The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-03

mere were uproar and shouting and
Bisl said How are you going 10 prove itf
You can't say that you We been trespassing
on Bronokhorst's compound In disguiseV
"So," said Strickland Tell your
lawyer fool, whoever he Ia, To get up some
thing strong about inherent Improbable
ties and discrepancies OF evidence lie
won't have TO speak, but IL will make him
happy. I'm going TO run this business
Biel held his tongue, and the other men
waited TO SEQ what would happen. They
trusted Strickland as men trust quiet men.
When the case came off, the court was
crowded. Strickland hung about In the
yeranda of the court till he met the Mo
hammedan khitmatgar. Then he muir
INJURED a fakir's blessing In his car and
asked him how his second wife did. The
man spun round, and as he looked into
the eyes OF Estreeken Sahib his Jaw drop
ned You must remember that before
Strickland was married he was, a. l have
told you already, power among natives.
Strickland whispered rather coarse YER
naoular proverb To the effect that ne was
abreast OF all tia; was going on and went
into the court armed with trainers GUT
whip.
The Mohammedan was the first witness,
an0 Strickland beamed upon him from the
bac of the court. The man moistened
his lips with his tongue, and, In his aDJect
fear of Estreeken Sahib, the fakir, went
back Oh every detail of his evidence; SAID
he was a poor man, and God was his VIII
ness that he had forgotten everything that
Bronck horst Sahib had told him to say.
Between his terror OF Strickland, the judge
and Bronokhorst he collapsed, weeping.
mi 81 10
masses. Janki, the ayah, leering chastely
behind her veil, turned gray, and the
bearer left the court. He said that his
mamma was dying, and that 1t was not
wholesome for any man to lie unthriftily
in the presence Of Estreeken Sahib.
Biei said politely to Bronckhorst: Your
| vvitnesses don't seem to work. Haven
| you any forged letters to producer But
| Bropckhorst was swaying to and fro In his
| chair, and there was dead pause after
/ Biel had been called to order.
Rronckhorst'x counsel saw the look on
| his client q face, and, without more ado
pftohed his papers on the little green baiz'
table and nrumbled something about hav
| inc beeu misfnformed. The whole cour
applauded wildly, like soldiers at theater
and the judge began to say what n
thought.
Bel came out of the place, and Strick
land dropped trainers gut whip In TN
yeranda Ten minutes later Bel was cut
ting Bronckhorst into ribbons behind Tn
| old court cells, quietly and without scan
l dal. What was left of BroDckborst wa
sent home in carriage, and his wire wep
/ over IL and nursel IL into man again.
Later on, after Biel had managed q
hush up the countercharge agains
Bronckhorst of fabricating false evidence
Mrs Brunckhorst, with her faint, water
smile. said that there had been mistake
hut 1t wasn't her Teddy's fault altogether
She ws-uld wait till her Teddy came bac
to her Perhaps he had grown tired c
| her. or sac had tried his patience, and pei
haps we wouldn't cut her any more, an
perhaps the mothers would let their CHI
/ dren play wath "little Teddy" again. IL
| was SO lonely. Then the station invite
| Mrs. Bronokborst everywhere, unit
Bronckhorst was fit to appear Ia publ
/ when he went home and took his wil
with him. According to the latest advice
L her Teddy did ''come back to her. an
| they are moderately happy, though,
| course, he can lover forgive her the thrasl
| ing that she was the indirect means
getting for him.
Il What Biel wants to know Is, wi
didn't press home the charge against u
Bronck horst brute and have him run In
What Mrs. Strickland wants To know i
/ -'How did my husband bring such Lover
Il lovely Waller from your stationy L kno
\ all his money affairs, and I'm certain
didn't buy It,
What l want to know Is, How
| women like Mrs. Bronckhorst come
/ marry men like Bronckhorsty''
And my conundrum is the most una
J swerabi., of the three -Rudyard Kiplin