Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-11-05
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panion, who started with q stitled cry
of alarm, Taras, seeing me, spoke a
few low words Of remonstrance to his
friend that seemed to say: "What are
you afraid Of? It's only a poor, miser-
able wait" Then recognizing me at a
second glance, he exclaimed softly In
English:
''Ah, Il is you"
Eyes, me-the kipper," I tried to
say but my voice was thick with fever
ish agitation aud my words unintelligi-
BILE.
"You have come to tell us that 1t is
all right" he said, adding, after he
had given this explanation TO mis-
friends, "it's very good Of you" and he
nodded at me again with that kind
smile that had wrought such a mYster-
ious effect upon my nature.
Just then Drlgo whistled softly from
the side door OF the Joy, and Taras
hurried his friends forward, leaving me
| there with more happiness in my heart
than l had felt in the whole OF my life,
l waited on the landing until they
! had all filed into the Joy. Then L
slipped past the closed door aid ran
across to the archway in Sweet Apple
lane opposite the house. knew that
there was no accommodation for the
party in the Joy, and that as soon as
| the escaped men had changed their
| clothes they would come away. Asthere
was no other way but throughiSweet
Apple lane they must pass me, and l
should see Taras once more.
had stood there not many minutes
when l heard a glass crash In the JOY,
and the next moment there was a d8ep
thud as If some one had thrown himself
against the door; then there followed a
stifed cry, the shutting Of feet and the
sound Of heavy blows. These sounds
left me In no doubt as to what was 60
ing on In the bar Of the Joy. In Shad-
well one hears the noise OK fighting
every night. But / could hardly be-
lieve that Drigo and Putty were the at
tacking party. The latter l knew to
be a coward ana feeble as well, being
sodden with drink. Taras, l felt sure,
could defend himself against half a
dozen such men as he, and timid as his
| friends might be ii was not likely that
they would stand aside and make no
effort 70 aid him. I had nc fear for him,
but rather 8 savage eXultation in the
belief that he would thrash his enemies
and punish them according to their de-
serts. 1t occurred TO me that be had
dicovered Drigo's treachery and was
now giving him a lesson not to be for
gotten, and with 8 burning desire to
hear him bowling for mercy L ran
across the road and put my ear TO the
door.
The fight was over already. 1 could
hear no sound save q faint whispering
and occasionally the shutting Of feet,
and even these indications OF movement
within ceased after awhile, leading me
TO belieEs that the whole party had re-
tired into the room behind the bar. /
could NOS make il out. There was no
swearing, no alteration, nothing but
silence. 1t was the strangest way OF
concluding q fight or quarrel that / had
ever heard. What did IL mean? Had
Taras killed DrigO by some terrible
blow Of that strong arm and were they
all silenced by the fear Of alarming the
police? That seemed 20 me the most
plausible explanation.
betook myself hurriedly to the dark
archway as l heard 3 grating Of the
lock In the side door Of the icy, and a.
most Immediately afterWard l saw the
three escaped friends Of Taras come "
from Ferryboat lane. l recognized al
three as they passed the archway.
They walked ia haste. 1 thought then
that they might be in search OF 3 doctor,
hut they never returned. After q time
I yentured down the alley. There wa:
no light 10 be seen through the fanligh'
of the side door. and al was silent Is
the night hung about the place IN