An Actor's Vow.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2099, 19 December 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)

An Actor's Vow.

To-i Kro, tiao fsoaaus ewnsdian, once i»wting with « ceitftki sjportiaf; gunfkman WMtar the piazza in Direct G-atd?a, tfiaf retired t« an adjsoeni t&Yern to tftta ft mian at hax'.ui for five guinoai. T«m soon loa* hU fiuet pUlre, and with much rwipniticu ale hti tup s? r and drank his boMle. H'3 ftiver.ary, however, alts* uupper, propossd fro kits a aicoid main, which Tom, at frrafc, veined (Mg&giug in, s\jr ing ho 118-^l 18 -^ Do *» b«lkT»d, Eicmc-y s^ou^h about him to bet ; fcufc tlsi« waj oTOcml-d oj hia adversary, who pa ; «l Toe»'i void. wt« iufficiont for a hundr«i liaise tha Jum. They renewad the party, and in a fe'v h«ui« King won two thousand f»er hundaed guia»R«. Tom'» wife, who, by-li« bye, ttps a vwry pood oao, had eat up aU aight, as usutd, af tar kiting s«nt owywharc iq i«*rch •< him, ttMiout being aijte to gm'nßDj tiding. Whsa ho »eturn«d txm hii l«ky rigil, her mq-/iriu wra aaturaHy vory ntesjins *o know wlwra he had bean, imd wbat had kepi k^ra out so long ; *• all of which ho mado no answer bni by Tory jberoaapicKily saym,j— " Bring tu^a a Bibk Il'I 1 ' 1 x\ Dibls ?" eha ro c«'ftOBil, vif* fiojai cjaciiatian. " I hop 4 you feava noi. bmsvm^l youreeif 1" " Bring iae a Bttfo !" eou'Aiuwl Tom. "I f>appo?t joh'v« lest iron pnett ana; birt ncv^r miod ; tra ub r?«rk f«r m«r«i ' " Bring me a Bitle, I iflf 1" stdl wrtued fcfel ioipfltient Tern. " Go»d he&veos ! eaa he tiia matte* ?" gftja Hta. K'n». " I dwn't bclMTt ttibii's BHiVi a thing in ttm Loirt«, aui«M it bt i« t*» maii's room.' 1 ' TfaiSirer p!s« w§«t a-vd lenakl pjkS of ouo aider a corer, wkoa, haviig brei^bt ti to Tom, ho fall npo* hia bneea srd mods a most krf&nt vow mirer to toi>ok die« oar eaxda ngam ; koA all tlae whfla hU Tra3 e«dcavourins to alleviata hii grirf , ti wiick sko cowidered tkis as the effurieft}, ow«£ t® some conaidosable losi. When ho htii imldliti and ro?» qp, heicaif: feurteo» hundred powu'ds in back notes up cm the tablo, mying, " Ihsro, ay dasr, thfro'o foaiteen huudred pounds Iv« - ,yon to night, and I sball reocive a thousand fnorp by tomo»tow noon ; bti I^l ha hangod i! I ev«c risk a guiaea o£ k again I"