Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-04-17
FROsTBURG, MD, SATURDAY, APRIL II, 1909.

bone. Get out of this park. Charlie
Finncgan, where us thieves and trampS
and boozers are your bcttcrs, and take
your dirty money with you"
Finnegan drifted out by another
walk. The captain returned to his
seat.
81 couldn't avoid hearing" said Muir
ray drcariy. II think you are the big
gest fool | ever saw"
"What would you have donc?" asked
the captain.
Mailed Pickering to the cross" said
Murray.
"Sonny," said the captain huskily and
without heat, you and me are diff
fercnt New York is divided into two
parts above Forty-second street and
below Fourteenth. You come from the
other part We both act according to
our lights"
An Illuminated clock above the trees
retailcd the information that it lacked
the half hour of 70. Both men rose
from the bench and moved away to-
gcthcr as if seized by the same idea.
ItN ltll lIlt illi ~ Ill W IA NllI ''b-iI Il
narrow cross street and came into
Broadway. at this hoIr rs dark, echo
ing and dcpeopled rs byWay in Pom
pei.
Northward they turned, and a police
man who glanced at their unkempt
and sinking figures withheld the at
tention and suspicion that lie would
bn., tnJ of ut, ,nr hnrIr.
and place, for on every street il that
part of the city other unkempt and
sinking figures were Shutlling and hur
rying toward Il COnvcrging point-a
point that is marked by no monument
save that groove on the pavement
worn by tens of thousands of waiting
feet.
At Ninth street tall man wearing
an opera hat alighted from a Broad
way car and turned his face westward.
But he saw Murray, pOunced upon him
and dragged him under Il street light.
The captain numbered slowly to the
corner, like wounded bear, and wait
ed, growing
"Jcrryr' cried the hattcd one. How
fortunate! | was to begin a search for
you tomorrow. The Old gentleman has
capitulated. You're to be restored to
favor Congratulate YOU. Come to
the office in the morning and get all
the money you want I've liberal in
structions in that respect"
"And the little matrimonial arrange
mcnt?' said Murray, with his head
turned SilpWiSe
''Why-er well, of course your uncle
UNDERSTANDINGS that the engage
ment between you and Miss Wander
hurst shall be-
Good niShtr said Murray, moving
awag.
"You madman" cried the other,
catching his arm Would you give
up two millions Oh account Of
Did you ever see her nose. old
manT asked Murray solemnly.
But listen to reason, Jerry. Miss
VanderhurSt is an heireSs. and
did you ever see it,"
"Ycs. | admit that her nose isn't'-
Good night" said Murray. MY
friend is waiting for me. am quot
ing him when | authorize you to re
port that there Is nothing doing Good
night"
A wriggling line of waiting men eX-
tended from door in Tenth street far
up broadway on the outer edge of the
pavement The captain and Murray
fell in at the tail of the quvering mil
liped.
"Twcnty feet longer than it was last
night" said Murray, looking up at his
measuring angle of Grace church.
"Half an hour" growled the cap.
tain, "bcfore we get our punk"
The city clocks began to strike 10
The bread line moved forward slowly,
its lcathcrn feet sliding on the stones
with the sound of a kissing serpent as
they who had lived according to their
lights closed up In the rear