Wallowa chieftain. [volume] (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909, 1902-11-27

had never seen before.
This fellow had D-ebber by the
collar. and when they came 10 the
head Ot the steps ne save him & shove
and s kick which sent him half across
the road.
You hound he cried. shaking his
stick az him. III teach you 10 Insult
an honest girl,
He was so HOT that 7 think he
would have lhrashed D-ebbe- with his
oudgel. only that the cur staggered
away down the road as fast as his
legs would carry him. He ran as far
as the corner. and then. seeing NY
cab. he hailed me and jumped in.
Drive me 10 HalIday's private
hotel said he
When 7 had him fairly inside nv
cab my heart jumped so with Joy that
! feared lest az this last moment my
aneurism might go wrong.
7 drove along slowly. weighing in
ny own mind what It was best 10 do.
might take him right out into the
country and there in some deserted
lane have my last interview with hirn.
: had almost decided on this when he
solved the problem for me.
The craze for drink had seized him
again and he ordered me 10 pull up
outside sin place He went in, leav-
ing word that I should wait for him.
There he remained until closing time.
and when he came out he was so far
gone that ! knew the game was in nv
own hands.
Don't imagine that I intended TO
kill him in cold blood. Il would only
have been rigid justice II I had done
so. but I could not bring myself TO do
IT, I had long determined that he
should have e show for his life IL he
chose 10 take advantage OF IL.
Among the many billets which I
have filled in America during my wan
dering life. I was once a ianitor and
sweeper out OF the laboratory at
York College.
"One day the professor was lectur-
ing on poisons. and he showed his stu
dents some slkaloid. as he called il.
which he had extracted from some
South American arrow poison and
which was so powerful that the least
grain meant instant death. I spotted
the bottle in which this preparation
was kept. and when they were all
gone I helped myself TO little OF it.
Il was fairly good dispenser. so
I worked this alkaloid into small.
soluble pills. and each pill put in a
box with 6 similar pill made without
poison. I determined at the time that.
v-hnr hoI Or
should each have q draw out OF one OF
these boxes, while I eat the pill that
remained.
1T would be quite a. deadly, and a
good deal less noisy. than firing across
a handkerchief. From that day l had
always my pill boxes with me. and
the time had now come when ! was
10 use them.
ut was nearer one than twelve. and
wild. bleak night, blowing hard and
raining in torrents. Dismal as it was
outside, l was glad witnin-so glad
that l could have shouted out from
pure eIultation.
III any OF you gentlemen have ever
pined for q thing and longed for it
during twenty long years, and then
suddenly found It within reach, you
would understand ny feelings.
~ lighted a cigar and putfed at II TO
steady my nerves, but ny hands were
trembling and my temples throbbing
with excitement.
las I drove I could see old John
Ferrier and sweet Lucy looking at me
out OF the darkness and smiling at me,
Just as plain as l see you al in this
room. All the way they were ahead OF
me. and one on each side OF the horse.
until pulled UP at the house in the
BTiKton road.
There was not q soul 10 be seen,
nor G sound 10 be heard. except tho
dripping OF the rain. When I looked
in az the window. found Drebber all
huddled together in drunken sleeD.
I shook him by the arm. It's time 10
60 out I said.
All right. cabby.' said he
81 suppose he thought we had come
In the hotel that ne had mentioned
for he got out without another word
and followed me down the garden.
Il had 10 walk beside him to keep
him steady. for ne was still little
Z top.heavy. When we came 10 the
door I opened II and led him into the
front room. I give YOU my word that
all the way. the father and daughter
were walking II front OF us.
ITS Internally dark, said he,
staining about.
We'll soon have a light" I said,
striking a match and putting It to a
vax-candle which I had brought with
me. Now. Enoch D-ebber.' ! continu-
ed. turning TO him and holding the
light to my own face, who am ~