The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-03-11
DIPLOMACY OF SHORTY.
A PUBLIC Duty PERfORMED Win A
ByD COTTON NIGHTCAP.
Thu ount.rfcitrr' Hoard. the Thre" Dis
charged Ionvicts and the Return to
pr,.,n OF Three Useful Men - En-
,n,m.,, of the Bankers Money.

one day In the carly fall, Shorty, the head
mailman, lodged up into the prison hospital and
,bsn edged toward thu old Colonel's corner as II
h, had something important to communicate.
as th,r anything | can do for you, Shorty
askei Ia oil banker, kindly
II % ont the morn, said Shorty.
"Oh. and perhaps a little change might be Of
servI, to YOU
It's that and more than that, Colonel, " replied
the man. and tank YOU h arty, You see THERE'S
a trouble on my mind, and il you don't he havin'
~ob!octuns, III make So bold as to set a whhe anu
ask your advise
an right" said the old Colonel,
"Do you reminder, then" began Shorty, Tho
nigh, a week since when old man Kuvslod, the
counterfeiter. crooked up here in a conniptun ft'
Why, of coorsr you do. Then, perhaps, you can
tel ne who was a Srt'tn' with ham when h. turned
up his toes for III, tuSt and last time
81, isn't AT all likely that l should forget that
scene IN SO short q time" returned the oil Colonel,
with a sigh, though | suppose one ought to get
used 10 ANYTHING horrible here, II was tina!
second assistant Of yours, Shorty, the big hall
ma, with fulltiggri ship ta,tond on his chest,
,h,y call Sailor Ben He hal been attentive
10 the old man for a long time and early In that
evening the two had been whispering together.
Kuvaloh, as you know, hal some mysterious
internal disorder which would throw him into
paroxysms Of pain | can sec him now as h' lay
back on his pillow with his red cotton niGh'cap
pulled down over his brown Nrinkled b'owS,
Sailor Ben eyii nifty thought him als'ep. 'or he
was lust about to tip toe on; when suddenly kuyal-
of gave a loud Croan, Strengthened up IN bed all
twisted and ririi, grabbed of his niEhtcap In p
sort Of frenzy and cast II into poor BINS faca
and then fll hack lead. | don't wonder that tho
frightened mailman shot down the stairs as il the
Evil One wprN afr him
Then Sailor Ben was telling the tut as |
thought he were, said Shorty after q moments
reflection. "Yuu ae. ho hasn't the imaginatun
10 mix up trut' AMI fctinr in the same talk without
zit,in' wusS mixed up hlSsolt and the tale hs
was a talln' last night run on and On without
a single break. II was this way, Colonel. !
was a Lawn in th' upper bunk Of No. ! On the
tagging, which you may know is tho rotirin'
room for hallmen between turns Of dom the gal.
l-rios with water, tins, chimlnvs, missionary
docky ments and SIGH. was putin away on
my old corn-cob, dozin' III" while and not halt
hasrin a long warn Sailor Ben was Giyin' to Con
Iathrrs and Skitlos Kelly AS thy set in a ro~
les, below mc. S., | hoar"d nothin, for instance,
about the red cotting nightcnp, O hich guess
Ben wsa too ashamed TO tell. hut what l did mako
ou' was u y W." ND,''. - ~" .a,n,n.sa
h. crooked, tull lth as u t'"atl ~ MS laIIuIh''1
where all III, bogus quarters and halv's which
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his house out on Long 'sihhH a lonesome pia'e,
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city Hall Park as a cnter
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Of tho queer where you'd least expect lhenl Np'
rarentIv he was an I'D Dutch farmer raising
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Eaf"lh- SUN '' a INV" l"'' ID" y" ""' ""'
he lived oil by his lone,'N 50 ne was, too
fi, L. AN, also MAXI ng up some of the best small
.-oI cur,,,, os H., Gavin, ,s
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u'' N'NIh tleWl on ~ us "lN"'' "n WIS III
.l.o..ilr natives Of the ulup.tide and Patchow.
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"a g., Y.,. OLD, ,...n ,H.ss. .,lv ,nnriu'
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A little man. NuN al 'uc"r' ils'c "'I NeGa
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"a
ma carly oNu H"ll"I bfH h' "''l we u"d'l WV
MS how ilpy would make tracks for kuvalutfs
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if"n h" dI"ni shy Mttfe' 'heE " ul"l"e h"h"V'
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