and prepared to the general as some sort of satisfaction but when the general had thoroughly grasped the story and knew who was he began to puff and blow in the saddle and nearly rolled off with laughing he said deserved a v c if it were only for putting on a s blanket then he called himself names and vowed that he deserved a but he was too old to lake it from then he miss on her lover the scandal of the business never struck him for he was a nice old man with a weakness for then he laughed again and said that old was a fool let go of the s head and suggested that the general had better help them if that was his opinion knew s weakness for men with titles and letters after their names and high ofl position rather like a forty minute farce said the general but i will help if it s only to escape that tremendous i deserved go along to your home my and change into decent and i ll attack mr miss may i ask you to home and wait about seven minutes later there was a wild at the club a with blanket and head rope was asking all the men he knew for heaven s sake lend me decent clothes i as the men did not recognize him there jo j ss were some peculiar scenes before could get a hot bath with in it in one room a shirt here a collar there a pair of trousers elsewhere and so on he galloped off with half the club wardrobe on his back and an utter stranger s pony under him to the house of old the general arrayed in purple and fine linen was before him what the general had said never knew but received with moderate civility and mrs touched by the devotion of the transformed was almost kind the general beamed and chuckled and miss came in and almost before old knew where he was the parental consent had been out and had departed with miss to the telegraph office to wire for his the final embarrassment was when an utter stranger attacked him on the and asked for the stolen pony so in the end and miss were married on the strict understanding that should drop his old ways and stick to routine which pays best and leads to was far too fond of his wife just then to break his word but it was a sore trial to him for the streets and the and the sounds in them were full of meaning to and these called to him to come back and take up his wanderings and his discoveries some day i will tell you how he broke his promise to help a friend that was long since and he has by this time been nearly spoilt for what he would call he is forgetting the and the beggar s cant and the marks and the signs and the drift of the which if a man would master he must always continue to learn but he fills in his returns beautifully � � an with an n i am dying for and you are dying for another proverb when the tender left the p o steamer for and went back to catch the train to town there were many people in it crying but the one who wept most and most openly was miss she had reason to cry because the only man she ever or ever could love so she said � was going out to india and india as every one knows is divided equally between and leaning over the side of the steamer in the rain felt very unhappy too but he did not cry he was sent out to tea what tea meant he had not the idea but fancied that he would have to ride on a horse over hills covered with and draw a salary for doing so and he was very grateful to his uncle for getting him the berth he was really going to reform all his slack ways save a large proportion of his magnificent salary yearly and in a very short time return to marry had been lying loose on his friends hands for three years and as he had nothing to do he naturally fell in love he was very nice but he was not strong in his views and opinions and principles and though he never came to actual grief his friends were thankful when he said good bye and went out to this mysterious tea business near � � with an they said � god bless you dear let us never see your face again � or at least that was what was given to understand when he sailed he was very full of a great plan to prove himself several hundred times better than any one had given him credit for � to work like a horse and triumphantly marry lai ten he had many good points besides his good looks his only fault being that he was weak the least little bit in the world weak he had as much notion of economy as the morning sun and yet you could not lay your hand on any one item and say � is extravagant or reckless nor could you point out any particular vice in his character but he was unsatisfactory and as as went about her duties at home � her family objected to the engagement � with red eyes while was sailing to � a port on the ocean as his mother used to tell her friends he was popular enough on board ship made many acquaintances and a large liquor bill and sent off huge letters to at each port then he fell to work on this plantation somewhere between and and though the salary and the horse and the work 