The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-03-04
the gentleman with the eyeglasses the

! 'Wnere what lSI NO. 81 Delaplaln
street?" demanded that gentleman, witt
a blank stare "Good heavens, man
how long do you intend to keep up thi
role OF idiot? Wasn't it I that first in
troduced you there, I'd like to know
Perhaps it was, admitted North
nonchalantly
1T might have been, for anything
that am prepared to say to the contra
ry," he added mentally, as he stood fol-
a moment pulling his. mustache in
meditative way and glancing with {
puzzled air up and down the street.
81 say, North, have you taken to low
comedy as a permanent thing?" con
tinued the aggrieycd possessor ant
wearerof the eye-g glasses It's a shock
even to me, to see you degenerating SC
suddenly into the character of a clown
81 can vary it with high tragedy
said North, accommodatingly as he
went down the steps, sif that will suit
you any better, my dear fellow. Au
revoirl"
And with delightful sense of uncer-
tainty as to whittier he was tending, he
started slowly down the street.
He had not proceeded very far when
| he was arrested by the coloners face
tious exclamation:
81 say, Mr.. North, are you walking in
your sleep? Delaplaine street isn't
down that way, you l1nowp
North whirled around composedly
and retraced his steps.
''Will you be kind enough to tell me,
then, my dear colonel, he said, where
Delaplaine street is? I give you my
word that / have not the faintest idea. !"
And, pausing by the steps as he mutt
tered this astonishing confession of ig-
norance, he looked up at the colonel
with innocent perplexity depicted in his
countenaEce.
Mr.. North, what is the matter with
you?" demanded Col. Dayton, in whose
round, astonished eyes North read not
little dismay and suspicion
Nothing at all, colonel, except the
lifIiculty that 1 have MENTIONED" re-
urned North, reassuringly 1.-THE case
IS as plain as pikestaf. I wish to go
10 Delaplaine street, and have not the
1aintest idea where Delaplaine street is
Now, is not that a coincidence that
appeals to your helpful sympathies2"
s'Are you sure. Mr.. North-quite sure,
you know" ventured the colonel,
nervously apprehensive lest he might
not put the case with sufficient delicacy,
shat you are in a-exactly condition,
you know, to call on lady?"
North's first impulse was to resent
this imputation; then he reflected how
much ground there was for the colonel's |
suspicion, and amusement became up
Permost in his feelings. He smiled as
he answered:
''oh, yes, colonel, am perfectly sure
of that
WELL" said the colonel, still with the
air of one who darlxly suspected that he
was being imposed upon, you go up
Main street, ten squares beyond the
courthouse, and then turn into Della
PLANE street at your left. And if had
a silver dollar for every time that
you've been over that route in the last
three years, I'd be rich manl'' he
added, with a reproachful scowl, as he
drew his brows together and looked
down sharply at North. 'Think you
can make out, now, how to get there?"
''Oh, think shall have no difficulty
now, colonel thank you" And with
wave of his hand North turned away
again.
Why didn'tyou let him go on in the
irst placer" snarled the gentleman
sith the eyeglasses, before North was
Beyond the reach of his voice. sPer-
laps you had better send a small boy
dong to show him the road The fell
ow has been either drunk or as crazy
S Hamlet ever since he got back this
morning. What to make of him 1 don't
now, I'm sure!''
Don't try to make anything of me,
~ amiable friend murmured North
nder his breath as he proceeded up
he street, land then you'll not have
rushing failure to staggcr under. 1t
) indeed o cruel fate which compels me
} enter upon my career in X with
lch damaging suspicious afoat con- I
erning my sanity, or my moral char
,ter, they seem to be about equally in {
olved in doubt. However, my tri- ;
nphant vindication must come in the /
atural course of events When the t
'lonel has had full opportunity to OBJ G
rive the poetic beauty and innocence }
my daily life, he will doubtless r
knowledge that he has done me a b
uel injustice. Let me see now, t
here am 1? This is probably Main "
rect; they usually bestow that p
tme upon the most insignificant a
oroughfare in the city. Ten blocks t,
.yond the courthouse;' that ought to a
good landmark. Why in the name Sc
the city fathers don't they have ST
e names of the streets on the lamp h
sts? Under the impression, no doubt, sc
at everyone whose convenience is ST
orth considering was born and brought
in x, and, consequently, is well m
in the geography Of the place. No OF
licemen, either, SO far as have been I'll
lie to observe. How is a stranger to
t anywhere, or to know it when he OF