Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-05-27

away went Pad.y, and before Airs.
| Lightlace recovered from tAe shock.
| Nancy rushed in TO say th 1 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
/ 10 help her out of her embarra ssment:
I but, alas for the foolish ambition OF
womeni she could not make zap her
mind to sacrifice her reputation for IN
| dependence and strength of charac
| ter: She would win the battle herself
and 10 one should know the particu-
| lars of the struggle. IL was too late to
take any steps that evening, but in the
morning she would .-have that wretch
arrested as sure Is | am born" A.
nothing had been surcr than that fact
for more years than Mrs Lightlace
would have cared 10 acknowledge. we
need not be surpr!s Il that the morning
| found her with no diminutlon of her
determination. She took seat at the
breakfast table, and then ordered Nancy
to summon a policeman; and that OIL
cial preserving himself. she informed
| him that she wished him TO arrest Paddy
| O'Ro.rk nj once. she WAS somewhat
dismayed al the intelligence that she
| would have to obtain 4 warrant at the
| police court before that could b. done.
| But even this news did not alter hur de-
| termination. At ten clock She sailed
forth Poor little timid Alice with tear
| ful ewes insisted on going with her.
| This was permitted uHsil they arrived
nj the entrance OF the formidable-look-
| inc building on Sixth avenue. when
Mrs Lightlace. feeling her own heart
| quailing. positively refused TO allow her
| Young daughter TO go further: 80 Alice
retired 10 a store opposite and waited
her reappcarance.
Mr. Lightlace, il must he confessed,
felt Il 1uickeniag of her hcart-beats Il,
with tagging footsteps she mounted
the steps leading into the court of
| Justice. II she had not had a character
| TO sustain she would have turned back
| then and there: but as that could not
| be. She conided her trouble TO the tall
| policeman at the door. Il was reassur
ing to mark his Indignation ut the
recital. The villain he exclaimed;
che viii get six months sure. just YOU
| 90 in. ma am, aud sit down till your
time comes; then 90 up and tell the
| Judge all about il. and he will have it
ali right in . 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. II was
strange sight to her inexperienced
ewes the immense hall filed with a
motley crowd of black. white. and
| yellow men. women, and children, cul-
minating in the Judge platform AT
! the farther end, where he now sat nd
niiniatering justice by the wholesale
| His present attention was concentrate
| upon Il sadly bloated woman who stood
before him with 4 little girl whom she
held by the hand. The child was
reaching back ward toward a rough
laboring man, and apparently trying
to get TO him: the baby lip was pitiful
Is the man shook his head The story
was easy to read: the mother wa, a
drunkard. and the father wanted To
take the child, to whom she clung
About the Judge were grouped men
who were writing al tables.
Reporters! exclaimed Mrs. Light
lace. n recollection dartcd into her
brain of numerous paragraphs in which
these gentlemen 81 the quill had enter
t.,ned the public with dramatic scenes
from the police court. '-Only suppose
ID n should make an item of me and
Paddy O EoUr&.'
Tho POLICEMAN assured her that there
was no danger. and she at last got up
raurage enough to follow his instruc-
lions and See', a seat Tremblingly she
advanced down the middle aisle. look
ia.. -r.t 8aI left for 4 vacancy. When
near lac front she was arrested by the
voice OF the judge, who exclaimed with
star Eng severity: But, madam, you
arr drunk.
lir dismay Al hearing such an accu-
satiua, oven when addressed to an
other. the novelty Of her surroundings,
The perpieEIiy OF her position, Devil
dcred our adyenturcr to such an extent
that she neglected to take heed OF her
ways. $40 did not see that she was on
The brink OF q step, and the next mo-
mcnt fell forwfrd headlong. prostrate
before the assembled court. In her
modification she would fain have Lain
there forever. and it did not console
her anguish T. hear voice from the
reporters tables >,lv: another drunk.
q tilfiiAiN- MT Iff-'-isti'tf
woman In widows weeds. \ terrible
example of the Increase"
just here she iclt her arm pulled.
and raising her head. found bloated
woman Juggling cnergetically at her
arm, A. il anticipating some difficulty in
getting her upon her feet. The dreadful
suspicion conveyed by this intmaiion.
the '.hail-fellow -well-met' expression
upon the coarse features Of her assist
ant. brought Mrs. Lightlacc To her feet
in a second. Yainly she tried to shake
OFF her companion. She held her a. in
wise. and whispered. audibly: ''Niver
mind. hinnv: mould on to me: SIGH ak
serdunts will happen. | fell joust here
meSelf six months ago, and got of 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 Hit
ting past him; and little Alice. watch
inc. saw her mother rush down the |
steps Is if she had lost her senses. !
FLYING to meet her. she cried: |
Mamma. what can have happened? |
Oh. what can it bc?"
Don ask me. my child. Oh. thai |
dreadful place. Your poor mother is
disgraced for life Go at once, Alice
90 at once to that wretch. Paddy |
O'Rourk; pay him all he asks. What
is money to such troubles as this?'
With such disiointed EXPLANATIONS
the wretched Mrs. Lightlace pushed
Alice into street ear, and hurried |
home.
The Heraid OF the following morning
sported quite an interesting item.
which was read by Mrs Lightlact
while ut breakfast: a respectable
looking middle-aeed woman in widows
weeds fell in the Jefferson Marke.
Police Court yesterday in Il state oi
boa>tly intoxic9lion. She was assisted
10 her feet by another female scarcely
better off. The shock seemed to re-
store her reason; She rushed from the
building before any one could stop her
We could not learn her name.
Mrs Lightlace viii let brother james
assist her in moving hereafter She
has no longer an ambition To prove
herSclfa managing. capable independ-
ent woman. Nayg Tucker MagiH ia
Harper 8asIr.
-Bertie. aged nine. i great ad-
mirer of athletic sports. HIS cousin
Lizzie. being about to enter the matrI-
monial estate family council wa held
,,-,.,,, -, h. .l,I toilet Ex-arvYffn.r had