The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-11-15

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was fetched up to be polite, and If others
wasn't to illude 1t to their ignorance
mo. ma'am, eff he'd I'd have offered
it, seein as amt traded fur no great
quantity, and know stores is generally
short of change
HIN, says the spinsterhood, you've
got other money there
Yes, ma'an, says Alhambry, taking
back the five and giving her another
They're all alike though.
The spinsterhood looks at her and
looks at the pocltetbook, and then she
beckons to a boy with a tray and whis-
pers to him:
"Just step this way eff you please"
says she, opening the door of a back par.
lor, Eve kin be quieter here"
Alhambry felt she meant to be real
polite, but she says:
I'D jest as lieve wait here, thank
you.
But the spinsterhood says, like she'd
bite her head off.
I'D little ruther you'd sit there"
Seemed as eff AIhambry couldn't say
no, and 'twasn't polite not to be willin
to visit a little. however sharp follrses
noses and voices was. ef they invited
Won SO persistent So she went in and
the spinster saws. HSet down. So she
sot
Its real pleasant this morning" says
Alhambry.
aqlad Won find it SO. y saws the woman.
We've haA. nlentv Of RAIN saws AL.
hambry. Ynd iuss hone It will STAY
clear while we're trayelin abor1t.n
"Mebbe Won won't travel quite as fast
as Won expect To. saws the woman. look.
ing fust 1T her bonnet and tben at her
shoes. and shifting.
Now. Alhambrv Is quite a reader. and
among the stories she'd read was one Of
a traveller that came to a wayside tavern
and was onprudent enough TO take ont
his uocketbook and let ,ern see how rnncb
money he had. and that night. after he
had gone to bed he heerd noises and
suspicionated suthin another. and got
up and hid in a corner. and 10 and be-
hold a trap under the bed opened and
it disappeared. Twas a den Of murder
ers. and travellers was their prey. for
get how it ends. but it couldn't have
been wrote unless he jumped ont of the
window and so ESCAPED. But all these
dreadful facts rose M before Alhambrv
Jane. She had showed her money too
free. she'd been illured into this hack
parlor fur TO be done away with. Like
Never since she wus born had she been
SO deadly scared. and uttering d screech.
she jumped ND and ran fur the door.
"Stopfn saws the sninsterhood. Init
Alhambry wouldn't sion. She rushed
through the store and ont into the street
and up that street she flowed, the spin
sterhood at her heels.
"Murderf' screams Alhanbrv.
"Stop thiefr screams the woman. and
a connie of men lest saved Alhauhrv
from bein run over by butchers
wagon as two policemen appeared upon
the scene of conflict with drawed clubs.
l said when / began this here heart
rending noration that Alhambrys we'd
ding outing was an awful trying one.
the feelings of lady of such delicate
sensitudes on being marched like
Fourth Of July procession up Broadway,
her big hairpin lost and her hair down
her back, one sleeve pulled out and her
gathers ripped and most of the York
folks follerin on behind.
When they arrived at the station
house and she was marched in, her only
comfort was that the spinsterhood was
there, too, and she had false front and
it had got crooked. She couldn't look at
her for horror, but she felt safe from
bein murdered. Next thing she knew
she was made to go up before desk,
and gentleman-most probable legal
lawyer-was asking all their names, and
saying to the spinsterhood:
'sDo you make charge against this
woman?
And the spinisterhood was answering:
eyes, sir. She passed this counterfeit
bill on us. and she's got others of the
same kind with her pve no doubt she's
one of gang sent out to food the city
with 'em. Minute | saw her | knew
what she was. I've seen that kind,
mimeny, pimeny. Butter wouldn't melt
In their mouths, you'd think, till you
found EN- out.
..Silence, says somebody.
ttWhv Won dreadful thin1fs mt in