Wichita eagle., 1890-03-16
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sue leG Oh TWO CnaISSS' hOHoHOA' L
got the idea as I might as well look at
the revolver; so l took it and let it off
in a haystack for safety. Five good
charges in it. Do you hook OIL? Well,
in I ran, told Mr.. Simpson, and
we set to pouring brandy down
the Hebrew gentleman's throat. He
had swooned with fright, and when
the doctor came he said as how he would
suffer from the shock may be for few
days, but he'd be all right after. Well.
then turned to and blackguarded him
for coming here and insulting my guests,
and soon he let on all he knew about
your dealings with Mr.. Abraham Levi
Well, I've settled that account, and I've
given Mr. Hart a check for fifty to get
back his pluck with, and he's given me
a stamped agreement never to trouble
either you or me again"
It was some time before Lady Char
lotte could fully realize the true state of
affairs For SO many dreadful hours
that seemed like centuries, she had
looked upon herself as the prisoner in
the dock on trial for murder. Was her
hair white? She had heard of hair turn
ing white in a single night from terror.
Surely the torture she had endured while
acting in that dreadful play must have
bleached her hair.
Lady Charlotte's hair had not lost its
rich color, nor her reason its sway.
Urged by the Yankee to confess her mo-
tive for dealing with gentlemen of the
Abraham Levi type, she admitted that
she was on the verge of distraction and
that her affairs were ~ a hopeless
middle, which meant that she owed
thousands and hadn't hundred clear in
the world.
81 suppose you would think it sorter
drop in life to marry ME and have
your debts cleared and paid off down to
a farthing, and have an allowance of six
hundred q year to dress on; always sup
posing as you will stake your honor not
to run into debt again, or deal with
Abraham Lewis"
There was plenty of gossip for the first
few weeks at Trouville; and for the very
earliest of the grouse shooting the Wash
ington Potts marriage filled every mouth
that had any right to consider itself in
or near society.
Lady Charlotte Craddock had married
the great American pork dealer. The
trousseau had been a nine days wonder
Crump & Crushit ground their teeth
when they heard of the afternoon tea
offered by Messrs. Fit & Squeeze, OF
Audley street, 20 the chief of their GUS
chef d'euvres of the trousseau OF the
season.
Mr.. Washington Potts was only once
heard to say, in strictest confidence, that
OF all his British purchases, many of
which might have made nigger's hail
uncurl, he was bound to state that bis
British wife had highest broke him, but
that he was that set on her he would
have risked his bottom dollar to secure
her
Lady Charlotte Washington (the Potts
very soon ceased to be part of her name
was never again heard to speak of the
Yankees vulgarity she would, it is
true, occasionally allude to her husbands
quaint Americanisms. She possessed
little sheaf Of stamped documents in her
desk; they represented the price an
American millionaire had paid to OBJ
tain high bred British wife, and
the sum total of these documents
could not be expressed in less than
five figures. She became the patroness
of all Fourth of July proceedings in Lon
don, and among her acquaintance on
the other side of the channel, was sup
posed to be mistress of the most surnptu-
ously decorated mansion and the largest
pin money of any other woman in the
Americans paradise, Can earth show
greater happiness?