The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-20

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| when / was out Now she knows that
/ ] go to the White Hart at half past nine
punct, every night and come back at ten
equally punct. She knows that l take
/ time to put the stuff in his kennel. She
/ may have wanted the pisun for rats or
/ she may have wanted IL for the dog. But
/ if she did want it for the dog. that's when
/ she'd try to get at him. Now, then, lis
/ ten to me. / as my little plan"
Forthwith he unfolded what his little
That night at half-past nine William
Sake Whstled to his dog, and the two
started together in the direction of the
| White Hart. When they had got clear
| away, Mrs. ointment came down the
/ road. She walked quickly and was eX-
/ cited; from both that shortness of breath
which was her frequent affiiction. In her
| hand she carried something done up in
| wspaper-something limp and unpleas-
| ant.
At the gate of William Sake's garden
! she paused for a moment and listened.
| The night was very dark, but she could
| hear that no one was coming down the
/ road in either direction. She opened the
! gate and walked boldly in. on she went,
| past the cottage, and right up TO the
/ big dog kennel. Here she listened again,
| but once more there was silence. Then
| she unfolded her newspaper and pro
| duced from it repulsive-looking piece
/ Of raw meat.
You awn't there, my beauty, aw yer?"
said Mrs. Ointment; mo yer awnt, but
/ you'll be back direckerly and you'll
glad of it. won't yer? Ho, yes. You'll
! gobble 1t up fast enough; and thatu be
| the last of you. You won't want no
| breakfast in the morning. You won't
| come o-barkin' and a-snappin' and a-tear-
| in of the gownds off the backs of respeck-
| erble folk. No, you'll lie quiet enough
/ when you've eat this, I'll warrant yer"
With these words Mrs. Ointment put the
meat just inside the kennel.
There yer are" she said, triumphant
| ly, your master won't find it there, and
At this moment voice from the inside
! darkness of the kennel said sternly: Mrs.
| Ointment, what are you dOing?"
| 1t was so totally unexpected that II
! threw Mrs. Ointment into state of panic
| Whole armies have suffered from It; so
4 now did Mrs. Ointment. She turned ana
| ran; whole armies have done the same.
| 1t was inconvenient for Mrs. Ointment
/ to run; rapid action of any kind was pos
! iti,-ei,r 5isfos+afuI 10 bar hit ronio bada
/ her run. and she ran. Past the cottage
! and down to the gate she went as fast as
! her legs would take her-but not through
| the gate. Sne did not go through the
| gate, because her path here was blocked
/ by William Sake and his dog. The dog
/ commenced 10 bark furiously at her, bur
| William Sake quoted him, and asked
/ the same stern question that she had
heard from the Interior of the kennei:
| Mrs. Ointment, what are you doing?"
Before she could answer, there were
| steps on the path behind her. She turned
and saw Violet Mysey. This much she
could recognize even in the darkness.
You're left something behind you" SAID
| Violet, politely.
Then Mrs. Ointment came to the con-
clusion that this world was too much for
! her, and she could not cope with it, She
made one desperate effort 10 brazen II
What am dom, and who might you be
that arst me that? No, Mr. Sake, it aims
my fault if calls with order for yer,
bein' forgivin and weak by nature. and
then finds We out maxim yerself drunk
| in filthy public"
Come inter the 'ouse," said William
no lit
along of US"
We'll. | never. Mrs. Ointment began.
! The impudence!
'As you please, ma'am. We knows
| what you've been here for. We knew
you was comm. That's why Violet was
id in the kennel 'Owever, you takes
yer choice. The perleece is andy an
| Ill call EN- in If you prefers it."
Mrs Ointment, went into the house
| without a word She glowered fiercely
| at Violet who smiled placidly. Violet
! placed the scrap of poisoned meat on the
table Mrs. Ointment at once caught it
| up. Here was another chance.
I've never yet card" she said, "as
| If were any crime to feed another man s
dorg, if its. mawster 'alf starves the
But not with pisun'd food" remarked
"Pisun'd indeed! Nice. good. fresh
meat nit for any Christians supper-that
| il is"
William Sake turned round, and lock-
ed the door of the kitchen. Very well.
them he said, you don't go out of this
kitchen until you've cooked and eaten
it,"
Then at last was Mrs. Ointment brou-Aa
| to confess. She did it very gradually.
She began with the assertion that she
would be only too glad to do as William
certain defects in the meat, the fault of
| the butcher. Then she said that some
one might have played her trick. She
! pisund unbeknownst to me- she saiu.
! Ten minutes afterwards she had arrived
| by slow gradations at the statement that
she poisoned the meat herself, and in
| tended to kill the dog with ii. "And
| should like to know what else l was to
| do? Why, you ought to be thankful to
| me for tryin ter save you the trouble -
Then William Sake grew magisterial.
| He commented severely on her want of
| straightforwardness, on her brutality, and
on her general illegality. He regretted
| that she should have wasted the time of
the bench as 1t We're by her shifty evas-
she might have seen that she was fairly
Then the principal witness, Violet NV
| sey was sent home to bed, and in her
absence William Sake pronounced SEN
| tence on the criminal. 1t was very light
sentence. William Sake had always been
a much kinder man than he had wanted
to be- 1t merely bound Mrs. Ointment to a
| certain course of action, promising her in
return that her crime should not be d.
Mrs. Orient is still the terror of some
| in her native village, and the admiration
OF others. But she SPENDS no time now
on the correction, Improvement and gene
raj irritation of Violet Mysey. Be her
hat ever so crooked, be her habit of stone
l>throWing never so dangerous. be her CON
sumption of unripe fruit never so free
and injurious. Violet never meets with
| one word of reproOf from Mrs Ointment
/ The terrier still lives. He loves Mrs Or
liment. He calls at her shop occasionally
for light refreshment, and gets it, The
change in him took long time to bring
| about. but it has been accomplished Ag-
mes wonders at it. Agnes was even SO in
discreet as to ask her sister about it
an indtscretion which she will not re-
peat
Mrs. Ointment has deprived Johnson of
| her patronage on the ground of his infe-
rior workmanship. She employs William
Sake.