The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-11-21

wouldn't mind-lu let you 70 to lii
deuce on yonrowa mahlstlck ; bat whe
/ consider what you Rre to ine, and whe
| find that 10 vanity you add the two
penny plque OF Il twelve.year.oli cir
then | bestir myself In your behal,
Thus!"
The canvas ripped as Torpenhow'
booted foot shot through IT, and the 10,
rier jumped down, thinking rats WEI
about.
III You have any bad language TO use
use II, You have not. l continue. Yol
are an Idiot, because no man born O
woman is strong enough to take libeftie
with his public, even though they be-
which they ain't-all you say the.
lre."
"But they don't know any bette,
What eau you expect from creature
born and bred In this light ?" Die!
pointed to the yellow ior. III the,
want furniture polish, let theu have fur
niture polish, 80 long rs they pay for It
They are only men anil women. Yol
talk as though they were gods"
That sounds very fine, but IL ha
nothing to do with tho case. They ar,
the people you have to work Tor, whethe
you like 1t or not, They arc your mas
tiers. Don't be deceived, Dickie. Yot
aren't stlong enough to lriils with them
Tor With yourself, which is moro i'm
portant. Morcover,-ComO back, Binkic
that red daub isn't going anywhere
unless you take precious good care, 70,
will fall under the damaatioa oil tht
chequo book, and that's worse thar
death. You will get drunk-you're hal
drunk alrcady--on easily acquired
money. Fo. that money and your owl
infernsl vanity You are willing To delib
erately turn out bad work. You'll d.
quite enough bad work without khowini
it. And, Dickie, as | love you aud as
know you love inc, am not going TO ie'
you cut off your nose to spite your fac,
for all the gold in England. That's set
tied. Now swear"
"Don't know" said Dick. "I've bcer
trying 10 make myself angry, but | can't
you're SO abominNbly reasonable. There
will be q row on Dickeas9n's Weekly, !
fancy:s
"Why the Dickinson do Won want Il
work on an evening paper. It's SLOW
bleeding ofpower."
ut brings in tho very iesirab.o dol.
lara" said Dick, his handBin his pockets
Torpenhow watched him with large
contempt. why. l thought it was d
mani" said he. "It's a child"
mo, it isn't, said Dick, wheeling
quickly. you've nj notion what the
certainty OF cash means to n man who
has always wanted 1t badly. Nothing
will pay me for some OF my life's Joys;
on that Chinese pig boat for instance,
when wo ase bread and jam Tor every
meal, because Ho.Wang wouldn't allow
us anything better, and it all tasted OF
pig-Chileee pig. I've worked for this,
Eye sTcated and I've starved for this,
line on line and month after month
And now Tve got it | am going to make
the most of it while it lasts. Let them
pay. They've no knowledge"
What does Your Majesty nlesse 10
want? You can't smoke more than
you do; YOU Ton't drink; you're n gross
feeder; aud you dress in the dark, by
the look OF you. You wouldn't keep a
horse the other day when | suggested.
because, you said. it might fall lame,
and whenever you cross the street Won
take a hanson. Even you are not fool.
ish enough to suppose that theatres and
all the live things you Gun buy there.
abouts mean Lie. What earthly need
have you for money!"
TITS there, bless it'a golden hcart,n
said Dick. "1t's there oil the time.
Providence haS sent me nuts while I
have teeth to crack 'em with. l haven't
yet found the nut l wish to crack, but
Pm keeping my teeth filed. Perhaps
some day you and 1 will 20 Tor a walk
round the wide earth"
with no work 10 do, nobody to worry
lie, and nobody to compete with? You
would BIO unfit to speak to in a week.
Besides, l shouldn't 90. l don't care to
profit by tho price OF a mans soul-for
that's what it wonld mean. Dick, it's
use arguing. You're q fool"
Don't see it. When | was on that
Chinese pig.boat, our captain got enor.
NOUS credit for saving about twenty-five
thousand very sea-sick little pigs, when
our old tramp OF q steamer fell foul OF s
timbeI:innb Now, taking those pigs as
a parallel"
oh, confound your parallels! When.
ever l try to improve your soul, you al.
ways drag in some irrelevant anecdote
from your very shady past. Pigs aren't
the British public. Credit on tho high
seas isn't credit here, ard self-respect is
self-respect all the world over. Go out
for a walk and try TO catch some self.re.
spect. And, l say, if the Nilghai comes
up this evening can l show him your
digging?"
"surely: You'll be asking whether
you must knock at my door, next" And
Dick departed, to take counsel with
himself in the rapidly gathering London
fog.
Hall IN hour after no had left, the
Nilghai labored up tic staircase. He
was the chiefest as he was the hugest OF
the war-correspondents, and his expert
encee dated from the birth OF the needle
gun. Saving only his ally, Keneu the
Great War Eagle, thera was no man
mightier in the Graf. than he, and he
always opened his conversation with
the news that there would be trouble in
the Balkans in the epring. Torpenhow
laughed ms he entered.
Never mind the trouble in the Bal
kaEs. T~ose little states are aiways
e%creeching. You've heard about Dicks
luck?"
"ies; no has been called up to notori.
ETY., hasn't he? hope you keep him
properly humble. Hewants suppressins
from time to time"
"he does. He's beginning to take
liberties with what he thinks is his rep.
utation.'
"Alreadyl By Joye, lie has cheek
l don't know about his reputation, but
he'll come o cropper il he tries that sort
OF thing.H
$50 ! told him. I don't think he be.
lieves it.N
"Thay never do when they frat start
of. What's that wreck on the ground
there?"
Specimen Of his latest impertinence."
T%orpenhow thrust tho torn edges of the
canvas together and showed the we'll.
groomed picture to the Nilghai, who
looked NJ it fQr @ moment and whistled.
"It's q chromo,". said he, HaiShromo.
ELECTROMAGNETIC fake! What possessed