Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-05-06

OURS"
BY II. II. sIIERARD.
hnd nattered myself that / should
have the carriage all to myself I'm that
t'iO train from Marselllcs to Paris. but
Just as was moving out OF the sta
ton an elderly gentleman-nn English
man Ike myself-iumped In. lie
looked a pleasant man, and, when he
began y talk found him entertaining
ana wen Informed, He was even hos
rltable, for. ms the night went on. he
more than once offered me cognac
from a ilnslt In his little black bag and,
at other times, cigar, which he de-
scribed as elegant. 1 seemed to offend
him by refusing, but ! could not help
that. II has always been my rule to
refuse any such offers from strange
travelling companions The fact more
over that had 100 pounds sterling In
my pocketbook thnt night made me
particularly cautious
Some time about midnight. near some
station, the name u which | forget
was reused from doZe by my COM
pnniOn, who said that he was sorry to
disturb me. aud asked me II 1 could
/ lend him Il pencil
II want to write n telegram" he
snid; u can get It sent on from the
next station, where we stop for few
minutes"
MY pencil was IN my pockethook and
was rather reluctant about taking y
out Tor rear OF showing That | had
money on me. Then / laughed Mt my
self for my foolish fears. The old man
was respectable enough. aud In any
ease was certainly moro than match
for him. Besides, what I carried In my
MP pocket was not there Tor nothing;
,t,,, ~ nS ,,'1 H., u'.w
a, ~ ~ ' i',
,,,, t" I, ,E poInt ,,, i'v a,u ,",
ror n snitni,in Moe ~ ,,,sr am ,,rirS
to ,vrite his dtsnatcb '''
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s,,,,ord u,,Jcr tbc r,,s.in,,n ANN ,,,a'
,,.r,,trg tia tnt..",,t, / rn,,n1 r,gs,is
tr,,irr IN reod what he was writing
,r5 ,,y cn,svsi,, ,,a, he i,,af,,,,Gi
when raising his hend. NJ. detected me
In thia lndIsereet and most ungentle-
manly net.
u bog your pardon" / stammcred
"I raniiv ana not tncnn-I hone Won
won't thinl, me" And [ was profuse
in my explanations and apologies.
.rt really would not have mnttered n
straw II you had read every word OF
It," he said. holding the paper out to
me. IL Ia only a wire to my wife in
Paris To tell bSr that am arriving nv
this train, 1 hadn't time To wire from
Mnrsenlca. Rcnd Il IL YOU like
l ala not think his insistenca on this
noint nice Of him bur To satisfy him
glanced nj the paper which. MS he
gnid bore tho sInpleat az dnmosti,
mcssagea and then continued 10 ex-
ruse myself No doubt he found TINT
my Insistencc ON mis- point was nor
nice of mo
Lets hnve n drink together" no
snld. producing MS flask. 'and sny mo-
more about II "
cnusc I bad "a nntfe myself ,,s,err HI,
nftor what bnd done nnd drnnk ti,,,
proTered glass nnd very rood co,.nac 4,
tvns too-,ybinh yyarrnrl nv bnnrt o,,,t
mnde mo pauitent md laxative
81 hu,r pi,vnvs tbot hud bobttu
eaId "ond 4 ,yisb I could cure n,,,s,is
nf il rnr IL ia cnrt,in IN yot ma H.
G.,,,lIr .o,nc 6,,, AM ,,', -
tt,i,1g 4, e,,tled ~, "a ,',,,,,,, q, ,,',,.,
'''',,' e.,,n,,. ,,S w. siee
70 t tv" ~, "a sVuunI.o no uuuu
~ ~. " wns sel WV iul Mulon ne
mus. my u,vSSeu Iile, ~ WIS IN thls
way ,"IN't now nlony yours ago |
nappgneu 20 ne IN teleslnph once
somewhere IN the city IN dfhcechureh
street II remember rightly, when
policeman came in ana started writing
and read what he wrote, by the force
OF that vile habit Of mine.
what do You think II WASP II wns
to the police at Plymouth telling them
to arrest man travelling uudor the
name of Fenton, who was on the train
such nm hour Then followed a brief
description OF the fellow. | was a blt
OF socialist at that time. or rather
should say am anarchist, and ala moi
like the authorities nnd The police and
sn On Gst fror, siii,, notin,is "n ,,,
,' w. - .1u s.S "'1''l's, you
think nbout Fenton trnveiipp sn,ist,, ~,
irnorance OF tho Observation-Disclosures I'M n1
boen mnd, f,r Ne ,ccentin,, NJ hi, ,, Low
nc,.,a ana al, ,.,.,. ~. ~ "s ~ Juur-
- ,,a, c,r,a, I io' ~ ,u III, Iii IesieW
,,,d 49,, ,'S3',lS Ne'S iuV,isn o, me,
snrr, for In, ~ -, IN nmyt,''W' KY
nv, &, ,,,a t,t o''' ~, ,''Nukrs =, Would
',,.,,o,s,,l ,nNr W ~ w pI,vs OF thslr
i,i,.rs,,,t, Na ~ luuhSu up me
enHrd tSat 't"t,'s , IL, ~ nr"' l ana
IN '' stetlon n aha ,'ue 20 SEM 9 a wire
W p,,,,, s,V,"n Np9ut siNly miles from
t,,l,, ,t.,,,aF -, "a 800
d ,9u S'V 4, y, IN, my 80 ula' sni ad'
ireent rnTc ~ o uo1,u .hg ram