Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-13

his horse, turned suddenly, and a pair
of lovely dark eyes lighted up at sight
of his face. Her pallor, too, gave in
slant place to a warm flush: pretty
child at her side clapped her little hands
and screamed with delight:
"Maman! mamanl Cest M'sieu' Way
reeng; c'est Sa-am."
"Oh, M. Wareeng! I'm SO glad
you've come! Do speak to that man!
1t is horrible the way he beat that poor
horse-Mais non, Min Nin!' she cried,
reproving the child, now stretching
forth her little arms to her friend and
striving to rise and leap to him.
"Td like to know how in HI I'm to
get this cab out Of such a hole as this
if I don't beat him." exclaimed the
driver, roughly. Then once more:
''Dash blank dash your internal hide!
I'll learn you to balk with me again.
Then down came more furious lashes
on the quivering hide, and the poor
tortured brute began to back, thereby
placing the frail four-wheeler in immi-
nent danger of being upset.
''Steady there! Hold your hand, sir!
Don't strike that horse again. Just
stand at his head moment and keep
quiet till get these ladies out" called
/ Waring, in tone quiet yet commanding.
I'll get 'em out myself in my own
way, if they'll only stop their internal
yellin'," was the coarse reply.
"Oh, M. Wareeng," exclaimed the
lady in undertone, 1.-The man has been
drinking, am sure. He has been SO
rude in his language"
Waring waited for no more words.
Looking quickly about him, he saw
plank lying on the levee slope. This
he seized, thrust one end across the
muddy hole until it rested in the cab,
stepped lightly across, took the child
in his arms, bore her to the embank-
ment and sat her down, then sprang
back for her young mother, who,
trembling slightly, rose and took his
outstretched hand just as another lash
fell on the horses back and another
lurch followed. Warning caught at the
cab-rail with one hand, threw the
other arm about her slender waist,
and, fairly lifting the little madame
over the wheel, sprang with her to the
shore, and in an instant more had car
ried her, speechless and somewhat agi-
tated, to the top of the levee.
"Now," said he. "let me drive you
and Min Min wherever you were going.
Is it to market or to church,"
'Mais non-to bonnie maman's, of
, whom it is the fete," cried the eager
little one, despite her mothers stern
| orders of silence. "Look' she ex-
| claimed, showing her dainty little legs
and feet in creamy sillzen hose and kid
1t was "bonne maman," explained
madame. who had ordered the cab from
town for them, never dreaming of the
condition of the river road or suspect
ing that of the driver.
$50 much the happier for me-" laugh
ed Warning. "Take the front seat,
LETTERS. Now Min Min, ma feurette,
up with your And the delighted child
was lifted to her perch in the stylish
| trap she had so often admired. "Now,
| madame" he continued, extending his
hand.
| But madame hung back, hesitant and
blushing.
"Oh, NJ. Wareeng, 1 cannot, I must
not. Is it not that some one shall
extricate the cab?"
"No one from this party, at least
laughed Waring, mischievously, mailing
the most of her idiomatic query. "Your
driver is more cochon than cocher, and
if he browns in that mud twill only
serve him right. Like your famous
compatriot, he'll have a chance to say,
4 will drown, and no one shall help me,
for all | care. The brute! Allons!
| will drive you to bonnie maman's Of
=, nom it is the fete. Bless that baby
daughter! And Nine. d'Hervilly shall
bless Min Minis tout devouc Sam"
And Nine. Lascelles found further
1 cfYsou IN
into the seat, by which time the driver
drunken and truculent, had wadec
after them.
who's to pay for this?" was his
surly question.
you, fancy, as soon as your EN-
ployer learns of your driving into tina
hole" was Warnings cool reply.
"Well, by God, 1 want Ave dollars
for my fare and trouble, and 1 want il
right off," And, whip in hand, the
burly, Undiscovered fellow came lurch
ing up the bank. Across the bogg,
street beyond the white picket fence
the green blinds of a chamber window
in an old-fashioned southern hous,
were thrown open, and two feminine
faces peered forth, interested specta
tors of the scene.
Here, my mani" sa i'd Warning, in Low
tone, "you have earned no five dollars
, and you know 1t. Get your cab out
J come to Nine. d'Hervilly's, where yo,
) were called, and whatever is your du
will be paid you; but no more of thi
) swearing or threatening-not anothe
| word of it."
81 want my money, I say, and I mea
, to have it. I'm not talking to you
: I'm talking to the lady that hired me.
, "But I have not the money. 1t
, for my mother-Mme d'Hervilly-t
pay. You will come there"
81 want it now, say. I've got
hire teams to get my cab out. 1 &c
stalled here carrying you and you
!, child, and 1 mean to have my pa
t right now, or I'll know the reaso
t why. Your swell friends got tn
n money. It's none of my business no
you pay him"
But that ended the colloquy. Wa
= ing's fist landed with resoundin
, whack under the claimants jaw, an
+ sent him rolling down into the mu
a below. He was up, ofoundering an
u furious, In less than minute, cursin
p horribly and CROPPING in the pocket