And The Man Stayed On

And the man stayed on although the surroundings were embarrassing.

The officer finally succeeded in getting service on a lady who was trying to avoid it.

Some days ago complaint was made in due form for the purpose of recovering possession of a residence property which had been rented to some ladies. The ladies did not propose to permit the papers to be served on them. First Deputy Dwyer was sent but he failed to serve the papers. Sheriff Gillen next tried his hand with no better success. Deputy Marvin Davenport was then sent. He did not propose to be bluffed. The lady upon whom he wished to serve the paper, to escape service, fled to a closet in the yard and fastened the door. Now as is well known, Davenport is another job in patience and seating himself on a handy lumber pile, he awaited developments. Occasionally, it is alleged, the lady would look to see if the official was still on his perch. He was there all right enough and there he stayed for an hour and a half, a mean thing, as the lady called him. As time wore on the conversation, while epigramatic and sarcastic, on one side at least, become quite continuous. Notwithstanding the embarrassing surroundings, nothing could disturb the equanimity of the waiting official, he was in quest of gain. He beamed with good nature, graciously ignoring the unpleasant things that were said to him each time the door opened the least bit to see if "the flag (Devanport) was still there." At last the fort was surrendered and the garrison marched out and submitted to the service of the legal document. The successful official then returned to this superior officer and received his commendation, "well done, good and faithful servant."