The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-07-09

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You all know" he began. 1how
had to stay late fixing up q trial bal
ance. It must have been fully II
o'clock before / left the once. YOU
also remember what kind OF weather
1t was sleet. snow, and all that.
was pretty well tagged out, and 1t did
seem as though those everlasting col
umns OF figures would never quit
dancing UP and down In nay head. All
the way over to my fat they kept II
up, and, what with the cold and the
figures, knew 1t was no use trying
to get any sleep Just then. Now, the
best thing In the world when you feel
that way Is bath--hot or cold ac-
cording to whether it's winter or sum
mer and 4 sneaked upstairs quiet,
thinking how nice and restful one
would feel Mrs. Parrish is a light
sleeper SO / slipped into the bath
room, turned on the water, undressed,
and It didn't take me very long to
| drop In. Great Scott, didn't II feel
finel ! just lay back still and quiet
and almost dozed of right there and
| then.
Come. come said to myself,
this will never do. and / started
to get up-only started, mind you. for
then the awful part OF the evening
began. Not an inch could move
stuck fast. tried and tried to slew
my shoulders around or to get some
sort OF purchase on the edge OF the
teb, but the sides were high and 1t
was no go. Then l tried to push up
with my elbows. You know how i'm
possible It 10 to get a mustard plas-
ter or your own back. Well, 1t was
Just like that. did get little place
loose. but It felt as though the skin
had come on with It,
you can bet l was scared, but this
was nothing to what happened after
wards.
7 told you I'd been thinking OF
figures and wondering how that things
hadn't Strengthened themselves out,
and--well, can't explain it. but.
somehow, In looking around the bath
room for something to help pry my
self loose with, the place struck me
as considerably changed. Our medi-
cine closet hadn't any mirror; Mrs.
Parrish never hung the towels on a
rack like that--why, those weren't
our towels, that was a 70" marked
on them. Good Heavenl got all
hot and cold at once. II wasn't our
hzthpnnrn Than
like fash. Our nat was on the
fourth floor We'd only lived there
week, aud our previous nat, where
we'd been fiye years. was on the third.
In my awful Northumberland I'd
probably gone up two flights and,
without thinking, walked right in.
The keys Just happened to ft. Same
as II was. In Called Back you re-
member.
Now, II was in = nx before, you
can imagine what It was now n
simply had to ret out. The new
enamel sssmsd to ret harder and hard
sr al the time. They had put it on
the day before. % found out later,
and while It wxs all right when ri
stepped n, ths hst water had sort
ened IL. i
\ ~ inuat hay d lost my head here. for
" struck mssAs good scheme to- pnlR
out the plug with, my toes. OF courSe.s
you can imagine the result. when
All ths Not water ran out the skua \
got harder than ever solidifed, % 10
speak Besides, II was cold tar-
itor always lot his. hres get low at I
night 90 I lay there and shivered,
feeling more and more like corpse \
In cola storage sverys minute.
Il suppose ! must have made some
noise, for ths next thing ON the pro
gram was when heard window
open with bang and soma woman
letting on volley of yells. tried to
shout some sort OF m explanation. \
but shs wouldn't even come TO the
door to hear my story, and kept ON
bowling 'Thieves!' 'Murderp and
every other thing that came into her
silly head. never did think much OF
that woman, anyway. She's the ner-
yous, erratic kind, and I guess it's
just rs well her husbands on the
road most Of the time. II she was my
wife I'd take to drink. Anyhow, they
tell me she raised the entire block.
Where is her in a mans voice
was what heard next. Here, you
come out OF there
Then. 'Aw, yes, yer can tell all that
to the sergeant when tried to ex-
plain. Are you comm out OF there
or aren't yer. now?'
Well, there isn't much more to
tell, He broke down the door, OF
course. Mrs. Clay let out another
yelp when she saw my Goubled-up
figure in the tub, and McGrath Just
gave one pull and had me clear. He
then helped me to dress. why,
can't lean back In my chair now
1T goes without saying chat Mrs.
Clay refused to believe my story (she
managed to recognize rne In time 40
wasn't carried on to the station
house) and said she knew 7 was
drunk-and ON top OF all that,
didn't I meet Mrs. Parrish face to