The Washington herald., 1914-01-20
Ny JOHN PHILIP oRTR,

"sir, pass on about your business
"Ahi See you again." he smirked a. he
passed.
whats the matter with the kid?"
asked Miss Blythe's brother George, as
she reached home with tears In her
eyes.
Brother George was thirteen years
had happened TO call for a display OF
chivalry on his part
"Man-in the park sobbed the sis
ter.
wild man?'
'No-tame"'
what did he do?"
''S-spoke to me-
And what were you doingg'
Looking at the squirrels"
And didn't you blast his eyes?'
Yves"
And you told him to go on about his
business
Yes"
And he went?''
III he hadn't / was going to call for
help"
I'm glad you didn't have to-" sagely
replied the brother. Sister, never call
for outside help IL you can avoid II. IL
you do they will get your name and your
picture in the papers, and a great lot OF
stun about your fighting to the last gasp,
and all OF that They will also want TO
know what sort OF a cowboy / am not 10
be around when wanted"
But what shall i do IL I meet him
again.
Tonight I shall hand you Epy revol-
yer. 1t won't be loaded: but when you
go to the park in the morning. you carry
IL with you"
And il won't 60 or?" asked the sister
with shudder.
How can It? You want il simply to
menace the man. IL he shows up again.
As soon as he begins bowling and smirk-
and say:
"'out of this with you. base wretch. or
you are a dead man"
But he may laugh at me-"
No danger of that, IL you speak in a
stern voice. The sight OF a gun gives
such scoundrels the quake every time.
There's hardly a day passes, sister, that
1 don't make some desperate take TO
his heels by drawing a gun and looking
at him. You Just try II once Money
back IL II don't work.
When Miss Blythe went to the park
next morning she had the gun along
with her, but she didn't mean to menace
ANYBODY with IL IL she could avoid IL
She therefore took another path. IL that
mssher was on the watch he would be
fooled. When she had reached a spot
half a mile from the encounter OF the
day previous she sat down on a bench
and lost herself in watching the robins
..Ah, there, good morning.
was the masher come back. He
hadn't been fooled:
Beautiful morning.?
No reply.
..Reautiful park"
No reply.
what a happy bird the robin is!''
Miss Blythe was now looking him
squarely in the eyes.
would that I were a robin to be look
ed at by a beautiful young LADY,"
You ioafer you, how dare you speak
to me again.
.CaIl me not thus. fair one. ! admit
that ! admire, but II is with all due re-
spect."
Miss Blythe rose to her feet and out
came the revolver.
George said that it wouldn't be loaded
but IL was to be used only to menace
with.
However. It turned out to be another
of those frequent cases of didn't Know
il was loaded
I'D came the weapon on a line Win
the masher's right eye. The girl didn
know the trigger from the muzzie. IL
can't be recalled to this day that any
thing was done beyond woooIns tne
weapon about, but all OF sudden there
was an explosion.
a niece out OF the masher's right ear and
then went singing away into the orush.
The masher yelled out. He jumped clear
of the ground. He clapped hand 10
the bleeding ear. and shouting murder
at the ton Of his voice he struck a jack
rabbit gait and was soon out or slght-
"What have I doneI oh, what have !
doner, walled the girl as she dropped
hack on the bench and covered her face
with her hands, having dropped the re-
yolyer as soon as the shot was nred.
There was no one nearby. NO one
came running. After giving hersel Two
or three minutes to recover from the
shocI Miss Blythe started for home at
a fast walk.
The evening papers of that date had q
column article under four or five scare
heads. the largest and blacklist or which
was: ,
ATTEMPTED Murder in the Park;
And then the article related that as
Guy Osborne. son OF the insurance mar
by that name. was sitting in the PARK al
an early morning hour. smoking MS cigar
mot a nickie OneD, anu TeaoihS hi' poP>i
bullet, fired by a would-be assassin
from the underbrush, at his faithfui heart
had hit him in the calf OF the right leg
The assassin had been concealed there
for half an hour, probably. He certainly
meant murder. No suspicious person was
seen by the park police, but a general
alarm had been sent out to collar every
man in the city with a Roman nose.
Brother George had been told ABOUT tne
! masher. and he was highly exuitant
When he saw the papers, however ~, ne
sobered up and said: Sister, you VIII
have to hit the high spots"
What does that meanT she ASKED
you will have to seek the WOODS ano
camp cut until this thing blows over.
But how can IT,
Dunno, unless you tell mother you are
dying Of consumption and must have an
outdoor life for awhile
Poor Miss Blythe. She wept ana sne
tried to plan. Brother George had ceased
to be q consolation. In fact, he showed
| a disposition to skip the country. Al
that needed to be done was to Keep quiet
As no one had seen tho shooting, put the
shooter felt that every finger IN the cry
was pointing ut her as the guilty ono