Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1907-03-23 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

HOW MADGE REWARMED HER. CHAMPION.  When Jim Cranston found he had dealt Cecil Wa,rp,ley such a terrible' blow that blood flowed freely, he was so staggered that he did not know what todo next. He dare not shout for assistance, for by so doing he would at once trail attention. to the fact that he was responsible for the condkion of the man whom he tirmly believed he had murdered. The pallid features of his victim looked ghastly in the yellow gaslight, and as he gazed on them with terror in his heart Jim seemed to lose all control over himself, and, leaving Cecil lying on the ground, he rushed away from the spot like a man demented, making, he scarcely knew how, straight ,for Madge Worsit7's lodgings, where, as we have already seen, he frightened his sweetheart almoot out of her wits by his sudden and unexpected advent.  Hardly was Jim safely within the house when Cecil Warpley began to show signs of returning consctiozrsness. At first he could not make out how he came to be lying on the ground, the more so that he found his okothes were covered with blood.. At lengthhe rna.p-igesd to rise, and, leaning against tho railings, began to think oat the situation.  Jim had not ,hurt him as badly as he imagined, and grathially the .whole eoene 4...nan0 back to the injured man, who probably owed his rapid recovery to the fact that he had bled so profusely.  liad the full force of Jian's blow 'been received without blood flowing, Cecil W.arptcy might not have lived to tell the tale. As it -was, he was nOt much worse far his adventure, and was able to walk slowly away in a very short time after Cranston left him lying on the pa.vement.  It has already been shown that Cecil 'tiV:Zz was a more than ordinarily smart man of the and he at once saw that to go fax in his present condition would be to draw undesirable attention to his far from presentable a.ppearance. His hat was considerably bulge& and his clothes presented painful evidence of tho rough 21:1•Thriling their owner had received.  So Cocil went to the office, where he always kepi a change of clothing, and, after having a wash, made straight for the surgery of a medical friend which was close at hand. He told the doctor that he had fallen, as the result of treading on a pleas of orange-peel. garnishing his unveracious narrative with sundry strong remarks as to the d of throwing orange-peel on to the pavements. The surgeon, who was not unused to the cock-and-bula stories of young men who got into-tremble, laughed, and after examining and phitering up Cecil's- head. sent him off with a hint that he had bettor walk to the road for the future. He know that his patient' tale did not agree with his injuries, but he considered it was no buKiness of his to tell him so, thus proving that medical men 'rave frequently to use a wise and wide discretion in the exercise df their great profeion.  As Cecil Warpley walked up Clarendon-road on his way home he carefully weighed up, in. has own mind, the events of the evening.  He was already pledged to Madge Worse, and he had no intention of chancing his plans ta any one particular, being at all tun ee a man who, hawing on made up his mind to a eeatain couree of action, was not likely to be put off by any ondiang, obstacles.  Still, he in no waTirnhed ti e idea of being persistently pestened Cranston, y if that young man's attentions were at all likely to take the familia form ie had just experienced. But surely, the readeir aray exchum, it -walk' be easy to prevent a of Jim's aggresitse chu:nrpionsdnp of Madge Worsley by ha.vaag ha brought up for assault. Precisely so, my dear reader. But if Cecil ,• . by had recourse to suc.h a drastic remedy he find it worse than the disease, for by so doing be would be compelled to ma,ke public his connection with pretty Madge Worsley, and that was a thing he Nra..s most anxious to avoid. No man who is about to do a dislionousrabie action is over anxious'to inform his friends of the fact.  And Cecil Warpley knew, in his heart of hearts, that he was goang to abuse, to the fullest extent, the wazfrdeatoo of tate NMIMD he Eseteoded to love,