The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-18
LOVES OLD DREAM.


pocket To judge from appearances, it
had once been cleaner.
stMr. Arrowsmith9'' Miss Lavinia re-
peated, with an inquiring air. tOh, yes,
Louisa, you remember! He was She
hesitated, not liking to say ''that tramp
which, in point of fact, was the actual CO.
cupation of both gentlemen in question.
81 remember Miss Louisa replied,
with humorous little twinkle, for Mr..
Arrowsmith was an older and still more
viIlainous rogue than even the specimen
that stood before them.
''Weu, he give me this letter." Mr..
Turks repeated, handing the envelope
across to them. Tt bore traces of recent
close proximity to foul clay pipe and
also the following remarkable inscription:
To the two maiden ladies
On high beach road,
Not far from Lord Berryhurst's park gates,
Near Haslemere,
Surry.
One of 'eln wears specktacles.
The interior of the letter consisted en-
tirely of a single sentence:
The bearer of this, a gentleman named
Turks, his a friend of mine, an he win tell YOU
hall about it you obedgent servant,
RICHARD ARRGWsMITH.
A cross after the name led to a we'll
founded suspicion that Mr.. Arrowsmith
was indebted for the handicraft of this
epistle to the services of an amanuensis.
Miss Lavinia looked up. "Weu?" she
said interrogatively.
Mr.. Turks pulled himself together for
the arduous task of articulate speech. He
fancied himself as an orator. "Well,' he
said soIemnly, beginning his tale, CAR
rowsmith, he was enamored of woman"
He said this as though he supposed
Miss Lavinia would be astonished. But
Miss Lavinla, being parish councillor,
was far too wise to be astonished at any
thing including even Mr.. Turks COM
mand of language. "IndeedP' she said
politely.
lit was like this Mr.. Turks went on,
with visible marks of an effort to be ex-
plicit. 'Him an me was in the infrmary."
'Workhouse?' Miss Lavinia inquired
laconioally, for she knew the dialect
Mr.. Turks nodded. "Horsham,'' he
added slowly. "We was both of us down
with this ERE blessed infuenzer. Il gen
eralize his epithet.) can Arrowsmith,
he was enamored of a woman" (When a
man of Mr.. Turks class feels he has got
hold of highly appropriate and delicate
word, he doesn't let it go again till he
has had a good days work out of it. } 'An
the woman was in the workhouse, too-fe-
male side-infrmary. An the doctor, he
ordered Arrowsnith porter. He didn't
order none for the rest of u.s. not bein as
bad as him, but just pint a day for Ar
rowsmith. Hcwsomever, Arrowsmith, he
didn't drink his through bein that en-
amored of the woman I spoke of. but sent
it round to her by inmate as helped the
nurses
''That was touching" Miss Lavinia re-
Piled For indeed she had great heart,
had Miss Lavinia, and could sympathize
even with ragged old ArroWsmith and his
workhouse inamorata.
IAN he wanted me to write to her
clandestine,' - Mr.. Turks went on, adven-
turing yet another of his company words
with obvious gusto. 'sHe wanted me to
write her, not KNOWN how hisself, an bav
in got a inmate to write this letter to
you But of course j couldn't be party
to nothin clandestine.'' And Mr.. Turks
bosom swelled with conscious virtue.
efThat was pity Miss Lavinia re-
marked once more, speaking as a woman,
not as parish councillor.
Mr.. Turks looked surprised. He had
not expected this from a maiden lady.
IAN in time,'' he went on, "the master
found out he wasn't drinkin his porter ao-
cordin to orders, but sendin it clandestine
to this woman he was enamored of. So
the master up an gave him jacketin.
GA what?'' Miss Lavinia inquired, at
fault for a moment.
ga jacketin,' Mr.. Turks responded.
ftHad words with him, mum. in the man.
ner of speakin. An Arrowsmith, he new
er was one to sit down quiet to jacket
in, bein that high spirited. We calls him
the Village 'Ampden on the road. So he
up an arsts the master for his clothes, he
did,
"For his clethesP" Miss Louisa inter-
posed, not following the narrative.
Yes mum-for his clothes. You see,
in q workhouse things is always done reg
lar and respectable. When inmate wants
to leave, the reg lar course is. he arsts for
his clothes, an it takes "a hours for the
formalities to be completed. An Arrow
smith arstin for his clothes, the woman he
was enamored of arsts for her clothes, too,
an out they goes together, permiscuous-
like, as it would seem, but really through
his writin to her clandestine to warn her.
An Arrowsmith, he'd never eashed them
orders you sent to him through bein SO
much enamored an keepin it all for her, ;"
You recollect, Lavinia,'' Miss Louisa
interposed, "we sent him two postal orders
last winter for couple of shillings each
to buy himself tobacco when he was in
Maidstone Union"
Mr.. Turks nodded "That's it, he
answered sagaciously. can now comes
the trouble. He never cashed 'em, through
bein enamored of the woman. So out he
an she went an gees of course together to
the public 'ouse. An there, drinkin away
the money you was kind enough to send
him, Arrowsmith an the woman gets to
words that last an speaks Ugh to one an
other an has it out an fights in the end,
through bein in liquor. An the woman
hits Arrowsmith on the ead with a pew
ter an then runs away, an ArroWsmith
after her. An a p'liceman in plain clothes,
he sees 'en an follows 'em- An they runs
right on as far as Southwater church an
straight into the churchyard. An there
Arrowsmith catches her an hits her a
blow, an the woman she falls down cross
An back she goes to hospital. An the
p'liceman cops him. An Arrowsmith,
he's NOW in Lewes jail, awaitin his trial.
An he's sent me to arst if you Ii allow him