The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-04-02

cab, gave my address and sat down
on the seat.
And now comes the worst part.
The witchery of the night came upon
me again and | fell asleep. The driv-
er fell asleep too, or perhaps he never
was awake and the horse heard my ad-
dress and brought me home, whereup-
on it too fell asleep.
awoke at the sound of Berlin going
to work, d sound hear every morning.
| wanted to turn over and sleep on
as usual. but could not move. was
stiff with cold.
| was wide awake at once. The
light of street lamp fell upon the
taXimeter, which had not been Sleep
ing. and now registered 10 marks. On
his seat the driver was sound asleep,
and through the little pane in front l
could see the broad back of little of
the horse, that was asleep on three
legs, the fourth was resting on horny
bump on one of the other legs made
for that purpose.
My first though was to run away
from that beastly bill did not feel
like paying for the drivers and horses
rest all night. but as | opened the
door l saw Mutter Schmitt's face at
the window pressed flat against the
pane, with an expression of intense
excitement. How she had racked her
brain to solve the mystery of this
cab, stopping outside ali night. Evi-
IDENTIFY she had not gone to bed.
At last | had fallen into her clutch
es. The thought made me shudder.
but | left the cab as if it were the
most natural thing in the world paid
the driver and went inside. | could
on the witchs face see that she was
perplexed, she had not expected liv-
ing being to emerge from this sleep
ing carriage, and least of all-me.
Suddenly cruel smile fitted across
her face-she had guessed the truth. |
did not go upstairs, but stopped at one
of the windows on the stairs facing
the yard. The workingmen were
about to come out and in little groups
they stood waiting for the foreman to
open the shops. When the yard was
full of workers. Mutter Schmitt would
explode her bomb. must wait to see
my own execution. They were. all
steady, respectable workers who
DOTTED their hats to me and felt sOr-
ry to lose their good opinion. OF
course they had missed me at the
meeting. and here was the explanation.
But nothing happened. The fore
man opened the shops and the yard
emptied in moment. Mutter Schmitt
did not appear. She had thought of a
more devilish plan, thought and went
in to tell my wife of my nights adven-
ture.
We were still talking about it. when
there was noise at the gate and hur-
ried steps up and down the stairs. Sud
denly our bell rang. Our landlady op-
ened. listened to somebody telling
something and exclaimed. Colt in
Himmel." Then she rushed down
stairs leaving the door wide open.
Now it is coming" | thought, went
outside and listened over the banister.
but could hear nothing.
Somebody came up; it was our land
lady We retreated, and few mo-
ments later she knocked at our door
and entered, her face all distorted.
She must be going to give us notice.
You are not dressed. Frau Krue-
ger" ! said wickedly, "but of course it
does not matter"
| oh Lord who can think of such a
thing-Mutter Schmitt has had an apo
plectic stroke
1t was really true. The excitement
had been too much for the old scare
crow and in the moment of triumph