Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-29

no good. ] GOT to live and face it out like
tho rest on us And ] can't get hvin
where amt known. I'll 90 back TO the
JOY. Deesay I'll get of with punch or
two Then Putty'll come round and give
me lob. cause be knows don't nick the
beer nor the copPers."
81 think I must ask one question. Are
you related to that man in any wayf"
mot me | don't member ever havin
no relatives"
"He is not even friendS"
IT told you amt got no friends-not
one. II had. dc you think should ha'
gone and done what | did down there in
the meshes Greenwich wayf"
He shook bis head Then, after pause,
he asked me II 1 thought 1 could do some
thing better than go back 70 the old life.
NO" said l. 81 can't think Of nothing
else as I'm 1T for and as would do me bet.
ter. Can yoGw
YES" he replied, laying down his pipe,
and leaning forward with a new light
flashing in his deep, earnest eyes he contin-
uedi II can think OF something much bet
ter. You are filter for new life than the
old"
"You don't mean an institootionf"
asked, chilled to the heart with the dread
that he should think me worse even than
was rs recollected the proposals with
regard to living O new life made by the
missionary who visited me in the station
house cell
mo, / do not mean anything of the
sort,n he replied with flash OF angry re-
pugnance in his eyes. ION the contrary, 1
nm thinking OF removing you from all asso-
Citations with the world you have lived in
and its people--of pldcing you IN 8 position
where nothing shall recall the past--of sep
arstinE you from previous conditions as
completely as II you were TO be born again
upon another earth. To do that you must
think that your life begins from today;
that tho part OF your life in the past has
been blotted out You must abandon all
the WAYS and customs to which you have
been used. Eyen the language, such as it
is, that you speak today must be changed
for new one. Every link In the chain that
connects you with the past must be broken
You must begin just like child who has
everything 20 learn. Do you understand
mep
Pm a-gettin at It, Here, it's like as II
ia never been picked up out Of the river
and was Just a-goin straight to heving,
amt iti"
what Is your notion Of heavenw
where you don't have to do nothin but sit
about and emily yourself and never want
anything moren you've got"
"Then II isn't at all like that, for you
will have more 10 do than you have done
| yet awhile, and there will be pain as we'll
! as pleasure, and you will never cease to
want something better than you have"
1T stands to reason l must do lot II
| I'm to learn everything like a kid, and how
| Pm a-goin to do it's a Ticker If amt to
speak my own language"
Learn another"
It puzzled me TO see how this was to be
done, until. seeing my psrplexity, Taras
said; We will help you-Mere Lucus and
| l."
"Will you. masterp said /, my heart
leaping with delight at the prospect this
promise opened. IN do Just whatever
you tell meas fur as can. But amt
clever"
THAT remains To be seem"
II can't write nor nothink."
You will soon learn to write with those
long fingers"
"But what am to do for Twin all the
time Pm a-learnlni"
ut will be tins enough to think Of that
whom you have learnt what you can dc
best. Mere Lucas will always find some
thing for us to eat and drink, and there's Q
room up stairs which you eau have for your
self" 10
"Whatr" exclaimed. "Herel Amt you
goin TO send me away from this placer
Not while you wish to stay"
could not help it. Something rose in
my heart and seemed to choke me with {
Joy too great TO bear-the tears would com,
to my eyes However, tried to hide then
from him, and turning away as II to looi
around the room | said as clearly as emo
tlon would let me:
II shall have TO be awful neat and nice I
am to live In such rooms az this here"
II daresay you will find Mere Lucas a Sc
we're teacher In that nntver"
And still keeping my head turned, :"
got to be awful good II I'm TO be"-here an
other sob choked me for moment or IVY,
"a friend like OF yours, It'll be dreadful
long fore learn enough for that"
That's tho easiest lesson Of ALL - said he
There's only ono rule to remember II yol
would be good, and that rule governs ricl
and poor, witty and simple, NIL human be
ings from one end Of tho earth 10 the other
1t is simply 70 be honest and treat INC ant
others as you would have me and others Il
treat you.h
| Abulu LtfAI w ALI 4 hNhNh Ntlls AoAlA
that rule alone make him so good to me
IL took me a long while to rea I've that tn
practice OF this simple doctrine made hin
so admirable.
and now, little friend, said he takinI
up his pipe and lighting It again, las tn
general idea seems pretty clear, let us com
to practical particulars, What shall we d.
this afternoon for a beginningi"
Whatever you tell me 10 do III try ant
do II, master"
"Cal me Tarns. That is my name"
heard his name then for the first time
and It seemed as strange and uncommon 81
any part OF this new life.
''TarAs, repeated. WHAT'S my uam'
TO bein
why, to be sure, You must have new
name And then after searching for min
ute or two in silent thought he said; "
think we will call you Aura. 1t is pleas
ant to the ear, and it has s. pretty slgnid
cance.n
know now that Aura Is n diminutiv
form Of u word that means the nymph o
second state Of the chrysalis before 1t take
wings
! CHAPTER TX.
TIE fIRsT STRIP.
I'VE must think about clothes next
Aura" said Taras when | had agreed I