Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1909-03-03

Were making good now called
the chauffeur. "Will run alongside
and hail EN-, or what?"
She told him quietly to run along
side. But her lips twitched, and when
she pnt up her hand to press them
still.>she smiled to discover that her
hand was bare. She had forgotten to
pull on her glove. She began to pull
| 1t on now
THE road is narrow" said she run
ahead of the back and block its way.
You can do it without hitting the
horses, can't you?"
We'll, guess" returned the chauf-
feur, instantly accomplishing the
maneuver in fine style
But he missed his deserved COM
mendation; indeed, he forgot it him
self; because, as he looked back at the
horses rearing on the sudden check
and tossing their auburn names, then
ran his scrutiny behind them to the
hack, he perceived no life in it; and
when his own passenger jumped with
amazing aimbleness from het seat and
flung The crazy door wide open, she
recoiled. exclaiming: Where are
they? Where did you leave them?'
Leave who?" queried the hackman.
"Say, what you stoppin' me fur? Run
min into me with your devil-wagon!
Sayl'-rhan his wrath trailed into an
/ inarticulate mutter as he appreciated
better the evident qualitysof the gen.
tlewoman before him.
, "You may be mixed up in peniten-
tiary offense, my man. she said plac-
idly. 1T is a case of kidnapping. Where
did you leave that boy who was in the
cab? If you give us information that
will find him, there's five dollars; If
you fool uswell, have your humber.
Where did you leave the boy?"
why, there was a cop with i'm
cop and a gentleman. Amt you got
hold of the wrong party, lady?"
"a brown-haired boy in a gray suit
with blue cravat-you know he was
! in your cab. And how do you know it
was real policeman?"
"Or he wasn't helping on the dev-
iltry if it was?" sneered the chauffeur,
who had now become a full-fedged
partisan "Aint you lived in this burg
long enough to find out how to make
a little mazuma on the side? You're
too good for Frisco. Heaven is your
home, my Christian friend"
Cut it out!" retorted the man. II
guess / know how to find my way
round as we'll as the next man"
Certainly you do" soothed Mrs.
Winter, who was lingering crisp new
five-dollar bank note, "and you are no
kidnaper, either; you made no bar
gain with those men"
Sure l didn't" agreed the hackman,
NOR l amt standin' for kidnapping,
neither Why, / got kids of my own,
and my woman she'd broom me outer
the house If was to do them games.
Say, FL tell you all knows. They
got off, them three, at that there cor
ner, and was to drive fast s could
three blocks ahead and then git home
any old way. And that's Gods truth,
T."
you didn't see where they went?"
Mrs. Winter was quietly insistent
mo, didn't. guess | was dumb
TOOL not ter notice, but they paid me
well, and I'd bad thirst, and / was
mixing to place know for beer; and
that's"
did the boy seem willing?"
HE didn't do no kicking as l seen"
A few more questions revealed that
the man had unpacked his full kit of
Information He had never seen eth
er of the men before. The gentleman
yes, he was sure he was a gentle
man: he wasn't no swell confidence
guy; he was the regular thing-gentle-
man engaged him to take a party to
the Chinese quarter; he'd tell where
to stop; didn't need guide; only
wanted to make few purchases, he
said, and he knew where the things
was; yes, ma'am, that was air; only
down there on Market street, or may.
Se-why, somewhere near by-he
stuck his head out and told him to
turn the corner, and then he kept tell
ing him to turn corners, until finally
he told him to stop and they got out
Mrs. Winter gave the man the bank
note, counseling him to keep his eyes
open for the two men and the boy,
and to report to her at the Palace ho-
.el, giving his number, should he see
either man or boy. 1t would be very
well worth his while.
The chauffeur did not interrupt, but
he shook his head over the departing
hack He'd ought to have known 1t
want on the square. but these hack
drivers amt got good sense even when
they're, so to speak. sober, which amt
nften,r he soliloquized. well, lady, If
they've took to the Chinese quarter,
we'd better be looking up Chink to
help us, I guess. know fairly de
cent one"
Il think know better" inter
rupted Mrs. Winter, with faint smile.
She had detected a suppressed pity
in the mans regard. Motor slowly
along the street There is shop. II
! can find it, where there ought to be
q man"
Man You know! Say. lady. l guess