Connecticut western news., 1921-03-10
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gum-ShOe plain-clOLheS men. a. v "Yere! Wot the" exclaimed the outraged MT. O'Shaughnessy. The legal light paid him no heed and ! advanced on the fast-wilting Slim Her .yey, with outstretched hand. Robert" he cried beamingly. My dear boy, I'm glad to see you!" Don't take the glad hand, Slim," warned MT. O'Shaughnessy. "The lit- tie runt may be tryin' to serve papers on yer. Now, gents, show yer war rant CT I'll call the boys an you take the consequences" - T guess it's all right, Tourke," said Slim weakly. They aren't going to pull me, exactly"
 "T don't care whether they think they're goin' to pinch you CT not" re- marked MT. O'Shaughnessy, fixing malignant eyes on the two heavy 1 fianking forces of the small lawyer. "I never did like the smell of fat" Suddenly he roared: "Hey! Boys !"
 The two bulls, strayed into inhos- pitable pastures, turned, stepped cat footed to the door, and took the flight of steps in three. They cannot be blamed, for they had recognized in Mir. Q'ShaughnesSy the man who had once been arrested for pushing over with one hand a Ford that had crowded him.
 "Now, Robert" said the legal per sonage, apparently quite oblivious of the desertion of his supports, q just want to talk with ycu. May I sit down"
 Certainly, Mir. Eaz-= @s4 R@h- ert, alphabetically.
 Excuse me-" murmureA Mr. OShaughnessy. Did 1, or didn't I get the name correct?"
 q beg your pardon, Tourke," said Robert, "Mr. Borden Milyuns; Mr. Tourke O'Shaughnessy." He pro- nounced 1t "O'Shockenssy," to the de- light of the owners ears, long unac- customed to the correct intonation of ! the exotic patronymic.
 'I did hear correct" said MT. O'Shaughnessy, as he rose and tip toed from the room. "I leave you gents to your family affairs" he add ed from the door, his eyes drinking ! a last view of the brain king he had dared to call a runt.
 During the next half-hour, MT. Mill yuns delivered himself of an assorted lot of special pleading that he could have sold on the market almost any | day for fifty thousand dollars, but the sole judge and object of his efforts still sat swinging one putteed leg in midair, as though flaming aside the valuable streams Of golden words, and continued puffing at one cigarette af- ter another, each lighted from the butt of its predecessor.
 Its no use, MT. Milyuns," said Rob- ert, at last. "The truth is, and you know it, that a meeting between my | self and Pam-Miss Thornton, at the present time and under the exception al conditions, could only bring about complications beyond the capability of any one of us to handle. Her pro ! pOsal that she divide her income with me Is so absurd that I am amazed at your imper-at your\ hardihood in ! even mentioning It."
 MT. Milyuns wiped his brow for the ] first time in many years.
 'I don't mind you calling me 'imper. tinent,' Robert" he said meekly' Gall me anything you please. Only and his voice rose gradually to a surprising volume-"don't forget that promised one of the dearest most unspoiled, lovable, and wholly ador. able young persons that it's ever been my privilege to assure of the impos. able that would bring you to her and, by the holy mackerel, will-i1 I have to hold you by one ear with my teeth"
 MT. Randolph took his latest ciga' rette from his mouth during this strict ly illegal peroration, and allowed his lips to spread into a broad smile.
 ''Mr. Milyuns," he said, q always
 did like you; now I've got a deeper feeling. They call it love. I admit to the human end of you that the
 only thing that keeps me from rush.
 ing straight away to call on the lady you have so accurately described Is the fact that I haven't money and she has,"
 "But what about the job I offered youT interjected Mr. NIilyuns.
 q was coming to that" said Mir