The age-herald., 1899-10-22

Commissaire de Poce" Six or eight pass CTS by had already begun to form a ring about the girl with the tightly-rolled sun- shade and the pointed-beareded man sitting ono the silk hat.
 Childs' English friend pushed his way into the ring and taking for granted that the young woman spoke English, seeing that, as he afterwards explained, boxing and the English language are accomplish ments that generally go together, called out, Capital, really! Awfully clever bit of workn
 That attracted the attention of the ath- lletic young woman to Childs and his friend. She turned still redder in the face and said as if she thought some apology or explanation necessary, 'I just had to do it. He's been following me for three bocks.'
 ''There.' said Chids. "I told you so. Blocks She's American"
 q beg your pardon" the Englishman began but aren't you English?'
 At that point. however, a man whom Childs described as 'dressed in buttons and a toasting fork pushed into the crowd and began talking volubly with the French man, who was just getting up off his hat. There was a good deal of jabbering, and the policeman seemed to be addressing hgh-sounding remarks to the athletic girl, who answered him in French.
 ..Does he want to run you in?" Childs asked her.
 Don't you hear what he says?" she ans wered ''Pve got to go before the prefect and stand up to be cross-examined before a whole mob. It's perfectly horrid.'
 Here it seemed that the athletic girl was going to concede so much to her sex as to weep.
 '.Never you mind about that" said -Childs. "We'll fix all that"
 Then they hailed a four-wheeled cab, and the gendarme thought he and his fe- male prisoner were going to be driven in state to the prefecture at the expense Of these foreigners. The Frenchman, whose left cheek was marked with four red marks, and whose mouth was flowing blood, stood there trying to grin hideous promise of vengeance, while he administer ed first aid to his crumbled hat. Childs. who is a tall man with large bony hands, went and grasped him by the elbow and spoke sconfidentially in his ear, while the Fnglishman on the other side of him, nodded signifcantly and then, turning to the girl said .Jump into the cab. Quick!''
 She was a girl who could take hint. She jumped into the hack, while the po- liceman was arranging his sash and hiS little sword, and called to the complain ing witness to come on and bring his bat tered hat to the prefecture. Before the complainant was ready to comply his fem nine assailant had put her head out of the window on the other side of the hack and shouted some thing to the driver who whip ped up his horse ana starleo at the HlSh- est speed he could command, and, at the same moment. the complainant was some how impeiled to put his head down and rush-so Childs told me-"just like a glddy goat" at the gendarmes legs. The conse-s .auence Was that the representative of Parisian justice and the man whom he wanted to protect against foreign feminine violence fell together in a heap The crowd laughed and shouted in chorus, just as if the whole exTh. bition had been specially provided for their amusement at the public expense, and Childs and his friend rushed like the wind in the opposite direction to that in which the hack had taken.
 The Anglo-Saxon allies had, of course, turned the corner before the Parisian po- liceman had settled his dignity, his sash, his sword and his cooked hat-all consid- erably discomposed-and had time to solve these serious problems q) Whether he ought to pursue the female offender in the fiacre or the two ruffians who had gone on foot in the opposite direction; @ Whether the man with the pointed beard ought to