The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-04-24

IL IOuu outlaws. watched the per-
Torrance for several minutes, Giles
pie meanwhile laboring patiently with
the dull dog, until finally it leaped the
stick amid the applause Of the crowd.
Gillespie patted the dog and rose,
bowling with exaggerated gravity
Gentlemen" he said, Z thank you
for your kind attention. Let my slight
success with that poor cur teach you
the lesson that we may turn the idlest
moment to some noble use. The edu-
cation of the lower animals is some
thing to which too little attention is
paid by those who, through the pro-
cesses of evolution, have risen to a
higher species. I am grateful, gentle
men, for your forbearance, and trust
we may meet again under circum-
stances more creditable to US all-in-
Guiding the dog"
The crowd turned away mystifed,
while Gillespie, feeling in his pocket
for his pipe, caught my eye and
winked
"Ah, Donovan" he said, coolly, and
so you were among the admiring spec
tators. l hope you have formed high
opinion of my skill as a dog trainer.
Once, l would have you know, taught
a Plymouth Rock rooster to turn
summersault Are you quite alone?"
you seem to be as big a fool as
ever!" 1 grumbled in disgust, vexed
at finding him in the neighborhood.
"Gallantly spoken, my dear fellowI
You are an honor to the Irish race and
mankind. Our meeting, however, is
not inopportune, as they say in books;
and I would have speech with you,
gentle knight The inn, though hum
BILE, is still not without decent COM
forts. VIII you honor me?"
He turned abruptly and led the way
through the Office and up the stairway,
babbling nonsense less for my enter
tainment, 1 imagined, than for the be-
fuddlement of the landlord, who leaned
heavily upon his scant desk and
watched our ascent.
He pened door and lighted sew
eral oil lamps, which disclosed three
connecting rooms.
You see, I got tired of living in the
woods, and the farmer boarded with
did not understand my complex char
acter. The absurd fellow thought me
insane-can you imagine it?"
It's a pity he didn't turn you over
to the sheriff" growled.
Generously spoken! But 1 came
here and hired most of this inn to be
near the telegraph Office. Though as
big a fool as you care to call me 1
nevertheless look TO my buttons. The
hook-and-eye people are formidable
competitors, and the button may in
time become obsolete-strange things
have happened l keep in touch with
our main office, and when I don't feel
very good I fire somebody. Only this
morning l bounced our general man.
ager by wire for sending me a letter
in purple type-writing; l had warned
him, you understand, that he was to
write to me in black. But it was only
a matter of time with that fellow. He
entered bull pup against mine in the
Westchester bench show last spring
and took the ribbon away from me.
really couldn't stand for that. In spite
of my CLASSY splash in the asparagus
bed, I'm a man who looks to his dig
nifty, Donovan. Will you smoke ?"
l lighted my pipe and encouraged
him to go on.
How long have you been IN this
bake-oven?"
81 moved in this morning you're
my first .ilgrim I have spent the
long hot day in getting settled. I had
to throw out the furniture and buy
new stuff of the local emporium,
where, it depressed me to learn, furni-'
ture for the dead is supplied even as
for the living. That chair, which
beg you to accept, stood next in the
shop to a coffin suitable for a carcass (
of about your build, old man. But /
don't let the suggestion annoy you!
read your book on tiger hunting a few
years ago with pleasure, and I'm sure
you enjoy charmed life.
81, myself" he continued, taking a
chair near me and placing his feet in /
an open window, "am cursed with
rugged health I have quite recovered /
from those unkind cuts at the nunnery
thanks to your ministrations-and /
am willing to put on the gloves with /
you at any time"
you do me great honor; but the
affair must wait for lower tempera-
ture."
GAS you viii! It is not like my
great and gracious ways to force a
fight. Pardon me, but may I inquire
for the health of the ladies at. Saint
at's-her-name's?
They are quite well, thank YOU"
4 am glad to know it;"-and his
tone lost for the moment its jaunti-f
ness. Henry Holbrook has gone to 7
New York"
Good riddance!" I exclaimed, hear (
tily. "And now"