Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1899-12-02
MARrnsBURa. w VA. SATURDAY DEcvEMBER

the voice. WITH the same pathetic
magnetism Of futonatio1, while the
two functionaries looked a. II they
momentraily expected to see
couple of wings spring from the
splendid shoulders OF the spill
cant.
The two functionari Id . lriet
consultation. Apparently they came
to q concius ion, and the captain re
opened the conversation.
Sergeant Jeems win take you to
his residence for the night. madame,
and Mrs.. Jeems will s.e that you
are suppl. d with lodging and break.
fast. It's no place for one like you
10 the s,ation-house.'
The pathetic blue eyes looksd
thanks, ard the lips murmured
something inaudib!e, that, as thanks
the captain interpreted.
The two--the scrgeants and the
captains angel iIcognito--threaded
the streets that We. We in Mt work
over the body of the metropolis, and
in q halt hour the wnnderer found
herself in a tidily furnished room,
under the guardianship Of Mrs.
Jeems.
Three huadred bells, in as many
quarters 81 the city, changed three.
Banker Jeckyll was asleep, and This
dreams were Of the Vancouver two
millions, iut rmingled with 9 Ger
tain regret that, for the sake of the
effect, a couple Of Thousand must be
counted out for funeral expenses.
Detective Ferret slumbered un-
easily. The earning OF cool thous-
and so suddenly had uns tiled his
nerves. William Hamilton, attor-
Hey and councillor at law, was dream.
ing of coming cases. in which his
reputation was to De made; aud, 10
the little room at the house 81 User
gsant Jeems the late applicant for a
nights lodging. Poor thing! she
dreamed Of that conceited Hamil-
ton. 10 the dreams II Doctor
Quacken bush, a mesh see ned to be
woven about aim, and. in weird
nightmare, throttleds with it's cords,
he broke looseao find them vision
airy.
So went on the night, and the
three hundred bells, in as many
quarters OF the city. Changed fur,
and five, and six, and the day dawn
ed and New York began to wake up
here and there litlle-those who
sleep 10 easements or in attics be-
ginning the process.
Tue two m:l.i,n eyes OF the gr.a:
metropolis open d 10 pairs, one after
another. Hunir, d Of mouths yawn-
ed at The game ex Sct instant. Some
woke up gradually, as II slumber
had been their ornsl Condition.
Others starred suddenly into wakeL
fulness, leaplng the border and at a
single leap, and knowing nothing OF
that dlicious ialf state . which is
drowse. Some craw.ed as IL were,
from slumber, with a weary sOb,
dearlt Some kicked thu ussel|es as
if.drowse was something to be ex.
PEELED with gymnastics. Some got
DIP TO get breakfast, and some got
up neither t. get breakt.st or to
eat it; having no commissariat. But
one by one, all in their individual
ways and ior their individual pur-
pos, the million mouths and bodies
OF the metropolis wak'd up, until,
at tn o'clock, the whole vast city
was, collectively and individually,
awake-tne four actors 10 b e
drama enacted by night previous
being included. So, in one way
and another, beginning at the top
and bottom, the sevsn layers OF
humanity constituting the seven
stories OF the she'll of the great city,
/ found themselves all asake, with
the exception of the small per
ceutage whom the last sleep had
ove,ten, and who we're provided
with permanent lodging suited to
their condition at the earliest con-
vience OF the rest, and layer alter
layer, having gained its perpendicu-
lar, wen: pouring into street and
by ways, and surged up and down
to and fro like rivers, every individ-
ual constituting a separate and
very unmapageable wave; which trib-
utary rivers emptying into the great
j middle river, Broadway as early as
eleven o'clock that stream Of human
ity was so swollen as TO render at
tempt at navigation hazardous.
Banker Jeckyll started fr m
slumber internationally, as was his
wont, at half past eight o'clock,
| pulled the bell with an exclamation
point 10 the way he pulled it, and,
an attendant appearing, interjected
the word Coffee!" Ia his own mind
be was at that very moment exam.
lining the most imposing way OF ex-
pressing two millions, The con.
ception at last, alter considerable
rumination, framed itself in figures,
| picketed with exclamation points!
one end, and preceded with the cab.
alistic sign for dollsrs, thus, $1,000
000l | III!
These two million were now in
possession Of Mr.. Jecxyll, with mo-
body to claim them. That little
tragely at ,he pier had left him