| Show GOING HIS BAIL by CARL JENKINS I 1 arthur crampton was mas 40 miles out of the city in his automobile he ile motoring to see the country but to hunt up some information for the law firm of black SA swope ope S crampton to which he had just been admitted this information must be sought tor quietly very quietly miss nora haskell was motoring from her mother s bouse house to the village of glen head and driving her own oan car her chauffeur sat beside her but he was not considered in the n atter of operating the car at a certain point she overtook another auto it was that of mr crampton who was sleuthing along as quietly as possible sad and raising as little dust as he could miss haskell wanted to show off a little she N was as in no great hurry but she wanted to show the man ahead that he was a slow coach for the road he gave her room to pass but as her auto came up he let out another speed notch 11 he was cau cloned to slip along quietly and here he was racing along at break neck speed he even wanted to sho it he ile wanted to swing his cap the two machines raced side by side for 50 rods and then mr cramp ton pulled ahead miss haskell tried it twice more and failed each time she was not queen of that turn pike the chauffeur started to say some thing but she silenced him with a look and was aas getting ready for a fourth trial when a country constable stepped into the highway ahead the squire is waltin maltin for just seen sech folks as you he said as he climbed into mr crampton s auto and beck boned for the other to follow the justice was in his office halt half a mile ahead it was his solemn day he looked at the culprits over his spectacles and said sixty miles an hour and suppose you if have met a load of hay I 1 sup pose an innocent child had been cross ing the road suppose a one legged man had been going along with his eyes on the ground but your honor the road was clear and the pace was as not dixy miles an hour protested the young lawyer young man sit down this is a serious case and not to be decided in a EL minute I 1 adjourn it tor for three days and hold you both in ball in the sum of one hundred dollars each I 1 haven t with me stam the lawyer as he went back to the young lady can you telephone to any of your friends to get ball for your olf ita she took two diamond rings from her tier fingers and advanced to the desk laid them down and said I 1 will go ball bail for both the rings are worth double the amount the three days passed and the cul cut were on hand for the trial it was plain that the justice was prejudiced in the case at least so far as mr air crampton was concerned he got the speed up to eighty miles an hour and the constable swore that he heard whooping and yelling and that if i milkman had come along he if d have been smashed to a powder he ile had probably dared the young lady to race with him and she accepted the flare dare she was fined ten dollars as a great moral lesson but mr crampton was fined fifty the fines were paid and the culprits w were ere about to depart when th the e consta ble stepped up to the lawyer and said warrant here for you sir air it won t do any good to cut up rusty for I 1 m a powerful man A warrant tor for me mea for for bigamy lou ou are wanted in conne tor for having four wives nora looked at mr air crampton for an explanation its it s some silly nonsensical mis take he said after reading the war rant nora and her mother had been as aisted into the auto the mother hung on to the daughter but the lat ter pulled away and got down and said sald to the justice I 1 own real estate in my own n name ame and I 1 want ant to go ball bail tor for mr cramp ton 46 mr crampton protested and the mother called out and the constable leered but the bond was made out and signed on the way home the mother wept as she said nora II Il akell ackell have you gone craz crazy you overtake a villain on the road have a rac with mith him film and then go his bail why why perhaps I 1 just want to race with him again and beat him and I 1 can t do that if they send him to prison laughed the girl inside of two days the constable was shaking in his shoes and the sol dmn justice was saying that anyone ought to have known that a member of the law firm of black swope crampton had never been in connect i cut and married tour four wives the man wanted was as probably some bald head in new jersey and then old air black who hap bened to know the widow haskell personally came down dorn and had a talk with her and had words of praise for nora and so it came about that when mr air crampton called to express his thanks he could not complain of his reception and he was more than pleased when miss nora remarked but don t you take it that thi thing is over with yet we must have another race they had it later on and the young lady came out ahead and there wa wat no bail bond to sign it was another sort of a bond the name of a minis minn ter was signed to it |
