Part 47 (1/2)
”Let oto his feet as quickly as he could
”I don't intend to,” was Andy's deter of this trouble?”
”He wouldn't letnow that he saas powerless to do any more injury
”I didn't think he was in fit condition to look at anything,” put in Matt
”You had no right to abuse ht of the altercation ”Now you get right out of here, and don't show your face again”
And Andy shoved the man toward the door, which he had left partly open
The tipsy ht both of therew quite abusive, and threatened to wreck all the things in the establishment Before he could carry out his threat, however, Andy and Matt landed hi policeain!” cried the officer, on seeing the intoxicated individual ”I thought you had warning enough at the hotel What has he been doing?” he asked of Matt
”He got mad because I wouldn't let him handle the pistols in the place”
”The pistols?”
”Yes, sir He insisted upon seeing the best pistol we had, and I wouldn't accoerous Of course he would want cartridges, and then he o off and shoot soot into a row in the hotel on the next block, and the clerk says he threatened to shoot the proprietor I suppose he was bent on getting the pistol to do it with Just you coive you a chance to sober up”
The tipsy man remonstrated, and tried to make the policeman believe that the rows at the hotel and at the store were only jokes But the officer would not listen, and took the drunken individual to the station-house, where, later on, he was sentenced to thirty days in the county jail for disturbing the peace
”That's another side of the auction business,” said Matt, after he and Andy were left alone ”And I must confess it's a side I don't like It was lucky you ca when you did”
”An intoxicated ood custoet histo do with him”
The blow on the shoulder had not injured Matt, and soon the incident, exciting as it had been, was alain, as he termed it, in the purchase of his new overcoat, and he wished Matt to go off at once and get one like it
”They are selling about two dozen off at bottom price,” he said ”And you want to lose no tiet fitted It is the first store on the third block above here”
”All right, I'll go, Andy, for I can't do without the overcoat,” and off Matt started, never once drea to happen on that si shop without difficulty It was quite well filled with customers, but he soon found the sales er than was absolutely necessary
There were three overcoats which just fitted Matt, and he hesitated as to which to take He tried them all on, but could not decide the question
”I'll take theht and examine them,” he said, and walked froas, toward the sho
Here he began to examine each overcoat critically One was black, the other brown, and third a dark blue Matt rather fancied the dark blue
While he was handling over the dark-blue coat, the fored man darkened the side of the sho furthest froht, Matt looked up to see who it was