The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29

Sinto the seat, by which time the driver,
drunken and truculent, had waded
asfter them.
"Who's to pay for this?" was his
4surly question.
"You, fancy, as soon as your en-
.ployer learns of your driving into that
hole" was Warnings cool reply.
"Well, by God, want five dollars
for my fare and trouble, and want it
right off" And, whip in hand, the
burly, Undiscovered fellow came lurch-
ing up the bank. Across the Doggy
street beyond the white picket fence
the green blinds of chamber window
in an old-fashioned southern house
were thrown open, and two feminine
faces peered forth, interested specta-
tors of the scene.
''Here, my mani" said Waring, in low
tone, you have earned no five dollars,
and you know it. Get your cab out,
come to Nine. d'Hervilly's, where you
were called, and whatever is your due
will be paid you; but no more of this
swearing or threatening-not another
word of it,
81 want my money, say, and mean
to have it. I'm not talking to you;
I'm talking to the lady that hired me-"
But 1 have not the money. 1t is
for my mother-Mme d'Hervilly-to
Spay. You will come there"
81 want it now, l say. I've got to
hire teams to get my cab out got
stalled here carrying you and your
child, and I mean to have my pay
right now, or I'll know the reason
why. Your swell friends got the
money. It's none of my business how
you pay him"
But that ended the colloquy. War
7ing's fist landed with resembling
-whack under the claimants jaw, and
sent him rolling down into the mud
below. He was up, foundering and
furious, in less than a minute, cursing
horribly and cropping in the pocket of
his overcoat.
'It's a pistol, lieutenant. Look outw
cried LETTERS.
There was flash, sharp report, q
zstifled cry from the cab, scream of
terror from the child. But Waring
had leaped lightly aside, and before
the half-drunken brute could cock his
weapon for second shot he was felled
like dog, and the pistol wrested
from his hand and hurled across the
levee. Another blow crashed full in
his face as he strove to find his feet.
sand this time his muddled senses
warned him it 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
soeman'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 inclosure,
aeomforted with soothing applications
without and within, and encouraged to |
tell his tale of woe. That he should |
wind it up with vehement expression |
of his ability to thrash thousand |
swells like the one who had abused |
him and a 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 ad-
dressed her Ethiop maid of all work:
$50 you over to Anatole's now, Lou
cite. Fell him if any of the byes are |
there ] want 'um. If Dawson is there,
from the adjutant's Office, 1 walnut him
quick. Tell him it's Mrs. Doyle, and |
never mind if he's been dhrinkin'; he |
shall have another dhrop here"
And at her beck there presently ap-
peared three or four besottedlooking |
specimens in the coarse undress uni
form of the day, poor devils absent |