had reason to fear the man
Browne worse than she feared fire.
Contemporaneously with her appear
ance Plympton's mental inquiry who
shall save tirst?" was answered. They
saw each other at the same instant.
This was no time to be bothered with
the "parted forever" part of it. A
moment more and they were both saved
to each other and for all time.
Utterly bewildered and hopelessly
shattered by the extraordinary rush of
events the bald-headed clerk rushed up
from the lower regions, whence the in
satiable fire-fiend of No. AZ had finally
made scenic disappearance, and man.
aged to say:
There is no fire, ladies and gentle
men; there is not the least danger
you can retire at once-and," as if a
happy thought had suddenly restored
his mental equipoise, ''if you want any
thing, just ring for it-you'll find the
list of calls in every room"
"How about that frey, untamed luna.
tic in No. 4S who has been working
those calls till the whole house is a
bedlam?" sarcastically inquired gen.
, tleman who for some reason persisted
| in shivering despite the reassuring
overcoat that left only his bare feet ex'
posed.
, "Oh, he's too full of fre-water and
2 we've put him out" said the clerk,
: with faint twitching to the corners o.
his mouth, which showed an inward
appreciation of remark that he
thought worthy of professional para
grapher. .He had the jim-jams and
+, we've sent him around to the station
l house to sober up" he added as a con
= cession to any order of intelligence no
| equal to an appreciation of his delicate
: brand of humor.
y Don't lay it to the liquor, young
Il although I've no doubt that,
It villainous enough here in Maine,
+ growled the gentleman in bare feet
p 'Put the blame where it belongs, OF
your confounded system of double
y entry electric calls!"
l. But" said Mr.. George Plymptom
n soto voce, in glow of gratitude
e while rejecting that had it not beer
o for this same complex combinatiaI
c which his enemy had worked to hi
is own discontinue Montreal and New
l. York would in twenty-four hours NOR
e have divided himself and Miss Eggles
h ton. 81 find that these electric calls
have been rung to such purpose tina
p they have brought me the dearest ant
= sweetest and best valentine the blessed
Ie old saint ever sent to heart-hungr,
d mortal!n
20 Then, in voice not confined to
re single auditor, more especially address
ing the bald-headed clerk, while
n dozen Of the female guests subor
TT dinating a natural impulse to scurr.
is back to their rooms to still NOR
natural and wholly commendable curl
Of osity that scents out and heartily en-
n joys genuine romance-he said:
lg =" Some hypercritical persons thin
&c your nine calls an eccentric innova
t, ton in electricity as applied to hotels
If Instead of agreeing with this super
fetal and erroneous view of the ad
he mirable utility of your system, yo
+. may say to the proprietor in the morn
IS ing, with my compliments, if yo
is please, that l would suggest the imme
date addition of q tenth call"
"For WHAT" asked the bald-heade
clerk, suspiciously, never before hay
ie ing heard a mortal being say one goo
u word for their "electric calls" bu
* with a prompt, human and heart
II. thawing out, as Mr. George Plympto
AZ replied, still engaged in very earnest
iG saving Miss Eggleston not only fror
a. fire but from all other possible harm
III " For the clergyman, of course. y
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