The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1909-09-10


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anlcrl etnl lo t1a t ftst -
teye sDolsd hie fare'e aaarulEafg
coax had re ouCcome been ie,s raiiS.
factory.
Ihe Information proved 30 amusing
that kirkWood, chuckline. forbofs 10
resent TIE manner 81 it1 delivery end.
RbandonIng untll a more favorable time
tie chase Of the cog sovereign purse.
extracted from one srouEers pocket
half q handful Of large English small
ehange.
Three shillings and sixpenee." he
counted the colng into the cabbYa
grimy and bloated paw end added
quietly The exact distance q rather
lea than four miles. my man-your
fare. precisely shillings. You may
keep the extra rs pence for b.
ms such q conscientious Backyard
o. talk It over with the Omcer here.
Please yourself"
He nodded 10 the bobby. who, favor
ably impressed BY Kirkwood. smiled
az the cabby q cold. bard smile.
WhereupOn the latter. smirking IN an
abashed triumph. spat on the pave
ment ct Kirkwocd's feet gathered up
the reins and wiiceled out.
Restoring 2 shlilngs and few
FAT COPPER penrles 70 bis pocket, he
entered the vrst and pchoing train
shed. IN tho ret his attention was
attracted and Immediately riveted by
the speetacle of buFly luggage navy
IN a Enc jumper IN the ret ~ making
on with a large folding signboard, OF
which the surface was Uttered ex.
panslyeIy with tho advice. IN red
against n white background. "Boat
Train Leaves on Track g."
Excitet = Fhkwood touched the
mans ,r with eeu,,niug hand
'i,rat iralnT he gasyed, goirIing at
'nc r~0-d.
"Le.1 ten minutes ago. thank you,
sir"
Well but OF course can get
another train at TiIbUfl ?"
For yer boatf No. sir. thank you
slr Won't be another tryne till morn
IA, 49,"
"Oh-hF'
'llessly KirkwOod driftcd away
MS mind a blank.
some time later he found himself on
8 ne steps outside the station, trying to
,Iare out Of eOuntenance a glarlng
electric mineral water advertisement
on the farther side OF the Euston road.
He was stranded.
Distracted, be searched pocket after
po' ket, locating his watch. cigar case
ard cigarette case, matchbox, PEN
knife. ell the minutiae Of pocket hard
ware affected by civilized man. with |
old letters, a cardcase. a square en-
velope containing bis steamer ticket, |
but no sovereign purse. His small
change pocket held less than
shillings-two and eight, 20 be exact
and a brass hey. which he failed to
recognize as one Of bis belongings.
And that was all. At some time dur
ing the night he had lost Tor been cum
ningly bereft ON that little purse Of
skin containing the three gold
on sovereigns which be had been bus
banding to pay his steamer expenses
and which. II only he had them now,
would stand between him ana starya-
ton and a night ia the streets. II
were only In town. But he
wasn't and wouldn't be within the
week.
mo good waiting here" he conclud-
ed. Composing his face. be re-entered
the station. There were his trunks. Of
course. He couldn't leave them stand.
ing on the station platform forever.
He found the luggage room and In
q mechanically courteous at
tendant, who, as the result Of profound
advised him to try his
luck at the lost luggage room across
the station. He accepted the advice.
Il was a foregone conclusion that his
effects had not been conveyed 20 the
dock. They could not have
been loaded into the luggage van with
Out his personal supervision. still. any
thing was liable to happen when his
star was In the ascendant
He found them In the lost luggage
room.
A clerk helped him identify the arti-
cles and ultimately CLICKED with a per.
functory note, ''slxpence each, please"
'1-ah--parionT
"sixpence each, the fiXed charge, sir.