San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-11-07
Paul Jones' Alias

Paul Jones' Alias
Commenced in No 237
that historic night at the tables the sturd
Test refusal was of no avail. Medhurst
found him very ill in bed. He was drink
ing champagne and settler, and his red
! face was so swollen that his eyes seemed
! half obIiterated.
"Medhurst, old boy" groaned the Ma.
jor, do you want to hear my opinion OF
myself"
81 have my own" Medhurst answered.
you've got right to it, Pm the big
gest fool out of Hanwell. / ought to be
harnessed to a sand-cart. There isn't such
another ass alive. If had to go and play,
why couldn't stick to the system? To
have twenty thousand pounds, and jack
it that wayi Twenty thousand poundsi
Think of the unlimited spree fellow
might have had with It'll Go outr' he cried,
struggling upright in his wrath and scorn,
Ego out and hire some able-bodied scoun-
drel to come here and kick me! Go and
tell them that the Daisy"-he smote him
self resoundingly upon the breast-'.the
Daisy is nothing but blooming Juggins."
The reflection was too bitter for him.
He fell back upon his pillow and groaned.
~ told you how it would be-" said Med
hurst. "YOu were better off than ever
you had been in your life before: and you
must needs throw away everything that
chance had given you, and insult the man
who tried to save you, into the bargain"
81 was a madman," said the Major.
"You ought to have punched my head,
Medhurst."
81 anticipated this, "Medhurst answered,
for he was by no means the man to let an
error go unemphasized. He had thought
people very unreasonably and cruelty Bit
ter in his own case; but his own were the
only blunders ever made for which he
was prepared to find excuse. 81 expected
to be told that had not made my remOn-
STRANGE strong enough. l endured to be
told publicly that l was meddlesome i'm
pertinent. You were good enough to tell
me that you were glad to be rid of my i'm
pertinent interference at any price"
Il beg your pardon, old chap" said the
Major. II was an ungrateful ass. l de-
serve to be kicked. You can take it out
of me now, and won't retaliate. Think"
he added plaintively. that it would do me
good"
But in spite of all humiliation on the one
side, and all wrathful contempt upon the
other, the twenty thousands pounds were
gone, and there was no way to conjure
them back again.
"After what happened last night" said
Medhurst, with a certain harsh and cold
itu xrhio oh laI TO ho- ,fo
effect upon the Major, 81 do not see what
you and have to do with each other.
do not propose to leave you stranded"
Good Lord, Medhurstr calculated the
Daisy. YOU'RE not talking about leaving
me for hasty word?"
after the occurrences of last night"
returned Medhurst, land the public scan
dial you were pleased to put upon me, l do
not see what remains but that"
The Major, wallowing in his bedclothes,
groaned anew, and then sat up again.
81 was screwed last night, old chap" he
said, piteously. II didn't know what
was saying beg your pardon, with all
my heart. Hang it, old man, pitch into
me as much as ever you like, but don't cut
mel And we've got such plant on be-
tween us with that Yankee that we may
be just as well off again in week.
made him promise to come and dine to-
night, and we've flddled about with him
quite long enough, in all consciencel'
1t had never been Medhurst's intention
to part company with his colleague, so
that when he had fully asserted his own
wrongs, and the Major had sufficiently
Inundated himself, he consented to be
partly reconciled.
81 agree" he said, con one condition.
You have cleaned yourself out completely
of course; so long as we are here together
must have charge of our joint belong
ings. shall not allow you more than
hundred francs at time, and if you like
to fool that away at the tables, you may
though don't suppose that such capital
will tempt you"
The Major, for the sake of peace, was
willing to accede to anything, and would
have accepted much harder conditions
than those imposed upon him.
You want money now" asked Med
hurst.
No" said the Daisy: 1--WE got a louis
or two"
He spoke with no intent to deceive; but
when, an hour or two later, he got up and
dressed himself, he discovered
that he had considerably moderated his
and overhauling all his gar
ments he contrived to gather together
nearly as much as the sum which had suf-
feed him for the beginning of his cam
paign against the bank. At this discov-
cry, hope rose anew within his spirit. His
bath had done something for him, and
with extreme distaste