The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-01-15
CHAPTER Y.
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Just now. however, Mynllcer Joe IS
made the witness of singular scene.
Two foreigners ere ii H. hammer and
tongs.
How It came about it would be im-
possible to state; each one believes the
pther guilty and that the apology
ought to come from that side.
. A comparison between the two
causes the traveller to smile. In point
OF size they are surely antipodes, one
20 large and massive, the other d.
minutive.
The taller man has voice like tor.
nado bowling in the mountains, laying
trees PROSTATE and swirling up the
valleys. Now and then it is punctured
with the sharp, file-raspins cxclama.
tions that burst from his antagonist.
penetrating and shrill as the highest
uotcs of the violin. They growl and
gabble together. each endeavoring to
tay the blam. of the collision upon the
other. When two men possessed OF
fiery tempcrs get into heated arsu-
nent the result is seldom in doubt.
Sooner or later they come to blows,
and this period depends pretty much
UPON the state to which their feelings
have carried them.
This promises to be the case in the
pr.sent instance. The little man IS
game despite the enormous difference
In their size. He dances before his
heavy antagonist. holding up his small
lists In q way that proclaims him the
possessor of some scientific Snowl-
edge in the line OF self-defense. Should
khe giant, however. brius one OF his
sledse-hammer blows to bear upon
him these frail barriers must be
brushed aside as though mere cob
.Hebs.
Although the big man is angry 1t
can be seen that he is amused at the
same time. Unless the fury or the
other passes ail bonds and lie commits
an assault the tall man wiz hardly
proceed to extreme measures. Just
now he is endeavoring to alarm his an
tagonist by an exhibition Of lung pow
er-by bawling him with all the
tremendous force Of cattle droVer
on the war pain. His bull-like voice
and the queer cxclamations he uses
would be extremely amusing to Myn-
hees Joe upon another occasion. just
now something OF an important nature
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that causes him to take new interest
In this strange game that is being
=, played before him.
This smaller man answers in all par
hculsrs tho mental photograph he
has drawa Of DemOsthenes Tanner,
the father Of the fair Molly. He Is
small, slightly bald. nearly fifty. full
of life and ginger, and ready to stana
Up for his dignity.
So Mynhcer Joe decides on the spur
oTthe moment that he has run across
the man who has chartered the daha-
beah Alice-he owes him debt OF
gratitude on account of the rescue
from the waters Of the Nile-perhaps
the time has come when he can repay
that with interest.
Thus he finds more to engage bis at
tention In the complication before him
than others who have been gathered
by the hot dispute.
In Justice to Mynheer Joe let 1t be
said that his sense OF fairness and the
eternal fitness Of things had much To
no with his actions. He was never
,he man to sit calmly by and see big
dog set upon a small one. More than
once in his past career he has been
known to take the part OF the weak
and oppressed, even to his discomfort.
There is some spirit left of the age or
chlvalry-it did not die out with the
last of the helmeted, mail-clad knights.
Thus 1t will be seen that other mo-
lives infiucuce Mynheer Joe besides
the one important fact that this is. as
he supposes, Molly's father who
stands o fair show OF being pulvcr-
lied.
He means to take hand In the
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point where blows must be exchanged.
t,orddn's messenger Is full of fight
he always was. and the fact that this
may be considered street brawl does
not once enter into his calculations.
1t is the smaller man who rushcs
things and brings matters to focus.
"You shalt apologize or fight, sir!
Do you think am to be insulted with
impunity2 You are big coward.
will show you how we do these things
where / came from? Defend your
-se,fr' he shrieks.
The big man is thus forced to an Is
sue. He gives roar as the other
kicks at his shins, and looks as ii
about to hurl his avoirdupois upon his
diminutive antagonist, when a hand
clutches his shoulder and MynheeI
Joe steps between them. brushing
bdeElthe little bantam cock and facing
1.-THE Brahma.
aTF Won ysoust fipht take man OF