take me about with him to one or more of the most description in the of the section which same he had discovered and with the of which he was on the best of terms they were really hang for and thieves and characters generally was the beginning of the chinese in america bat not so to wood he had the happy faculty of himself that then waa something vastly mysterious and superior about the entire chinese race and after introducing me to many of hia new friends he proceeded to assure me of the of some huge chinese organization known as the six companies which so far as i could make out from hearing him talk was slowly bnt surely and secretly of getting control of the entire it had complete control of great financial and here there and everywhere and on order thousands of chinese to any one who desired them anywhere and this oi ruled them with a rod of iron cutting their throats and them head down in a of rice when they failed to perform their duties and m a book about their quietly to in made in china and t here for that the chinese who had worked for the of the union pacific had been supplied by this company so he said again there were the chinese free a society so ad and bo powerful and so that one might speak of it only in whispers for fear of getting into trouble this indeed was the great organization of the world in china and every where else songs and knew of it and before its power if it wished it sweep the chinese emperor and all european off their tomorrow there were rites mysteries within in this great organization he was as yet a mere bnt by degrees slowly and surely as i was given to understand was its secrets out of these chinese and its deepest mysteries whereby he hoped to profit in this wi he was going to study chinese then go to china there he would get into this organization through the influence of some of his chinese friends here then he was going to get next to some of e officials of the chinese government and being thus highly recommended and thought of would come back here eventually as an official chinese attached perhaps to the chinese at washington how he was to profit bo vastly by this i could not see but he seemed to think that he would again there was his literary world which he was always dreaming about and over his art into which i was now by d permitted to look he was ahead in that realm and since i doing fairly well as a daily it might be that i would be to perceive a little of all he was hoping to do his great dream or scheme was to study the life of st louis at first hand those horrible and lowest and south of market and east of eighth where listening to the of thieves and and and and and he was to extract from them aside from their stories a book about myself some of and scene that stand him in good stead in e composition of hia tales now bo he told me he content with making notes down scraps of conversation heard at bars in cheap dance and i know not what with a little more time and a little more of that slowly arriving which to most of as i am inclined to think that he might have made something out of all this he was ao much in earnest so patient only as i saw it he was filled with an almost impossible and romance which threw nearly thing ont of he naturally inclined to the and the grotesque bnt in no balanced way his dreams were too wild his mood at nearly all times too utterly romantic his far beyond what a sane contemplation of facts and relative to this period i could other tales he and peter long before i had arrived on the scene had surrounded themselves with a company of their own down and out english army and younger sons of good families a frenchman or two one of was a poet several struggling artists who on them and a few weird and characters so degraded and that i never make out just what their charm was at least two of these had suitable rooms where in addition to dick s and mine we were accustomed to meet there were parties sunday and evening walks or dinners poems on occasion were read original dick s stories as peter invariably insisted were inflicted the or duck a tin bucket of good size was rushed for beer and cheese and and hot sold by old on the after midnight were bought and consumed with captain captain � these are names of figures that are now so dim as to be mere ranged a smoky dimly lighted room in some house both dick and peter had reached that state where they were the of attraction aa as and to these others and a book about myself between them got ap weird acts which they took down to some wretched and each doing a torn the glee over the of these things as they now them to wood wag so thin physically and so vigorous mentally that he fascinating to look at he had an idea that this and his story work of the importance and so they were if they bad been bat a to something more or if his dreams could only have been reduced to paper and print there was that i in his eye a ray there was an to his spirit which was delicious as i get him now he was a rather foe or de or and assuredly a of the was certainly there for at times the moods he 