Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-17
By Henry L. Kiner
A GATLING gun broadside
~ could rake the street and
= e not hit q donIO Thus

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~ could rake the street and
4 u not hit dog!" Thus
growled Landlord Landor of
the Square Deal Cafe. March, -
mad and riotous, threshed the
panes with wind fured rain. -
Like spirit of the dark and
the storm. man was blown
into the brilliant He ll
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waved dripping arm with the quuluuwEMI=
air of cavalier. Then, eager &MZ
1y searching, his black eyes III NVWNS N wv
roamed the room till they had IlNhHfY2l H.
SIKH He said it with A hD10||IlM
gasp of dismay He unlooped AMl + I'M
the fastenings of the long black MIIIIN II lP
cloak that chung to his tall NlE(M1lNln HMM
form, and dug up watch. 1t NN NDnfHNn||'l
IS six o'clock, he murmured: q H$f2WllB{lN]
LAS l live, it is six oclock!' WtNsS(HII@ffHhA
Well snapped Lander, AllI
much irritated, what of it?
It's always six o'clock at this 1.w,. w;do,
time O day"
Filler the tout and Colonel
Fay the all-rounder grinned at this. They leaned
against the bar picking their teeth, and with
tain amused insolence, studied the man.
The did not seem to notice this He busted
himself draining his sombrero and garments, stand
ing near the door The chauffeur will get his FIVE
extra even if he didn't get in town in time for
supper and the five forty-seven train. He did his
best in the darkness and mud y The strangers voice
ing if testing his lungs for cold, he restored his
watch to its fob. Times mutual masonry restored
the three other watches to their fobs
The strangers testing cough had scarcely ceased
when the door opened again, admitting another rush
of wind and rain together with owlly little man,
with great goggles showed up his forehead, and
cap-ears erect and high, like horns.
Found place for t?' the tall man inquired.
Cup an alley" replied the little man. making
futile passes at his spattered garments. He added,
There's nobody about The machines safe there. -
You mentioned supper" suggested Lander.
For two. The cavalier again produced and
studied his watch.
six o'clock six six, sikh" he repeated regarding
the owl. But you did your best in the slippery
March mud y
Again restoring the watch to it's fob, he drew an
enormous wad of green and orange bills. Folding
back long succession of twenties and fftes he at
length came to five, and handed it to the owl.
In the meantime a snowy CARRIED African had
appeared from the at the of the cafe in
response to Landor's push button in the bar
Supper ordered, the cavalier nervousy resumed his
watch and his lnsistent iteration of Six, SIX ski!
"You act if it had never been six o'clock be-
fore" growled Landor Landor glanced at Filler and
Fay There responsive grin. Something
Faustian about this courtly stranger or, perhaps
the magnitude of his roll awed them. They mutely
stared, furtvely averting their eyes when he hap
pened to look toward them.
A Landors i'll natured comment, the stranger
4 threw back the long cloak which he unbuttoned
at the chin pinioned the proprietor with his glitter
ing gaze and said, Friend, for reasons of my own
wish to fix ndellby upon my mind the exact time at
which reached your double barreled refreshment
resort. By double barreed refer to the solids and
liquids Indifference of observation results in untold
disaster. A dozen truthful men observe man
killed railway. T ken at time before a
Coroner's jury they tell a dozen different stories.
Friend year from now, l can recall this wild March
evening with all its environments. Yourself, these
other men, the room, the state of the weather. all,
will revove round the figure six, it were,
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