The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-10-05

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M UIl great Way OH, anu
YO S,f9j&\ by much shouting
~ " and waving Of his
&If WSI/C arm to catch the
AEU notice Of the driver.
e. SRJVS He counted it good
fortune. for the
time was long to him till he should
have done forever with the Lodge; and
she further he must 60 to find a cab,
The greater the chance that the newt
able discovery had taken place, and
Ehat he should return to ind the gar
Zen full Of angry neighbors. Yet when
the vehicle drew up he was sensibly
ehagrined to recognize the port-wine
oabman of the night before. "Here,"
he could not but reflect, ''here lis an
ether link in the Judicial Error"
The driver, on the other hand, was
pleased to drop again upon so liberal a
lare; and as he was a mantle reader
must already have perceived-of easy,
not to say familiar. manners, he
dropped at once into vein Of friendly
talk. commenting on the weather, on
che sacred season, which struck him
chiefly in the light of day of liberal
gratuities, on the chance which had re-
united him to pleasing customer, and
On the fact that John had been (as he
was pleased to call it visibly ION the
fandan" the night before.
"And We look dreidful bad to-day,
sir. must say that" he continued.
There's nothing like dram for ye-
II yell take my advice Of it.; and bein'
q it's Christmas, I'm no saying" he
added. with a fatherly smile, "but what
I would join ye myself"
I John had listened with sick heart.
"I'll give you dram when we've got
through" said he, affecting sprightli-
ness which sat on him most unhand-
somely, land not drop till then. Bust
aess first, and pleasure afterward."
With this promise the jarvey was
prevailed upon to Chamber to his place
and drive, with hideous elaboration,
20 the door of the Lodge. There was
no signs as yet Of any public emotion;
emily. two men stood not far of in talk,
and their presence, seen from afar, set
Johns pulses buzzing. He might have
spared himself his fright, for the pair
were lost in some dispute Of a theologi-
cal complexion, and with heightened
upper lip and enumerating fingers,
pursued the matter of their difference,
and maid M heed to Iohn
But the cabman proved thorn in
the flesh. Nothing would keep him on
his perch; he must Chamber down, COM
ment upon the pebble in the door
(which he regarded as an ingenious
but unsafe device), help John with the
portmanteau, and enliven matters with
. flow Of speech, and especially Of ques-
Mons. which thus condense:
He'll no be here himself, will he?
No? Well, he's an eccentric mana
fair oddity-if ye ken the expression.
Great trouble with his tenants, they
tell me. I've driven the family for
years. I drove cab at his fathers
waddin' What'll your name be?-I
should ken your face. Baigrey, We say?
There we're Baigreys about Gilmerton;
yell be one of that lot? Then this'll
b a friends portmantie, like? Why?
Because the name upon it's nicholson!
oh. if ye're in hurry, that's another
Job. Waverley Brig? Are We for
lway?"
At the station his spirits rose again;
another stage of his escape was FORUM
ately ended-he began to spy blue
wate-. He called railway porter, and
babe him carry the portmanteau to the
cloak-room; not that he had any notion
Of delay; flight, instant flight, was his
design. no matter whittier; but he had
determined to dismiss the cabman ere
he named, or even chose, his destina-
ton, thus possibly baking the Judicial
Error of another link. This was his
cunning aim and now with one foot on
the roadway, and one still on the
coach-step, he made haste to put the
thing in practice, and plunged his hand
Into his trousers pocket.
There was nothing there!
Oh, yes; this time he was to blame.
He should have remembered, and when
he deserted his blood-stained panta-
looms, he should not have deserted
along with them his purse. Make the
most of his error, and then compare it
with the punishment! Conceive his
new position, for lack words to pic
ture it; conceive him condemned to re-
turn to that house, from the very
thought Of which his soul revolted, and
once more to expose himself to cap
ture on the very scene Of his misdeed:
conceive him linked to the moldy cab
and familiar cabman. John cursed
the cabman silently, and then it oc-
surred to him that he must stop the in
sarceration of his portmanteau; that,
. least, he must keep close at hand,
md he turned to recall the porter. But
his reflections, brief as they had APP
veared. must have occupied hin, longer
man he supp osed, and there was the
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