The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-11-14

The old man lowered his voice again.
what 1 mean to say IS that there VAS
plenty in that bag TO keep me IN comfort
the few years I've got left. Though I
may last a good bit yet in spite Of the
doctors''
WHAT'S the good Of talking about It
You didn't do It, You went your usual
round, paid the money the same as usual
and put up with your treatment. You
1 haven't got the courage of your opin-
/ ions You'll always put up with any
thing
oh no, won't. Perhaps I've got as
much courage as some young men. once
can reconcile a thing TO my judgment
and conscience. you'd find I take a bit
of stopping. If I didn't like that what
I've been speaking of, 7 may find some
thing else that I do. I've been used to
civil treatment all my life. and I'm not
going to tolerate insults now that I am
old"
IF you'd done what you first intended,
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 office before you were half way
through and bang would go your pen
sion. Suppose you went TO him and said
you wanted to leave owing to the way
you've been treated There again he
saves the pension. II may be difficult,
as you say. to find a man whom you
can trust with large sums, but it's not
impossible. You'd have pleased him a
good deal more than you would have
punished him. No. there's only one way
to give him a good slap in the face,
and you lighted on that first time"
''I never took so much as a pin from
anybody in my life
"Of course you didn't. Do you think
] don't know you we'll enough to talk
about stealing to you? There's no ques-
ton of that Twenty years you've been
with them. and underpaid the whole
time, as you've often told me. That
might be put right. Then there's the
pension; there's no reason why you
should sacrifice that What you've g
just claim to you should take, and no
more"
''rhsy wouldn't understand 1t that
way"
you could write them a letter explain
ing II I were treated like a dog I'd
show them I could bite like one. too
But here. you are not drinking. Same
again. miss. please"
You couldn't have anything much sim
pier" said the young man a little later
cit viii be June 10, won't it?"
of 7 do It,"
There's next to nothing for you to
do, Tarrant I shall be waiting for you
IN the cab ct the corner You've only
got TO step in and after that all the
arrangements will be IN my hands I'll
have you the other side Of the channel
before Lampson and Bird know that
their moneys gone"
And you egree 70 return to them any
thing which may be left over after I've
taken what I am really entitled to-"
The youngest man suppressed a smile.
Certainly" he said. 'fTou can do that
when you write to them to explain AZ
ter all, you're only giving them a punish
ment that they deserve. People who use
beastly and insulting language to man
who has been the trusted servant for
twenty years want a lesson. You are GO
ing to show them that you can hit
back"
'rBut II the police"
we don't leave an address behind Us.
The police would do great things If they
could find US, but they won't be able to
find US"
'In DO It," said old Tarrant. ION the
10Th You be waiting in the cab az u
O'Clock. shan be there within a few
minutes Of that time
But when the 18th came the young man
waited IN MS cab for an hour. bat saw
nothing OF Tarraut. He went home then.
eursing him for his cowardcie and defec-
ton
There is a tombstone in the cemetery
at Kensel Green to the memory Of Alfred
William Tarrant, who died somewhat
suddenly on June IS. It states that he
merited and enjoyed the affection Of his
friends. the confidence OF his employers
and the respect Of all who knew him.
Barry Pain.