Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-03-13
THE WRATH Of THE katy DID

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This is tie story of Evan and Jane and
John, also Eladyslav Bavaliaweski, but
as you cannot pronounce that name anu
nobody at Brandy Patch tried to, he shall
be called Reddy Mike, for so he was
known at the Patch, even at the post
office Just when it happened is inmate
rial, but it is true, for | had it from
Tommy Duffy, the foTeOoss at the Katy
Did, and no miner doubts Tommy word.
Conway" which is Tommy style Of
beginning a story, the men on Mackln 5
porch stopped smoking and stared up the
hill, beyond the culm-bank at figure
coming down the road from Grifin's
house; and as anything so momentous as
to cause the smoke to stop putting and
swelling and rising from Mackin'S porch
is most remarkable, the women going
down to the spring halted and stared too.
''Shure It's Evan, the bhoy,' said Tom
my Duffy. And everybody agreed, which
was not the first time.
An not be the Clock announced
Tommy. Again the murmur Of assent.
This was the situation. [ could tell it
in the way that Tommy Duffy told me,
but | shall not, because If you are not
Connaught man you would not under
stand it, and if you are Far Down you
would not read it.
In Grifith's cottage lived Jane, his
daughter, which is not at all strange, but
what is strange is that for month past
Evan had been going there every even
ing, at half-past {. as soon as he was
stayed until after 10. If you knew Evan
the tickle and yet much favored, you
would realize what this meant. Every
body at the Patch did and SO did Evan
and Jane, and, much to his sorrow, John
also.
When Evan was seen going there on
payday evening, of all nights, Tommy
Duffy had turned his pipe bowl down
ward and said there was "a foine house
10 rint on Parrish row." while the girls
OF the Patch looked around for others.
and cast Evan out Of their hearts, even
as Jane had cast John forth a few nights
after Evans first call. When you know
this, you can guess that John and Evan
were not good friends. and that Evan
smiled when he said, Hello, john
well, onnyway," as Tommy Duffy
would say, the crowd on Mackin's porch
stopped smoking, and in silence watched
Evan as he sta1ked down the road. 1t
was only O'Clock, remember. When
he reached the porch there was still 81
lence. He sat in corner and whis-
tied softly to himself Tommy Duffy
surveyed him critically for a few min
utes and then relighted his pipe. The
others did likewise. For ten minutes
the smoke arose heavily and then some
one at the far end hurled political opin
ion broadside at his fellows. No one
answered, but all watched Tommy Duffy
knock the ashes out of his pipe on the
heel of his hand. refill it, and then ex
tend the blue paper to Evan.
.'Shmoke?" asked he.
''Nope," growled Evan.
Again the thoughtful silence. but sooT
foil 1~ix- how
and new in the mine, too. as one nigh
see, chirped:
Eyer down carly, Evan
Everyone could see that it was alb
surd to state It,. Sense was punched
into his ribs by the two old men Sitting
within reach, and with a grunt he sub
But the words had been the spur t.
Evans tongue. He jumped to his fee
and shouted across the street to hi
boarding mistress, who was leaning ove
the gate:
Il give up my place. Get somebody
else
An interrogatory murmur rumbled ii
the stem of Tommy Duffy's pipe.
yep said Evan solemnly. ''I.n
a-goin'. You'll never see me again
Goodby.
Before the pipes were out of th'
mouths which held them he was of
down the road In a moment he hat
turned the corner by the breaker ailt
disappeared. The next day he had no
returned nor the next, nor the third
Mackin's porch was lively with the tail
Of if, and Tommy Duffy's opinion wa
not the only one
Wladyslav Bavaliaweski, or rattle
Reddy Mike. sat in corner and grunt
cd his Me no know" to the numerou
questions, for he was Evans laborer
and beyond this said nothing except M
work him breast, load five carload ever.
day. meself," which. as he is a Slav, an,
Slays poor, ignorant creatures, neye
know when to stop working was not re
markable.
Denny Doris, who was ambitious, an,
besides working in the Kay Did. wa
correspondent for the Sunday Bugle
heard all there was to be heard, and lik
= "A good scribe" as he called himself
drew his own conclusions. SO, when, o.
the fourth day after Evans disappear
ance, the Bugle's Brandy Patch edition
which was like all the other editions
contained in black letters a headline
''Suicided for Love- and went on to tel
the story just related. and added tina
latter dilgent inquiry the kagle reporte
learned that man answering Evan
description was seen walking toward tn
river on the night in question, no fuI
ther evidence was needed that the ma
Evan had ended his earthly woes b.
drowning himself Indeed. the Bugle re
porter went so far as to hint that tn
cause of the quarrel was James partial
itv for John.
When John read this he washed hi
!. face, put on new red and blue tie an
went up to Griffith's house, where h
found Jane with very red eyes, and dc
sire TO sit in The shadow. Then III
tongue which had made John charma
9 Of the :local labor union and a delegat
to the Republican convention upheld it
reputation for sauyity, and gained for it