The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-02-04

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! in Melbourne he
( doctors mare co ell
! the old fellow #.5 a-t ny
way and been iN.-- ae 1
easily might hay $3.50 Hnr or
/ got to Yea at AL. ar
/ hand the pe~sc Hh Y
would eyer after Il
/ member Of the g ..E /
and murdered tho ....e.-.. ~ 4
I that very object. acquiring
some experience i'm such matters, Bun
/ ny. I ask YOU was there ever bet
! ter get-Out? Last nights was some
thing like It. only. meier such a Ger
/ tainty And I saw il from the begin
nmg-saw to the enc before 1 had fin
/ ished my soup. ...q
ITO increase my chances. the cashier,
who also lived in tn, ban1a was away
over the holidays, : .dn S4tually gone
down to Melbourne II. sef1us play, and
the man who had tak#ichly horse also
waited at table fOr9 he and his wife
were the only servants, and they slept
in a separate building. You may de
pend l aScertained this before we had
finished dinner Indeed. was by way
of asking too many questiOns-the most
Oblique ard delicate was that which
ELECTED my hosts name, Ewbank-nOr
was l careful enough to conceal their
drift.
"'DO you know said this fellow
Ewbank. who was one Of Ghe down
right sort If it wasn't you. should
say you were in a funk of robbers.
Have you lost your nerve?
81 hope not said 1, turning jolly
hot, I can tell you, 'but-well, it's not
a pleasant thing to have TO put a bull
let through fellow
MOP said he cOOlly. L should en-
joy nothing better myself. Besides.
yours didn't 20 through
Il wish it had" was smart enough
to cry.
Amen, SAID, he--
@44nd l emptled my glass. Actually
did not know whether my wounded
bank robber was in prison, dead or at
large.
But. now that / had had more than
enough Of if. Ewbank would come
back to the subject He admitted that
the staff was small. hut as for himself
he had loaded revolver under his pill
low all night under the counter all
day. and he was only waiting for his
chance.
Under the counter, eh?' l was ass
enough to say
Eyes; so had your
HE was looking at me in surprise,
and something told me that TO say OF
course; ! had forgotten" would have
been quite fatal. considering what 1
was supposed to have done. so looked
down my nose and shook my head
But the papers said you had" he
cried.
Not under the counter said I.
"'But it's the regulation"
"For the moment, Bunny, I felt
stumped, though | trust 1 only looked
more superior than beforehand 1 think
l justified my look.
" The regulation I said at length,
in the most offensive tone at my com
mand. Yes. the regulation would have
us all dead mon. My dear sir, do you
expect your bank robher 70 let you
reach for your gun in the place where
he knows it's kept? had mine in my
pocket. and | got my chance by re-
treating from the counter with all Wis
iblp reluctance
"Ewbank stared at me with open
eyes and FIVE barred forehead. then
down came his fist on the table.
al sly, that wEs smart. Still he,
added. like a man who would not be
in the wrong. the papers said the 9th
er thing you know.
"'Of course l rejoined, because
they said what I told them. You
wouldn't have had me advertise the
fact that | improved upon the banks
regulations, would you"
so that cloud rolled over, and, by
Jove, it was n cloud with a golden
hning-not silver: real good Austria
han gold. for old Ewbank hadn't
quite appreciated me till then. He
was hard nut. a much older man
than myself. and / felt pretty sure he
thought me young for the place and
my supposed feat fuke. But 1
never saw man change his mind
more openly. He got out his best
brandy: he made me throw away the
cigar / was smoking and opened Il
fresh box. He w. c0nvivial looking
party, with a red mustache and 4 very
humorous face-n2t unlike Tom En-
mett'S-anl from that moment I laid
myself ont 10 attack him on his con-
viviaI fink. But he wasn't a Rosen-
than. Bunny. He had Il treble scanned,
hand sevcd head AMI could have drunk
me under the table ten times over.
"'AH right ! thought. 'you may 90
to bed sober. but yo"ll sleep ike
timber yard And ! threw half be
gave r.e through the open window
when lie Wasn't booking.
"But he WAS q good cha". Ewbank,