The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-19
THE PRIDE
OF HIS YOUTH.


q II she straight when the race was his
= In cutting it-cut to the bone!"
=, he youngster be rated and chidden,
ia be carry and how was he ridden7
- fhey used him too much ct the start:
~ fs,e's wesghtcloths are breaking his
kssrt"
a / Was telling you OF the joke that
FORM played of on the Senior Subal-
/ uromised q somewhat similar tale,
uith I'll the jest left out This is that
lrly HIATT was kidnapped in his early
1h-neither by landlady's daughter.
smaid. barmaid nor cook, but by girl
early OF his own caste that only q
m could have said that she was just
HAST bit in the world below it. This
eened g month before he came out to
Is and five days after his one-and-
ntieth birthday. The girl was 10, six
Is older than Dicky in the things of
hHorid, that is TO say, and, for the time,
- % foolish as he.
Excepting. always, falling of horse,
d nothing more fatally easy than
aisee before the registrar. The cere-
b costs less than 80 shillings, and is
Rkahly like walking into pawnshop.
= the declarations of residence have
put in, four minutes will cover the
tof the proceedings-fees, attestation
dl Then the registrar slides the blot
kpad over the names and says grizzly,
his pen between his teeth: Now
s man and WIFE," and the couple walk
hto the street, feeling that something
horribly illegal somewhere.
ks that ceremony holds and can drag q
ITO his undoing just Is thoroughly as
fong as We both shall live" curse from
altar rails, with the bridesmaids gig
behind, and THE voice that hreathed
Eden" lifting the roof of. In this
ner was Dicky HIATT kidnapped, and he
idered it vastly fine, for he had re-
a an appointment In India which car
ID magnificent salary from the Home
= Of view. The marriage was to be
b secret for q year. Then Mrs.
~ Haiti was to come out and the rest
& vas to be . glorious golden mist
q vas how they sketched it under the
1lson Road Station lamps: and. after
short moth came Gravesend and.
~ SCANNING ont to his new life, and the
eying in 30-shillings week hed-and-
h room. In back street off Montpelier
1re. near Knightsbridge barracks.
Ias the country that Dicky came to was
nj ixnd where s'men" of 81 were reck-
livery small boys indeed, and life was
rnsive. The salary that doomed so
n 5000 miles awav did not go far.
kularly when Dicky divided is by
sad RENTED more than the fair half.
&to Montpelier Square. One hundred
thirty-fve rupees out of $50 is not
- % live on; but it was absurd to
- that Mrs. HIATT could exist
M on the EGO held back by Dickv
hb Quit allowance. Dicky saw
~ remitted at once; ALWAYS remem-
hat Rs. 700 were to be paid, twelve
~ later. for first-class passage for .
d when you add to these trit1ing de-
~ natural instincts of q boy begin
new life in new country and long
ID 81 about and enjoy himself. and the
~ Tor graphing with strange work
=, properly speaking, should takeup
undivided attention--you will see
heky started handicapped. He saw
nself for breath or two; but he did
ms the full beauty of his future.
ne hot weather began the shackles
y on him and ate into his flesh. First
come letters-big. crossed. seven
letters-from his wife, telling him
- louged 10 see him, and what
upon earth would be their prop
men they met. Then some boy of
nnmmerv wherein Dicky lodged
pound on the door of his bare little
and tell him to come out to look at
TIE very thing 10 suit him. Dicky
not afford ponies. He had to ex-
MS Dicky could not afford living
eoummery, modest as it was. He
explain this before he moved to q
nom next the office where he worked
he kept house on green oil
noe cover, one chair. one charpoy,
photograph, one tooth glass. very
and thick, a 7-rupee eightanna
no messing by contract at 81 rupees
IN Which last item was extortion.
no punkah. for punkah costs Is
month; but he slept on
moi OF the office with all his
letters under his pillow.
snd again he was asked out
aler, where he got both a punkah
ICED drink. But this was seldom,
sepe oolected to recognizing q boy
80 evidently the instincts of q Scotch
fasndier. and who lived in such a
'Snion. Dick could not subscribe
amusement, so he found no amuse-
ace pt the pleasure of turning over his
apk and reading what ii said about
% approved security" That cost
he RENTED through Bombay
zoe way. and the station knew
~ Of his private affairs.
~ month he sent home all he could
spare fer his wife-and for an
Jason which was expected to ex-
=. 's'l shortly and would require more
- 'nis time Dicky was overtaken
nervous, haunting fear that be-
nee men when they are out of
ue nad no pension to look TO.
~ ue should die suddenly, and leave
ss unprovided for? The thought
Iay Aoid OF him in the still, hot
~ Tue roof. till the shaking of
i ~. ~ mate him think that he was GO
s NV tnen and there of heart disease,
,ss airame of mind which no boy
issue 10 know. 1t is a strong mans
so W., coming when il did. 1t nearly
~ ~ pnnkahless. perspiring Dicky
49,. Hecould tell no one about il.
- amount OF .sorew" Is as neees-
man as for billiard ball. II
VEN both do wonderful things.
F IN money badly, and he worked
~ horse. But, naturally, the
~ owned him knew that boy can
ohliortabiy on q certain income
tadia is matter of age not
Nv; :sa see. and, II their particular
49, N 70 work like two boys, BUSH
pa that they should stop
4 IL business forbid that they should
ell AlllffaSA If a his fArAkRfll