The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-05-05


her stylish purple skirts
what do you think?n she said
The Harrigans have been dispos-
sessed.
"The Harrigans? echoed Brown
lee who are the Harrigans?"
sWhy, don't you remember" she
asked, reproachfully. Every mem
Der Of the Help Your Neighbor Club
has poor family to look out for
during the winter months. The Har-
rigans belong to me. They are In
terrible straits. Their things are all
on the sidewalk at this very minute,
and I've got to get them moved be-
fore night. That is what came to
see you about. | have engaged rooms
for them and have paid a deposit of
50. What l want you to do is to
hire an expressman go down to the
Harrigans' old rooms, pick their fur
niture up off the sidewalk, and haul
it up to the new place and pay the
rest of the months rent, which is ST..
Do you understand"
Eyes, said Brownlee doubtfully,
but am not quite sure of the pro-
priety of the proceeding. | don't have
to attend to the whole business my
self, do I? Where will you be all
that timer"
"Me?" said Mrs. Brownlee "Oh,
l have to go uptown to a club meet
ing. But you'll get along all right
without me. Here are the addresses
Mo. At, where the Harrigans are
xuha
Brownlee took the addresses, pres
ent and future, of the unfortunate
Harrigans, and after starting his wife
off uptown in a cab he went out to
look for an expressman. Men of that
calling were numerous in the neigh
borhood of the Harrigans, and after
walking the distance of half a block
from the car he found an unemployed
owner of horse and wagon who was
willing, for an adequate considera-
ton, to contribute the services of
himself and outfit to the amelioration
of the Harrigans' sorry condition.
1t was little past o'clock when
the expressman, with Brownlee jolt
ing intentionally on the seat beside
him, drove up to the tenement at No
AZ and stopped before a miscellaneous
collection Of household goods piled
up on the sidewalk, Brownlee jumped
down and lugubriously surveyed the
furniture and small boy curled up
on one corner of torn mattress
The small boy, finding himself the
object of acute observation, assumed
a defiant attitude.
"Hullo," he said "Wha chu
want?"
Now, see here, my son." he said
"you had better quiet down and learn
to keep civil tongue in your head
I've come here to do you and your
family favor. I'm going to do it,
and | don't propose to be sassed by
"a young heather like you while I'm
about 1t, either. Driver, you may as
well begin to pile the things into the
wagon. 1t is getting late, and we
have no time to lose.
The expressman seized one end of
the mattresses and Jim the other end
You get out O. here, the boy said,
and let me alone. We don't want to
move again, and we amt going to
move.
Brownlee caught the child's hands
and held them in both his own
Here" he said, lis quarter that
you can spend on yourself if you'll
dry up and listen. Now, do you un-
derstand what you are to do? You're
to stay right here on this spot till
your folks come; then you're to give
them this paper. That will explain
everything When they have read
that they will know what to do"
Jim was defiant to the last
Yes" he beloved, they'll know
what to do, all right They'll have
r you pinehed, that's what they'll do. T"
The janitor of No. 514 was on the
lookout for his new tenants, and
whom Brownlee and the expressman
arrived he stood on the sidewalk
jingling the keys of the four beau
tiful rooms
Are you the Harrigans?' he
asked.
No. !" said Brownlee. @we are not
the Harrigans, but this is their stuff
Which way. please?"
The janitor braced himself in front
Of the door.
You don't go any way he said,
It'll I get 81 more. The lady only
paid me $2p
Brownlee handed over the required
amount, the janitor unlocked the
door, and the expressman began to
carry the furniture upstairs. His
third trip up was made with aston
ishing celebrity
Say he said to Brownlee, there
is something wrong That kids down
there with man that looks like a
Roosian and a policeman. You'd bet
ter look out.
Brownies did look out, literally as
we'll as fguratively, and met his pur-
suers on the stairs, Jim made dive
at Brownlee's legs.
This is him, he shouted.
Brownles made no attempt to tree