The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-09
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 But George has told about all he knows. They went north, according to what everybody thinks, he says. Prent McbIakin. he fol1ered and hunt ed. and Colonel Tom Buckner he done the same Fur about a year Colonel Tom he was always making trips away from there to the north. But whether he ever got any track of his sister and that David Armstrong nobody know ed Nobody never asked him. Old Colonel Hampton he grfeved and he grieved, and not long after the run away he up and died And Tom Buck ner he finally sold all he owned in that part of the country and moved further south. George said he didn't rightly know. whether it was Alabama or Florida or it might of been Georgia
 thinks to myself that mebby Mrs. Davis would like to know where her niece is and that I better tell her about Miss Hampton being in that there little Indfany town and where 1t Is And then thinks 70 myself I bet ter not butt in, fur Miss Hampton has likely got her own reasons fur keep Ing away from her folks or else she wouldn't do 1t. It set me to thinking about Martha too Not that hadn't thought of her
 
 would write her But kept putting 1t of, and purty soon I kind of forgot Martha Moving around the country so much makes it kind of hard to keep thinking steady of the same girl. Besides. I had lost that there half of B ring too.
 But knowing what I did now about Miss Hampton being Miss Buckner- pr Mrs. Armstrong-and related Co these Davises made me want to get away from there. Fur that secret made me feel kind of sReaking. like I wasn't being frank and open. with them Yet if had of, told 'em I would pf felt sneaIzknger yet fur giving Miss Hampton away. I never got into mixup that-a-way betw4xt my con- pcfence and my duty but what it made me feel awful uncomfortable. So I guessed would light out from there. They. wasn't never no kinder. better people than them Davises either. They was so pseRsed with my bringing Bud. home the night he was shot they would of jest natcheralIy give me half their farm if had of ast them fur 1t They wanted me to stay there-they didn't gay fur how long, and I guess they didn't give a dern. But I was in a sweat 10 ketch up with Dr. Kirby agin-
 I made purty good time, and in a couple of days I was in Atlanta. I knowed the doctor must of gone back into some branch of the medicine game the bottles told me that.
 It's hard work looking fur a man in 3 good sized town hung around ho- tel lobbieg and places till was tired of 1t, thinking he might come in- And I looked through all the office buildings and reAd all the advertisements in the papers Then the second day was there the state fai< started up and I went out to 1t.
 I run acrost a couple I knowed out there the first thing-it was Watty and the snake charmer woman. Only she wasn't charming them now Her and VVattys had Par4sian models show. I ast Watty where Dolly was. He says he don't know, that Dolly has quit him By which 2 guess he means he has quit her. I asst where Reginald is, and the Human Ostrich. But from Inc way they answered my questions seen wasn't welcome none around there. I suppose that Mrs. Ostrich and WattS had met up ag1n some where's, and had jest natcheraily run Bff with each other and left their fam plies
 It was at the freight depot that I found pr. Kirby at last Tickled ? Well, yesi Both of us. At
 well, by George" says he, you're good for sore eyes"
 Before he told me how he happened not to of drovnEed or blowed away or anything he says we better fix up a bit. Which he meant I better. So he buys me duds from head to heel and we goes to a Turkish bath place and 2 puts 'aSn on And then we goes and Eats. Hearty.
 NOW he says, sfF'ido Cutup, how Bid you find me?' Authors Note Can it be that Danny struggles vague ly to report some reference to fidus Achates?l
 I told him about the bottles
 A dead loss. those bottles," he says
 ''I wanted some nonrefillable ones for 3 little scheme I had in mind, and I had to get them at a certain place and now the schemes up in the air and can't use 'em-"
 The doctor had changed some in looks in the year or more that had passed since I saw him floating away In that balloon. And not fur the bet ter He told me how he had blowed clean acrost Lake Erie in that there balloon. And then when he got over land agin and went to pull the cord that lets the parachute loose it wouldn't t work at first He jest natcherslly srifred on into the midst of nowhere he said-miles and miles into Canada. When he lit the balloon had lost sc much gas and was flying so low that -the parachute didn't open out quick enough to do much floating. So he lit hard and come near being knocked put fur good. But that wasn't the worst of it, fur the exposure had crawl -ad into his lungs by the time he found R house. and he got newmonia into hem also and like to of died. Whilst was laying sick he had been sick