The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-20
A LAWLEss PROVIDENCE.

( When Snake Dempsey got back from
Joliet he went. naturally and in full con-
| ndenee. TO the downtown saloon Of
'Hunpty Dump alderman, phiianthro-
| pist and all-round good Indian
Il want a job. honest. Humpty,' said
Dempsey, and / want it quick. I've quit
the queer, and it's me for honest toll
I'm going 10 stay in tn ward, If you'll
let me, and / want TO get away good.
IAN right quoth the icy alderman.
! Go over there in the corner with this
| aquarium and wait N See"
| And the prorietor handed the ex-convict
| a glass of beer that would drown house
| cat. Dempsey, faElished and tired, went
into his corner with a bunch OF free
lunch in one hand and the globe of suds
| IN the other.
! Pretty soon a fat, Notwithstanding
man came in. and, having unfurled a
wad of bank notes on the bar. said
| ',Humpty. gimme a whirl. Give ev body
a whirl, Come on. boys, an have one
| tn me-
| And the hangers the cab drivers
( loafing in the place, the policemen and
even the pale-faced man at the cigar
| stand, came on to have one with the
| generous visitor.
| When the drinks were gone, Humpty
Dump. the proprietor said:
No, Mr. Daley. We shut up right
for thousand dollars. You know the
law? You've had the last one tonight
I'm alderman. an a law-abiding' citizen,
an you can't get no more
Mr.. Daley, being rich and eminent,
and. incidentally very drunk. sputtered:
Thought you was m friend, Eampty ?
Thish amt no way TO do me, l want
a drink, an l want it bad. See?'
But Humpty didn't see" On the con-
trarV he got o;rt the r,,t1S1iu coyerS and
told his cigar men TO count the cash.
Then Daley turned to the door. and the
host. peeking into the corner where
Snake" Dempsey sat. becokned the ex-
convict 70 the bar.
See old man Dailey?'' asked the pro-
prietor, indicating the last customer.
Sure 1 seen him. Didn't l have drink
on him?"
NOW, see here. Snake. His buggy is
out there in the street, an he oughta
go home. But he'll get skinned fore he
ever registers f somebody don't go with
him. He's got roll big enough to
choke a dog. an l want you-YOU, dye
hear-to seem home. VIII you do it,"
I'm see him home fur fair. Humpty.
an don't you worry no more.
So Snake" Dempsey buttoned up his
ragged packet and went out to help Mr..
Daley into the buggy. Then he got in
himself. but the horse had hardly started
when Daley lurched over and said:
Hi, there, pardner, les go down t
tn Galloway an git mother drink"
As Dempsey was quite sober and had
no intention of interfering with the per-
sonal freedom of his temporary charge,
he made no objection and in a few min
utes the buggy grated up against the
curb stone outside the Galloway hotel.
Mr.. Daley, assisted by the dutiful
Snake Dempsey, stumbled into
the lobby, and there, just as he feared,
Dempsey saw a very radiant, confident
woman in a sealskin cloak hail his help
less charge.
Here's where I'm to get in me fine
work, thought Dempsey.
Been? | been ev'wheres. I'm just in
from Singapore; I'm goin' to Ceylon on
the evenin' express. -"
You're going home with me- chortled
the woman. And then Snake Demp-
sey, conscious of his responsibility, butted
in like this:
Home wit you. miss? Not on yer life,
I'm takin' Mr.. Daley home, an l won't
permit no adventure business in ourn.
| got instructions TO take him to his own
house, an it's to be his bed'r YOU got
TO show me-"
The befuddled DALEY looked from the
woman to Dempsey and back again, and
then without moments warning he
howled:
we've insulted Mrs. Daley. Wow, we
blackguard. take that
And he Get drive a blow that caught
his guardian in the near eye and sent
him down. sprawling Dempsey got up
and went for the door like the salvage
corps going for a loop fire. When he
was outside he saw Mr.. Daley and the
woman come out of the doorway of the
hotel and enter the buggy.
In a moment the woman had the reins
and the vehicle was bowling swiftly
westward. At last it stopped in front
of a pretentious home, and the couple
in the buggy climbed out.
But Snake Dempsey was on the side
walk to help them aiight.
Daley. more sober now. stared into his
face and said:
Where tn divil did you come FROM"
Il rode on. the hind axle, SIR said
Snake" Offering his arm.
Your eye is black. Isn't wan enough
fr yo?"
wan is enough. with want spare"
said Snake but when Daley hit him
ne just rolled over in the snow and then
got up. To the policeman who came up
as the man and woman struggled at the
front door, the ex-convict said:
rs this where Mr. Daley lives?"
1T is said the body.
An is he married?
He is said the officer, whirling his
club.
And then the Jail bird walked four
miles. all the way back TO Humpty
Dumps saloon in the loop.
we've two shanties." said Humpty.
cycling his man did yez see Misther
Daley home safe?"
Il did said Dempsey. with his feet
on the stove fender.
And what'd he give yez?"
He give me tn shiners-two Of EN-
TIA, all"
Then here's five for yez. and yez can
stay all night" said Humpty.
And the incident closed.
John H. Raftery.
The Place to Stop.
''Supposing now that you were in Mr..
Carnegie's place
Say. stop right there please. Don't
tack on any disagreeable conditions"
THE TIM EFOR HIM TO ACT
Colonel Bluegrass-Ah see the Chicago |
health bohd says all the watah theah is
bad.
Colonel Pepper-Ah must pack nah
satchel at once All have been putting
of a business trip TO that town for the
past foh months.
One Good Reason.