The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-17


 cult to be rid was standing at the bar when ha invaded me; there could not wave the white ribbon hoping, thereby! to escape another; but he was ona must have brass bands And fireworks attended upon every cent that they waste in their follies
 one-dollar bills from pocket and dashed one of them upon the bar. looked once more at tbe dollar bill with the upper righthand corner missing. torn through the middle. and patched with strip of blue
 I went up to my room The drizzle and the unOnot- ony of dreary eventless Southern town had made me tired and listless. I remember that just before dollar bill (which might have formed the ciew to a tremendously fine detective story of San Francisco2 people here stock in the Hack-Drver's Trust. Pays dividends promptly too Wonder if--" Then
 King Cettiwayo was at his post the next day, and was to wait and rattle me back again when was
 AzaIea Adair looked paler and cleaner and Trailer than she had looked on the day before After she grew still paer and began to slip out of her chair. Without much trouble managed to get her up on to the sidewalk and yelled to the cofeecooEed Pirate suspected in him. he abandoned his team and struck off the street afoot realizing the value of speed and capable of medicine In few words (worth ne b nv TS n te bao bonSe of mgy R bowed with stately understanding and turned to the j Uncle Cesar" he said calmly, "run up to my hous and & ask Miss Lucy to give you cream pitcher And hurry back. Don't drive--run l want you
 
 It occurred to me that Dr. Merriman also felt a disrust to the speeding qt the landirates swiftly. the street the doctor looked over with until he had decided that I might do
 tIt is only case of insufficient nutrition" he and starvation. Mrs. Caswen has many devoted friends who would be glad to aid ,a her but she will wno ssS h Oy eF fam Ana then looked at the contract and that she had signed it "AzaIea Adair CasweIl."
 4I thought she Miss Adair," said.
 to , {, drneR E worthless m l9afer F. sT said small that her old servant contributes toward
 When the milk and wine had been brought the doctor soon revived Aznlea Adair. She sat up and te n or n 4f 5Se a eo b ferred lightly to her fantng seizure the outcome her as she lay on the sofa The doctor was due else where, and I followed him to the door. told him a reasonable advance of money to Azaleo Adair on IIsase pleased '0 'As anu '
 By the way" he said, 'perhaps you would like Old Casars grandfather a king in Congo. Cesar himself if has royal ways ns you may nave Tc voice inside: Did he git bofe Of dem two dollars
 "Yes Cesar" heard Azalea AdaIr answer weakly And then went in and concluded business negotia- sbiIity of advancing fifty dollars putting it as q then Uncle Cesar drove ne back to the hotel
 Here ends all of the story far as I can testify of of fnefa atneSS The rest must De 0n' pare
 At about six o'clock went out Tor q Srrou. UHcle his carriage, fourished his duster and began his to anywhere in the city-hacks pueHckly clean, suh jus got back from funeral"
 sight getting bad. His coat had taken on few fade dshades of color. the twine strings were more frayed and ragged the last remsining button descendant of kings was Uncle Cesar!
 About two hours later excited crowd besfegng the front of drug store, In desert where nothing happens this was mama; 30 edged my way inside On an extemporized rig couch of empty boxes and chairs was stretched the mortal corpora ity of Major Wentworth Caswel. A doctor was test ing him for the immortal ingredient. His decision that it conspicuous by its absence
 The erstwhiIe Major had been found dead on a dark street and brought by curious and ennuied citizens to the drug store The late human DeinB had been engaged in terrific battIe-the details showd that. Loafer and reprobate though he had been, he had also been a warrior But he had lost His hands yet clnched tightly that bis mn gers would not be opened. The gentle citizens who Iaries to find some good words, if it possible to speak of him. one kInd,lookng man said. after was of the best spoilers in school"
 While I stood there the fingers of the right hand "the that was" which hung down the side a white pine box, relaxed. and dropped something my feet. I covered it with foot quietly, aud reasoned that in his last struggle his hand must have seized that object unwittingly and held it in death grip
 At the hotel that night the topic of versation and with the possible exceptions of politics and prohibition. the demise of Major 'Caswel l heard one man to group of listeners:
 'In opinion, gentlemen, CasweIl was murdered by some Of these no-account niggers for his money He had fifty dollars this afternoon when he showed to several gentlemen in the hotel. When he was found the money not OH his person"
 I left the city the next morning at nine. and ns the train crossing tke bridge the Cumberland River took cut of pocket yellow horn overeoat button the size of fv cot !ioc 'rith froyed ends ,,~ ---'-' '--, -'-. '' .--~+c~- below
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