The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24

my face, with so pityous ex-
preston. and all the while SO RESPECTFUL
as II / was gent instid of a low-down
panhandler. that If I'd had to resk the
gaIus. believe I'd have said, as did
that she could count on me, so she
could.
And then, icolonel, she told me as
how the appreciation for the stay OF
perceedin's was only a plant to hold
her husband in Jail until he could es-
cape; and how, if he could only git out
by l o'clock O. night, she had her plans
pat Tor drivin' acrost, the country to a
train what would land them in Phila-
delphia afore his Dutch leave would
be diskivered, where they could take
a boat for the Argentine. and be happy
forever arter. She pranced up and
down the fiure, she did. like t'orobred,
as she says, I'd have been out of there,
l would, afore this, If l was only in his
place. Why, he got the, finest kit of
tools that could be bought she says,
but poor, dear Reginald, he never
could do nothin'.4 and he don't know
how TO use them
Well, num-, says /, arter she'd told
me that he was KEEP all by his lonelies.
up in the room over the jailer's apart
ments, where they locked poor debtors
when they had them; well, num- says
/, you kin be watchin' the night in
your kerridge. all right, for il poor.
, dear Reginald don't come lopin' over
the wall at / p. m, it'll be becuz when
there's nothin' to do he can't even do
that. I'll show him TIE way says l.;
and if heain't man enough to go troo
it, why you'd better put on Grape to
onct and be done with it,
And then, colonel. she took blazin'
di'mond ring from off her finger and
she says, says she, a smilin' like the
queen of the fairies, Jest keep this to
remember me by, please
| Satisfied With Thirty Days.
well, colonel, off goes to see my
old friend, the squire, and he received
me most affable. How much is it this
time you wants, Shortys' he asks.
About t'irty, your honor says I.
% It's goin' to be a hard winter says
he; you'd best take the full extint, I'm
thinkin'.'
Il wants a opportunity says /, to
pay me RESPECTS to the four hunder,
New Years day. and then I'll go you
a repeater. = Well, he laughed, he did,
and made out the commitment, and
carried out it's directions by presintin'
myself at the body of the jail fort wit
I" Good boy, Shorty says the sheriff.
as soon as he seed me, L was a-sayin'
de odder day it was about time for
d
comp'ny, jest a few old FOUNDERS you
couldn't dust out, and young swell up
stairs. Take the Dist the house per-
vides; it amt none too good for you
Il may as well explain, colonel, that
the Jail was a buildin with two wings,
one for the men, one for the women,
with the office, private quarters and
definition room for pore debtors in the
cinter. This last room, in the top of
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apartments below, but was reached by
windin' stair and a little hallway
from the mems prison. There was one
featur about this room which 1 had
borne in mind when I promised so
brash to git Reginald out, and that
was that one corner of it was boorded
up and acrost, and 1 happened to know
what was behind the PARTITION. 1t
seems when the jail was built, the
architeck thinkin' that this room
might be used sometimes as a sick
ward, made a dumb waiter running
straight up from the kitching, through
the space between the casing of the
stairway and the WALL, so that the ra-
ton tins could be sent up and down. 1t
was a fool plan at bist and the dumb
waiter was never used, bein' boorded
up. as / says, and very few KNOWN of
its existence.
Al CLOCK, cOiOuel, the Jdlier ne
called me to take a tray, of supper, and
pretty fly supper, too, right off the
sheriff's table, up to Reginald. Over by
the winder sat Reginald, in cushioned
rockin' cheer. readin' poetry, for all the
world, and smokin' a, .cigaroot.. He was
a white-livered lookiTf ohap,awith little
yaller side-boords, and drawn-down
expression around the mouth as if he
was sorry for hisself. AS I placed the
-
folded up his book and said, says he:
oh, dear, I've no appetite; 1 needs
the air and exercise
Then why don't you takes them?
/ asst with a wink, since you've got a
hull bugglar's kit up your sleeve, and
your faithful wife is a waitin' for you
on the outside.'
g I did try to break t'roo the WALL
says he, but 1 cut my fingers
=" Gimme your screw-driver,' says I.
if you know what that implamint
looks like, and do for mussy sake keep
your fiy-trap closed while work; you
make me sick "9S
The Escape of Reginald.
And then, colonel, with a turn or
two had the long screws out, and the
boards off, and there was the dumb
waiter a nestlin in place as if it was al
private car on a underground railroad
Mark this now says 1 to him, all
agape; at II this night you git in there
and let yourself down, rigulatin' the
speed by thin ropes there. I'll be be-
low to see you out, all right; and off
you'll go to Argentine, to confer the
Dist fruits of your civilization on the
benighted dagoes that lives there
I can't says he. it allus did make
me dizzy to ride in the cars
You've jest got to-, says 1; for
look you now, you can't screw them
boords back, in place, and 1 won't; and
if you're ketched al sech a attempt as
this they'll railroad you to. the place
you've been sent to, stay or no stay,
and when onct you're there. they won't
do a thing to you for a des'prate char
akter. but put hobbies on your legs and
bra celets ON YnIIr wrists and q hunder=