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NORFLEET
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Two dear old women rushed to his side.
While he was talking I saw at the extreme end of
the car, my old friend, Mrs. Street, of the Alhambra
Hotel, Los Angeles, whom I had seen in the Jacksonville
railroad station. Apparently she did not see me and I
had no time to inquire of her health just then.
"You poor man!" cried the female Samaritans in
unison, shooting looks of contempt at me that would
have clone justice to wildcats.
Pete, unfortunately for the sufferer, interrupted the
offered ministrations of the ladies, grasping Furey's supplicating
hands in an iron grip forcing him backward into
the compartment. He sat him down on the long couch
which faced the wilndow, then sat down beside him on
the seat next to the door.
I stood in the doorway between the onrushing
females and their object of solicitude.
At this moment the news and fruit vendor came
through with a basket of magazines and oranges, grapes
and bananas.
Feminine fingers lifted great purple bunches of the
luscious fruit of the vine, others selected juicy oranges
and still others chose bananas for the abused one.
I stood with both hands held out accepting their
offerings and thanking them profusely. The pile of
fragrant fruits grew into a small mountain on my hands.
I looked like a "horn of plenty" at an autumn food
show. As contributions were made with appropriate
slams at Pete and me for our inhuman treatment of our
charge, the conductor came through and joined the
"sisters of mercy," looking over the marcelled heads of
the ladies to see what all the excitement was about.
Pete, hearing the verbal grenades hurled at us by
these tender-hearted women, looked up at me and laughed.
'Tis said: "He laughs best, who laughs last."
Furey must have known this, for while Pete had
relaxed his watchful waiting to see the comedy in the
doorway, Furey crossed his hands before his eyes and
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Norfleet, J. Frank, 1864-. Norfleet: the actual experiences of a Texas rancher's 30,000-mile transcontinental chase after five confidence men., book, 1924; Ft. Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5864/m1/207/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .