Los Angeles daily herald., 1885-12-20
CHAPTER XVII.
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tendc1, on ana OH, Tor some years, during
which his modest income was mortgaged for
law expenses, so that h. was able to save
little or nothing. Curly's acting days wore
over but h. wrote a beautiful hanl and
emplovel him self in copying parts, MSS,
etc, for thu theatre. OF course he didn''
mike much by this; but Q contribute some
small portion toward the household ex-
penses, always hoarling up little treasur
for an especial purpose. Year after year,
as regularly as the 18th of May approached,
he di appeared Generally he returned
about month afterwards, and resumed his
place without a word. Willie guessed
pretty wei where he had been; but they
quite understood each other, and no word
ever passed between them on the subject.
They grew older and the world grew
grayer and gloomier for both, and the case
of Jameson AMI Miller VS.. MacAllster
and others continued to impoverisl the
poor player.
Mr. MacCrawley Citizens, having exhaust
ell every artifics that petdIogging and Chi.
canery could sug gest, was at length brought
20 bay, and the final hearing came on,
which resulted in verdict for the defend
ant
The very next day Jameson gave notice
Of appeal Then commenced affldayits, in.
terlocutories AMI | don't know what all.
Anyhow tho whole thing had to begin anew.
| or course, the lawyers, as usual, took their
time over it, But there is one comfort. you
can have a good deal of law for a little
money in Scotland-i. e., compared with the
cost Of the article in England
While this precious lawsuit dragged its
slow length along, Jameson was acting in
Manchester Liverpool, Birmingham Shelf
field, the York circuit, etc. Wherever he
! went Curly accompanied him. At last G l.
gagenents were difficult to obtain in Eng
land, so the friends returned to the Land o
Cakes. But, alas "a new generation had
arisen, which knew not Willie.n Younger
men had stepped into his shoes, and poor
\ j imieson had to retire AMI take a back
seat, until he sank to be, as we had S zen
HIM the night before, leading man at the
| Theatre II jyal, Paisley.
| And now comes the remarkable coinci
denee to which have before referred.
As Pike got to this portion of his nara
tive we reach the summit of a hill, at tn
bottom of which, some two miles off, laf
| Souart town, through which we had to pas
| during almost the last stage of our journe Z.
| As we paused to contemplate the prospe ct,
and indeed to take breath, for we were both
a little blown, our attention was attracted
| to u solitary foot passenger, about three OF
four hundred yards in front, who came
walking along brislxly toward U.S. Despite
/ his shabby clolhes he had the air and man,
ner of gentleman His lyure seemed wiry
| AMI elastic; his hair fell about his neck in Q
profusion of snow-white silky curls; the col
| lar OF his shire was turned down over a
| travel black six handkerchief, revealing a
| suguarly beautiful neck; he carried his
| hea erect; his eyes seemed fixed on vacancy,
| and his whole manner was so engrOssel and
| preoccupied that h. scarcely observed us
until within stones throw, when, to my
establishment, Pike gave a long, low whistle,
as h, exclaimed;
"Woil, Ineverl Who'd have thought It'll
Talk o the de'ill An how's aw' wi We,
Cur.yin
Mr. Campbell-for it was hebrew him
| salf uD for a moment, col lily; then, re-
covering himself, replied, with a pleasant
| smile:
"Wlat, PilSel Still on the road. old
man2 Don'G you b.gin to feel tired of it,
and wish it were all overi Sometimes I'm OF
Anton 5 mood, after Actium, AMI feel dis
posed to cry
Uaarm, Eos, the long days task is done.
But no, no. | suppose I've not courage
enough TO take off my own armor. Aud,
afler all, we've only got to wait little
.opgar for the god time coming at the end
. the journey; AMI then, you know as
Cato puts il NY bane and antidots are botf
before me- But what rogue and peasant
slave am l to go wool-gathering thus
Who's the boyT'
Pike introduced me to Mr.. Campbell n
"the juvenile hero OF the company. the com
ing man, the future Romeo etc.
| The old ppntlemnu soil with gwpe
smile:
Excuse me, sir, old men will still be talk
ing; its the privilege Of age You arr
| young and sanguine. Ali l was young ant
sanguine once myself. hope you will hav'
better fortune than befel me. You have al
open brow and a frank eye. You can lool
a man in the face; I'm sure you're no
afraid. 10 bad thing to be afraid On
moment of fear blighted the life of man
| know as well as / know myself Cleanli
ness, they say, is next to godliness but man
illness is above everything. If a man INSULT
you, if ho is as hi, as Goliath, don't wait t.
tax, hit him first; hit him if your heart
quaking, if your nerves are shaking; hi
him il lie kills you after A brave man cal
only die Tut once; but the coward All
God help the poor miserable coward. for M
dies every day, every hour he llve'n HI
| IthuNCAf anu iDphtl SlIuIbbl1 lpuih % ~
took off his hat passed his hand thrOus III hi
beautiful hair; then he stopped, took up I
handful of snow and rubbed it on his brow
moppet it dry, and said with lowdespond
ing moan:
"Oh, Godl could be bounded In nut
shell, and count myself a king of infinit
| space, were it not that | have had bae
dreams.n Then he continued. 81 fear yoI
will think me rather eccentric, and so am
but l was not always thus, was /, Pikei
was-what was II Pm sure l forget. Well
an how is Madame la Pike and the youn9
fishesl And the stock dsbtl And do W.
stlil delight the lieges with Sir Edward Nor
timer, and Pizarro, and the Baltic, ant
Caleb Ballerstoni And get glorious as o
yore on the mountain dew, fresh from Glen
livatN Then, in an altered tone, and witt
n touch of sadness in his voice. ''Of al
things else, avoid that, young gentleman
Remember, There's death in the pot Only
begin with that, and Facilis descensu
Averni. ALI the rest is easy; slap, bang
down you go through the primrose path til
you get to the abyss at the BOTTOM
At this moment Pike cut in With
1--WE saw Lang Willie last night a
Paisleyn
Did your responded the other; then vol
saw one for whom
Nature might stand up
And say to all the world-'This was mani
After a moments pause he began to hun
"Annie Laurie half aloud and half to him
self. At last Pike whispered HIM, then h
changed altogether, and said;
You're good fellow, Pike. What is i
the Baillie says to Rob Royl You're n sor
OF a kind of honest rogue hut as to money
Keep your trash, BaiIle; keep your trash.
See, although We have got to our las
Roberto, yet,n-and he sent bright ne
shilling spinning in the air and caught i
def5ly-" what is it Cleopatra's malice
Bacchus saysl Yet have we brain tina
nourishes our nerves. not, by the by, tina
he could have had much brains to spar,
when he made such an ass of himself for tn
sake OF that promiscuously amorous and de
ciieily dissolute OLD gypsy. Good bye
good bye; good luck to you at Kilmarnock
May your shadow never grow less; MAJ
your stock debt never increase; may yol
n yer share ISIS than half a crown u night
and candles TO boot. Ia, Ia. we pral
heaven to have you in its holy keepingr
And so, throwing his head aloft, he wakes
rapidly down the hill, singing as he passe'
out OF sight the song of Autolycus-
jog on, jog on, the footpath way,
| And merrily hent the stile a.
A merry heart goes all the way;
Your sad tires in mile a.
That was how l made Curly's acquaint
ance; and, indeed, that was the first an
last and only time l ever saw Donal
Campbell until-but I must not anticipate
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