The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-08-03

worked Tor u Ik q morse. I1uts novurs
ally, the men who owned him knew that
q boy can live very comfortably on q Ger.
tain income-pay In India 10 q matter Of
age not merit. you see. and. II their par
ticular boy wished to work like two boys,
business forbid that they should stop
him: But business forbid that they
should give him an increace OF pay nj his
present ridiculously immature age! So
Dicky won certain rises OF pay-ample
for a boy-not enough for a wife and
child-certainly too little for the seven-
hu~ndred-rupee passage that be and Mrs.
HIATT had discussed so lightly nee upon
the time. And with this he was forced to
be content.
Somehow, all his money seemed to
fade away In home drafts and the crush
ing exchange, and b tone of the home
letters changed and grew ~querulous.
"Why wouldn't Dicky have his wife and
the baby out? Surely he had a salary-a
enjoy himself I'm India. And would he
could he-make the next draft q little
more elastic 2" Here followed u list Of
baby's kit, rs long as n Parsee's bill. Then
Dicky, whose heart yearned to his wife
and the little son be had never seen
which, again, 10 a feeling. no boy Is en-
titled to-enlarged the draft and wrote
queer half.boy. haif-man letters, saying
that life was not 80 enjoyable after all
and would the little wife wait yet n little
longer ?But the little wife, however much
b approved of money, objected 20 wait
ing, n there was n strange, hard sort of
ring in her letters that Dicky didn't un-
derstand. How could he, poor boy?
Later on still just as Dicky had been
told-a propos OF another youngster who
had made a fool OF HIMSELF as the say
ing is-tnat matrimony would not only
rum ms further advancement nut would
lose him his present appolntmentLcam
the news that the baby ms own niue. Ut
tte son, nat dieda ana, behInd TINS, ~ n
OF an & woman's scrawi, saying the
death might have been averted " certain
things, all costing money mad been done
OH tne motner ana the paDy han peeh
WIN picky. Inc letter struck AZ pickys
nakeu heart; DIT, not peihg oIhciaiiy en-,
.ltIea 10 a papy' he couid snow no sign OF
how Dicsy Won through the mex four
montns, ana what hope he kept alight To
iorce nm into his work, no n dare say.
He pounded on, the IOO rupee passage as
iar away as ever ana MS styieo living I'M
changed, except when he launched into a
new hitter. There was the strain OF his
Office work, and the strain OF his remit
tances, u the knowledge OF his boys
death, which touched the boy more per.
haps than IL would a man and, beyond
al the enduring strain OF his daily life.
G~ray-headed seniors who approved OF his
THRIFT q his fashion OF denying himself
everything pleasant, reminded INN OF the
Old saw that says:
III a youth would be distinguished In his art,
arr, art,
ne mus. sefp .r e"is away i'"" MS "e"'''
n'r,'' "e"'.
And plcky VINO iahc,ea ne nnd peen
tnrougn every 'rpupie thata Ihan II OCT
WIN tne Ias. ,int VI nns yalannc.u nIhh.A
DOCK JihgIihg IN MS neau uay anu l.gn'.
But ne hau one more SORROW 10 dIges.
peiore tne Gnu. inere aIrINeua ie.'er
rom the niue wiieLthe naturai sequence
Oh ,ne 1.ners u Dicky naa only known II
with q tnan you. ~ was
a rather curious proaucuon, without
stops, somethtng IKE this: ,,Sne was not
going to forever ana the baby was
uead u Dicky was onIy boy anu ne
would SET eyes on her again anu
wny hadn't ne wayea n,s nanuker S 10
ner wnen ne ieft 1rasesehu anu uou was
her Judge D was q wicked woman put
Dicky was worse enjoying hihiseii III IN,
dia anu TINS otner man ioved the ground
she srod on anu woulu Dicky ever t9rgive
ner TOT sue woulu lever Iorg,ve D'ehy'
anu there was no ADDRESS 10 wrlt' 20.
instead OF thahklnR nIs suars tnat ne
was iree, plcKy I,scovereo nov al IN
Iureu usnan Ieeis-agaIn, no, AZ the
knowieuge to wnich poy u ehutieu-Io
MS mihd went PACK 10 ms VIE as ne re-
her IN the tnlrty sniiii,R
,snite" IN Miontpeiier square. when the
Dawn OF ms last morping IN Engianu was
nreakihg anu she was crying IN ,he peu;
Whereat ne rolled ABOUT on MS Ded
D! ms myers, ne never s,oppea 10
think whether, II ne had met Mrs. hatt
aI,er tnose Two years, ~ SouIu ave us
covered that ne ana sue had grown quite
uinerent ana new persons. lhis, tleo-
reticaiiy, ne ougnt 10 nave lone. ne
spent me night a1ter tne Ehgiish man
came IN rather severe PAIN. -,
Next morning. D,cky NAT, Ieit uisin,
clihed 70 WORK. ne argued that ne nad
missed the pleasure Oh youth. ne was
,isea, anu ne nae tasteu All inc sorrow IN
lIe peore tnree anu twehty. MS hohor
WAS R0ne-IlaI WAS the mani. AMI NOW