Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-13

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from his hand and hurled across the
levee. Another blow crashed full in
his face as he strove to find his feet
and this time his muddled senses
warned him 1t were best to lie still.
Two minutes more, when he lifted
his battered head and strove to stanch
the blood streaming from his nostrils,
he saw the team driving briskly away
up the crest of the levee; and, over
come by maudlin contemplation of his
foeman's triumph and his own wretched
plight, the cabman sat him down and
wept aloud.
And to his succor presently there
came ministering angels from across
the muddy way, one with brogue, the
other in bandanna, and between the
two he was escorted across dry path
to the magnolia-fringed Enclosure,
comforted with soothing applications
without and within, and encouraged to
tell his tale of woe. That he should
wind 1t up with vehement expression
of his ability to thrash a thousand
swells like the one who had abused
him and piratical prophecy that he'd
drink his hearts blood within the
week was due not so much to conf
| dence in his own powers, perhaps, as
to the strength of the whisky with
| which he had been literally sup
| piled. Then the lady of the house adj
dressed her Ethiop maid of all work:
go you over to Anato1e's now, Lou
| cite. Tell him If any of the byes are
there want 'um. If Dawson Is there,
from the adjutant's Office, I walnut him
quick. Tell him it's Mrs. Doyle, ana
never mind if he's been dhrinkin'; he
shall have another dhrop here
And at her beck there presently APP
peared three or four besotted-looking
| specimens in the coarse undress uni
form of the day, poor devils absent
| without leave from their post below
and hoping only to be able to beg or
steal whisky enough to stupefy them
before the patrol should come and
drag them away to the guardhouse.
Promise Of liberal reward III shape
of liquor was sufficient to induce three
Of their number to go out with the
| Tuning cabman and help rescue his
wretched brute and trap. The mo-
ment they were outside the gate she
turned on the fourth, pallid, siclzly
man, whose features were delicate,
whose hands were white and slender,
and whose whole appearance, despite
| CLASSY eyes and tremulous mouth and
limbs, told the pathetic story of better
days.
you're off ag'in, are you? Sure
heerd so, and you're mad for dhrink
now. Can we write, Dawson, or must
brace you up frst?"
An imploring look, an unsteady
gesture, alone answered.
"Here, thin, wait! It's absinthe ye
need, my buck. Go you into that room
now and wash yourself, and I'll bring
it and whin the others come back for
their whisky I'll tell 'um you've gone.
You're to do what I say, now, and
Doyle will see you trough; If not, it's
back to that hell in the guardhouse
you'll go, my word on it,
ooh, for Gods sake, Mrs. Doyle"
began the poor wretch, imploringly,
but the woman shut him off.
''In there wild you! the others are
coming" And, unbarring the front
door, she presently admitted the trio
returning to claim the fruits of their
honest labor.
els he gone? Did he tell you what
happened?"
"He's gone, yes" answered one; ''he's
gone to get square with the lieutenant
and his cockney dog-robber. He says
they both jumped on him and kicked
his face in when he was down and un-
armed and helpless. Was he LYNN"
ooh, they bate him cruel But did
he tell you of the lady-who it was they
took from him?''
"Why, sure, the wife of that old
Frenchman, Lascelles, that lives below
her the lieutenant's been sparl1in
this three months"
"The very wan, mind vel" replied the
lady of the house, with significant en-
phasis and glance from her bleary
eyes; "the very wan" she finished, with
slow nodding accompaniment of the
frowzy head. "And that's the kind Of
gintlemen that undertakes to hold ur
J their heads over soldiers like Doyle.
Here, boys, drink now, but be of
against his coming. He'll be here any
minute. Take this to comfort We, but
zape still about this till We see me
J ag'in-or Doyle. Now rum" Anc
with scant ceremony the dreary party
was hustled out through a paved court
: yard to a gateway opening on side
| street. Houses were few and scattering
so far below the heart of the city. The
? narrow strip of land between the great
river and the swamp was cut up inte
| WaueO Enclosures as a rule aDan
= doned warehouses and cotton presses
moss-grown one-storied frame struc
lures, standing in the midst of desolatt
fields and decrepit fences. Only among
the peaceful shades of the Ursuline
convent and the warlike fanking tow
ers at the barracks was there augh
S that spoke of anything but demoraliza
r ton and decay. Back from the levee
block or two the double lines of strap
q iron stretched over a wooden cause
!; way between parallel wet bitches CAV
evidence of some kind of railway OF
. which, at rare intervals, logged
o sleepy mule with sleeper driver AM
musty old rattletrap of cara ca
o butting up against the animals laz..
It hooks and rousing him occasionally t.
T ringing and retaliatory kicks. Aroun
y the barracks the buildings were closer
n mainly in the way of saloons; the1
e came mile-long northward stretch O
" track, with wet fields on either side
fringed along the river by solid struc
r lures and walled Enclosures that told Q
q days moro prosperous than those whic