The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-05-18

suited her exactly. Charles Auoustns
mad literally frozen to them: he stood
close to the lady while she tried them ON
and furtively watched her lest She sbould
make dash for the opposite door. when
ne would snatch the diamonds and fight
the two conspirators siugle-handed and
he pressed something in The breast poclz-
ct OF his coat. TWAS the first purchase
he had made out of his fathers cold
piece a revolver, which he needed
about as much as "a cat needs two tails.
You can leave them said the CEN
tleman, neutrality-suspicious. Williams
are always languid-'I will calm and
pay for them on my way home from the
Office"
"Ha! the plot thiekens,'' remarked
Charles Augustus, mentally. Aloud he
said:
81 beg your pardon, sir, but my or
ders are peremptory. I am not to leave
the diamonds without receiving the
money!
The gentleman smiled. But man
can smile and smile and be william
still. Charles Augustus stood his ground
with come-one come-all-this-rock.sh shall
tly-from-its firm base-as-soon-as-I-Fitz--
James expression, that meant bust
ness.
'The idea said his wife Indignantly,
Ito think that you are not good for that
amount! They can't know who we
are"
'Never mind, dear. It's just as well
to pay for them now as at any time
will write out cheek and give it to the
young man, and you can keep your dia-
monds'
But Charles Augustus saw only
new move in the game in this arrange
ment.
Il must have a certified check he
said firmly.
"Bing for a coupe" said the gentle
man to his wife. II will go to the bank
and get the cash, and see it paid,irto the
hands Of the jeweler myself. It's a good
idea to deal only with principals in an
affair of this kind"
This was carrying the war into the enc
my's camp with a vengeance. Charles
Augustus felt that he had net foeman
worthy of his steel. These are stock
phrases which novelists use, and they
were as familiar to Charles Augustus as
they are to the rest of the world, and
served to Illustrate a crisis.
The coupe was announced, and the
twomen went down and got in together,
each visibly shrinking from the other.
The fact was the buyer of the dia-
mOnds was suffering from a raging tooth
ache, and just as the coupe got well
started, he remembered bottle of ether
and some other mixture which he had
bought that morning for that purpose
and forgotten during lull in the misery.
Now he brought it out, removed the
cork, and was about to apply 1T, when
the bottle was snatched from his hand
and dashed through the open window of
the coupe.
''NO you don't. I'm onto your little
game. You don't chloroform metz
shouted Charles Augutus, as he drew his
pistol and popped it under the nose of
his captured william"
The noise of the two men fighting Wig
orously in the coupe, both doors of which
had flown open, the cries of "policer'
''murder!' 'stop theitr' which could be
heard 70" a block, finally reached the
drivers ears and brought him to a
sJandstill when, in twinkling, two po-
hCeman were on the spot.
Hold him. He tried to chloroform
me"' yelled Charles Augustus.
ARREST this man. He's trying to rob
and murder mer' shouted the other oc-
cupant of the coupe.
The result was that both men were
arrested and taken to the station, where
they were incarcerated in seperate cells
and booked as drunk and disorderly,
until such time as the law of police Off
Gals, which is different from any other
kind of law under the sun, should ad-
nit of their cases being looked up and
the facts of the affair brought out. The
diamonds and Mr. is check-book
were taken care of by the same authori-
ties They were both fined for breaking
the peace, but the innocent party of the
first part, who bought the diamonds, or