Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-02-27


red with the heat and ashine with laugh
ter and perspiration. Alarm and merri-
nent mingled in the native throng. All
eyes followed the towering figure of the
American. now bowed before the swinging
door of the carriage-and NJ. Mondet.
This, dear friends" Constable resum-
ed, as one would produce rabbit from
a silk hat-"this you all perceive, Is
your little editor of Les Colonies. Is he
not bright and clean and pretty? He is
very fond of American humor See how
the little editor laughs ~
The Frenchman was really afraid His
smile was yellowish-gray and Of sickly
contour. His article relative to the Amer
lean appealed to him now, entirely strip
ped of the humor with which 1t was
fraught yesterday, as he composed 1t in
the inner Of inner Offices. This demon
of cracking French and restless hands
would stop at nothing. NJ. Mondet pic
tured himself being picked up for dead
presently. As the blow did not fall in
simultaneously, he amended the picture
with the sorry thought that he was to
be played with before being dispatched
This Is the little man who tells you
that Saint Pierre is In no danger-who
SCOTS at those who have already gone"
Constable informed his hearers, now hold
ing up the Frenchman's arm, as a referee
upraises the whip of a winning fighter.
He says there is no more peril from
Pelee than from an old man shaking ashes
out of his pipe Yesterday / proposed to
wager my ship against NJ. Mondet's rolled
top desk that he was wrong but there
was a difficulty in the way. Do you not
see, dear friends that IL / won the wager.
l should not be able to distinguish be-
tween M. Mondet's rolled-top desk and
M. Mondet's cigarette case in the ruins Of
Saint Pierre? You would not think that
such a small white person could contain
so much poison"
There had been a steady growing from
the mountain.
ALI" Constable suddenly exclaimed.
"Pelee speaks again Ugh, get in
there :"
Constable's irritation against the entire
tribe Of editorial opinion breeders must
have found an instant vent at last. ~
Mondet was chucked like a large soft
bundle into the seat of his carriage and
the door slammed fOrcibly corking the
walls Of his wrath. In any Of the red
blooded zones, stranger who performed
such antics at the expense of a portly
and respected citizen would have encOun-
tered quietus quick and blasting but
the people Of Martinique are not swift 10
anger nor forward al reprisals
Come :" Constable yelled, In a voice
which Jerked up his hearers. WHO has
use for my oherf Who goes 10 Fort de
franceT
A few came forward, perhaps a dozen
10 all, out OF the fifty or sixty who had
listened Half in anger, half IN admira.
ton, which be did not seek 10 understand.
ne ran bis eye last time over the dusty.
haggard, stifed crowd which he had failed
10 move.
From their eyes sullen. startled and
pitiul be glanced beyond 10 the place
"hefe Old Vulcan lay, muttering Dis az
onies pf sight completed the circuit oil
feiiaing voltage made him fhink III Lara.
VIA furious zeal he grappled the WORK
Ai nai'p, forced biz way out Ut the crowd.
crossed the hotelane and hurried toward
ne Hotel De- Palms. llls physical en-
.is, Naf impefous' bui lle nuInbness III
Ais scalp "as 2 pregnant warning against
ihf pefih oi heat The cliy Wa silent
enough ~ aci like q gasi sounding board.
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