over to see them to show s new dress she had promised that mr would do what he could for him jim on the road next month jim went back to the freight service he preferred dick rail to mrs he got him dick was worse than ever his appetite was by he returned to his attack with renewed zest he never tired � never he was perpetual he was he made jim s life a wilderness jim said nothing just along than ever than ever closer than ever he took to going on sunday to another church than the one he had attended a more fashionable one than that the went there jim sat far back in the gallery very far back where he could just see the top of buy to seed carry s head her big hat and her face and could not see mrs who sat nearer the gallery it had a curious effect on him he never went to sleep there he took to going up town walking by the stores � looking in at the windows of and once he actually went into a shop and asked the price of a new suit of clothes he needed them badly the tailor unfolded many rolls of cloth and talked talked him dizzy jim looked wistfully at them rubbed his hand over them softly felt the money in his pocket and came out he said he thought he might come in again next day he did not have the money wrote him she could not leave home to go to school on their mother s account but she would buy books and she was learning she would learn fast her mother was teaching her and he was the best brother in the world the whole world and they had a secret but he must wait one day jim got a big bundle from down the country it was a new suit of clothes on top was a letter from this was the secret she and her mother had sent for the cloth and had made them they to seed hoped they would fit they had cried over them jim cried a little too he put them on they did not fit were much too large under dick rail s fire jim had grown even thinner than before but he wore them to church he felt that it would have been to his mother and not to wear them he was sorry to meet dick rail on the street dick had on a black coat a velvet and large checked trousers dick looked jim over jim flushed a little he was not so now dick saw it next week dick caught jim in a crowd in the yard waiting for their train he told about the meeting he made a double shot he said boys jim s in love he s got new clothes you ought to see em i dick was he wound up they hung on him like on his old mule i b he was too to buy em and made em himself there was a shout from the crowd jim s face worked he jumped for him there was a lying near and he seized it some one him but he shook him off as if he had been a child why he did not kill dick no one ever knew he meant to do it to seed for some time they thought he was dead he laid off fur over a month after that jim wore what clothes he chose no one ever troubled him so he went on in the same way sleepy thin sting y ill dressed lame he was made a preferred it to being a conductor it led to being an engineer which paid more he ran extra whenever he could up and double straight back he could stand an immense amount of work if he got sleepy he put tobacco in his eyes to keep them open it was bad for the eyes but him up was going to take music next year and that cost money he had not been home for several but was going at christmas they did not have any sight but the new meant to be thorough mr had become a had his eye on the jim was one day sent for and was asked about his eyes they were bad there was not a doubt about it they were he could not see a hundred yards he did not tell them about the extra and putting the tobacco in them dick rail must have told about him they said he to seed must go jim turned white he went to his � little room close up under the roof of a little dingy house in a back street and sat down in the dark thought about his mother and and dimly about some one else wrote his mother and a letter said he was coming home � called it a visit cried over the letter but was careful not to cry on it he was a real cry baby � jim was just run to seed he said to himself bitterly over and over just run to seed then he went to sleep the following day he went down to the railroad that was the last day next day he would be off the train master saw him and called him a special was just going out the were going over the road in the officers car dick rail was the engineer and his had been taken sick jim must take the place jim had a mind not to do it he hated dick he thought of how he had pursued him but he heard a voice behind him and turned carry was standing down the platform talking with some elderly gentlemen she had on a travelling cap and she saw him and came forward � a step run to seed 