Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1899-11-18


disappeared and Drurgsey tucked his '''
feet Under his desk and became abb IT
sorbed in his correspondence.
In the course of half an hour Henry
returned and reported that he had left
the shoes and that they didn't say
nnthin'."
Ill guess they concluded that they y
hadn,tany decent excuse to make, was
Drurgsey's comment.
At,4: 30 o'clock Drurgsey told the boy
that.she had better run over TO Hind
mans and see If those shoes weren't 4
done. lie used the word run" as a sort
of figure of speech, for he knew Henry
better than to suppose that he would
really proceed with any unseemly haste
Henrys,acked the salt granules that had g..
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. rDrurgsey looked at the Office
clock and saw that it was five minutes !,
past five o'clock.
Where do you suppose that blamed /
boy is?Y che asked. Search me-" re ,
! piled the partner. Good night"
I rDrurgsey waited for few fevelish |
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.
-sWhere are those shoes2" shouted his
employer.
The boy looked scared. 81 guess they
amt done,Y he stammered- Il didn't
think there wuz any use waitin' any
longer"
'sYou guess they amt done? Don't
YOU know? Didn't you ask? Didn't 1
tell YOU that wanted those shoes by
} five o'clocky'
. ...I told ,en1 that when took the shoes
,,oxer''
{ "Wen, why didn't you get them7
What did they say about them. anyway
Leave those peanuts alone a minute and
6 Eanswer me-"
= "Thev didn't say nothin'," said Henry.
."Say!" said Drurgsey, with the calm
ness Of concentrated rage, lyon 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?"
Il utes he was back again painting and
Il with a pair of shoes under his arm
a Good boy!'' exclaimed Drurgsey,
q ioyfully. "You can get a move on you
= ali right when you have-wby, what in
j thunderation! These amt my shoesl"
10 As the excited man was delivering
,r his opinion of Office boys and shoemak-
Z ers in. a sulphurous recitative, Wagner
~ the mosaic and tile man in the Office
=. next door, came in and asked whether
TO he wanted the police sent for.
at ."Waeper, YOU can save my life" said
no Drurgsey. "Hindmans have got my
fe shoes repairing them and haven't go
" another pair to my name. I've sen
he this-this boy over q dozen times, an'
he he's just brought me back the WRONG
st ones. Won't you go over and get then
for me. Sayl I'll do anything you cal
a name for you if you viii. They will b
ed closed in ten minutes, and I've missed
err my train now. If don't make the mex
.m one I'm going to get into all kinds o
n trouble at home. Be good fellow
ID Wagner. You know the shoes whe
at you see them, don't your"
nd Those patent things that you'v
air been blowing about for the last week?
.Sn Yes; hurry Or if you don't want
he go let me wear your shoes down ther'
ee- I'll wake them; up"
AT II won't trust you" said Wagnei
ull I'll go and get the shoes Tor YOU DO
he take q .eab?"
1t take anythingsyou like" said Druri
to- sey, '"bua hurry"
IT'S, Wagner took a cab and FASTENED owe
its 10 the shoemaker,s. He explained IL
: Id -, int f,r
ion a clerk, who found out that no OF
his knew anything about the shoes. One
ay. two of the clerks had already gone hon
-e's and they might have received theI
: of The clerk said that he would look i
ure the factory book, and see if they hi
ont been sent over. The factory box
vas showed that they had been sent over.
oes How far is the factory from here
asked Wagner.
hes About six blocks"
ded I'VE can make it. Jump into the Ct
ped with me; we've got to get those shoes
be- The clerk jumped IN and they dro
Of TO the factory and found 1T was close
am They were shaking the door.when a ?
aft liceman pointed at a man who W
zen turning the corner OF the street, a,
ded said he had just locked the place I
The man was pursued and broug
ar,s back, the place unlocked and q scar
-e,- instituted for the shoes. At last Wa
IoS+ ner found them under a bench. hi
'ova covered withleathers scraps, and theha
nv of the repairer had not touched the
any Wagner took them. however. WI
he got back EDrurgsey was waiting
a. the hall with the Office door closed,
hat on and his umbrella In his han
- He snatched the shoes from his friel
80 and without stopping to lace tn
a. dashed into the elevator and told I