New-York tribune., 1901-07-21

we lust see ye, as | knows IT wusnt us
that made We drink like a fish, it? You'd
larned that fore. ever we seen We. Well then!
What ye got to say about that?'
Not word, Roadsy." said Latin, placidly,
staring absently at the house across the way.
Not word. You philosopher, Ruadsy-l
besides having a good memory. Be sure to make
that consoling statement when you write my
obituary: He WAS his own worst enemy is d
gentler way of putting it than He drank like
a fish and is more soothing to the survivors"
"Blame' was the sole remark of Roadsy-
Now. for instance" murmured Latin, with
out taking his eyes from the door of the house
across the way, 1t ;s the hour for the after
noon drive. The coachman is at the door with
the neat and unpretentious surrey-a very mod
est oluipage have notced-and in little
while the lady viii come forth and go for her
daily drive
Latin was holding a match to the cigarette
between his teeth, but his eyes were still
fastened on the opposite house. and as his hand
trembled with the nervousness of the road and
OF that hch had brought him there, the match
was nowhere near the cigarette.
Them folks is real swell nabobs" said Road
sy, appreciativey. When them winders Is open
YOU can see marble statous an things-an' books
to burn. One night / seen that cryin'
or prayin' somethin', with her face ag'in
little marble statoo with wings an a bow n
arrer."
'Oh, Cupid. Cupid-that it should come to
this" said Latin, absently. The match had
burned out, and he threw it away.
There she comes said Roadsy, idly. "Fust
time l ever seen 'er face good. Gee Whit"
The woman stepped into the surrey. and then
remembered something and sent the coachman
after it. While he was gone she sat holding
/ the reins and looking away down the street.
Even at the distance Of the park bench one
could note that she did not the street, nor
anything within the line of physical vision. She
looking at something very, very far away.
Perhaps it was the look on her face that made
/ Latin take off his hat. With a hurried glance
Roadsy followed his example. 1t dis
tinctly foolish that he feigned be looking for
something in the crown Of it, which he failed to
find And thus it that for the moment he
missed what was coming.
Around the curve of the park came an auto
mobile. its bell Changing and swept close 10y
the side of the surrey. The startled horses
made a spring side in terror, and the
reins held 50 loosely were snatched from the
woman's hands.
The surrey ran on two wheels as the horses
turned and fed but it righted itself and shot
within a hairs breadth of city cart maunder-
ing around the roadway. The woman sat still.
holding to the stanchions out making out
cry, and with added whiteness in the face
that was already white.
This is the end" she whispered to herself.
and smiled.
! Looking neither to the right to the left,
she could not the flying figure taking short
cut the curve, and just catching to the
/ back of the surrey She sensible presently,
! that some climbing in the back
of the seat, and over the drivers seat and out
onto the pole. with a hand on the horses back
on either side. At the end of the pole he did
sonething-she did not know what-but the
| horses were checked. And then she saw him go
down.
! Other people there, then-crowds and
crowds of them, snatchng the bits and jerk
ing the trembling horses TO d standstfll but they
had rot been there soon enough to prevent the
last few starts and Biunges. Every body knew
beforehand how it must be with the they
dragged out from under the horses feet
Ring for the ambulance" shouted half a
dozen at once. and dispz zrscd hither and thither.
siclened and paIlid. But the in the
rey down in the crowd pushing them aside.
Wait" she cried. Wait! This will be
taken to my home!"
And then they paused, while she bent over
him and lifted the coat some one had thrown
/ over his face.
! Those who heard it will never forget, 1t was
like the hurt cry Of a child, except that a
/ on her knees for a moment, down in the dust