The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-10-31
ltishness when in sAe presence of any
 member ofthis peculiar profession.

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 At three o'clock, on . rainy morning, Billy Bedappie stepped out on the side walk from the south enhance of the zsssss building, and walked rapidly eastward on Washington street. He was en route to his room" on Wabash avenue. When he arrived at the summit of the fifth flight of stairs, he unlocked the door, turned up the gas, and revealed spacious alcove apartment, ia which were two single beds, plain, but substantial furniture, and at- tording every evidence of being the habi- tat of very masculine masculineS. Box ing gloves, fencing toils, wire masks, h. dian clubs. meerschaum pipes, bottles, slippers, cigar boxes and a side gas jet festooned with dozens of pard-colored neckties all testified to the condition of single-blessedness affected by the average reporter on morning journal
 Billy Bed2pp!e thyes his shoes into a corper, his feet into a pair of old felt slip pers and himself inte the one solitary rocking chair in the room. Thirty-two years of the life of Billy Bedapple were behind him. In his career there had been no ups and downs. So far it had been one level plain-plain poverty.
 "Gad !" he said, bat did almost ruin myself with that impertinent letter of ad. vice to young Pettigrew on nautical mat ters. didn't think the bloke could take it seriously"
 "Who are you calling bioke9" in quired voice issuing from the dusky re. cesses of the hallway. Then out of the dusk form developed, small, squarely built young man, with a smooth face, close-curling hair and restless eyes.
 Hello, Gawrge, well, well !" greeted Bedapple, "been bucking the pool.room or the tigerI"
 "Well, yes, if you will insist on prying into my purely private affairs. have been working the animals for seventy-6ve cases"
 "Oh, come off with your slang; call lem dollars; it sounds richer"
 "Dollars go, old man."
 "I'm glad you won tonight, George"
 "Ah you Thanks. But why to. night particularly, Billy ?"
 "I am glad, George, because of the pleasure you personally enjoy"
 "AhW
 And also because of the added epjoy- ment you wi experience in loaning me ten dollars"
 That will make S7o you owe me-"
 "True."
 "And with mighty poor show of my ever seeing it."
 "True."
 But, Billy, why don't you try and make some money out of your profession, and not depend quite so much on a p DOT, hard-working, down-trodden gamb. like myself"
 "True, why don't |? Show me an opening"
 There Are dozens of newspaper fellers doing it every day. Say, what is the rul- ing quotation of prices nowadays for the suppression of scandal ?"
 My dear Gawrge respectable journal ists never resort to blackmail-no; they would go out on the road and sell corn plasters first"
 But some of you chaps dress we'll, and blow in money at the peol.rooms. How do they do it3''
 "Some of them coach chumps."
 7" Do. eh! We'll, my advice is, al- though don't understand the racket, coach few chumps your own self"
 "True I have got one in soak now"
 "Whop
 Never mind; time works wonders kiss, but never tell; wait till the clouds roll by-ah, there, Mollie Madcapr
 The last member of the above sentence
  was addressed to the photoS aph Of an actress resting on the mantle.
 By the way, Billy" said his room- mate, George, do you ever speak to any of these actresses, cantatrices and ballet girls whose pictures are numbering up the room? ?"
 "Oh, yes," answered Billy, coolly blowing rings of cigar smoke to the cell. ing, " and receive letters from them"
 Letters What about 2"
 Asking for puhs in the criticisms" "No"
 "Yes."
 Do you mean to say you could intros duce me to one of themF'
 Well yes J rould q xacl;.d p;Ji.,