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"But ye wouldn't bother the old man and his daughter this time of the night, surely," responded the saloonkeeper. "I'd as soon distarb me mither's grave," said Mickie, "as to frighten the swate-faced lady up yon by our presence to-night." "Umph! I guess she won't mind," sneered Pritchen, "especially if the parson's along." The blood rushed into Keith's face, as he listened to these remarks.
For the moment I thought you were talking of cattle greenbacked cattle. Guess you surely have the laugh on me." O'Brien nodded. "That's so," he admitted, and Bill closed the door behind him as the saloonkeeper extinguished the second lamp. Big Brother Bill hurried away in the darkness. He swung along with long, powerful strides that roused dull echoes as he moved down the wide, wood-lined trail.
But then it is the way of things to make the witnessing of a disaster far more terrible than listening to the story told in language however lurid. Last night he had watched his brother supplying contraband liquor to the saloonkeeper. It had happened in this way.
She did not give way to tears, for the worst grief can not weep. She continued: "I went to the saloon, where I thought most like he would be. It was about twenty minutes after twelve; but the saloon, that man's saloon" pointing to the saloonkeeper, who now wanted to crouch out of sight "was still open, and my husband and these two policemen were standing at the bar drinking together.
The policemen were sworn, and one of them told this story, to which the other one agreed. He said: "I arrested the woman in front of a saloon on Broadway on Saturday night. She had raised a great disturbance, was fighting and brawling with men in the saloon, and the saloonkeeper put her out. She used the foulest language, and with an awful threat struck at the saloonkeeper with all her force.
Those two crooks of yours, Pete and Nick, were in this morning, and I heard 'em talkin'. Then I got 'em yarning to me. They've got every move Fyles is making dead right. They're smartish guys, and I feel they're too smart for you by a sight. If things go their way you're safe. If there's a chance of trouble for them you're up against it." Charlie licked his dry lips as the saloonkeeper paused.
I then arrested her, took her to the detention house, and locked her up." The saloonkeeper was called to the witness stand, and said: "I know dis voman's vas making disturbance by my saloon. She comes and she makes troubles, und she fights mit me, und I put her de door oud. I know her all along. She vas pad vomans."
"Yes, and I will keep you there till you rot unless you tell the truth." "Well, I will tell." The witness was placed again in the witness box. "Now," said the Judge, "was it whisky you bought of this saloonkeeper?" "Yes, it was whisky."
And if ever you need help that I can give, I want you to feel free to come to me. We are traveling different roads, Mr. Shartow, but we are not enemies; we are friends." And the pastor departed, leaving Tim, the saloonkeeper, "that shook up," to use his own phrase, that it is doubtful whether he ever entirely regained his former attitude toward "them church folks."
I stepped up to my husband and asked him to go home with me; but the men laughed at him, and the saloonkeeper ordered me out. I said, 'No, I want my husband to go home with me. Then I tried to tell him how badly we were needing the money that he was spending; and then the saloon-keeper cursed me, and told me to leave.
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