American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-05-09

he met me half way, making Jabs at ,
the air with his elbows, humping the
floor and dancing around there like a
warm hen with its head off.
a'Seoundrei he says. Where's
my d%aughterY
THAT was what he wanted TO know:
where was his daughter?
"'Well. holy smoke! l says. Are
the Jersey lunacy mills broke outT
tried to make room for him, but he
wouldn't have it. He ranted after me
and shook his supply of furniture pref
ty p~romiscuously close up under my
nose.
I'm here in timer he says. I'm
glad I'm here in time. Wretch! he
says. Where is sheY
"Ex-cuse me, please l says. i
never knew you had a daughter. I'm
just a peaceable-
"'Hah-hr he says. is she in
there?' He heard the Pinchers max
ing fracas with the door panel, and
it walked up his susceptibilities and
gave him a clew.
civilian he says. Release her?
And he bolted back like a cyclone to
the scene of the music.
al couldn't stop him, and / didn't
try to. He just rushed back and grab
bed at things. The key was in the
lock and he give it a twist and threw
the door open and fell in.
81 was about six inches behind him
- IL. - 7 ~,.,D him nm avfr.u
shove as he went through, and he
skewed plumb into the arms of the
other geezer, and then l slammed the
door shut again and locked X and had
'em both.
1.-TWO of a kind l thought, n l
hoped they wouldn't kill each other.
But / allowed they was likely from
the same popular academy somewhere
in the neighborhood, and would unter-
stand one another's ways and get
along. But if not, and there was hair
pulling, / didn't see how / could help
it.
"And the next happy thing that
flooded the situation was a girl-a
Christian young lady looking all half
wild and stage frighty-and she came
vibrating in, in a Observation-Disclosures
style, and held me up in the middle
Of the floor.
| "'Oh, Haroldr she says, never stop
ping to look at me or take breath OF
ANYTHING. ooh, Harold! she says
Papa has discovered everythingr
"'Whatr l says, moving backward
from that female. Papa has discov
cred everythingl' l was about ready
to jump through the window by thai
= time, but I didn't have a chance.
"She pulled up like a house afir'
T. when she got a better look at me.
"'Oh, heavens! she says. "Whete''
D Mr.. Gordon?'
"'Never heard of him = says !.
l. "'Oh, oh, goodness she says, ant
then she wheeled around again an,
t bolted.
0 "'Great castigationg' says 1. 'Wha
= next, I wOnderY
- Il was accommodating new IDEAS eN
cry minute, it seemed to me, and
|; thought New Jersey wasn't so detr
mental slow after all, when it ono
got up on its hind feet and moving.
'The Sanitarium inmates seemed {
;, have cooled down a little for a mir
. ute-cOmparing notes, or something
- for the next violent outbreak-and
= wondered if I hadn't suddenly bette
cut loose from that social rendezvou
while ] had time, and start for HON,
l felt a kind of a quick longing fc
Arizona, where life wasn't quite so col
- %tinuously mixed.
Y anyhow l wished that young yout
would hurry back and see what he
y fell heir to- was afraid maybe N
y luck wouldn't hold out If ! had to
it much longer alone-and lit anoth'
i, weak cigar and went out on the sid
walk to look for aim.
:, "Well, he was coming, and the 81
70 with him, both in a sensational hurr
~ and looking scared half way out
their seven senses.
SAY he blurts out, falling g
~ over me when he got in reaching di
- lance. Say, has there been an 0
-, man here, an old man with a caneT
"'Wait a minute. Wait One m
nv ment, pleaseI' says I. What kind
Ct an all-around stew is this, anyhow
he "'What?' he says. why, it's h
father. We were going to get marie
and now"
Us "'What! Please hold me up for
minutep I says. Married? Whe
Ell TodayT'
"'No, nor he says. But has
been hereT he says.
vs. "'Say.' I says, go on and get ms
ried- >'ickl Don't hesitate. Do
I'll think. Don't linger a minute, but
and get married.
TX "Leave everything to me and 81
lie daddle. Don't expunge with excus
don't turn loose any doubts or qul
ton marks, but make a record run
49, a hurry-up preacher and get tied N
"'Why-I can't he says. "Tha
I'm just it. The collector for this cil
1se business here, you know. The maj