The Press., 1895-10-10

full bloom-and they were exchanging emotions. 'My,' squeals~ Jimmy, 'ainst she daring lady Would your mamma dare do that? Mine wouldn't!
 "'Who is your mamma?' said I, we being already on terms of camaraderie, thanks to the balmy influences of pea nuts and pink lemonade. Jimmy an swered frankly, 'Oh, my mamma is Mrs. James Cunningham, and ain't got any papa, and we don't live in Chi cago, but we're visiting my Aunt She, and Ralph wouldn't take me to the cir GUS, so ran away surmised that, his mother was dragging all the cisterns and harassing the police about him by this time, and wheedled him into giv- ing me the street number, and the up- shot of the incident was, returned him to his mother that afternoon. That is how became acquainted with the Gun ninghams. have felt sneaking Obli- gation to Jimmy ever since. There were only Patty and Jimmy in the family. I married Patty. MT. Cunningham left his fortune internationally to his wife. There was $500, ,OOO-enough to spoil 8 boy, not enough to fill him with the sense of obligation that sometimes a great fortune will bring. It did spoil Jimmy. He was at my wedding, the sweetest little golden haired angel in blue velvet you ever saw. And after the wedding breakfast, while Patty was try ing to console her mother, he tied an old shoe full of rice to the bridal carriage, and then confiscated a bottle of cham pagne to cheer some choice friend of his waiting in the stable and contrived during the revel to tumble out of the second story window and break his col lar bone, which his mother thought was punishment enough.
 II didn't, but was too new to, the family circle to be loud in my opinions. didn't hear very much more of Jimmy that year, until he got into mess at school, and the master being friend of mine had to beg the young rascal out of his just deserts. Naturally, after that, it fell to me to pull Master Jim out of hot water as regular job. I must say it was a pretty steady job too. He was expelled from two schools, where he had been so popular that he returned home with a miscellany of to- kens of regret ill the shape of broken pocketknives, old cravats, revolver without any cartridges and three trained mice. It was Mrs. Cunningham no tion to have tutor for him. Digby was an innocent young fellow in training for clergyman. He was so innocent that Jim worked his sprees off on him as malaria Like every one else, he grew fond of Jimmy, and Jimmy liked him so much that he borrowed money to buy Digby gold watch when they parted He taught poor Digby draw pok- or, and when the malaria wasn't too bad Digby taught him the classics. Really Digby did push him through the college examinations. To be sure he was heavily conditioned and dropped the next year, but you couldn't blame lis tutor for that.
 'Then Ralph took Jimmy into the business, just as I was beginning to fear Mrs. Cunningham would regard the law as the best reform school for 8 wild young man and saddle Jim on me.
 "Poor Ralph kept JirA Q year. Then he came to me very solemnly, and told me about the Keeley cure, and was sure it would make a man of Jim.
 Well, should not like to offer Jim's case in disparagement of the Dwight work. He offered to bet it wouldn't cure him and only went, as he ex- pressed it, to oblige the ladies'
 ''The worst thing about Jim was that he liked his evil ways. He was the most unabashed sinner you ever saw. He went through certain form of peni-