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HX SEIZED BILL BY TDK HAND
was in fact a matter of money Doyle
wanted to borrow 15 tho balance of
20 that would be required to secure a
private room In a hospital for his wid
owed sisters little boy The youngster
had a bad cut from broken glass and
It was not healing The doctor had
Bald that a week In the hospital would
be worth a month at home but the lit
tle fellow had seen a ward once and
teas afraid of It A private room would
cost 20
Immediately after reaching New York
Doyle had spent all his savings and all
he could raise to get his sister out of a
quagmire of debt That Is why he
could raise but 5 toward the 20 In
this emergency he had bethought him
of his old friend Tom Grady a thrifty
fellow who earned little but saved
much Bill was particularly anxious
to get the money on the next day for
the 20 room at the hospital might be
taken any time and the other good
ones cost more
Tbe sailor could not mention such
matters to these Wall street men They
might think that be wanted them to
help him out He made them under
stand however that finding Grady
was very important
Upon hearing this Melnor called a
trusted clerk
Jim said he I want you to find
Tom Grady who used to work for a
tailor In this building I want the ad
dress by 10 oclock tomorrow Dont
let anything Btop you Youll probably
need some of Wallers sleuths Wal
ler being the head of a private detec
tive agency neres some money to
pay the freight
He handed Jim a bit of paper that he
had torn off a pad Doyle saw 20C
written on it In blue pencil
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nothing mm
Bill Doyle gunners mato from tlio
Raleigh strayed Into tlio olllco of J
Bolton Melnor broker on Nassau
Htreet near Wall Tlio tar wiib looking
for his friend Tom Orady who had
formerly worked In that place
The building had been remodeled and
Improved to tlio oxtent that none of
tho old tenants could afford to live In
It but with a sailors Instinct for lo
cality Bill had found the exact spot
where Tom Qrady once worked
Bill saw that the channel buoys had
been shifted and he came In with only
enough steam to give him steerage
way Ho would have put about hasti
ly had not Melnor chanced to get nn
eye on him
Melnor Is a patriot The champagne
that he has drunk to the health of Un
cle Sam and the confusion of all Span
lards would float a small gunboat He
seized Bill by the hand pulled him
Into the private ofllce and two minutes
later had Insisted upon taking the
search for Tom Grady entirely Into his
own hands
While the Investigation was making
two young gentlemen named Stratton
and Beeves called upon Melnor and
were duly presented to Bill where
upon Messrs Stratton and Beeves
swore In tho name of all the gods at
once that they were proud to take the
hand of Gunners Mate Doyle of the
Rulelgh
It was not a soft hand by the way
but It was n clean one and Doyle from
top to toe or keel to truck If you pre
fer the phrase was a neat natty
young sallorman
Mr Doyles going to dinner with us
tonight said Melnor Allens been
called away Theres a vacant chair
Out of sight exclaimed Stratton
and Reeves
Doyle turned very red In hls heart
he wanted to go He had taken a sail
ors Btrong and sudden liking for Mel
nor and he knew that In his company
he should see great things Yet he was
afraid a queer word to use In connec
tion with Bill Doyle
I better not he said Ive got no
place In your party Id be a 1 pounder
shell In the G Inch gun 1 wouldnt flt
Any one of Deweys men said Mel
nor with vast Impresslveness Is big
enough to flt any place that will hold
him
If I could see Tom Grady first said
Doyle hesitating
Wont tomorrow do asked Melnor
Well I dont know said Doyle and
he rubbed bis bead thoughtfully
He could not tell these men why he
was so anxious to see Tom Grady It
The Idea of spending 200 to And a
mnu for the purpose of borrowing 1J
from him made tho sailor feel a faint
ness In his solar plexus
It aint right for mo to let you do
this he began but Melnor would not
hear a word He had a gently com
manding way which fitted exactly to
tho sailors trained obedience From
that moment Gunners Mate Doyle was
ns completely under tho sway of Mel
nor as If he had been the admiral
Two electric cabs took the party up
town Doylo riding with Melnor to the
building where he had his rooms
Reeves and Stratton were to bo thero
at 7 The rooms appeared to Doyle as
SnK BET A COKNER OF THE ENVELOPE
ALIOIir
the most luxurious abode ever inhabit
ed by any mortal creature He was a
young man of quick perceptions and
In a flash there came to him an educa
tion In the art of living He became
conscious of a new kind of envy
Melnors man made a large supply of
champagne cocktail a delicacy never
before presented to the palate of Bill
Doyle He had the misfortune to like
It exceedingly The quantity which he
swallowed under the pressure of Mel
nors hospitality did not disturb his
head but It upset all his notions about
drinking Ho had never liked liquor
and beer had appealed to him merely
as a good thing on a hot day but he
fancied that champagne cocktail might
be acceptable at all times and seasons
It will not be worth while to describe
the dinner for eight When Doyle learn
ed that the other four were to be la
dles connected with the theatrical pro
fession he had visions of wild revelry
such as he had sometimes read about
In the newspapers As a matter of
fact the dinner was as decorous as It
might have been anywhere that he
could Imagine
Still there was plenty of fun Every
body did or said something clever ev
erybody except Bill whose native wit
deserted him because he was all the
time trying to be like the others Yet
they strove to make blm think that he
was very clever indeed and sometimes
slightly assisted by the champagne
they nearly succeeded
The pretty girl who would have smil
ed upon Allen smiled radiantly upon
Bill and by 9 oclock his heart was like
a rcdhot coal Yet he told himself that
he was having the time of bis life and
that It was great good fortune to be
with such people and to get a peep Into
another and a brighter sphere
He learned that Reeves was not a
New Yorker but a speculator from Chi
cago who had recently made himself
famous by losing a vast sum of money
Reeves did not seem to be worrying
about his misfortune and therefore Bill
who had Ideas about fortitude decided
that he must be a truly great man
These facts were communicated to
Bill by Miss Maynard the young wom
an who was making such havoc with
his affections She was continually en
lightening him on matters pertaining
to important people all of whom seem
ed to be the Intimate friends of Melnor
anda his guests Bill Judged that he
must accidentally have fallen into one
of the most distinguished companies In
the metropolis
He began to take a tremendous Inter
est In wealth and luxury subjects to
which he had previously given only the
vaguest consideration If this girl bad
talked to him about the irrigation of
the Great American desert he would
never have been able to see a grain of
sand thereafter without emotion
The dinner lasted till half past 0
oclock when the party went to a the
ater arriving when the performance
was more than half over which seem
ed to Bill a singular extravagance even
for these fortunate people After the
theater some one suggested that they
should go and get something to eat
Bill was not accustomed to draw his
rations quite so often but he made no
objection He did not care where they
went so long as he went with them
This supper was even more delight
ful to BUI than the dinner He was
less conscious of his own awkward
ness and he had almost entirely ac
customed himself to the Idea that
somebody else was paying for every
thing This had strongly oppressed
him at first for BUI bad always had a
kHKmvmmm
magnificent liberality but as ho after
ward expressed It with 5 111 Ills pock
et In that crowd ho simply had to be
a bum
There was one Incident of the supper
which Impressed Mill particularly Mr
Reeves received n note and tho boy
who brought It said ho had been on tho
trail since 0 oclock
As Reeves took tho envelopo In his
hand the eyes of tho young woman be
side him fell upon It Bill saVrhor face
suddenly lush
Thats from Millie Lenvlttl she
cried
Yoil are mistaken my friend re
plied Reeves gently and he mado a
movement as If to put tho note Into his
pocket unopened
The girl snatched It out of his hand
and sprang up Bills common sense
told him that this scene was half Jest
yet ho viewed It with awful attention
as a revelation of tho Innermost parts
of high life
Its from Millie and Im going to
read It exclaimed the girl and she
tore nn end of the envelope
I beg you not to do so said Reeves
It Is not from a woman
The girl wavered Evidently her
sense of honor would not permit her to
read the note yet her Jealousy demand
ed something
If 1 cant read It sho said nei
ther shall you Ill burn It
If you cannot take my word for It
said Reeves gently you may do what
pleases you
She seized a burning taper which had
been put upon the table for tho con
venience of the gentlemen who were
Btnoklug and set a corner of the en
velope alight Reeves did not movo a
muscle
Suddenly the girl clutched tho burn
ing paper In her hand extinguishing
the Ilame and then she threw the en
velope down In front of Heevcs
Thank you said he and was again
about to pocket the note when the girl
with tears in her eyes whispered
Please let me read It Johnny
He nodded nnd she pounced upon
the letter like a kitten The next In
stant she screamed so loudly that the
hero of Manila and all the others ex
cept Reeves sprang up In nlarm
Tlio envelope contained live Bank of
England notes of 100 each charred
on the edges and this communica
tion
Dear Jolin Here are the proceeds of the sale of
the last of jour bondaln English money 19 you
requested If this doesnt pull you through Ill
be hanged If 1 see how youre going to get out at
all Vet conic to me old man If anything goes
wrong and 1 will do my best Faithfully yours
Donald Punk
The girl read It aloud and then she
put her head In her arms on the table
and shed copious tears real ones too
And BUI Doyle had a new Idea of
calmness and courage Reeves the
stock gambler had displaced all the
naval heroes In history
When the supper was over tbe gun
ners mate took his fair partner home
In a cab On the Broadway corner of
the street where she lived stood a
young man with roses which he had
been offering for sale in the all night
restaurants BUI bought the stock for
3 despite the protests of his compan
ion who promised to keep them and
did for almost two days
She said good night to BUI very pret
tily at her door He returned to the
cab like one In n dream
Im to take you anywhere you want
to go said the cabman
Ill walk replied Bill who had not
the courage to give the location of the
tenement where his sister lived
He plodded slowly home and every
step gave him a singular sensation of
walking down hill
The next morning he called at Mel
nors ofllce vaguely hoping that there
would be another dinner party Mel
nor was not there but he left a note
for BUI saying that he regretted hav
ing to Inform him that Tom Grady was
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SHE SAID OOOD NIGHT TO BILL
dead The note was very kind and po
lite but It did not mention nny more
dinner parties
So that waa tbe end Nothing In
New York was too good for Bill and
this Is what be had got
In his brain a vision of wealth and
luxury ad a troublesome new Idea of
life
In his stomach a craving for terrapin
and champagne cocktails
In his heart a hopeless and absurd
passion for a girl who was not what he
thought she was and would not have
been a good mate for blm even If she
had been
In bis soul a new Ideal of character
and conduct founded upon an exhibi
tion of foolishness by a born gambler
These things had cost him 3 which
had nominally purchased roses He
was Just so much poorer In pocket
though something like a hundred had
been spent upon him In the last few
hours
The only thing he bad galnod was
the knowledge that Tom Grady was
dead
SSiSSSSSSSSSS
THE NORFOLK NEWS FRIDAY MAY 1001
THE PEMLEXINO INITIALS
To the Unlnlllntoit Thr Arn Apt o
lln SonitMvlint Confiialiisr
I Jniit arrived In Wntdiliiittnii toilny
In fact I ntn a strniiKer In thti capital
lie fluid to n cltlzmi on lVimsylvniiln av
enue
Yes answered the cttlteti Interroga
tively nt tliu mime tlmu putting hi linud
on lila watch cluiln and conjuring up pic
tures of piles of gold bricks utul wilds of
tlio Imitation long green lying around
Ioobo on the asnlinlt
Yes 1 never saw such tall hulldliiK
before lie continued with n wave or the
liniul tnwnrd tlio poMollleo nud Tlio Star
building I coiiio down from the moun
tains he added explanatorily You dont
mind my unkln you a tow queHtiimn
about ftotuctliliig which has worried mo
mightily
Not n hit of It my friend Wc aro
only too glad to he of survive to strati
curs Drive ahead
Well Its those perplexing Virginia
rail fence initials I mippoHc you pcoplo
who live here understand em hut Ill lui
golilnrucd If the Htratiger within your
Rates comprehends what they mean Is
It u fair aMHtiiiipttou that U H A and
U S N mean or stand for the United
Blntes army and navy respectively T
It 1h
Well does U H M C stand for
United Stilton member of congress or
United States metallic cnrrlage
United Htutcs marine corps
Oh the marines of ancient oqultio af
filiations and Boston food eh Well
Weill I Just passed two young olllcers In
uniform who had the letters U H N H
I U and U 8 N 1 0 In gilt lot
tern on their cut off ront collars I dont
dine to even think whnt those young
chaps represent Whnt Is It
Oh they were olllcers In the naval ro
erve and the national guard of the Dis
trict of Columbia
Well does that wagon there with the
letters U S S II painted on its sliU
bolong to tho government hospital for
sudors
Not much That Doors every new
mini that comes to town Those letters
stand for the United Stntes Soldiers
home
And there Is nuollicr wugon Mr
Ilaunas private carriage for It has O
0 IV painted o Its sides They say up
my way he Is the head and front of the
grand old putty
Grand old pcrty nothing cried tho
citizen pityingly That wagon belongs
to the government printing olllce
I suppose l O D means pay on de
delivery and II K anil IV stands for
llostou Englfudc nud lotouuic rait
load
Not on your life Those wngons tiro
attached to the postollice department and
to tlio bureau of mgravlug mid printing
Does 0 L tiieau Hint that wagon
enrrics the pulletUs of the commissioner
of lunacy around town
Wo havent nny such official That
combination icpioiunts the Congressional
library and tlio ttngon totes books
Well my ncwinniodatlng friend Ill
floor you now Coming down Pennsyl
vania avenue the one following the otb
er were two delivery wagons with this
text on each resj rctlvely U S S D R
and II It I R What Hort of a pollcj
play enn you innAe out of those letters
Oil thats cftay just United Stutes
senate document room and house of rep
resentatives docutient room
Well It I hndnt been told Id snld
those letters steod for United States
steamship Daughter Rose nnd the other
for Humble Heifers Daughter Ruth
Many thanks for your Information
Dont mention It Washington Star
Dnnflrerona Etiquette
Old world privilege nnd restriction
reign supreme In Smlu where there Is
a law that no subject shall touch tho
person of the king or queen
Alfonso XIII nearly suffered a so
re fall from this rule In his child
hood An aunt of bis mnde him a pres
ent of a swing When be used It for
the first time the motion frightened
him and he begnu to cry whereupon a
lackey lifted him quietly out of It and
so no doubt preserved him from fall
ing
The breach of etiquette however
was flagrant and dreadful The queen
was obliged to punish it by dismissing
tbe man from his post At the same
time she showed her real feelings on
the subject by appointing blm Imme
diately to another and better place in
the royal household
In another case a queen of Spain
nearly lost her life In a dreadful way
owing to this peculiar rule She had
been thrown when out riding and her
foot catching In the stirrup sho was
dragged Her escort would not risk
Interference and she would have been
dashed to pieces but for the heroic In
terposition of a young man who stop
ped the horse and released her from
her dangerous position
As soon as they saw she was safe
her escort turned to arrest tho traitor
who had dared to touch the queens
foot but he was not to bo seen Know
ing well the penalty he had Incurred
he mado off at once fled for his life
and did not stop until he had crossed
the frontier
She Rode Free
A woman who had come out of tho
west where she bad been a cow girl on
a rauch was boarding a car In this
city recently Sho bad Just placed her
foot upon the step and was preparing
to take another step to the upper plat
form when with a furious Step live
ly the conductor pulled tho strap
The car Jerked forward and the west
ern woman swayed back for a minute
then Just caught herself In time to pre
vent a bad fall upon the cobbles
She confronted the conductor with
angry eyes eyes that bad looked un
dismayed Into those of mighty horned
monsters of the prairies
What do you mean by starting the
car before I was on It she asked
Cant wait all day for you lady
the conductor snarled Just step In
side there
In a moment tho western womaa
with a backward golf sweep of the
arm lunged for the conductors head
He dodged The blow sent his hat
spinning back Into the track The
woman entered the car and sat down
She was flushed but dignified While
tho other women passengers were rath
er startled they all knew Just how she
felt Then the car8tppppLwblle toe
conductor went iincu tor tils hut The
western woman rodu freo that time
Now York Sun
I oat lint Ntnrlra
Tho London Globo lias been collect
ing a series of lost hat stories of which
tlio following nro npeclmcus
A father nud son were standing nt
tho entrance to Old Chnln plor nt
Brighton when the dear llltlo boy
tumbled Into the dancing waves A
bystander nccoutered as ho was
plunged Into the sea nnd buffeting tho
waves with lusty sinews succeeded at
Inst In setting tho dripping child nt tils
fathers feet And whnt line ye done
wl bis tint said papa
A correspondent sent tho following
nnrratlvo A festive bluejacket was
seen from a ship In Malta harbor danc
ing on tho top of tho purnpet wall nt
Kurt Rlcasoll First his bat blew over
and then leaning over to look for It
he lost his balnuce nud foil after It n
sheer drop of 110 feet or more Tim
surgeon on duty wnn landed with a
party to bring off tho romntns for
Identification They found thorn crawl
ing about on hands ami kneen and In
quired If ho was seriously hurt Hurt
bo blowedt was his reply Wheres
my hat
Ilrliltto lfnlM7ralrlRtit
Bridge building Is n perilous busi
ness and no Insurance company will
take any risk on the lives of super
structure workers Thero Is one horri
ble seuHittlou known to Hupcrstructuro
workers It Is something Ilka stage
fright
I know once said one of them
when l wiiHiit up more than 140 feet
a sudden feeling ciinio over mo that I
couldnt get down I looked down
lind thero was a Hwlft tide swirling
nround the edges of tho piers It seem
td to me I should surely be killed I
clasped both arms around tho beam on
which 1 was working and lay there
Just clinging to It for 110 minutes Luck
ily for me the foreman who was near
mo saw what was tho mutter and had
sense enough not to speak to me If
he had I know I should certainly have
fallen off lie kept on working and I
clung helplessly to tho beam Finally
In a gruff voice he growled at me Say
glt out o there I want to put a rivet
there And I obedient to an Instinct
of duty found myself movnig along
The feeling passed awny as I did move
and didnt come buck
When I was In Peru building
bridges said an engineer I did not
lose my head at work but I more than
once woke up during the night hang
ing to tho sides of the bed In despera
tion of fear to keep from falling In a
nightmare Boston Herald
All ronla liny
Tho custom of playing pranks on
April fools day probably had Its origin
In France the first nation to begin tlio
new year Jan 1 instead of March 25
Before tho change April 1 was tho day
when tho merrymaking of tho New
Years celebration culminated In the
paying of gifts and visits In return for
those already bestowed When tho re
formed calendar in lril made the 1st
of January the beginning of tho new
year April 1 was the time for pre
tended gifts and visits of mock cere
mony to make fools of those who had
forgotten the change In dates
The Humans had a holiday similar In
character to this although not coming
at the same time of year the satur
nalia and In Hindustan the feast of
the Hull on March 11 has for Its chief
diversion the sending of pcoplo on
fruitless errands
In Scotland they have a trick for
April fools day which never grows
stale If a fellow can be found slmplo
enough to undertake It he Is given a
noto to carry to a certain person Ho
reads It and says It Is not for him but
that he Is to go to naming another
man and from there ho Is sent to an
other and so on until the bearer grows
tired or sees a light The noto con
tains the lines
This Is the first of Aprils
Hunt the gowk another mil
nu Motive
I will ask you now the nttornoy for
the prosecution snld to the witness if
the defendant in this case confessed to
you his motive In shooting the deceased
nold on Interposed tho attorney for
the defense I object
I only want to find out whether
I object Legal wrangle of half an
hour
The witness may answer ruled tho
Judge
Now then Blr I will nsk you again
Did or did not tho prisoner confess to
you bis motive in bhooting the deceased
Ho did
What was it
ne wanted to kill him Chicago
1rlbuno
Tbe Ileal Paula of Life
Fidelia Flavllln doesnt the great
mystery of our being fill you with awe
and wonder
Flavllla Well to tell you the honest
truth Fidelia what to wear bothers
me more than anything else Indian
apolis Journal
Ifo Woman Mar Bela a
Tbe question has been asked why
none of the daughters of tbe czar may
be a successor to tbe throne on which
tho great Catherine proved her capaci
ty The exclusion rests only on an
edict of tbe Emperor Paul tbe son of
Catherine tbe Great Issued to dis
credit his mothers memory
France has as many as 45000 fami
lies with 130000 Individuals claiming
a title of nobility but as a matter of
fact only about 450 families can prove
their claim to descent from a noble
family In feudal times
Philosophy teaches us how easy It la
for nny man to forget his troubles pro
vided he Is so fortunate as to be some
body else
On an average every man woman
and child In this country consumes
about three bushels of apples per year
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WITH POUCH FEtD
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ALBERT DEQNERS
Dr Humphreys
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tho disoaso without exciting disorder in
nny other part of tho systum
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