The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-24
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Don't speak so loudly" said the
younger Of the two men.
The man with the gray hair and
gray face looked round anxiously. Il
wasn't, was II"
Consider where we are. Don't
whisper, either. And II I might give
a word Of advice, shouldn't let my
self get excited II we're you; it's not
good for you. You're trembling all
over now. Take a pull at your glass.
and you'll be ali right Now then.
The old man drank. and wiped his
mouth carefully with a colored hand
kerchlef. 1T isn't even as II It had
been my fault" he said almost whim-
pering. Il was coming down the
steps as he was coming up. He sud
denly lurched OF. avoiding somebody
else, and ran into me. Then he said
It. Why the deuce don't you look
where you're goingl' he said. Go to
the devil. you clumsy loutl be said.
That's twenty years service. Twenty
years I've been their trusted servant,
and then to be spoken TO like a dog.
Oh. shall never get over IT,"
And that was when It FIRST occurred
to your"
The first and only time. I'd got
R2.70s. gold and notes, il my bag at
the moment Yes. I could have made
him pay dear for that insult Suppose
! hadn't gone to Lombard street with
the cash at all Suppose I had just
gone on sOmewhere-"
"ssshl"
The old man lowered his voice again.
What mean to say IS that there was
plenty IN that bag to keep me IN COM
fort the few years I've got left.
Though may last a good bit yet in
spite Of the doctors."
What's the good OF talking about
II? You didn't do It. You went your
usual round. paid the money in same
as usual, and put up with your treat
ment You haven't got the courage OF
your opinions. You'll always put up
with anything"
"Oh. no. WON'T Perhaps i've got
as much courage as some younger
men, Once I can reconcile a thing to
my judgment and conscience, you'd
find I take a BIT Of stopping. II I
didn't like that what I've been speak
ing Of. may find something else that
I do. I've been used to civil treatment
All my life, and I'm not going to toler-
ate insults now that am old"
II you'd done what you first in
tended. don't deny that you'd have
hit him a nasty one. But there's
nothing else you can do Suppose you
started to give him a bit Of cheek;
you'd be thrown out Of his. once be-
fore you were half way through, and
bang would 90 your pension. Suppose
you went 70 him and said you wanted
70 leave owing to the way you've been
treated There again be saves the
pension. It may be dimcult, as you
say. to ind a man whom you can trust
with large sums. but it's not impossl-
bic. You'd have pleased him q good
deal more than you would have pun
ished him. No. there's only one way
to give him a good slap IN the face.
and you lighted on that flrst time"
Il never took 50 much as a pin from
anybody IN ny life"
OF course you didn't Do you think
don't know you well enough not 10
talk about stealing to your There's no
question Of that. Twenty years you've
been with them, and underpaid the
whole time. as you've often told me-
That must be pus right. Then you
should sacrifice that What you've a
Just claim to you'd take and no mure."
They wouldn't understand Il that
way"
you could write them a letter ex-
planning. II were treated like a dog
I'd show them could bite like one.
too. But here. you're not drinking.
Same again. miss please"
"You couldn't have anything much
simpler" said the young man q little
later. IT win be June is. vonx IT."
II DO It."
There's next to nothing for you 70
do. Tarrant shall be waiting for
Eou IN The cab at the corner. You've