The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-12-24

putIlle tflNidally altcI dHOtuSI pItOCCt- |
pied me, SO that had just a word with
him before the ships company parted
at Liverpool.
We were in the custom house. The
wife, thin. pale, shabby,
quietly executive and lady, kept or
der among her children in a corner Of
the great, bare, overlighted, ugly place,
and beside her sat Teddy Catty, with
his hat pulled over his eyes.
l felt that could not speak to him
there. To do SO would, it seemed, en-
phasize the cruel, bold publicity of the |
place. So went to where the mission |
airy stood over his bags and boxes, a |
queer lot, and asked him, if the worth
lessness of the words did not choke him,
to tell the boy goodby for us and to say
that we felt for him. stopped short,
shan ed with the thought of how little
we felt, realizing for once not only the
powerlessness of human sympathy, but
its painfully absurd deficiency in guam
tity, the unnecessary thickness Of our
wadding of stupidity Then l reflected
as / stood there that this whole little
episode of our acquaintance with the
missionary and the clown, so slight, yet
so dyed in the primary colors of life,
its grotesqueness and comedy and in
consequence, its mystery and tragedy,
was ending, or rather. as is the way Of
life, fading, passing, like cloud, into
| something else, and that soon the
quaint pair would exist for me no more,
and rebelled against the mutability OF
existence. l said to the missionary: 81
shall be in London in a week or two l
don't suppose I'll ever be the least good
to you or to Teddy Catty, and there is
no reason in keeping up such an ac-
luaintance as ours, but for no smaller
reason than that we are all human be-
ings'- The missionary's eyes respond
ed SO adequately with humor and a good
deal beside that for moment it did not
occur to me to finish my sentence, and
Shen concluded: "Let me come to see
you or your wife moment to hear how
things are. You'll probably know some
thing of Teddy Catty for as much as a
fortnight longer
Yes, he thought his friendship with
the clown might survive all devouring
time so long, and he said he would be
glad to see me again.
Yet had been in London week and
had not looked up my fellow passen-
gers, when one day as Amy and | were
going through the amazingly crowded
rooms of the Royal academy whom
should we see but the little clown. He
was sitting OH one Of the divans, dress
ed in the conventional mourning Of a
: law loving Englishman, frock coat
and Grape banded silk hat dignifying
I Teddy Catty's little figure. We saw
! him furtively wipe his eyes as he gazed
at the gilt and canvas covered wall be-
{ fore him, and we knew Emmy's picture
i, was there. We soon found it. 1t was
little one, hung rather high, and like
several thousand others in that home OF
English art it was of a baby, and, AGAR
like the majority of them, it was pool
g picture-dull, conventional. Whatever
j had been in poor Emmy's heart whel
q she painted it was concealed under
O false, frigid method faithfully carried
d out.
Il Teddy's face worked convulsively fol
r moment when he saw us. Then n
|. pointed out the picture and gave us hi
Q place to sit in while we gazed. Their
d was plainly no need of talking about 1t
/ He did not think of comment us becom
n ing the occasion.
n sit belonged to one Of the dressers a
the theater," he said softly after
time. "She had lot of children, an
her husband died, and-Emmy-Emm
y helped her, and she was tremendous
fond of that baby. She used to keep
=" at the house days and days to &c
chances to paint it. Teddys voit
failed him again.
10 After awhile in the moving of Il
" throng he got seat beside us, and
noted. as if it were something surpri
ing, that in taking it he arranged h
IN coattails with the same odd funnlne
en- of movement as of old. 1t did see
uuite strange for moment that b
grief had not lifted him into ideal grac
He looked from one to the other OF
and said: II was going to try son
zen way to see you ladies, but the missile
I'M ary said you were going to come to S
cry him. | wanted to tell you that I'm
'uy ing back with him to China, and
eu- never have known him if it hadn't be
II for you.
IRE, "Going with him?"
!, s's = Eyes. Miss Milman. I'm going to
out IL I can help him-help him be m
ing, sionary, you know" Teddy's unfam
nan in iarity with the phrases of the "wor
- pleased my ear. 1--WE got little mt
ey. !" he went on, land l feel as If
.ure Ike to do something-something r.
u'' ciops-some time and it seems as II {
was my chance l fancy Emmy wo'
n Ired ike it. Eut l never could turn in W
isCd. ,hurch or chapel people here at hoi
- know | couldn't. They think cir
man ought to repent lot, you knC
and that ought to throw over the sh
0u business for good, and don't see no
can, and don't know that want
e Long as Emmy didn't cut it altoget
e [ don't know as want to.
"But-what-how are you goint
manage out in Gilman
"Why, you know, the misslona
lis different from most religious folks,
~ lust takes things naturally, and
nv some money by me, and Emmy LETT
, little''-- He stopped moment
stared fixedly into space, then shit,
100 his position little went on in o gu