Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-11-15

i Your thingS-except the nat, Durn
that, you appear to have stored drip
ping in it---are In the box gave you
put them on and then wait here TO
me. That gridiron, those tumblers
Nsse cups and other things you hav,
dashed or pawned, you will buy on
of your next three weeks wages Far
ris' gin.hole has all your savings, n,
doubt. And tonight / shall give you {
dose. of castor oil mixed with SIENNA.
"Oh, Lord help mer groaned folly
with his Sits of lips drawn tigh
across his fang-he had experienced
Strange's treatment before this.
Now stop groaning. and do YOU
work, neither l nor the Lord would
touch you with pair of tongs in youi
present condition, You have earned
your punishment and Of course you
shall get it. If you lived decently, yor
would have first-rate place and YOU
know it, and look here, l have come
to the end of my patience, if find
you in this state again, l shall sack
you"
Tolly gave an anguished squeal
"Oh, I'll try, sir, does try, swear
to God | does. | tries, l does, till
sweats like bullock and doesn't know
If I'm on my head or my heels, but
summon it amt no go. Don't sack
me, for the love of God, don't. sir"
Finish your sweeping, and go over
that place under the table again.
shall see how you get on after the
bath and the castor oil.
poor beggarv' said Strange to him
self, as he ate his ham and drank his
well-sweetened tea. "Poor beggar! !
wonder il shall ever make anything
out Of him! Only that the creature is
so weakly--look at the miserable hold
Of his claws on that dustpan!--I should
take him about with me, the Arabs
would teach him sobriety anyway and
he might pose as an apostle of Christi
anity among them"
At this thought Strange chuckled
aloud, and helped himself to another
slice of ham.
Tolly's face frightened as he heard
the sound, he turned furtively to watch
his earthly Providence, and went on
with his busting with redoubled fury.
Now said Strange, when he had
finished, ''carry all these things into
the next room and have good feed.
When did you happen to have your
last meal?"
I'm 1,n frat Of Ctl-o, L..
exorable; the fellow dared not lie; but
he had a sort of bastard pride about
him and felt the question keenly.
Turning sickly puce, he stammered:
II haven't had nothing yesterday.
sir, summon l didn't feel like It."
mo? Well, If were you I'd cult
vate the feeling now. Send In the bar
Der on your way to the bath, and hand
down that ink bottle from the shelf
before you go. Pah! you can't even
fill an ink bottle, your hand shakes so!
Upon my word, IL I have to sack you
don't know what you'll do, you aren't
worth four-pence week in this condi-
tion."
Tolly gave a dumb shudder and his
fang kept time to 1t.
Five years before Strange had
picked him up out of n sewer, where
he went to learn the trade of rafting.
Strange liked to learn the ms and
outs Of anything that had any sug-
gestion of human interest in 1t.
He had brought he half-dead, mouldy
n ro N nd n for oxyi ~
his life, 1t struck him to keep 1t. and
see what could be done with 1t. This
was the result.
AS long as Strange was at home
Tolly kept straight, but directly he
was out of reach, the miserable abb
sorbing craving took hold of. the
wretch, and pinched, and pulled, and
nipped, as with raging hot irons, at the
very soul of him, till at last he swal-
lowed his humanity at a gulp, gave
way to the beast and fed to the gin
shop.
For three weeks he had endured the
torture this last time, Strange thought
with grim pity, as he watched him,
through the heavy eastern curtains, de-
vourlng his food to the dropping Of
tears.
"Poor beggar! / shall never be able
to get rid Of him as long as life holds
whatever morsel of soul he may have
In him. Meanwhile, I cannot stand
that solitary fang; when he has got
over his brew | shall get him a set
OF teeth"
He lay back and laughed. They'll
be the ruin Of his immortal soul, those
teeth; fancy the grin Of the fellow
when his lips have resisting surface
to stretch across! Brown will charge
frightfully for filing such a cavern"
He laughed again and turned to his
work, and In two hours lie had the first
batch of copy" ready for the printer
Then he yawned and stretched, and
apologized to the barber, whom he
had kept waiting an hour and ten
minutes.
When he was shaved, he dressed,
and set forth to resume civilization.
CHAPTER XVII.
When he got outside his rooms,