Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-10-14


policeman moved him back again.
But can't get tree passengers in
two weeks over there" said Dinny.
You can't get any passengers If we
take your license away from you," said
the policeman.
SO Dinny stood away from the mad
ding crowd and grumbled, while the
horse tossed his nosebag into the air
and tried for the last grain of oats.
Then he grew philosophical, though he
did not abate his anger, for he said, as
he whipped his body with his hands:
"Well, I'm agin the alderman ony-
how"
The cold increased as night came on,
and Dinny thought less and less of the
cab business. Not that it was new to
him. He had driven for years, but
man may dislike even his oldest habits
And late at night he dropped into Ben
McGraw's saloon to thaw out and
smoke one final pipe before turning in
Ben was alone, and he offered to sell
the saloon to Dinny
"What'll you take?' asked the cab
man as he rubbed the tobacco between
his palms and warmed his back at the
fire.
Free and clear, $500, or 5000 and you
assume everything"
"Pll give you tree hundred without
incumberance," said Dinny, a little
proud of the last word.
"CashP
"No. Money"
''I'll not do it," said Ben. make it
our hundred and I'll trade"
They settled at $3.50, and Dinny rum
mayed around his clothes till he found
$50 gold piece with which he bound
the bargain. Next day he sold his horse
and cab to a countryman, and went
over and stood ON the depot side of the
street
81 told you to stay on the other side
of the street." said the policeman.
"I'll stay where l like" said Dinny.
''I'll have the badge off'n you" de-
clared the officer, and he caught at the
lapel. But Dinny, secure in a good suit
of clothes, guiltless of obligation, and
Smilingly strong, remained unmoved.
"Pll have the star off you, though"
he said as he moved triumphantly away
from the diligent officer. But, defeated
as he was, that threat had little terror
for the policeman. He knew where he
stood with the alderman.
Sunday evening Dinny went up to
Carnahan's house, and carried box of
candy for Mary. Somehow it seemed
the sweets lacked virtue, for Mary
Carnahan was less than hospitable in
her greeting. Dinny wondered if he
had rival. He got ready to leave ear
lier than usual, when Mary, from
force of habit, asked him what was his
hurry.
I'm needin' the warmt' of me over
coat" said Dinny. This place is
chilly"
'It's no chillier than it ought to be,
Dinny Mannigan," said the girl.
"And why?"
people that keeps a saloon"
"Oh, and it's that, is it?'
eyes. It's that"
"Well, saloon-keeper with silk is
better than a cabman with Calico
"Then he amt, though" said Mary,
her blue Irish eyes steady and unsmil-
ing
"Then I'll send around the man that
bought me out. He's Reuben" For
Dinny felt himself discredited, and,
with a mans brutality, he lashed out
blindly.
'Do. I'm sure he'll be welcome"
But she repented in moment, and
went close to her lover, the eyes less |
steady and the face flushed and red
"Ah, Dinny," she said, why did you |
buy it? Things were better before"
But he was not Modified. He had |
tasted some of the sweets his position
yielded, and he knew there were more
further on. He turned from the door
and would not look at the face pressed |
against the window-the face that
would have lighted ever so much il he
had but turned with a smile.
, The alderman came down Monday
morning and told Dinny to support
Spieshoffer as central committeeman.
"But / don't like him." said Dinny.
"I'm whettin' me hatchet for another
guy"
you'll put your hatchet in the ice
box and kape it there till tell you to
take 1t out-and then you'll use it on
your best friend If l tell you to-" The
alderman was a very domineering fell
low, and Dinny didn't know just how
far he might care to go. That was the
only limit. 1t is never a question how
far he can go, but how far he may
choose.
The alderman's son came around in |
the afternoon, and Dinny interested |
himself in the study of heredity and |
the anomalies it involved. The son
-,cs slender, tastefully dressed, with
diamond which he did not labor to