The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-02-18

fuse my request, but not to ask me ques-
tons. Will you, or will you not?'
| looked at him. In some inexplicable
! way l was impressed by his manner.
''Will you answer one question:" asked
him.
Fire away.
SIS it long since you left homer
AYE. It's long time he replied,
slowly. "a long time, a damned long time,
my American friend. But the man I'm
sending this to never dies"
'Ah, title 1 said
He put on his dirty hat and turned to
leave the office.
Come back. I'll send the cabegram
and I'll ask you no more questiors' I
told him.
| He asked me permission that night to
sleep in an empty room next to my Office,
| and after swearing him by all that was
| holy not to smoke or light matches in the
room, 1 made a bed for him with BUSH
| ell or two of old newspapers
The next morning the office boy said t.
| me the moment I arrived: There's a
| drunken tramp in the next room, sir
Yes" I said; ''tell him to come here
He won't answer" he told me. s9've
talked to him, and 1 shook him a little
while ago, but he didn't move
| 1 went into the room. The man was
I; lying down on heap of crumpled news
papers l drew near and looked at his
| face. It had been notified purple. 1t
was now yellow and rigid. The man was
dead
1 went back to my office feeling uncom-
Portable and uneasy. For the moment 1
did not know what to do, and / thought
there might be trouble with the authori-
ties, who were none too well pleased with
the dispatches had been sending my pa-
! per and my failure to report mythical
victories for the government troops, L
was sadly perplexed, and had almost de-
cided to- call on my friend, the American
consul, for advice when the tall negro
messenger from. the cable office walked In.
"A message for you, Mr.. Elliott" he
said.
took it. 1t was addressed to stephen
Elliott, Panama" instead of simple Eel
lott, Panama 1 opened It, It said:
"Banco International has $500 for you
Andrews Insulted The Duchess Yew
Grew Dog Flew With The Coronet Sa
My Son. -s'Dldo." .
L could not make head or tail of it.
L decided to notify the authorities and
went in search of the alcaIde AS I
passed the bank, Simmons, the manager.
called out to me:
81 say, Elliott"
"ilal Is II answered, entering the
Office.
'Tsnay. Darlington & Co, of London,
have cabled us to pay you G580 sterling
How will you have it, in gold or notes?''
L told Simmons the whole story
Its rum go, isn't ito" He was an
Englishman. Lets go and see the con-
sui; he might help you
We did. The British consul, Mr. John
stone. heard my story, and then he said:
6ataff hat I1r T.
official capacity, and, frankly, I'd much
rather not NEEDLE with this. There is no
proof that the man was British subject
i Now, Elliott here has received the money
| say you ought to bury the man decent
ly, paying the funeral expenses out Of the
G500. You, Simmons, have not been told
to pay the man. whose very name we do
not know, but to hand over the $500 to
Elliott. Your duty is therefore plain and
ends the moment Elliott gives you re-
| ceipt for that sum. And, Elliott, do you
remember to whom it was that the man
sent the cablegram? For if you do
suggest that you notify him at once that
the chap is dead, and ask for instruc-
tons. You see if you cable to Ismay,
Darlington & Co., the bankers. you may
have to go into long explanations and
wait until they have time to commune
cate with their client. And you must
bury this man in "a few hours"
81 don't remember the mans name, but
| they'll tell me at the cable office" l said
I, then. in order that there might be no
awkward questions afterward, notified
| the authorities, telling them nothing of
the $500, lest they should fine me in that
amount for willfully permitting an unreg-
istered foreigner to die by going to sleep
upon a bundle of American newspapers
furnished by me- That was ample justifi
cation for mulcting me. / merely told
them he was friendless tramp who had
asked me for shelter for the night, and
| that l had granted his request because
he seemed to be an unfortunate wretch.
/ added that 1 was ready to bury him at
my expense so that he would not be a.
burden on the town. took pains to i'm
| press upon them the obviouSness of the
facs that he had no money concealed
about him. Also, j lent the alcaldes
clerk $25 in money. Then 1 went to the
cable Office and induced the clerk to let
me see the mans message which 1 my.
self had sent and paid for on the pre-
vious day. 1 cabled as follows:
Burlington. Marlborough Club. London:
Jack died suddenly last night. Send