The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-10-19

A low sized man, with dull, grayish
eyes, a dirty sallOw complexion and slight
ly hooked nose, habited in a brown sack
coat not remarkable for the mcety of its
cut and rather the worse for wear, with
trousers that were possibly once white,
and very limp felt hat, might be seen
striding rapidly up and down the raised
platform on the inside Of the Michigan
SOuther Depot in Chicago when the morn
ing tram came to tinal stop.
The passengers poured cut Of the carr
and surged IN steady streau toward the
street entrance, among them Richard Ar
byght, who began to experience a new
sensation he found himself i'll a strange
city, with no previously defined plan ot
action to guide his movements he was
undecided whittier to 20, OF what to do
he was like a mariner III md ocean, bereft
of compass, with overhead cloudy sky.
He neither appeared nor felt Amiable
Detaching himself from the crowd, he
strode down the platform in a sullen medi-
tative mood; in turning at ths far end, he
came face to face with the seedy individual
above described A half suppressed excla-
nation burst Involuntary from the lips Of
the latter, but Richard wrapped deeply in
the solitude of his own thoughts, needed il
not, nor did he notice the fellow, or the
startled look which his own unexpected
presence undoubtedly occasiOned. When
Richard reached the upper end Of the de-
pot he passed out into the street, entered
all omnibus, giving directions to lie driven
to 9 hotel on Washington Street, where he
engaged temporary quarters, intending tO
reInain only until such time as he became
permanently locaGed. Being weary and
tired, he Immediately sought his room for
the purpose Of obtaining a few hours rest
before exploring the city; buehe was scar
cely ten minutes in the room before there
was a knock at the door. which he opened.
What do you wantf he asked grutfiy
enough Of the porteEwhO stood eyeing him
in blank and silent wonder.
''Tha a-ares a-a gentleman below that
wishes to see you, stammered the porter,
with a significant grim, giving the word III
italics peculiar emphasis.
A gentleman wishes to see me, did you
say
Yes sir.
Impossible, exclaimed Richard. ~
am An entire stranger in the city
Perhaps you are and perhaps you
arnt," returned the boy with q curious
leer
The look, rather than the remark, raised
Richards ire, which, however, found vent
i'll terrible scowl.
"Well /" said the porter.
Vel, why don't you show him up
Why do you stare at me az il ! Was a seven
headed murderer r
Perhaps you are, muttered the boy
as he fed from the door.
9 Well this is queer, singularly queer,
soliloquized Richard after the porter had
left I" / am not cognizant Of q single ac-
quaintance in this city i never saw a
man who said he was from Chicago, and
here am scarcely half an hour in the city
before have a caller It's strange, won
derfully strange.
Here's the gentleman, interrupted
the porter, as he threw the door open, EN-
phasizing the word in the same peculiar
manner
Young Arbyght looked up and saw the
man whom We described ut the opening If
this chapter. Each shrank from the other
Richard knew not Why he recoiled at the
sight Of the fellow, but he felt a. if in the
midst Of pestilence.
4" Pardon me, sir, for obtruding myself
upon you. but ] saw yoH at the depot and
your face very forcibly reminded me Of one
saw long time ago, and in whom was
calling upon you to ascertain II my surmi-
ses were correct. hope, sir, you viii not
consider il an intrusion, he added, with
. propitistory wink and ingrstiAting smile
Might | ask whom have the honor OF
sddressing said Richard.
"Oh certainly, sir am Jack Terwil-
lager, at your service.
Jack Terwillager, exclaimed Richard,
with measured slownesa. /" think / have
heard that name before. Let me see, did
you, he pursued, lever live in Silver
vile, Pa, I"
Mr.. TerwillAger gave . sudden start anG
his sallow face changed to An ugly pAlliC
color,
Richard NOTICED the charge and eyed hin
keenly.
No-I-did not, " said tieazentleman
ly Mr.. TerwillAyer with a shadg or hesitan
cy in the tone. =. | was never in Pennsyl
| yAnla, he added, with more frmness Ant
dehberation. But Why do you ask Z" h
continued.
" Merely because the name sounds fam
har. A man called Jack Terwillager worke'
for my father about twenty-one years ago.
Mr.. TerwillAgsr jumped up, snAtche'
his hat and incontinently rushed from tn
room, exclaiming in an audible whisper
g tits him, 'tis him. "
Richard was rooted TO the spot with SUI
prise and astonishment. What did it q
mean 4" The operations of the huma
mind are generally eocentric and sPaAmodi'
At timss an idea or thOHght will fash uE
expectedly through the brain the spectE
Of buried thoughts viii of riss unbidde
before us and again, when perhaps "
most need OF dssire the mind to oct in
csgtain direction q fails m. Memory, th
| divipAgt attribute a the mind. haa eve