Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-02-22
A STERN CHASE.

It was just about this time last year, an
just about this time o. night, was walk
ing the mare along Broadway looking for
a job-an, to tell the truth, looking weary
an anxious for one, seein as how I'd been
out since 10 o'clock an hadn't even taken
my yard money.
Twas just passin Chambers street when
out of the shadow sees two people who
attracted my attention. They was scud-
din along arm in arm, as If Old Nick was
after 'em, an their faces as they came into
the gaslight was CHASTITY white.
One. as far as l could see, for he wore
SLOUGH hat, an his ulster collar was turned
up, was a gentleman in the late twenties or
early thirties The other was a gel of about
20, wearin travelin cloak an a tweed
hat an carryin a sort O. handbag. Jest
caught sight of her face as she stood under
the gaslight at the street corner, an al
though, as everybody knows, amt what is
called impressionable sort O. cove, il
gave me real thump in the chest like II
was such pretty face, an not on'y pref.
ty but sweet face; the lines was so deli
cate, an there was such a sad shadow over
1t, especially about the eyes, an the chin
had such daisy of dimple on it. All,
it's all very well for you coves to say
Cheese it." Human nature is human ma
ture, whether it's settin inside kerride
an four or outside a bloomin shoful, an
lovely woman Is the one touch O. nature as
makes the 'ole world kin, as Shakespeare
says, an you bet he knew somethink.
Tho Ia ~ hn orto -,
hold of the splashboard an says, "Cabby,
can you catch the midnight train for Bos-
toni"
Says I: "I'll have shot at 1t, sir. There's
no KNOWN what my little mare can do on
the pinch. Jump ill.,"
The girl hops in like bird, an the fellow
arfter her, an as the doors swung to on them
whistles to the mare, an ficks the whip
that talks to her with an strokes her. but
never hogs her with, an she was off in a
smart trot.
But just then / hears somebody behind
shoutin, "Hil stop that cab!' an looks
round and reins in bit. Then I says to
my fare through the butterfly: 'There's
old gent a-signalin me to stop, sir. Friend
of yourn, serpose'"
But my fare he says, excited like: "Drive
onl Drive onl Don't take any notice of
anybody till you get to the Grand Central.
Well, thinks l. it's no business O. mine.
My instructions is g. G. by 12," so CHR
rups to the mare, an in hinfnitesmal
part Of second that old gent was, instead
Of 10 yards, 200 in the rear
Then begins to wonder what the little
game is, for glancin round sees the old
gent jump into another hanson an shout,
"Overtake that cab at all hazardsl'
The driver Of that cab, strange enough,
happened to be Joe Tibbits, an Joe Tibbits
an me somehow happened to have took
dislike to each other, principally ON &C.
count OF our havin took likin to the very
same identical young woman as was just
then upper 'ousemaid in 'ouse in Licking
ton avenue.
Now, Joe was a chap as put on enough
side to have made billiard ball do any
think, but while didn't care a fardin rush.
light about i'm thinkin ITSELF a lot smarter
Teller than me, when it came to chippin
about losses, as he was very partial to, 1t
kinder used to touch me on the raw, an
when he said, as IL my mare was another
color an gender, she'd "a done very we'll for
tQ6 uuuCAOdhAu Alu0 uoCQ w COp tuC uCculo
to that extent that one day we got off our,
boxes in quiet street to settle our chippin
match with scrappin one, which we should
have done quiet an peaceable If as how
long drawn copper, as was our mutual rival
In the affections Of the girl Of both of our
hearts, hadn't appeared on the scene an
threatened to take our number - well as
takin our kebs.
So when | hears Joe chyike to the old
genelman (but at me): nAll right, sir. !
can waltz round that ere relic Of Old Bulls
Head" ! says: "Can yeri Well, we'll have
try" an gives quiet tug at the offside
rein, as told my little mare what was want
ed of her.
Inever asked a question In vain. She
aourished her head a. II she was goin to
butt at brick wall; then ale chucked out
her fore feet, as II she was Paddyrisky
a-playin grand pianner, an you could hear
The music on the stones as she fooled along
over 1t, an the lampposts they whizzed past
az close on each other as the bullets out Of
a gatlin.
Then, what with thinking about the gel
as was the bone Of contention betwixt jos
an me, an what funny thing love was,
an naOW IL upsot ttlin8S Al BclleEdl al mhuo
everything bit brisker, all Of a sudden a.
idea flashed into my 'ead. lifts the but
terfy once again, an says to my fare:
.sThat ole gents took another cab, an he's
racin Of US, SIR"
"A flyer II you beat him, /" says the fellow,
an thrustin bis hand through he says
"There's something on aocount.'
Fright you are. sir" saysI but scuse
me-is 1t elopementP
"You've hit it," he says. an the gel
laughs sech pretty musical laugh too.
.That IL this young lady'r scoundrel Of q
guardian, who wants to keep her fortune
an prevent her margin me-"
Lays, go II, my beauty, !" an Just as shs
sweeps round into Madison square the mare
givesa bound forward, an . cooper stand.