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THE GAZETTE: TIFTOX, GA.. FRIDA i T , AUGUST 30, 1S95.
5
MONTY’S SCOOP.
OXTGOMEP.Y’S
acquaintance with
the newspaper
woman dated
from a cold, wet
evening’ in that
season of the year
which, without
ibeing either winter or spring, possesses
jthe disagreeable features of both.
Miss Dodge came drearily down the
capitol steps, feeling her wet skirts
flap disconsolately against her wetter
boots at every step. She was too dis
couraged tq care. She was tired and'
cold and miserable as she could be.
She wanted to revel in it. She felt old
and shabby, and a great wave of pity
for herself washed a lump up into her
throat.
Up and down the avenue umbrellas
were bobbing, like an endless funeral
procession of mourning mushrooms.
The ruby and emerald lights of passing
cabs and herdicks throw splashes of
color on the wet p'avcment, and the
street lamps were yellow blurs in the
dusk. It was her habit to stop for a
moment on the terrace to look down
along' the grays and purples of the av
enue, but to-night she walked on stol
idly.
Montgomery was sitting' in the hall
way of a de serted building a few blocks
further down the avenue as she came
up. lie was crying softly. The news
paper woman stopped.
“What's the matter, my boy?” she
asked.
“Xone of yer business,” responded
Montgomery, promptly.
"But you’ro crying,” she persisted,
amused.
“Free country, ain’t it?" was the
boy’s answer.
The newspaper woman walked on a
few steps. Then she turned bade.
“Say,” she said, "I haven’t any
friends either. Come on and go to
supper with me. I don't like to go
alone.”
Montgomery wavered. The woman's
tone was frank and friendly, without
a suspicion of patronage in .it. She
held out her hand with an engaging
smile. The boy was cold and wet and
hungry. Down in the bottom of his
tough little soul was a longing for sym
pathy.
“Come on,” said the newspaper wom
an. Montgomery went.
It was the very jolliest kind of a sup
per imaginable. The restaurant was
dingy, to be sure, and there hung
around it reminders of things
cooked week before last, but the table
was clean, the ham and eggs piping'
hot, the coffee a masterpiece and the
pie a thing' to dream of.
Montgomery’s table manners had not
that repose that stamps the caste of
Vere do Verc. Enforced attention to
the bread and butter problem at a time
of life when most boys are scarcely out
of pinafores had prevented him acquir
ing any of what he called "funny busi
ness.” lie leaned on his elbows, and
his knife went quite frankly into his
mouth with every bite, but his eyes
were bright and honest, and his
freckled face was frank and clean. The'
newspaper woman found herself warm
ing to him strangely. 11 is faculty of
observation was singularly developed
for one of his years, and lie spoke the
language of the streets with a brisk
ness and cheerful unconsciousness of
its vulgarity that made it quite engag
ing.
After supper Montgomery escorted
her to tile door of the newspaper office
where she was employed. From that
was you l a end « ainerenv—mane n ; on his feet again.
dead easy for them folks. A fellow “Don’t stop me; don’t-stop me,” ho
don't get his druthers workin’, an' I : said, dizzily; “lemma go, for God’s
don’t see any use havin’ folks in books ! sake.”
have a tough time, too. Make ’em Somebody tried to stop hliti, but he
haye a good time.” j stumbled on. The office lights were
The novel was changed, indeed, it shining in his eyes, and ho knew he
was burned, and its character reap- had beateii the town,
peered in short stories,'in ufhich every- i And that is how it happened that a
body got his "druthers.” i few hours later, when the liist line of
Miss Dodge had Aesigns on Mont- copy was in, and the news that should
gomery. She meant to civilize him. j make to-morrow's paper the sensation
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She invited him to call on her on her
precious leisure Sunday once a fort
night. The boy, however, refused.
“Down town, it's all in the perfesh."
ha exclaimed, “an’ it's all right; but
up to your place it’s sassiety, an’ I
ain’t in it, see?”
Their intercourse, therefore, was
limited to meeting on the office steps,
and once in awhile Montgomery came
up into the offices and ran errands for
her. lie was so quiet, and ,had such
an unfeigned reverence for journalism ■
and for everybody in anyway eon- :
nectcd with it, even the office boy and j
tlie man who ran the elevator, that he ;
was allowed to come and go unmo- \
lested.
It was early in tlie winter. The
newspaper woman wnsrushed to death.
She rode home on the very last car, j
and the three blocks from the ear line
to her house had more terrors for her
than she would hare confessed. There
wore two nights when she felt that
some one was following her. Terror
lent wings to her feet. The next night
a backward glance showed her a fig
ure following her again, shrinking
along in the shadow of the trees. It
showed her, too, a familiar something'
j in the figure's walk. She stopped ab-
! ruptly.
“Montgomery,” she called, “come
out from behind that tree!”
For a moment there was no response.
Then Montgomery slouched into sight,
and came shamefacedly up to her.
“You see,” he said, “it's awful late
for a lady to be out alone, an’ 1 thought
—I thought—”
Then a remarkable tiling happened.
The newspaper woman stopped, gave
him a tremendous hug' and kissed him
square on his freckled check. It made
him feel uncomfortable, but somehow
he was glad afterward to remember it.
It was a busy winter, socially and
politically. There was news, and im
portant news, too, on foot. Tlie very
air breathed it, but tile usual channels
of information were blocked. Officials
of the world had already had its start- '
ling headlines scanned by' tlie proof-
reader, that a small boy with a pale j
face and a bandage about his head sat!
nt a banquet finer than lie had ever \
dreamed of. It was laid in the city
editor's room, and the managing editor j
himself was present, llo shook the
boy’s hand and thanked him, and the
city editor slapped him on the back.
But the very proudest moment of all
was when the newspaper woman leaned
over him and said: , j
“Montgomery, you're a credit to the
profession.”
He was nfraid she was going to kiss
him again, but she didn't.—Washing
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SAID Tint NEWSPAPER
WOMAN.
day they were fast friends. The boy was
her guest at supper several nights, and
then on an occasion he appeared In a
new high collar and invited her to sup
with him at the cafe he called the Bite
[ ‘ and Fly, and they had an oyster stew,
and buckwheat cakes and ice cream.
He fell into the habit of loitering near
the office door at the time of day when
Miss Dodge would lie coming down.
When they met she would say;
' “Hello, Montgomery! How's your
end of the profession?”
And Montgomery, swelling with
pride at being thus Included in the
limit of journalism, responded;
"Qjjt o’ sight. How's yours?"
The newspaper woman cherished a
dream of literary fame. She was writ
ing a novel, in fact. It hail a great
deal of philosophy in it, and it ended
wry sadly. Parts of It she read to
Montgomery at the "Bite and Fly.”
Be heard with patience. There was a
long silence. Then he spoke.
“Well, of course, you're onto this
writin’ business, an' I ain't, but it I
MONTGOMERY HEARD THE WORDS.
were non-committal, underlings afraid
t<*speak. There were rumors of an in
sult to the flag in foreign waters,
though no one could say that the-thing
had really happened, nor what would
1 be tlie outcome of it.
i It was late in the evening of a day
| that had been exasperatlngly barren
; o(“developments. Montgomery was on
his way home. As lie passed tlie
white house something lying just in-
| side the fence, where the light of the
gate lamp lit it up alluringly, caught
his eye. It was anillustrated weekly,
with startling pictures on a pink
ground, and some careless hand had
thrust it through the bars. Montgom
ery Hung himself down and reached
for it'. His arm was still outstretched
when two men came out of the gate.
Their coats almost brushed the boy,
but they did not see him. They stopped
while the elder lighted his cigar.
Montgomery heard the words;
“The president approves yourcourse,
then?"
“Ultimately, I think he will. Wo
demand an absolute apology, or, well,
we'll force one."
"And if he does not approve it, wliat
then?”
The men had moved on, but Mont
gomery caught the word “resign."
In a flash the illustrated weekly was
forgotten. He rose to his feet and re
peated the words softly to himself;
"Absolute apology—force one—re
sign."
He recognized the speaker dimly.
Where had he seen lnm before? It
flashed over him in a moment! It was
the secretary of state!
It was nearly midnight He must
get it to the newspaper woman before
she went home. He bent his head and
dashed down the street. It was a
“heat,” tho biggest one of the season,
and she should have it He flashed
past corners blindly. Far down the
street ho could see the office lights,
lie must get there tie fore she went
home. Two blocks away — a block
away—half a block away. He was
crossing tho last street Somebody
yelled at him. Ho could not spare tho
time to pause. There was a ring of
hooffi, a shout from somebody, a whirl
of lights, and Montgomery was flung
to the pavement dazed and bleeding.
Somebody ran to help him, but he was
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