Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-21
Evening Story.
AFTER LAW CAME LOVE.
~ Bryant c. Rogers.

|(COpyf1&nt, 1910, Oy Cuo MS>AuAo
Newspaper Syndicate.)
re. Remington, Attorney-at-Law."
So read the sign over the door OF q
hallway on the main street of the
town, and upstairs, smoking his pipe
and waiting for his hrst case, was
Gerald Remington.
It was q fad OF his wealthy wild
owed mother that put him where ne
was. Left to his own devices. the
young man would hove come out OF
Yale to hunt lions In Africa or break
his neck while trying to climb some
mountain in Montana.
There had been lawyer In the
Remin gton family for the past two
hundred years. Some Of them had
been halfway honest, and some OF
them had served jail sentences. The
Widow Remington looked upon the
law with reverence and upon law
yer with admiration. She had never
employed lawyer professionally,
anu she had never read OF the crooks
and twists of the law. Her son had
voiced his disclination, but she had
insisted.
"Just graduate and be admitted to
the bar and 60 into court few
times. SO as to get your standing"
she urged. After that you can do
AZ you will. want the honor OF
saying that my son Is lawyer
Therefore came Gerald Remington
to the town. and therefore came his
sign over the door. It may be also
added that therefore he smoked, read
novels, walked, fished and played
checkers with any one that came In.
He hoped he wouldn't get client.
and for this reason he got three In
one day
The Widow Wells was fifty years
/! old and had a temper. Deacon
Goodman's COW got into her garden
with two fine horns In the place
whore the horns ought to grow, but
rot out with only one, and that was
aching like an liberated tooth. The
widow was rather handy with q
club. The deacon came over TO see
her about It. and was called q dodo
| and q lulu and q peach and other
! fond names, and run out Of the yard
with a brawny hand on his collar.
He came to Lawyer Remington to
start a suit for assault and battery.
Miss Lottie Davis was an old maid.
che had long had the reputation OF
being q gentle thing. but when she
got proof positive that 1t was Mrs.
B4xby that sent her comic valentine,
| in which she was held up to ridicule,
she paid neighborly call. Mrs.
Rixby saw her coming and locked the
doors. The gentle Davis kicked the
panels out OF front and back, broke
the pump handle, kicked the dog and
called out to the covering valentine
sender that she would come again
and break her neck.
| Yes. It was just awful, and Mr.
and Mrs. Bixby came to SEQ Lawyer
Remington and demanded large
doses OF the law and satisfaction.
Two miles out Of town lived farmer
Carlisle. He had . daughter, Bessie
who was called the handsomest girl
for twenty miles around.
Miss Bessie wasn't fiery, and she
wasn't gentle. She was betwix and
between. The morning she started to
ldriye into town with her pony and
phaeton she kissed her mother ten.
Derby. Half an hour later she was
putting her whip over the shoulders
| OF old Mr.. Wigglesby. He was driv'
ling the other way in farm wagon
They happened to meet at a narrow
place in the road, and he tried to
crowd the lighter rig into the ditch
Miss Bessie refused to be crowded.
! "Out Of the way. hoyden!" shouted
THE old man.
"Are you talking to me?' was de-
manded.
| ",Course I am! Outer the way!'
Farmer Wigglesby saw moving
picture show without going to town
and paying dime He saw gir
flush up and her eyes flash. He saw
her take the whip from It's socket
He saw her jump from the phaeton
J He beheld a girl and her whip climb
ling into his wagon. Then he felt, al
well as saw, and when he reached the
Office OF Lawyer Remington and got
his breath he said:
/, "She shall 60 to jail II 1t costs me
Ievery cent I've got on earth! be
|lieve she hit me fifty times! / never
got such a licking. even when was
| q boy and broke window"
! There were three cases, and al
came at once. They were forced upor
the lawyer. He realized that he wat
lame in his law, and he dreaded the
going to court. He went ahead, how
ever, and the three cases were set fol
the same day. The gentle old maids
case came first, but all the time hi
was trying 1t young Mr.. Remington
Twas thinking Of the others. Tha
was how he got mixed up. When hi
L AZ l1,rx II no{1
Gentlemen, what can you think o
a girl Of nineteen deliberately kick
ing in the panels Of neighbor''
pump-handle in her wild desire To-
revenge? Doesn't that show a.
! But 1t was the old maid tina
kicked whispered a man.
Eyes, gentlemen" went on the law
lyer after gulp, "she finds an limo
lcent COW In her yard. and withou
making the slightest investigation o
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