New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-06-10
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THE FISHERMAN'S BRIDE.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. CONTINUED
He turned sharply round, and
emerging from a street he had just
crossed, beheld Ida in the grasp of a
policeman, who was leading her along,
deaf to her tears, and unmoved by her
pale face and trembling limbs, which,
alas! he looked on as but SO many
nicely acted tricks of trade. They
We're followed by a pursy, bilious
docking man. whom Tom recognized
IN a moment as q baker in the neigh
Eborhood, noted for his hardhearted-
ness and severity with all the youth
sof the locality. -.
Her little bonnet pushed back from
her head, her little cape all awry, one
hand stretched out imploringly to her
friend and ally Tom, with eyes stream
ing with tears through the dishevelled
tcurls over the pale cheeks, the hapless
little culprit looked the picture Of
despair.
-s|..N lCIi Olc OOllllu 1Ol1l WdS CtU 1lcl
side, his heart in his mouth, fgurative-
ly so to speak-it might have been
literally, SO hoarse was his articulation
of the few words he managed to gasp.
out as he clutched the little hand with
in one of his own-and putting his
arm around the shoulder of the pant
ing and terrified child, for the moment
arrested their progress.
tWhat's the-where- what s itfor?"
"Oh, ah;' returned the sapient
functionary, with look that was
meant to be forcible comment on
his words, "what's it for? You don't
know nothing, do you?-oh, no, no!
Now you just move on there, and take
yourself off, or else it'll be what's it
for?' in another quarter"
1No, I know him." said the baker,
I. who had remarkably good authority
for what he said; II know his mother
"a very respectable woman is Mrs.
.Grejous"
HRespectable or no, it amt for him
tointerfere with the course ofjustice,"
sretorted it's functionary. "Now then,
young feller!"
ssYou be hanged" Tom burst out,
ulSICSDCCUlullH,
."can't you tell?"
The policeman made no reply, save
by finging off Toms arm and again
urging his small prisoner forward.
But the boy still kept hold OF Ida's
hand, and continued to move with
them, followed by group OF juvenile
spectators, who cheered Tom, and
ya-ahedn' at the "bobby" from a
respectful distance.
It's case of smashing, then, Mas
ter Grejous," said the bake" "and as
sbarefaced a one as ever see, and I've
trounced a pretty many, and trounce
'em I will, SO long as I've breath to
say the words"
"You'd best keep what you've got
to say for his Worship said the po-
liceman; then, with a significant look
at Tom, he added, "There'll be more
to say then some bargained for"
"It's pack of lies!" shouted Tom.
{ %;'sWhy, I know them we'll, her and her
another; she'd no more 60 to smashing
than me-"
: '"That's very likely" growled the
policeman. care you a-going to clear
off, now, before make you?'
"I'm doing no harm, nor hindering
of your duty" said Tom, boldly, and
trying to speak with dignity; "but
where you take her Pm going, and
shafts all about it..
The policeman, however, with an in
ssistence on the exactness OF his duty
which it was we'll if he always followed
at once perceived his advantage. He
took the only available hand of the
little girl in his own, and the other be-
ing, as usual, shrouded in the loose
sleeve, her gallant protector was re-
duced to the position Of an unattach-
ed, but he kept we'll up with them, and
now and again found means to
whisper an encouraging word, or to
touch the shoulder of the poor, terror
:stricken child, who was evidently
much relieved by his vicinity.
A short walk brought them to the
police court, where the magistrate
was at the time sitting. There was
the usual motley crowd about the
entrances of the court, through which
the policeman, however, made way
without difficulty. a. $500 ... -
r ''Look' ee there, at that young I'm, I"
said one of the dirty, slatternly wom-
:en OF whom the crowd was chiefly COM
d posed; "what's she been adding on?"
.l Smashing said lad, one OF those
who had made one OF the little process
sion from the first
'Why, she's got but one ARM" ex-
claimed another. "Poor mite!"
ooh, ah! that's just their dodge, "
replied a third; "of all things they
likes to get holt of a cripple. Nothink
;softens the beaks like a child; the more
deformed or hinnocenter-looking the
better" .z
The speaker held in her arms sick
4 ~, pulling infant, OF some six months
old, which had not improbably done
y good service on more thans one such
occasion, she being there to plead for
q drunken husband, and being no
doubt experienced in the theory which
she had just set forth.
tPoor, child! she doesn't look to