The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-11-09

tomorrow morning at 10 O'Clock and
hopes it'll be convenient to you to sec
her"
It'll be convenient for me to sec her
in but stopped myself. The bloom
ing Joke was past beyond all cusses.
How IN flames did she know" says |,
that called myself Trcakell?"
'Sho asked if the Trcakcll us lodged
here answered to the description she
gave of you No Troakell lodges here
says |, but Tvo u party stopping in
the house rs is the same us you de-
scribe. Then lis names pooley, says
she. 'Pooley it is, says |, the surprise
making me answer quick. Then she
tells me you married her ut Deal and
desartod her when your infant babe was
6 months old"
III not SEQ the hedgehog, | burst
out She's ten stun O. lie from hat to
heel. Don't let mo be troubled by her
She's no vito of mine"
"You won't sec her, d'you sayT"
Look here. Is there any letter for
mo?''
Nary lett.~ You won't see her,
d'you sayi'
Mary letter." l says. 1T cost me 4
bob, and who the blooming blazcs is
a-going to see it where they've gono
and stuck it, right anidships of Il whole
smother of like notices? If they takes
yer money, why don't they find yer in
answers? Damn mo if it amt worse
than picking your pocket to ontice a
man into spending 4 bob and never a
one withcred reply in two daysl'
so you wont see her, them" says
Mrs. Gumble, lifting of her eyebrows
and sourly spreading of her lips till |
saw the red of her false teeth at the
back of her jaw
l just wished deep down in me that
she'd been Gumblc instead of his wild
der and passed up stairs.
| vent to II coffee house for breakfast
early next morning and was messing
about all day looking after Il job, but
could get nothing to do, not even down
at the docks, though | remember think
ing, when it came to my turning my
eye in that direction, that if l was to
knock about ships for a living I'd better
go to sea for good. There was no coun
try fancies in the isle of Dogs, no smell
OF the haystnck, no scent of the milk
maid in the breeZeS there. went back
homo to my lodgings in the evening,
wore out. Mrs. Gunh,e told mo that
the party mad called ut 10 O'Clock along
with the boy, but | wouldn't hear tell
of her and went straight to my bedroom
nnd lay down on my bed to smoke II pipe
and to consider whether this sort of
seeking for Il job wasn't like asking the
way to the work'us.
l lay late next morning, being, as |
have said, wore out. Sides, what was
there to get up for? OF course it woulu.
be the old joke owe again, ways of re.
fusing of n man that was the same rs
punching his Lead, loafing about all day
long, coming home and 10 letters and
wondering if drowning was as quick aS
hanging.
l was getting out of bed at noon
when comes II knock upon the dooi
and Mrs. Gumble's voice says, your,
wanted"
"Who wants mC?" says |.
IAN officer of tho court" she an
swers.
l opened the door to her, and, putting
my head out, says, "What court?"
"Thc notice court snys she
..Whnt does me wnnt?"
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