The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-14
THE EVENING STORY
Out on Bail.
(By Helen Marsden QUINN

'I'm going to fall in love with that
girl!"
It was at a New England summer
resort, and that young man from
hour when he had his first view of
Miss Minnie Haddon. Young men
from New York and other places had
arrived a week ahead of him and
uttered the same words, but as Paul
Dillon didn't know it he was not dis
mayed.
To fall in love properly with the
handsomest girl at a summer resort
there should be a formal Introduction,
and a formal Introduction may bd
hard to achieve under certain clrcum-
stances. There must be mutual &C
quaintance to bring it about. Miss
HaddonS mother was widow and
an invalid and kept to herself most
of the time. Mr.. Paul Dillon looked
the crowd over twice a day for sight
of the faces he knew, but looked in
vain. Four days passed, and the hotel
did not take fire, the mountain be-
hind it did not slide down, and there
was no strike of walters to give him
present his card. Then he decided to
take a spin in the auto which had
been shipped up-to him.
When undecided what to do in a
case of love, trust to the auto. 1t
has a hundred possibilities
MT. D11IOn ndQ QT1VeH IlIL0Sn miles
and stopped at a hotel to refresh him
self, when he was pleased and sur
priSed to see Miss HaddOn and an
other young woman drive up in an
other auto. They had followed him
from the hotel. The alighted and dis
appeared. By indirect information he
learned that Miss Haddon had
brought back the other young lady to
her hotel, and was to make the re-
turn trip in care of the chauffeur.
In the course of an hour Miss Had
don reappeared, and after thirty or
forty goodbys to her girl friends took
a seat in the tonneau and moved off.
Three minutes later Mr.. Dillon was
travelling the same road. All went well
for five miles He was following so
closely that he could see that the
other machine was holding anything
but a straight course. There were
wobbles to right and left to signify
that that tract on intemperance that
hadn't quite cured him of his thirst
for highballs.
By and by two things happened in
the same minute. The chauffeur sud-
suddenly started to cross the high
way in front of a farmhouse.
The best mechanical engineer could
not have planned things better. There
was whoop, a scream and smash,
and then an auto brought up against
ing.
Fate was with the young man from
Boston. He stopped his machine and
leaped out and over the dead COW and
the unconscious chauffeur lying on
his back, and his strong arms were
extended to the half-fainting girl in
the tonneau. She fell into them just
as the farmer came from the house
with a milk pail in his hand and cried
out:
Now. by crickety. but this is nice
state of affairs, amt 1t! What in
Jericho have you folks been doing 2"
This auto struck your cow" brief
ly explained Mr.. Dillon as he placed
the girl on her feet on the ground
Struck my cow! Why it's killed
her as dead as a door nail! BY gum,
but you've got yourselves into nice
scrape. Yes, sir, gone and killed my
COW and smashed my fence, and the
two things together will send you
to jail for at least thirty days!'
I'VE shall pay all damages, of
course. Please let this young lady go
to the house. She isn't hurt I hope
but the accident has shaken her up
at that COW lying there! Only seven
years old and giving ten quarts of
milk a day Worth thirty dollars of
any mans money. It's serious job.
my friend!"
Miss Haddon was assisted to the
ceived her, and then Mr.. Dillon re-
turned to the chauffeur. He had been
flung out. but those highbaIls had
saved him from serious injury. Ho
was more intoxicated than hurt, and
after being propped up against the
renee proceeded to indulge in good,
long cry. When finally at liberty Mr..
Dillon turned to the farmer and said:
II am now ready to talk with you."
Yes, there's got to be some tre-
mendous talking over this thing. In
the first place, I'm a constable. and
it's my business to arrest somebody
for speeding. If that machine hadn't
been going all of thirty miles an hour
the COW could have lodged it. I've
been throwing stones and clubs at
her ever since she was a calf and she's |
lodged EN- all. It's speeding and |
killing a COW and smashing a fence !
all in one. to say nothing of the shock |
to my feelings"
1--WE are very sorry, of course" an
swered Mr.. Dillon. eff you will figure |
up the damages will pay"
WAL, we'll call the COW $50 and |
ing, you'll have to be taken before |
Squire Johnson. He lives six miles |
away, but is off on a visit to his |
brother in New Jersey just now. and |
can't say when he'll be home"
but we can't fool around"
Cant you? Wa'al, I guess you'll |
have to. When you are talking to me |
you're talking to the law. could |
handcuff the three of you and take
you right to Jail. Why. man, killing
2 COW is next door to killing 2 human
being! Can't you realize it ?"
But you see we are stopping at
the Films hotel. and the young lady
is anxious to get back to her mother.
If pay the damages you can take