The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-10-28

| ,RcIC ~ notice or the drive
e. ssYJUSS He counted 1t goo
- fortune, for tn
time was long TO him till he shout
have done forever with the Lodge; an
the further he must go to find cal
the greater the chance that the newt
able discovery had taken place, an
that he should return to find the gar
den full of angry neighbors. Yet whe
the vehicle drew up he was sensibl
chagrined to recognize the port-win
cabman Of the night before. Here,
he could not but reflect, here Is an
other link in the Judicial Error
The driver on the other hand, wa
pleased to drop again upon so liberal
fare and as he was mantle reader
must already have perceived-of easy
not to say familiar, manners, ne
dropped at once into a vein of friendly
/ talk, commenting on the weather. on
the sacred season. which struck him
chiefly in the light of a day of liberal
gratuites, on the chance which had re-
united him to a pleasing customer, and
on the fact that John had been Gas he
was pleased to call it yisibly ION the
randan" the night before.
And we look dreldful bad to-day,
sir, l must say that" he continued.
There's nothing like a dram for ye-
IL ye'll take my advice of It; and bein
as it's Christmas, I'm no saying" he
added, with a fatherly smile, but what
l would join We myself"
John had listened with a sick heart.
"Ill give you a dram when we've got
through" said he, affecting a sprightli-
ness which sat on him most unhand-
somely. land not drop till then. Busi-
ness first, and pleasure afterward."
With this promise the iarvey was
prevailed upon to Chamber to his place
and drive, with hideous elaboration,
to the door of the Lodge There was
no signs as yet of any public emotion;
only, two men stood not far off in talk,
and their presence, seen from afar, set
Johns pulses buzzing. He might have
spared himself his fright, for the pair
were lost in some dispute of a theologi-
cal complexion, and with heightened
upper lip and enumerating fingers,
pursued the matter OF their difference,
and paid no heed to John.
But the cabman proved a thorn in
he flesh. Nothing would keep him on
lls perch; he must Chamber down, com
ment upon the pebble in the door
which he regarded as an ingenious
,ut unsafe device), help John with the
,ortmanteau, and enliven matters with
/ flow OF speech, and especially of ques-
ions, which I thus condense:
He'll no be here himself, will he?
No? Well, he's an eccentric mana
air oddity-if we ken the expression.
Great trouble with his tenants, they
ell me. I've driven the family for
years. drove a cab at his fathers
What'll your name be?-I
Ihould ken your face. Baigrey, we say?
There were Baigreys about Gilmerton;
ye'll be one of that lot? Then this'll
,e friends portmantie, like? Why?
Because the name upon it's nicholson!
Oh, II yere in a hurry. that's another
Job. Waverley Brig? Are ye for
lway?"
At the station his spirits rose again
mother stage of his escape was FORUM
itely ended-he began to spy blue
water. He called a railway porter, and
,ade him carry the portmanteau to the
not that he had any notion
Of delay; fight, instant flight, was his
design, no matter whittier; but he had
determined to dismiss the cabman ere
he named, or even chose, his destina-
ton, thus possibly baking the judicial
Error of another link. This was his
aim and now with one foot on
the roadway, and one still on the
coach-step, he made haste to put the
thing in practice, and plunged his hand
into his trousers pocket.
There was nothing there!
Oh. yes; this time he was to blame
He should have remembered, and when
he deserted his blood-stained panta-
looms, he should not have deserted
along with them his purse Make the
most of his error, and then compare II
with the punishment! Conceive HE
new position, for | lack words to pic
ture it; conceive him condemned to re-
turn to that house, from the very
thought OF which his soul revolted and
once more to expose himself to cap
ture on the very scene of his misdeed
conceive him linked to the moldy cab
and familiar cabman. John cursed
the cabman silently, and then it oc-
Cured to him that he must stop the in
generation OF his portmanteau; that,
at least, he must keep close at hand,
and he turned to recall the porter. But
his reflections, brief as they had APP
peared, mus, have occupied him longer
than he supposed, and there was tho
man already returning with the re-
ceipt.
Well, that was settled; he had lost
his por.manteau also; for the sixpence
with which he had paid the Murrayneld
Toll was one that bad sTayaia alone into
his waistcoat pocket, and unless he