Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-22

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 Bronson. pale and weak from the jolting he had received, scrambled un- steadily to his feet and looked fool ishly at us through the window.
 That look was all the keeper needed, It saved words and words of explana- tion. All Isaid was:
 "A patient from Dr. Smithers of Armadillo-first cousin of mine-the patient. mean. Gone clean on his nut poor fellow-thinks he's a drum mer and wanted to stop at Ridgely's store. Better get some help, hadn't your"
 "Yes. I guess had" he replied. with a glance at the disheveled Bron- son. Then he blew a shrill whistle and two other attendants came out of the building.
 The man in charge of the asylum also come out, and I had to repeat my story about Bronson. l added that my | family wanted him confined until the doctor could more properly diagnose i the exact form of insanity from which he was suffering. l told him the doc tor would be down in the morning to ! fix up the papers.
 I didn't know whether that sounded | regular or not, but I took a chance at it.
 Bronson was raving like the maniac ] he was supposed to be when they took 1 him out of the hack. which greatly | facilitated matters, and they pulled i him inside and locked him in cell | didn't wait for them to come out back to Ridgely's store on the double ] quick, paid off the driver and went in. Ridgely met me with a hearty hand shake
 Sorry I didn't get around sooner" !" I told him. But I've just been taking a relative to the asylum"
 That so?' replied Wex, squinting at me over the tops of his glasses. Hope he ain't violent"
 Well, he was pretty bad when I left, and daresay he will be worse be- fore he gets out
 "Too bad" he sympathized. By the way, where's Bronson this year?"
 Bronson? Oh, yes, the fellow who
 used to be my rival? Let me see haven't seen him somewhere recent ly? Yes, I'm quite sure I have. Oh, yes-I met him in the northern part
 of the state last month"
 What you got?' asked Wex, eyeing
 my sample case as if undecided about something. It was evident that he
 was looking for Bronson about this
 time. I I immediately launched into a de
 scription of our new lines. and after a few minutes he began to be interest ed. 1 had never been able to interest him before, but that was because
 Bronson always got there first
 Now. look here, Ridgely," l wound up. batting him affectionately OD the
 shoulder. T think it's about time had a good order out of you. I was 1 speaking to Mir. Cracken about you just before coming down here. and he would greatly like to have you for 2 regular customer He thinks you are the most up.to-date merchant outside
 the big cities"
 Did he say that?" WeI looked pleased.
 Yes. and am sure he will do some
 thing handsome by you if you vii ! order your fall stock of us. For in 1 stance. he might allow you the usua cash discount on time account Do you think he will? Moneys rather tight just now" I'm sure of it-in fact, will sel kaN nd ing. As for the goods if they're no satisfactory. won't come near yoI next year"
 That's fair enough" said he. "Tro
 'em out"
 It was all over in half an hour Ridgely had ordered a bill of good
 totaling $500. and. bidding him an af 5 fectionate good-by. I caught the even ] ing train out of town.
 Bronson? Oh. he got out afte
 about three days detention. It tool 5 him that long to convince them tha J he wasn't crazy When Dr. Smither failed to show up. they made an inves 7 tigation and decided that there hal l. been sad mistake. For several days after the episod I was in constant fear that Ridgel would listen to Bronson on his rs
 lease and cancel his order. But {; heard afterward that he took it 6 q a huge joke and gave Bronson tn T merry ha-ha.
 U haven't seen Bronson since. Some T. how, we never seem 10 be in the sam y territory at the same time any more 5 One of my friends was heaTtles
 enough to suggest that I was purpose !, Iy avoiding him.
 We may meet some day, and then
 but that's in the future. and I alWsy e let the future take care of itself