Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1895-12-20

ton with his letter bag renew thc.conncc-
tion of this household with tho world and
other worlds.
Dear Mr.. Harrington, l thought you
could tell us. Hero is a girl named Nora
Mclaughlin, and here Is her trunk both
left Mt the door by tho milkman, and wo
do not know anything about where she bo-
longs"
Insufficient addrcss9" asked Harring-
ton professionally.
"Exactly. All she knows is that her
brother is named John"
ga great many of them arc," said Har-
rington, already writing on his mcmoran-
dunn book, and in his memory fixing the
fact that large two legged living parcel,
tnsutficiently addressed, had been left Mt
the wrong door for John Mclaughlin;
also trunk, too large for delivery by the
penny post.
II will tell the other men, and if l was
you I would send to the police"
"Would you mind telling the first officer
you moet? l hate to send my girls out. ="
And SO she returned to Bulgaria.
But Bulgaria was ended, and Mr.. Con-
over handed her an article on Antarctic
Discovery" She was again reading:
"Under these circumstances Captain
Wilkes, who had collected boatoad of
stones from the front Of the glacier, when
she gave back Tho Forum to Mr.. Conover
"Would you mind going OH just min
utc?" she said and ran out to meet tho ice
cream man. So soon as he had left his tins
sho said
"Mr. Fridge, would you mind stopping
at tho Dudley school as you go home and
Hnll q
girl herc2" etc.
Good Mr. Fridge was most eager to help,
and tho hostess returned, took tho book
again and read on with "tho temperature,
as they observed it, was 80 degrees c.;
hut, as the alcohol in their tins was frozen
at the moment, thcro seemed reason to
suspect the correctness of this obscrya-
tion.'
And a SILVER passed over tho Reviow
blub.
Thus far tho powers Of confusion and
error seemed to have been triumphant
ayer poor Nora, or such was tho success of
that power who uses these agencies, if the
reader prefer to pcrsonify him.
But tho time had como to turn his loft
flank and to attack his forces In the rear,
for the postman now took the tcd-tlat
Is to say, Harrington, good fellow, finished
his third delivery, four good miles and
nine-tcnths of u furlong snow two inches
deep, thrcc, four, six, before he was done,
and then returned to his branch Office to
report.
"Two legged parcel; Insufficient ad-
dress; 80 I4inwood street! Jim. What ever
como to that letter that went to 90 Lin
wood street with insufficient address six
weeks ago."
"Linwood street? Insufficient address?
Foreign letter? Why, of course, you know,
went back to the central office"
""I guessed it did," said Harrington
4s;rimly, $50 must go thcrc too. y
This meant that after Harrington had
gone his rounds again on delivery route
No. g. four moro miles, and ninc-tcnths
more of afurlong, 81 3 doorbclls and only 70
slit boxes, snow now ranging from 6 inches
to 12 on the sidewalks, and breast deep
where there was chance for drifting,
when all this was well done, so that Har-
rington had no more duties to Uncle Sam,
ho could take Nora McLaughlin's work in
hand, and thus defeat the prince of evil.
To tho central Office by horse car.
Blocked onco Or twice, but we'll at the of
flee at 1880 in the evening.
Christmas work heavy, so tho whole
home staff is on duty. That is well. En-
cmy Of souls loses ono point there
Blind letter clerks all hero. Insufficient
delivery mon both hero. Chief of returned
bureau here. All summoned to the for
oign office as Harrington tells his story.
Indexes produced, lcdgcrs journals, day
books and private passbooks. John Nc
Laughlin's biography followed out on G7
of the different avatars in which his per-
sonality has been manifested under that
name. False trail hcre-clew breaks thcro
-scont fails here, but at last-a joyful CRY
from Will Search:
"Hero you are! Insufficient address.
Nov. /. Queenstown lcttcr-'Linwoot,
to John Mclaughlin. Try Dorchester.
Try Roxbury. Try East Boston. Try
Somcrvillc-and there it stops, and was
not returned
"Try Somcrvillc!"
In these words great light foil over the
eager circle. Not because Somcrvillc is the
seat of an insane hospital. mol But be-
cause it is not in tho Boston Directory.
IT, you please, Somcrvillc is one indcpcntl-
cnt city, and so, unless John McLaugh-
lin worked in Boston, if he lived in Som
crvillc, he would not be in tho Boston Di-
rcctory.
Not much! Somcrvillo has its own
seven John McLaughlins besides those
Boston ones
81 say, Harry, Tom, D'ck-somobody
fetch Somcrvilo D!rcctory!"
Dick flew and returned with tho book
"Herc you be! John Mclaughlin, la
borcr, 80 Linwood strcotp"
"Victoryn
Satans forces trcnblo and rs the diff
ferent officers return to their desks "cvcn
tho ranks Of Tuscany in that we'll bred
Office "can scarce forbcar to cheer"
AS for Harrington, he bids gootlby,
wraps his tartan around him and is out in
the snow again. Where Linwood street is
he "knows no moro than the dead" But
somebody will know.
Somcrvillc Car. Draw of bridge open.
Man falls into tho river and has to be res
cued. Draw closes. Snow drift at Margin
street. Shovels. Drift open. Center of
Somervillo. Apothccary's shop open.
"Plcasc, where is Linwood strcct?"
"Tako your second loft, cross three or
four strcots, turn to tho right by the water
pipe, take the third right, go down hill by
the schoolhousc and take second left, and
you come out at II Linwood street.
All which Harrington docs. He expert.
ences one continual burst of joy that his
route docs not take him through these de-
tours daily. But his professional expert
once is good for him. We have no need to
describe his false turns. Even aniseed
would have bcen useless in that snow. At
last, just rs the Soncrvillc bells rings for 8
O'Clock, Harrington also rings triumphant
ut tho door of the little five roomcd cot
tagc, where his lantern has already re.
vealed tho magic number 800"
Ring! as for gilt edged special deliv-
cry!
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