Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-11

could hardly articulate the words "a
little bit can't do me no harm. Gin
me one grain-just one grain. an
after that I'll do anythin' you say!"
Mo-
Half g1'ain--a quarter!" walled
Dan. "Oh, fer the love O Mike, a
quartz" grant"
"Squealing, already?", Bradford de-
manded sternly. after what you
said about wanting me to cure you?
Squealing, so soon?"
II 'Naw! Tn goin' trough, all right.
But this here's too much fer me to
get away wifi It's too damn much,
mister: / cant stand It'll can't,
cant! sNot9allsat once
'.Think it hurts 81 dog less to cut
its tail off by inches than all at one
crack?"
Nav: butch, Gawd. mister.-if
I could only have a quarter grain!
An eighth. Anythin'!" he whined,
writing on the bed and clutching
his corded hand together in Il Very
real and terrible spasm of agony.
Its them damn rats again, gnawin',
gnawin' all the tirne!."S
"Rats?''
II h~huh! Here!''. The wreck
pressed twitehing hand over his
stomach and peered at Bradford with
lack -luster eyes far sunkeh in his
3 Eallow face. IT feel 'em gnawin'
asagain. S help mean such pains In
my legs--sllch ,>pa ins--ooooo..
you've got to expect pains. DAN"
!, bradford firmly answered. Dope is
the greatest pain MAKER there. is.
when you stop Don't you want to
Z smoker
..Naw! l want"
SIS. Have a, drink? I'll give YOU some
extra fine brandy to tide YOU over
5|sst he worst of il, If YOU like"
brandy, He'll! Just an eighth
grain. -.
Bradford shook his head with abb
s&plnte decision.
"a Ngnt I'm dyin.. I tell YOUTH whined
|. Dan. 81 II crpak, s,if you don't gimme
soine. My hearts stoppin'. already.
! an I'M all gone, inside. You amt
. trsin' to kill me, are your Like a
s beast al1e sna-led lat Bradford, his
ugly teeth showing ins a rictus of
vicious spite.
No; you know I'm not. I'm try
ing to save You. Now buck up. and
let's. have no more nonsense re-
turned Bradford. you've had the
last morphine you're ever goin', to
set. so make the best of it"
Dan peeped at him. obliQuely, under
the lamp Lightly then, seeing the f1f-.
tility of any further pleas, relapsed
into twitching and morose silence.
/ Presently he got up and walked tho
floos a gain: and from then until
morning the nerve -racking seanco
continued. with Dan growing ever
more and more violent between his,
auieseent spells, and Bradford on the
watch lest his patient, going sud-
denly insane. should try to murder
him.
At breakfast time Bradford. had
food brought. and ate a little while
Dan. shudde.ing with disgust, turned
Ms face to the wall and moaned.
Bradford forced him to drink plenty
of water, and even little spirit; but
/ nothing availed to quiet the patients
suffering. From now on he grew
ever more and more restless. Sweat
ing set in, with severe cramps and a
dragging pain in the thighs and legs
which made him w-ithe, bowling, on
the bed. At 1880 Dan suddenly arose
and ran to the window. Bradford
caught him just in time to keep him
from throwing himself into the al
ley, with shrieks that he was being
done to death.
After Bradford had dragged him
back to bed, the dope fiend grew
more quiet, tho he still kept up a
more or less continual whining and
crying. Toward 5 o'clock he seemed
absorbed in some kind Of apology for
thought. All at once he sat up in
<bed, turned his clayacolored face to-
ward Bradford, and in hoarse
: VOICE exclaimed:
.'Look-a here, mister! I'm hep to
somethin' you'd give the world to be
wise to. Gimme just an eighth grain
tablet, an I'll spill the info
Nothing DOING answered Brad-
3 ford, firmly. eff YOU offered me a
gold mine, wouldn't give you
enough dope to dust a fly's eye
WITH
Eyes, but this amt a gold mine I'm
talkin' about. It's somethin' mill
lion miles ahead of any gold mine,
fer you. I been Meinys runnin'
partner fer some time, an I'm onta
somethin' big. It was Meiny's idea,
4 guess. but I helped put it over
.Meiny? Who's Meiny?'
why, the guy that blew in here
wit me, las night. The guy you give
the G. b. to. He's old man Stages
son-you know
"Stagg? That lawyer, up on Penn
berton Square?" demanded Bradford
with surprise He leaned forward in
his chair by the bedside, and peered
! into Dams eyes, the pupils Of which
already showed an abnormal expan-
8 sion. due to the suppression of the
drug. you don't mean that lawyer"
Sure do. Didn't you tumble to
that?"
II never saw this Meiny you're
talking about but once before he
came in here to do me up" Bradford
answered. "Ands that time L saw
him, he told me particularly he was
no relation to Stage.
We'll. that's nothin'. Don't ex-
poet Meiny to come across wit any
Stlin' straight, do you? That was all
a stall. Stages his old gent, sure's
I'm dyfn' fer an eighth grain. I'm
next to lot O. their biz, believe me.
E I'm wise to all that about your moll
that Sylvia dame, you know
WHAT.
Bradford shot the word at him
i with explosive force and seized him
by the bony shoulder.
She's your moll, amt she? Sylvia
Alden?" !
'sYou know about that?"
"ssSure I dol" And Dan grinned I'M