Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-11
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go. INDIANA 900.
Couldn't Accommodate the Stranger, But
Handed the Contractor a Hot One. :.


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mother. Oh, it amt the first time I've
lied to her about a thing like this, and
now I'm tripped up all right l sort o
grinned to myself and thought that
mebbe Lem Brown wasn't the only liar
in the community, but did feel sorry
for the man. He was certainly all
broke up about it, and the way he lick
ed that horse and made him kick dirt
was a caution.
when we come in sight of the doc
tors country place we expected to see
good deal of excitement, but there
wasn't anybody out in front, and then
the old man begins to be scared for
fear it was the boys neck instead Of
his leg, and he kept saying it sure did
serve him right for lying to his wife
and letting a boy like that go up on
such a steep roof. About that time we
turned in at the lane where we could
see the other side of the barn, and
there. straddle of the ridge pole, sat
the contractors boy"
They hadn't even taken him into the
house!" little Mrs. Smith cried in dis
may. Then she added, But how did
he get up there after he broke his leg?"
HE didn't. I was about as much
mystified as you are when I saw the
youngster up there. OF course l didn't
know it was his boy. All knew was
that he'd say, Thank the Lord and
then he'd cuss and then he'd laugh and
cuss some more and thank the Lord
some more, and after a while it got
through my thick skull that Lem
Brown'd given me sample of his
brand O. lies
and I'll bet something pretty that
Lem Brown didn't bury it in his own
bosom when he got TO town." Johnson
observed.
That's what he didn't, and the next
day the fellers simply turned that con-
tractor upside down and shook all the
loose change out O. his pockets. reck-
on he bought drinks and cigars for 40
men before they let up on him."
"The man I started to tell about
wouldn't have had anything left in the
bank after his crowd got through with
him if hadn't protected him." john
son interposed. so you see it was up
to him to promptly hand over the best
Havanas that grew around Key West
He's a man We'll have to call Mason
That names the first one that pops
into my head, and it'll do as well as
any other except his own. l wouldn't
risk telling even my own wife who he
is, because I swore on my honor I
wouldn't give him away"
"Whew!" Bill Smith muttered. Say
Johnson, will it do to tell here, or had
we better ask the ladies to retire till
we fumigate you? Funny I never get
into any such messes."
well, to tell the truth, there was
woman in the case. But l think the
ladies can stand it all right. 1 hap
pened to run in on Mason the week af-
ter his first wife died. and If ever there
was a widower that was so swamped
in grief that he couldn't think of mar
rying again, it was this same Mason
The next time / saw him was two
months later, when pretty little wild
ow named Carroll came to his office to
get him to look after some financial
interests that were connected with her
late husbands estate. She went her
way after two meetings and then they
took to corresponding. The first let
ters came from Lincoln, and were
strictly business, all on the typewriter,
and signed, M. H. Carroll When he
had wound up the case for her he ask
ed her to go on writing-this is the way
I've figured it out-and finally pro-
posed and was accepted. That's when
his wife had been dead eight months,
and happened to be on the same train
that he was on, going out to see her.
II knew he was terribly worked up
about something, and l stepped into
the hotel parlor after him to find out
what was in the wind, and the only
person in there was a sharp-visaged
female, somewhere between so and so,
and she came forward and asked If
this was Mr. Mason. He allowed 1t
was, and she told him she was Mrs.
Carroll. Then he asked where the
young Mrs. Carroll was, and she said,
"Oh, my daughter-in-law, who went to
see you about my estate? She was
married to a Kansas City newspaper
man six months ago. In fact, she was
buying her trosseau when l asked her
to go and see you for me-"
well, in about two seconds Mason
saw what he was up against and he
reeled off a yarn about his cousin, of
the same name as his, who was his
law partner-said his cousin was the
one who had been writing to her, and
had sent him out to keep the appoint
ment with her, because he'd had to go
to Japan to look after big commits
sion. Clumsy as the lie was she swal-
lowed it. But l got the cigars."-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.