The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-07-30
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, with his black sheepship, let her tax
: him. It's about the only thing to d
Speak up, Bessie, Il he your only only
"Right along said Bessie Il take !
him jus the same as ma took pa. IL
him, or none for mine"
Then Brah said:
Run along then, girl. I'd be a hea
jollier II this was your funeral. and IL
: II mighty good thing for your sisters tha
! you're my only child
Then they sicked othello onto the ap
preaching Turks aud meeting was out.
Bessie went with 'rhell 10 the war
"for." she said, "there won't be anything
doing at home Il | stay, only have mig
ger thrown up to me all the while. I'd
jus, as leave go and be in Cyprus with
the army.
So she went, chaperoned by Mrs, Iago
who stayed with the suffers wagon A
few miles In the rear.
Then came the storm. What would
Shakespeare's plays have been withou:
storms9 He used a great deal Of sheet
iron in his pieces, and plenty Of horse
fiddle windstorms. This storm that hit
Cyprus AZ the right moment was enrkcs
1t nearly broke the thunder machine. and
two new ratchets had TO be put In the
wind maker next day. That Turkish
fleet was as easily submerged
as ii Il had been Russian notiila and
met japanese torpedo pleasure cxpedi'
ton. 0thello had no more fighting to do
than a rabbit. His razxer stayed right
in its case.
In the intervening period Iago had
been busy with that Rodrigo guy. He
had contracted 10 make 0ihello jealous
OF his new assistant Cassie, and he pro-
ceeded systematically and with cum
ming that would make old Nick look like
an amateur to get in his work. He got
Cassie drunk and managed to let 0thello
catch him that way. 0thelo fired Casio
that minute. lago went and told Bessie
what 'Thell had done, and asked her to
speak a word for Cash with the boss.
She was awfuly sorry for the fired lieu
tenant, who was filled with next morning
regrets and promises.
Iago coaxed his wife to get from bessie
bandana handkerchief OF peculiar pat
tern that 'Thell had given her for an en-
gagement present. He didn't tell his
wife what 1t was for but he just coaxed
and coaxed, till one day when 0tehllo
had been driven into splitting head
ache by lagos kidding him about bessie
being untrue, Bessie was tinkering with
the Mor's think-tank and dropped the
aforesaid bandana. Mrs. Mephisto picked
il up and took il to hubby.
About that time Mrs. lago began to
smell mice She asked her husband
two or thre times what he wanted with
that rag, but he wouldn't tell. He just
snatched il and went and dropped II in
Cassio's room so somebody else would
find ii there and 50 Cassie would have a
hard time explaining it to his own lady
friend.
Iago also had Othello hide and hear
Cassie talk about this aforesaid mis-
guided lady friend who wanted to marry
him, 0thello thinking all the time it
was his Bessie that Cash was laughing
about and roasting.
Like the intelligent beast he was, he
believed everything Iago told him about
his wife and Cassie, and when Des, who
was as innocent as last years birds
nest, kept her promise and tried to get
him to give Cassie back his head clerk.
ship, that looked still worse to the en-.
ameled one. He called her all sorts OF
names except lady, and had her going
south at a great rate. She thought he
was off his many, and treated him acord-
ingly. Mrs. 1ago was all in the dark
and couldn't help out particle, but she
put in great deal of time condemning
the practice of inter-race marriages.
Still, thre was no peace for this busy
Iago Rodrigo came along and said:
"See here Mister Smarty, when are
you going to have that woman so sore
at the liberian that she'll come to me
That contract of yours is about expired,
and | haven't had any results that ]
can notice. Pm from Missouri"
"Well," exclaimed Iago, making it up
as he went along, "the woman has fallen
in love with Cassie now, and if he were
out Of the way all would be right. The
way Cassie talks about that woman is
Just awful, as | showed 'Thell himself
the other day. You kill Cassio-easy
enough job, only take a minute or two
and I'll see that the goods are delivered
"Aw, | don't wanta," grinned Rodrigo,
hnahf,,llr dinninn In thn mound with