The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-03

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 was getting to like that girl! And she told me I looked like a drowned rat
 We'll. that was how Martha and me was interduced. She wasn't more'n sixteen, and when she found out was a orphan she was glad. fur she was one herself. Which Miss Hampton that lived in that house had took her to raise And when I tells her how I been travelling around the country all summer she claps her hands and she says:
 -Oh. you are on questl How TO- manticr'
 asts her what is a quest. And she tells me. She knowed all about them. fur Martha was considerable of a read CT Some of them was longer and some of them was shorter. them quests. but mostly. Martha says, they was fur n twelvemonth and a day. And then you are released from your VOW and one of these here queens gives you a whack over the shoulder with a sword and says. Arise. Sir Marnaeluke. dub Fou night" And then it is legal fur You to go out and rescue people and reform them and spear them if they don't see things your way. and come between husband and wife when they row, and do a heap of good in the world Well. they was other kind of quests. too, but mostly you married somebody or was dubbed night. or found the party you was looking fur in the end And Martha had it all fixed up in her own mind I was in quest to find my father. Fur, she says, he is purty certain to be a power ful rich man and more'n likely a earl. She was very romanceful kind of girl
 We'll, we talked about them quests until Martha has to milk the COW, and goes along back to camp thinking what a purty girl she is. which we had set there talking so long it was nigh sundown, and my clothes had dried on to me
 When I got over to camp seen they must be something wrong. Looey was setting in the grass under the wagon looking kind of sour and kind of wor- ried and watching the doctor. The doctor was jest inside the tent, and he was looking queer, too, and not cheer ful, which he was usually.
 The doctor looks at me like he don't skeercly know me. Which he don't. He has one of them quiet kind of drunks on Which Looey explains is bound to come every so often. He don't do nothing mean, but jest gets low sperrited and won't talk to no one. Then all of a sudden he will go down town and walk up and down the main streets, orderly, but looking hard into peoples faces, mostly women's faces Oncet, Looey says. they was big trou' ble over it They was in a store in a good sized town, and he took hold of 2 woman's chin, tilted her face back and looked at her hard and most scared her to death, and they was nearly be Ing a riot there And he was jailed and had to pay big dne. Since then Isooey always foIlers him around wher he is hathaway.
 The next day he is asleep all morn Ing But that day he don't drink an3 more. and Looey says nebby it ain't going to be one of the reg'lar piffhcatet kind seen Martha agin that day too-tvicet has talks with her told her about the doctor.
 CTS he into a quest, do you think ? asts her.
 She says she thinks it is remorse ful some crime he has done But cou1dnH Bigger Doctor Kirby would of done none. So that night after the show says to him. fnnocent-Ifke:
 Doctor Kirby. what IS a quest2" H. looks at me kind of queer.
 s'Wherefore.' says he. <tthis EuddeT thirst for enlightenmentT
 ''I jest ran acrost the werd accident al like I told him.
 He looks at me awful hard. bis eye &@kt uatcheraIIy digging into me.