Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-12

| SHE CAUGHT Up WITH HIM AND LAID HER
HAND u.t HIS CoAT-sLEEvE.
not see boy but approached middle
aged woman who was calling out Eve
ming Telegram in voice rendered
| husky by constant shouting. He had
bought the paper and was walking away
when the woman dropped her papers
and. running after him, shouted: al
phonse! Alphonser' in wild yet almost
| joyful manner. She caught up with
him and laid her hand on his coat
sleeve, but he rudely shook her off and
said: Hands off, woman. What do you
| mean?"
"Alphonse, don't you know me?" she
piteously cried.
But she did not have the opportunity
to hear the reply, for the dock police
man supposing she was supplicating for
aims laid rude hands on her and soon
forced her outside the gates.
Let me follow him; he is my hus-
| band" she said.
"a rather likely story. Why, that is
Mr.. limerick, the wealthy merchant and
owner of the cargo in the Trinidad, ly-
ing at the dock yonder," replied the po-
| liceman.
''He is not. He is Alphonse Breezy,
my husband, who deserted me many
years ago-it must be twenty-and
will follow him.
You're crazy, woman" was the rough
reply.
By this time quite crowd had gath.
cred and a lot of Italian newsboys were
| fighting over the newspapers which they
| had stolen from the poor woman when
she dropped them.
The crowd only laughed and ieered at
her, which SO enraged the poor woman
that she became almost frantic, and in
wild, despairing accents cried out: "Oh,
my God, wish l was dead!"
With these wild words she rushed off
towards tho waters edge as though to
| Jump in, but man in the crowd inter-
cepted her and in the end the policeman
arrested her on charge of disorderly
conduct.
The woman who caused all this dis
turbance had sold newspapers in Brook
| Ign to gain livelihood for the past six
or seven years. No one knew and few
cared to know where she came from or
| any thing of her history. The only
name she was called by was French
Emile" though her speech only slight
ly indicated her nationality. She was,
or rather had been, a good-looking
woman, but her features showed signs
of dissipation which was sometimes so
much intensified as to make her APP
pearance horrible.
Once she had grown communicative
and told some other woman who also
sold papers near to Fulton Ferry that
she was married in New York more than
twenty years ago Her husband, she
said, had deserted her and her boy baby
soon after the birth of the latter, and
she had never heard of him since. The
baby had grown into a fine fellow who
had found employment in a New York
office, but growing tired of city life had
gone West to the mining districts of
Colorado, since which time she had
never heard a word from him. This
was all that any body knew about French
Emilie's history.
AS the unfortunate creature was be-
ing locked up in the police cell, the
Trinidad" was steaming out into the
East river and Mr.. limerick was fairly
on the way to South America.
Mr.. Bellew rode back to Pearl street
wrapt in contemplative thought. He
had always thought his employer a
strange man, but knew nothing of his
history other than Mr.. limerick himself
had related. Mr.. Howe, the junior
partner of the firm. had built up repu-
ta.ion by working his way in an in
credibly short space of time from the
desk to the position of manager in
large shipping house, and having had
small legacy left him had resolved to
go into business for himself So he
chose the South American trade, with
which he was perfectly familiar.
His capital not being quite sufficient
to purchase vessel upon which he had
set his fancy and still leave sufficient
amount to work with, he had advertised
in the columns of a New York paper for
partner. The result was that he formed
business agreement with Mr.. Emer-
lex. a gentleman who had just returned
from abroad where he said he had
amassed quite large amount of money
in disposlng of American mining stocks.
Mr. limerick had given as his reason
Cor embarking in trade that, being tired
of exciting speculation, he wished
to settle down in some legitimate buSi-
ness
The partnership appeared to be a
pleasant one, for so far there had never
been any trouble. The firm prospered,
and few years after it commenced
operations Mr.. Howe went to Buenos
Ayres to open up branch Office and
had remained there until the present
time.
ITo BE CONTINUED.
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