Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1896-06-18
land, land give me your words OF honor

He got ell that he asked for and left the
house while the table drank his health.
What he did only he himself knows. A
fakir hung about Bronckhorst's com
pound for II days. Then a mehter APP
peared, and when Biel heard of him he
said that Strickland was an angel full
hedged whether the menter made love
to Janki, Mrs. Bronckhorst's ayah, is
Question which concerns Strickland ex,
clusively.
He came back at the end Of three weeks
and said quietly: You spoke the truth,
Biel. The whole business Is put up from
beginning to end. Jove it almost aston
ishes me! That Bronckhorst beast isn't
fit to live"
There were uproar and shouting, and
Biel said: "How are you going to prove it,
You can't say that you We been tresphssing
on BronckhorSt S compound In disguised
no" said Strickland. Tell your
lawyer fool, whoever he is to get up some
thing strong about inherent Improbable
ties and discrepancies Of evidence He
won't have to speak but 1t will make him
happy. I'm going to run this business. -
Bel held his tongue, and the other men
waited to see what would happen. They
trusted Strickland as men trust quiet men.
crowded. Strickland hung about in the
veranda of the court till he met the Mo
hammedan khitmatgar. Then he muir
INJURED fakir's blessing in his ear 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
ped. You must remember that before
Strickland was married he was, as have
told "a ready "a natives
Strickland whispered "a rather coarse YER
nacular proverb to the effect that he was
abreast Of all that was going on and went
into the court armed with trainers gut
whip.
The Mohammedan was the first witness,
and Strickland beamed upon him from the
back of the court. The man moistened
his lips with his tongue, and, in his abject
fear of Estreeken Sahib, the fakir, went
back on every detail of his evidence; said
he was a poor man, and God was his wit
ness that he had forgotten everything that
Bronck horst Sahib had told him to say.
Between his terror of Strickland, the judge
and Bronckhorst he collapsed, weeping.
Then began the panic among the wit
nesses. 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 it was not
wholesome for any man to lie unthriftlly
in the presence of Estreeken Sahlb.
Bel said politely to Bronckhorst: " Your
witnesses don't seem to work. Haven't
you any forged letters to producet' But
Bronckhorst was swaying to and fro in his
chair, and there WAS IA dead pause after
Biel had been called to order.
Bronck horst ) counsel saw the look on
his client face, and, without more ado,
pitched his papers on the little green baize
table and mumbled something about hay
ing been misinformed The whole court
applauded wildly, like soldiers at a theater
and the judge began to say what he
thought,
Biel came out of the place, and Strick
land dropped "A trainers gut whip in the
veranda. Ten minutes later Biel was cut
ting Bronckhorst into ribbons behind the
old court cells quietly and without scan-
dial. What was left of Eronchhorst was
sent homo in a carriage and his wife wept
over it and nurscd it into u man again.
Later Oh, after Biel had managed to
hush up the counterrharge against
BrenclhurSt of fabricatn2 false evidence
Mrs BroucNhor>t, with hy? faint, watery
smile, said thar there had been Il mistake,
but it wasn't her Teddy tAult altogether
She would walt till her Teddy came back
to her, Perhaps he had grown tired of
her, rr She lad tried his Patience and per
haps we Wouldn't cut her any more, and
perhaps the mothcrs would let their chill
dren play With little Teddy" again, He
was 50 lonely. Then the station invited
Mrs Bronckhorot everywhere, until
Brunckhorst was fit to appear in public
when he went home and took his wife
with him. According tn the latest advices,
her Teddy did como back to her and
they are moderately happy, though, of
course, he can never lore 4'e her the thrash
ing that she was tho iAlrect means of
getling for nina.
What Biol wants t. know Is, why
didn't press home the charge against the
BronchhG~t hr4tr and ay' i.i-s run in
What MIR. strickland want, Ia know is:
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