Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
FERENTLY.

"Why, I didn't know you could buy
l through tickets anywhere but in London
( and Paris"
.'Some people can't, maybe; but some
people can-of whom am one of which, it
appears
| 'tIt seems a rather high price"
''On the contrary. The dealer knocked
| off his commission"
"Dealer?'
"Yes-I bought them at cigar shop"
"That reminds me. We shall have to
get up pretty early, and so there should
be no packing to do. Your umbrella, your
| rubbers, your cigars-what is the matter?''
"Hang it, I've left the cigars at the
bank"
"Just think of It'll Well, your umbrella?''
'I'll have that all right. There's 10
hurry"
"What do you mean by that?''
''Oh, that's all right; I'll take care Of"
"Where is that umbrella"
'1t's just the merest step-it won't take
me-
"where is it?"
"Well, think left it at the cigar shop;
| but anyway"
''Take your feet out from under that
thing. It's just as expected! Where are
! your rubbers?''
"They-well-"
''Where are your rubbers?''
'It's got so dry now-well, everybody
says there's not going to be another drop
Of
are-your-rubbers?"
Confessing to Bein: Near Jail.
"welI, you see-well, it was this way.
First, the officer said"
"What officer?"
"Police officer; but the Mavor he"
"What Mayor?''
eMavor of Geneva; but said
ssWait. What is the matter with you?"
"Who, me? Nothing. They both tried
to persuade me to stay, and"
"Stay where?"
''Well-the fact is"
sWhere have you been? What's kept
you out till half-past 10 at night?'
80, you see. after 1 lost my letter of
credit, l."
"You are beating around the bush good
deal Now answer tine question in just one
straightforward word. Where are those
rubbers?"
"They-well; they're in the county jail"
started placating smile, but it petri-
fed. The climate was unsuitable. Spend
ing three or four hours in Jail did not seem
to the expedition humorous. Neither did it
to me, at bottom.
x,
course it came out then that we couldn't
take the early train, because that would
leave my letter of credit in hook still 1t
did look as if We had all got to go to bed
estranged and unhappy, but by good luck
that was prevented. There happened to be
mention of the trunks, and I was able to
say had attended to that feature.
"There, you are just as good and thought
full and painstaking and intelligent as you
can be, and it's shame to find SO much
fault with you, and there shan't be another
word of it, You've done beautifully, ad-
mirably, and I'm sorry 1 ever said one un-
grateful word to you"
Didn,t Need Gratitude just Then.
This hit deeper than some of the other
things and made me uncomfortable, because
1 wasn't feeling as solid about that trunk
errand as wanted to. There seemed some
Row to be a defect about it somewhere,
didn't like to stir the matter Just now, it
being late and maybe well enough to let
well enough alone.
OF course there was music in the morning
when it was found that we couldn't leave
by the early train. But had no time to
wait; got only the opening bars of the
overture, and then started out to get my
letter of credit.
1t seemed good time to look into the
trunk business and rectify it if it needed it,
and I had suspicion that it did. 1 was too
late. The concierge said he had shipped
the trunks to Zurich the evening before. 1
asked him how he could do that without ex-
hibiting passage tickets.
mot necessary in Switzerland. You pay
for your trunks and send them where You