Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-12
BEHIND THE CURTAIN.

BEHIND THE CURTAIN.
g No, thanks, old chap; really can't
f0p the night. l should like to, aw-
lilly, but, you see. If I didn't turn up
~ wife would be in funk, and
Dyer 60 to bed at all, thinking some
hing had gone wrong. Besides, I've
ot to let Jones have three columns
copy by o'clock tomorrow, and l
nven't started yet"
ssWell, just as you like; only wish
Du had said earlier you didn't mean
<Dpping, so we could have telegraphed
5 say you wouldn't be back. It's at
~ half-past seven now, and our near
e Office is five miles away, so it's too
Lite
It was no use, Jim Carson wouldn't
top 90 / had to order the trap to
1five him to the station to catch the
40 back to town.
After seeing him off I went to the
tation-master's Office to inquire II
ome things I was expecting down
from London had arrived, and while
There I noticed an evening paper ly-
Ing on the table. 1t just happened
That an intimate friend of mine had
3 lawsuit on about some copyright
business and the first hearing of the
onse was to have taken place that
ay Thinking the affair, as far as
3 had proceeded, might be reported,
81 asked the station-master If he would
mind my having look at the paper
Tor a minute.
.sCertainly, SIR" he said. ''You
may as well take it back with you, as
u have finished with it. There's a
niece In about some fellow as is said
70 have escaped from Bradley Asylum
last night, and about killed one Of
The warder chaps. I expect it's just
one of them yarns as gets into even
ing papers now and again. Well,
kood-nlght, sir, I'll send up your
things as soon as they arrive"
/ was long time going the three
miles which lay between the station
and my lately acquired domicile.
Lighting cigarette and leaving
Tommy to shamble on as best he
liked, started in to think.
Six months ago what was 1? Well,
what is generally called a literary
hack; getting ABOUT SO week-some-
times more. generally less-just be-
cause crusty old uncle on whom I
was dependent had seen fit to chuck
me out neck and crop for the simple
reason that 1 didn't go in for what he
wanted me to; j. e., the bar.
1 was of a literary turn of mind,
and though I should never be shin
ing light in the profession, 1 could at
least earn my bread and cheese. So
in a At of anger I told the old gentle
man I wouldn't be a lawyer, where
upon I was called an ungrateful, inn
pudent puppy, and told to do what I
liked.
"No,' 1 thought to myself, "RoberJ
Grant, il you've got to prevaricate, do
it Indirectly"
So went in for journalism! And
now, poor old uncle has gone the way
Of all flesh, letting me in for all his
estate, real and personal, including
Ashworth Lodge. Old uncles who
quarrel with their wilful nephews
and disinherit them, generally do
come round at the last. Mine did at
any rate.
Jim Carson, the fellow whom I had
seen OF, was an old chum of mine in
the scribbling days, and had just run
down to see my new abode and wish
3 rich uncle had kicked him out some
pears ago
Tommy aroused me from my. mus
7ings by stumbling over something in
the road and nearly throwing me out.
So / gathered up the reins, and we
went the rest of the journey at
sharp pace.
ssBenson," said to the man whom
I had engaged as kind OF valet
groom until I was properly settled,
sswhen you've put the horse up just
tell Mrs. Hewetson she can 90 home
as soon as she likes as I shan't want
,anything more tonight. !" Mrs.
sHeWetson was the wife of the gar
tdeu4r, who lived about half a mile
5nMak and was looking after the house
And Hooking for me.
It was too fine night and too
Early to turn In, so I settled myself
N old uncle's favorite armchair be-
|1Dse the dining-room window, and
eoOmenced to look over the paper I
"a got from the station-master. I
loo1Eed nrst for the lawsuit report
hit evidently the case had not come
on until late, as there was nothing In
The paper about it
ssHalloa, this must be what the
1ntion-master was talking about"
snScAPH or LuNATIc.-Late last evening
= nnkfc named james Stanley made his
666oDo nom Bradley Asylum under peculiar
znstances. which win probably result
- 6eIkh Of one Of the attendants. II
- that last night the usual annual ball
81 DIhce at the asylum. and several OF the
G1fao suffering from the milder forms OF
r0noH were allowed to be present IS ordi-
10y R0osts. ~ had been usual on al past
- Gxpns. Stanley was one OF these. and
n1only he was found to be missing from
- noow. and on search being made he
oGl1d not be found. On proceeding outside
- hunt for him. the body Of one OF the at
vvsw nm