Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-10-12

Tcally pTOcecu Will any unSeeIu1y UaSle.
Henry sucked the salt granules that had
gathered on his fingers from the pea
nuts and started out. Drurgsey went
on with his writing.
Presently his partner closed his desk
and asked Drurgsey if he would attend
to the locking of the safe before he
went out. Drurgsey looked at the Office
clock and saw that it was five minutes
past five o'clock.
"Where do you suppose that blamed
boy is?" he asked. SEARCH me,'' re-
piled the partner. "Good night
Drurgsey waited for few feverish
moments and then rose and began to
pace the floor with a noiseless, panther
tread. At last he heard the gate of the
elevator clang in the passage and Henry
appeared.
"Where are those shoes?" shouted his
employer.
The boy looked scared. "Iguess they
amt done," he stammered. II didn't
think there wuz any use waitin' any
longer
"You guess they amt done? Don't
you know? Didn't you ask? Didn't I
tell you that I wanted those shoes by
five o'clock?'
81 told 'em that when took the shoes
over"
"Well, why didn't you get them?
What did they say about them, anyway?
Leave those peanuts alone a minute and
answer me.''
"They didn't say nothin'," said Henry.
"Say!" said Drurgsey, with the calm
ness of concentrated rage, "you go right
back there and get those shoes, and be
back with them inside of six minutes,
or don't come back at all. It's 5:25 now.
If you aren't back by 5:35 you lose your
job-understand?"
Henry vanished, and within six min
utes he was back again painting and
with a pair of shoes under his arm.
"Good boy!" exclaimed Drurgsey,
joyfully. "You can get a move on you
all right when you have-why, what in
thunderation! These amt my shoes!"
AS the excited man was delivering
his opinion of office boys and shoemak-
ers in sulphurous recitative, Wagner,
the mosaic and tile man in the Office
next door, came in and asked whether
he wanted the police sent for.
wagner, you can save my life,'' said
Drurgsey. "Hindmans have got my
shoes repairing them, and haven't got
another pair to my name. I've sent
this-this boy over dozen times, and
he's just brought me back the wrong
ones. Won't you go over and get them
for me. Say! I'll do anything you can
name for you if you will. They will be
closed in ten minutes, and I've missed
my train now. If don't make the next
one I'm going to get iEto all kinds of
trouble at home. Be good fellow,
Wagner. You know the shoes when
you see them, don't you?"
'Those patent things that you've
been blowing about for the last week ?''
Eyes; hurry! Or if you don't want to
go let me wear your shoes down there.
I'll wake them up"
81 won't trust you," said Wagner.
''I'll go and get the shoes for you. Do
take cab?"
"Take anything you like" said Drurg-
sey, "but hurry
Wagner took cab and fastened over
to the shoemaker's. He explained the
situation, and succeeded in interesting
clerk, who found out that no one
knew anything about the shoes. One or
two of the clerks had already gone home
and they might have received them.
The clerk said that he would look at
the factory book, and see if they had
been sent over. The factory book
showed that they had been sent over.
How far is the factory from here?"
asked Wagner.
"About six blocks"
eve can make it. Ju1np into the cab
with me; we've got to get those shoes"
The clerk jumped in and they drove
to the factory and found it was closed.
They were shaking the door when po-
iceman pointed at a. man who was
turning the corner of the street, and
said he had just locked the place up.
The man was pursued and brought
back, the place unlocked and search
instituted for the shoes. At last Wag-
ner found them under bench, half
covered withleather scraps and thehand
of the repairer had not touched them.
Wagner took them, however. When
he got back Drurgsey was waiting in
the hall with the Office door closed, his
hat on and his umbrella in his hand.
He snatched the shoes from his friend,
and without stopping to lace them
dashed into the elevator and told the
boy to let it drop.-Chicago Daily Rec
ord.
A Queer Vessel.
The most singular ship in the world
is the Polyphemus, Of the British navy.
1t is simply long steel tube, deeply
buried in the water, the deck rising
only four feet above the sea. It car