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Show FLED BEFORE WOMAN'S PISTOL How Mrs. Reader Put Stop to Impudence Impu-dence of Peruvian. In her, story of "EUa Bawls Reader, Financier," contributed In Everybody's, Every-body's, Jullot Wlbor Tompkins tells tho following Incident of a struggle of Mrs. Header's In Pom: "After eight months ot useless struggle she went to out Callao, which Is about half an hour by rail from Lima, with .or Peruvian lawyer, Scotch Interpreter, and American engineer, en-gineer, and forced the manager to open tho warehouses pnd let her mako an Inspection of tho machinery. Tbo manager had met her with his lawyers, law-yers, and the hour for argument bo-fore bo-fore she gained lief point had been something of a strain. During the whole process a Peruvian on the Hoggin Hog-gin side had been standing close to Mrs. neado'r, his little, narrowed eyes staring with that deliberate lusolenco only Latins can accomplish. Tho company went out Into tho wareroom whore the machinery lay and tho difficult dif-ficult business of a hurried Inspection went forward, but still the bullying stare never ceased. After about two hours of It, the line edge ot that hidden hid-den temper of her suddenly sprang up. She whirled on him with a blazo of words that needed no Interpreter, and all at onco his stare was being returned re-turned by n fierce little pistol held In a strong whiio Land and quite ready for business. "Tho gentleman of Peru neither apologized no; retracted; lin Incontinently Incon-tinently iled. And ho was not tho only one. Like shadows the men flitted out of the dusky warehouse, leaving tho dangerous woman a clear Held. When she looked about thore wns no one In sight hut two Irish porters, and In their cyen wero sympathetic twinkles, twin-kles, meeting which, Mrs. Reader could only sink down helpless with laughter and put up her pistol." |