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O8) Coprrian, 11 by Street & Smith.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING cesrene, hard of eroetngs in vstng 4 nec, “re. ny hi hd Satced ‘by 'a ost nt cae hh es “horses came Into bg atioree Garrison whem he ea Garrison ie CHAPTER Il. (Continued) “ 2 shivered through sheer a nervous exhaustion, though the night was warm for mid-April. He rummaged in his pocket. “One dollar in bird-seed,” he mused rimly, counting the-coins under the © “olet glare of a neighboring arc light. AM that's between me and the *lorgue, Did I ever think it would ome to that? Well, I need a bracer. ‘ere goes ten for a drink, Can only fford bar whiskey.” He was standing on the corner of ‘wenty-fiftb Street, and unconscious- he turned into the cace of the ““offman House. How well he knew © '% every square inch! It was filled ting crowd, and * yn entered as nonchalantly as is arrival would merit the same ymmotion as in the long ago. Hi > longer cared. His depression had epaped from him. The lights, the 7 here, the topics of conversa- on, cussion, caused his blood to om 2W like lava through his veins. This ‘fas home, and all else was forgotten. ‘a was not the discarded jockey, but yo’ Garrison, whose name on the Was one to conjure with. ’ "And then, even as he had awak- cS ed from his dream on Broadwi © now awoke to an appreciation of be immensity of his fall from grace. ete knew fully two-thirds of those » Present. Some there were who nod- ed, some kindly, some pityingly. ome there were who cut him dead, ‘ eliberately turning their backs or # <bourately looking through the top of “* Billy's square chin went up a point § md his under lip came out. He would ot be driven out. He would show ® hem. He was as honest as any “ gere; more honest than many; more dolish than all. He ordered a drink *s nd séated himself by a table, indif- © srently eying the shifting | crowd arough the fluttering curtain of @'ybacco smoke. * The staple subject of conversation Sevas thé Carter Handicap, and he © gnsed' rather than noted the glances « € the crowd as they shifted curiously “*) him and back again. At first he retended not to notice them, but 4 fter a certain length of time his “blivion was sincere, for retrospect ame and claimed him for its own. +7 He was aroused by footsteps behind im; they wavered, stopped, and a * hand was laid on his shoulder. N10, Kid! you here, too?” ©? He looked up quickly, though he ew the voice. It was Jimmy Drake, ueer gleam in his inscrutable eyes. ‘arrison nodded without speaking. le noticed that the bookmaker had * Offered to shake hands, and the TRowledge stung. The crowd was r itohing them curiously, and Drake ‘4aved off, with a late sporting ae half a dozen inv' he said, lowering his voice, ‘ts hand still on Garrison's shoulder, what did you come here for? Why "t you get away? Waterbury be here any minute.” spat out Billy at's that to me? ly. “I'm not afraid of him. 0 call to be.” the queer look is eyes. 10 n't get busty, kid. I don't know ¢ @W you ever come to do it, and {t's = serious game, a dirty game, and [ & ree it may mean jail for you, all 2 t_ do you mean?” inched face had gone vague premonition of ier = disaster Garrison's wiy white. impending possessed him, jeMounting almost to an obsession, ® at do you mean, Jimmy?” he re- erated tensely. ec) Drake was lent, etill scrutinizing ede, es “Kid,” he sald finally, “I don't liko yw think it of you—but I know what of le you do it. You were sore on ( faterbury; sore for losing. You # wanted to get hunk on something. wut I tell you, kid, there's no deal % po rotten for a man who poisons a -t»,“"Potaons a horse,” echoed Garrison g echanically. Poisons a horse, ood Lord, Drake!" he cried fiercely, Sud @ eudden wave of passion and un: y(erstanding, jumping from his chair, you dare to say that I poisoned Sis! ‘ou dare”— “No, I don’t. The paper does.” # ‘The paper lies! Lies, do you hear? » #t mo see It! Let me see it! Where * 08 it say that? Where, where? ‘how it to me if you can! Show it to Hig eyes slowly widened In horror, snd his mouth remained agape, as he « astily scanned the contents of an ar- #< jele in big type on the first page. «then the extra dropped erveless fingers, and he mechanically pated himseif at the table, his eyes Reant. To hls surprise he was hor- « Ably calm, Simply his nerves had ‘*happed; they could torture him no te ynger by stretching. ("It's not enough to have—have her fe, but I must be her poisoner,” be ~ Rid mechanically [It's all circumstaatial evidence, Or rly so," added Dra! shifting one foot to tho other, "You ere the only one who would have & Wise to get square. And Crimmins ye ho frye you permission to see atone. Even the stable hands say pat. Tt looks bad, kid. Here, don’t ke it so hard, Get a cinch on yours If," he added, as he watched Gare Plank eyes and quivering face, ee 4"T'm all right, I'm all right,” mut- Biaed, ly yaa ely, passing a hand . hath srabhi noe temples. yAiutDaie was silent, tigoting n- ensily. ‘Kid? he blurted ont at length, “it looMs- as ir all in, Say, let me be you i, won't you? T know you lo: matter what tl blank check, out No,.thanks, Jimmy." “Don't be touchy, kid, the, samo for me"—~ cent on Sis, no T'll give youa you can fill it and You'a ‘do argued the wise one, somo leohol and venom in hii ‘Waterbury’s all right. 1 know, ve got inside informatio: of mine has a cousin who's married to the Brother 54 friend of Water- Take it from ine,” this Bureau of Inside Information, beating the table with an insistent “it wee @ put-up job of Garri- "ll bet be from Little Garrison's record"—— “Then what did you bet on him ed his companion mildly, “Because I thought he right ride straight for once, “nd he was 'voking down at him, a 8 win. And so I plunged—heavy. now, by Heck! ten dollars gone, and mad clear was a corker, and ought to have Garrison slowly arose, white, eyes smouldering. was running riot through him. resentment had passed froth the apa- thetic stage to the fighting. the world's opinion of him! Not only the world, but miserable wastrals only the world, but miserable wastrels There is nothing so dange ignorance. jander had heard much of Gott undercurrent and the brawls so pre He had heard and feare “e had ‘joked for them, fascination but till the present rlenced one. that sporting 1 from his © As Garrison, a cont on his face, turned away, and started to draw a handkerchief from his hip ew Englande a revolver was on Its way, serambled » wildly seized spirit bottle, and let fly at Garrison d. There were whiskey, and fear benind the shot. As Billy turned about to ascertain whother or not his opponent meant fight by rising from under the table, the heavy bottle landed full on his He crumpled up like a with- ered leaf and went over on the floor without even a sigh.’ It was two weeks later when Garri- regained opened his eyes to gaze upon blank m not hard up. Than! Garrison's rag of honor in the wind of his pridé. Drake, finally and un- if you ever want it, Bil- ly, you know where to come for it. I want to go down on the books as your friend, hear? Mind tha’ “So-long, Jimmy. And I won't for- So-lon Garrison continued staring at the fi This, then, was the sporting world had cut him dead horse-poisoner is ranked in the same category as that assigned to the ealer of the Western frontier. There, a ma turfman it is his fortune—one and the same. And so Crimmins had testified that he had permitted him, Garrison, to see Sis alone! Yes, the signals were set dead ainst him, His opinion of Crimmins ad undergone @ complete revolution; first engendered by the trainer Srering him & dishonorable opportunity fleecing the New Yor! now culminated by his indirect charge. Garrison considered the issue para He was furious, seemingly indifferent, Every ounce of resentment in his nature had been fo cused to the burning point. would not leave New York, Come reason why horse is his life; to the k pool rooms though so Now he he would stand his @ would not run away. He would fight the charge; fight Water- bury, Crimmins—the world, if neces- » And mingled with the warp and woof of this resolve was another; one that he determined would com- the color scheme of his future he would ferret out not merely for his own vindication but for hers. ed her slayer as a murderer, for to the He regard- im mere than human. Garrison came to himself by hear- ing his name mentioned. Behind him two young men were seated at a evidently for they were exchanging parate views on the running of the Carter Handicap and the sub- sequent poisoning of the favorite. y,”" ¢oncluded one whose nasal twang gir the New Eng. y that it was @ dirty race all through.” ‘One paper hints that the stable + wanted to hit the book- jes hard,” put in his cgmpanion dif- unaware of his ables. a square I ought to know, for A friend So T ought added e made A mint on it. been following And being he couldn't “help, Pvut And through. Sis I'd just fk to have poisoned I hope see him his face The devil His So this His name was to be bandied in their unclean mouths! Billy Garrison, branded as a thing beyond former premier He did not care what might happen, but he would kil! that lie here and now, the opportunity; hungry to let loose some of the He was glad of resentment seething The Bureau of Inside Information and his companion looked up as Billy Garrison stood over them, hands in Both men had been drink- ing. Drake and ‘half the cafe's occu- pants had drifted out, “Which of you gentlemen Just now gave his opinion of Bitty Garrison?” asked the jockey quietly. did, neighbor. too?” Inside Information splayed out his legs, and, with a very blase air, put his thumbs in the armholes of his execrable vest. frame and a loose mouth, showing the sights of Gotham to a friend and was proud of his knowl- But he secretly feared new York because he did not know it “Oh, it was you? #on venomously. your name, but mine's Billy Garrison, ar Information a whack across the fa that sent him a tumbled heap on the Been roped in, He owned a rangy He was snapped Garrl- “Well, I don't know He struck Insi¢ There 1s no one so dangerous as a The New Eng- He had heard od it meant the hos: He was thor- nt of the ways of a great incapable of meet- now he over- mptuous smile thinking the heavy muscle, full consciousness, ® overmuch, en carried guns and | were quick to use them; that when tho lie was pas pital or the morgue, oughly ignor: city, of the world; ing a crisis; of apportioning it at its And so WOMEN ARE GROWING TALLER ano BIGGER Tian MEN .says N.Y HEALTH DEPARTHENT ONE OF THE ADVANTAGES IT'S NoT So BAd 7 BELONG To THE WEAKER SEX THE WEAKER SEX Man, the Weaker Sex o 6 ‘% cose es Salen ONE OF THE DRAWBACKS I NEED A LITTLE CHANGE THE STRONGER SEX WOMAN'S No. You SHOE (not er Bur) we CAN'T GO OUT To NIGHT] —eeerceet By RANDAL name {8 Dagget—William His mother was a half- jajor Calvert's, The search for this nephew has been going on ’ The eminent lawyer cleared his a t bogs a. relighted the etic cigar, h had found oce ery, Ane thing for this nephew," he speculatively, Very fine, indeed. Major Calvert children, and, Also the lawyer who discovers the absent youth will receive ten tho Not & sum to be sneezed at, sir, to be sneexed at,” thundered the emi- | ment lawyer forensically, jarrison agreed. He would never think Of sneezing at it, even it he was wubject to that form of recreation, But what had *hat to do with him? The inent lawyer attentively perutint the blue streamer from cimar, “Well, I've found him at last. You are he, Mr. Good, Mr, Good, my heartiest congratulations, sir.” And Mr, Snark insisted upon shaking the bewildered Garrison impressively by the band, Garrisa! Then his wild dire had co true! His iden. had been at last discovered! Ho not the offspring of some crim. inal, but the golon of a noble Virgint: house! But Snark was talking again. “You see,” he began slow! bes an attentive eye on Garrison's face, noting its every light and shade, nies old gentieman and wit rd up for a nephew. You and I are hard up for money. Why not It would be sinful waste such opportunity of doing good. In you I give them & nice, respectable nephew, who is tired of reaping his wild oats, You are probably much better than the original. We are all satisfied. [ do agit, B ‘& wood turn by the ex- ercise of a little Judgment.” Garrison’ dream crumbled to head swam. WILL ALWAYS Do THE STRAPHANGING ds ESCORTING THE WEAKER. ashes. “Ont” he said blankly, to palm me off as the nephew?” ifactly, my son; the long-lost “you—you the ceiling, He was hospital, but he did not know It. He knew nothing. The past had be- come a blank. An acute attack of brain fever had set in, brought on by the excitement he had undergone and d finished by the smash from the spirit . I read all about her in the Little Falls Daily Banner, like to lay hands on that Garri a miserable little whelp; that's what He ought himself instead of the horsi do him up. bottle. There followed many nights when doctors shook their heads and nurses frowned; nights when it was thought little Billy Garrison would cross the Great Divide; nights when he sat up in the narrow cot, his hands clenched if holding the reins, his eyes flam- us in his feverish imagination he came down the stretch, fighting for every inch of way; crying, pleading, imploring: “Go it, Sis; go it! Take the rail! Careful, careful! _Now— now let her out; let her out! Go, you cripple, go"—" All the Jargon of the turf, He was a physical, nervous wreck, ‘6 and the doctors said that he couldn't last very long, for consumption had him. It was only a matter of time, unless a miracle happened. The breath of his life was going through his mouth and nostrils; the breath of his lungs, No one knew his name at the hos- pital, not even himself. There was nothing to identify him by. For Gar- rison, after the blow that night, had managed to crawl out to the sidewalk like a wounded beast striving to find its lair and fighting to die gam There was no one to say him no friend to help him, And hotel man- agements are notoriously averse to having murder or assault committed in their houses, So when they saw that Garrison was able to walk they let him go, and willingly, Then he had collapsed, crumpled in a heap on the sidewalk. A policeman had eventually found him, and with the uncanny acumen of his ilk had unerringly diagnosed the case as a “drunk.” From the station house to Bellevue Garrison had gone his weary way, and from there, when it was finally discovered he was neither drunk nor insane, to Roose- velt Hospital, And no one knew who or what he was, and no one cared He was simply one of the many unfortunate derelicts of a great city. It was over six months before he left the hospital, cured as far as he could be, the doctors called his com- plaint by arned and. villainously unpronounceable name, which, inter- preted by the Bower that Billy Garrison “had go % But Garrison had not. His every Was as acute as it ever had Simply, Providence had drawn an curtain over his memory, separating the past from the present; the same curtain that divides our presents from our futur He had no p. Tt was a blank, shot now and then with a Vague gleam of things dead and gone, This oblivion may have been the manifestation of an all-wise Al- mighty. Now, at least, he could not brood over past mistakes, though, un- consciously, he might have to live them out, Life to him was a new book, not one mark appeared on ite clean pages. He did not even know the name—nothing. From the “W. G." on his line understood that those we hi itials, but he could not interpret ther he i they stood for nothing, e bad no letters, memoranda in his ts, bearing his name And so he took the name of William Good, Perhaps the "William" came to him instine- tiviy; he had no reason for choosing “Good, Garrison left the hospital with cough, 4 little money the superintend- UA_ AFRAID Ta Go HOME iN THE DARKE ent had kindly given to him, and hie clothes; that was Handicapped, as he was, harried by futile attempts of memory to fathom his identity, he was about to renew the battle of life; not as a veteran, one who has earned promo- tion, profited by experience, but as a raw recruit, The big city was no longer an old familiar mother, whose every mood and whimsy he sensed unerringly; now he was a stranger. The streets meant nothing to him, But when he first turned into old Broadway, a vague, uneasy feeling stirred within him; it was memory struggling like an imprisoned bird to be free. Al- most the first person @ met was Jimmy Drake, Garrison was about to pass by, oblivious, when the other seized him by the arm. ‘Hello, Billy! where did you drop m"—— rdon me, you have made a mis- take.” Garrison stared coldly, blankly at Drake, shook free his arm, and Passed on. “Gee, what @ cut!" mused the book- maker, staring after the rapidly re- (eating figure of Garrison, “The frozen mitt for sure. What happened now? Where's he been the past six months? Wearing the same clothes, too! Was that Pilly Garrison? It ce tainly was, and yet he looked dif- ferent, He's changed. Well, some- how I've queered myself for good, I don't know what I did or didn't. But I'll keep my eye on him, anyway.” To into the Fifth Avenue for a drink. CHAPTER IV. |ARRISON had flattered him- G self that he had known ad- the months succeeding his dismissal from the hospital 9} he qualified for a post-graduate course in privation, He was cursed of specialties, and he had none, His only one, the knowledge of the track, had been buried in him, and nothing tended to awaken it. cheer his philosophy, Drake passed versity in his time, but tn with the curse of the age; It in an nee He had no commercial education; nothing but the savior faire which wealth had given to him, and an in- herent breeding inherited from his mother, By reason of his physique he was disbarred from mere manual lab- or, and thut haven of the fatlure—-the rigon joined the ranks of the Unemployed Grand Army of the Re- public. He knew what ft was to sleep in Madison Square Park with a news- paper blanket, and to be awakened by the carol of the touring policeman. He came to know what it meant to stand in the bread-line, to go the rounds of the homeless, one-night stands. He came perilously near reaching the level of the sodden. His morality had suffered with it all, Where in his former days of hardship he had health, ambition, @ goal to strive for, friends to keep him honest with hiin- self, now he had nothing. He was alone, no one cared, If he had only taken to the track, his passion--legitimate passion—for horse-flesh would have pulled him through, But the thought that he ove could ride never suggested itself 10 him. He had no opportunity ef inhaling the track's atmosphere. Sometimes he wondered idly why he liked to stop and caress every stray horse. He could not know that those sam hands had once coaxed thoroughbre; down the stretch to yietory. His haunts necessarily kept him from meeting with those whom he had once known. The few he did happen to meet he cut unconsciously as he had once cut Jimmy Drake. ‘And so day by day Garrison's moral- ity suffered. It is so easy for the well- fed to be honest. But when there is the hunger cancer gnawing at one's vitals, not for one day, but for ma then honesty and dishonesty cease be concrete realities. It is not a qu tion of piling up sl but of sup- plying mere necesait, And day by day o bunger © cer gnawed at ayerieon's vitals it en- croached on his original steok of hoa- esty. He fought every minute of the day, but he grimly foresaw that there would come a time when he would ateal the first time opportunity af- forded, Day by day he saw the depletion of his honor. He was not @ moralist, a saint, a einner. Need sweeps ali theories aside; in need's flerce crucible they are transmuted to concrete real ities, jose who have never known what it is to be thrown with Garri- son's handicap on the charity of a great city will not understand, But those who have even tasted the bitter crust of adversity will. And it is the old dlatant advice from the Seats of the Mighty: "Get @ job,” The old Spaer “gene the hopeless undercur- re bere came day when the ques- tion of honesty or dishonesty was put up to Garrison in a way he had not foreston, Then hy jas drawn dis- tincUy; there was no easy alippii over it by degrees, unnoticed. The tollet facilities of municipal lodging-bouses are severely crude and primitive. For the eake of sanitation, the whilom lodger's clothes are put in 4 net and fumigated in a germ-de- stroying temperature, The men con- wregate toget! in one long room, in various stages of pre-Adamite cos- tumes, and the shower is turned up- on them in numerical rotation, This public washing was one of the many drawbacks to public charity which Garrison shivered at. As the warm weath took full advan eet in he accordingly fe of the free baths at the Battery. second day’ dip, as he was leaving, @ man whom he bad noticed intently scanning the bathers tapped him on the arm. He was shaped like an olive, with @ pair of shrewd gray eyes and a clever, clean-shaven mouth. He was well dressed and was continually probin with @ quill toothpick at bis gold fille front teeth, evidently desirous of ex- cavaUng Some of the precious metal. “My name's Snark—Theobald D. Snark," he said shortly, thrusting a ecard into Garriso: passive hand, “I am an eminent la’ and would be obliged if you woul: wor me with five minutes’ interview in my office American Tract Building. \ “Don't know you,” *fald Garrison blandly. “You'll Ike me when you do,” sup- plemented the eminent lawyer eoolly. “Merely @ matter of business, you un- derstand. You look as if a little busi- ness wouldn't hurt you.” “Kee) worse,” added Billy miidiy, in- specting his crumpled outfit. haps it would be the means of start- ing him in some legitimave business. Then @ wild idea came to him, and slowly Goated away again as be re- membered that Mr. Spark had agreed that be did not kaow bim. But while lawyer now him? identity, an for clamoring relatives and a w father and mother? For to Garrl his parents might have been erlm- inals or millionaires #0 far as he re- member The journey to Nassau Street was compleed in silence, Mr, Snark cen- tring all his faculties on hia teeth, probable out- come of this chance meeting, The eminent lawyer's offi phelf of the American Tract Building bookenase, It was unoccupied, Mr. Snark being 0 to be able to dispense of office it was small but cosy. Offices in that buliding can be rented nd Garrison on the 4 corner of the fifth intelligent with the servic stenographer, for $15 per month. After the eminent lawyer had forti- ga: fied himself from a certain black bot- it lasted the idea had been a thrilling ough. one for a penniless, homeless wan- but It had been: Supposing this Knew his real had tracked him down You are fitted for the role, by ey have never seen the original, and then, by chance, you have a birth- mark, shaped like a spur, beneath your right collar-bone, Oh, yes, I there marked it while you were bathing. of finding a duplicate, for I could not afford to run the risks of advertising. ‘It seems this nophew has # similar his mother having mentioned t once in a letter to ber her, and {Kt ta the only means of identification, Luck is with us, Mr. Good, and of ‘course you will take full advantage of it, As a side bonus you can pay me twenty-five thousand or so when you eome into the estate on your nele’s death.” ut what about identification?” “Ob, the mark's enough; quite en- You've never met you kin, uu can have very sweet, childish recollections of having heard your mothe! open of them. 1 know enough Fh bed Teoh Tae bag aa the ft ou've liv orth all your oe I fix up a nice respectable series of events regarding how you came to be away in China some ahd thus tminsed aceing the adv, ment. “I wire on that the long-lost nephew has been found, and you can proceed to Me right down in your ready-made bed of roses. ‘They won't be any thorns. Bit of a municipal lodging -h clenched his hand the last ditch. i reat not in the Sule of @ loaf of bread, but this, jow long his bonor put Up a fight pe did not know,| but the eminent wyer was pareutly satisfied re- ding the outcome, for he proceeded very leteurely to read the morning in, ‘was in boy and tle labelled “Poison; external use paper, leaving Garrison (o his only.” which sat beside the soap dish thoughts in the little towel eabinet, he assumed What thoughts they were! @ very preoccupied and mien at his became vitally intereste: of letters, prem Then the eminent lawyer delved im- portantly into an empty letter any emerged after ten minutes’ stud: Order to sive Blackstone = few thors oughly familar window farther to cool brain, crossed his bi 4 the business ru hat's your name? fe asked per- emptorily, Ordinarily Job, so he anaw. jam Good,” “Good William,” said the eminent lawyer, smiling at himself in the little mirror of the towel-cabinet. derstood that he vein of humor, that for an eminent lawyer, occupation, I presume, and no iikell hood of ane, eh G n nodded. “Well"—-and ers, his cigar at can fill, Calverts,” he added, wavin Incense from the athletic clear. the family a week or two ago but already he per- suaded himself that their reputation that his relations with them dated back to the He had only heard o' was nominal, and Settlement days. Garrison found occasion to say he'd never heard of them, and the eminent lawyer replied patronizingly that “we for all can't be know, rs Then he atory, which, Tike ww it appears that he Nas Never see! wishes to recognize, him his heir, widely for him durin months, and has in almost evs hunt fora turns, opened th his fevere: Mt @ highly athletic jexs, and at last at leisure to talk business with Garrt- son, who had almost pete asleep Garrison would have begged him to ga to a eltmate where thermometers are not in demand, but now he was bungry, and wanted a obediently; eased a thin eo@essury gogity Mr, Snark made a temple of worship from his fat fing- right angles, shrewd gray eyes on the ceiling-~'T have @ position which I think you To make a long story short, I have a client, a very wealthy gentle- man of Cottonton, Virginia; name of Calvert—Major Henry Clay Calvert, Dare say you've heard of the Virginia well-conneeted, you went on with was a very long one. Major Cal- vert has a nephew somewhere whom and whom h in short, make He bee re Pd ayes a B lawyer ay to assist in this haystack. Th What excuses he made to *Fimeelt— poor host to fast-crumbi honor! Only the exercise of a Mttl eubterfuge and all this horrible pres ent would be it. No more sleep- ing in the parks, no more of the hunger cance! 6 would have name, friends, kin, a future. Som pee to live for, Some one to care ome one to care for him, And he would be all that a nephew should be; all that, and more, He would make all returns in bi wer, reached the point w in the future himself confessing the deception; saw him- self forgiven and being loved for him- ft And he would confess it share, but not Snark's, All cigar, name to keep clean; traditions to up- hold, for he had none of his own. All this he would gain for a little subterfuge. And perhaps, as Snark had acutely point out, he might be a better nephew than the original. ‘Wille Ww ade his intention known, the eminent lawyer nodded as if to say that Garrison wasted an unneces- firy amount of time over a’ very childish problem, and then he pro, ceeded to go into the finer poin: the game, bullding up a life ht ey supplying dates, &c. Then he sent a wire to Major Calvert Afterward he took Garrison to his first respect- able lunch in months and bought him an outfit of clothes, On thelr return 10 the corner nook, fifth shelf of the kcase, & reply was awaiting them from Major Calvert. The long-lost nephew, in company with Mr. Snark, was to start the next day for Con- negton, Va. The telogram was warm, and commended the eminent lawyer’ ability, “Bon,” said the eminent dreamlly, carefully plact mentous wire in bis pocke! B00! deed never 44 unrewarded. Alwa, remember th, There ts nothing ti! the old biblical behest: ‘Let us pra; You for your bed of roses; mie for— —— mechanically he went to the small towel cabinet and gravely unfinished observation Mack bottle labelled jew, Mr. Will- He un- “And m his the rank usiness all short Da, And to the eminent lawyer, Theobald D, Snark, Esq, who has mended a poor fortune with a better brain. Gen- tlemon,” he concluded grand{loquent- ly, slowly surveying the 9 ae gem as if it Were an @! 9 seum—'gentiemen, ids your perwie- Bob Hampton of Placer ae ee sand dollars. Ten thousand dollars ts 1% not & sum to be sneezed at, Mr, Good. eg the approaching meeting, ‘he touch new Cost 3 ‘ana the L. PARRISH sion, together with that of mortal Mr. Sniveiler, we ve drown it ie rosy. aa the rosy, 1” Mr. Snarl y titted tbe bovtle eeiitny The follow! ata” ' Satna ae the shad. Ows were lengthening, a the eminent lawyer ‘pulled tata Heat litte sthtion of Cottonton. goodby to Gotham bad been had not been ditheult for Garrison say goodby. He was weil to a life and @ city that le in the short year he . The lifetime a in Pa od Lys ye Sy wae sal 0 jong train Ca Sales aehase his conscience, Not © consistently forgot to pay once or twien. But the consolence Se See awakened, eminent iseyer Judged his client right. never miserly until one has wealth, so Garrison was Vacate the bed of roses now tl had felt how exceedingly ploasant It © wag. To go back to hunger cancer and Would be hard; very hard even ii honor stood at the other end. “There they are—the major ing I wif whispered Snark, arm and ee out of the te where a tall haired man taay. who e thoroughbred stood ning the windows of cars. up at the cure behind them a smart two-seated pha pay with of clean-limbed bays Was not @ RegTO, as case in the South, mut a See little man, who looked London cockney that he was. Garrison never remembered how got through his introd to is Paget and “aunt.” His oy }-COmB< ing was a dream. wense of shame was choking him rd figs Calvert fo. aan) ked Bow w rip and loo} wn him, Kenaily, beg a) for a long ame. And then Mra. Oey e 2 eee mid. te aged lady, bad her rrigon’s neck and sea over again in the Evetiere sepmoas ‘Tm po glad to see you, dear. You've your Owe ig own ged You know she and were chums.” Garrison had choked, and if te eminent jawyece ‘wonderful vocabu- lary and eloquent manner nest ‘not just then intervened I've haunted the baths im the chance fercel; erhaps it would not have been ifficult. pee e CE as with great breaths vy drew ares into his lungs, It gave him hope. With tae a to al im Oe might suc- cessfully grapple with consumption. Garrison wae in the rear seat of the phaeton with Mrs, Calvert, mechan- ically answering quessi giving chapters of his fictitious while she regarded him si her grave blue eyes. Mr. Snark and the major were in the middie and the eminent lawyer a veritable blue streak, occas flinging over his shoulder a bo! vemark in answer to one - tected the tones, and Le a sudden col fortunes. humor, for, bes and the bonus he Garrison on the major’s death, hé accepted an lovelies. wy stay week end at Ci Garrison's Seen eas ewept away by the clat audible above the mn by the bays. A instinctively, Fon to De a two- poo yg ‘ata hard rere bane b Teted hand, “Mea Calvert returned the “A Malshter sd 8 ir * tant Youth be very and "Bue. 9 ie , and | know Lie Fant you to. fa wore nee your coming. I am nious courtesy of the South, haf in- ngedonte bein Se pela sow brane u a ir, now ona a regarded Garrison with hy Pair of very eyes. tiful eyes They wera as ehe pulled off her gantlet and Rees oa hand from the he looked into them, It seemed as if he looked into them for - Where had he ween them before? In adrelim? And her name was Desha. Where had he was heard gling furiously to tain that hid the “Cm right , nm ‘Anaily, Garrison had approprit ever. rigon_ mechan! hat. Where had yotoe? (To Be Continued.) GOING AWAY FOR VIE SUMMER? Remember The Eve- ning World prints each week af complete up-to-date novel —a week’s reading! Have The Eves | ning World sent to your sum- mer address.