Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-01-30

young sprig, but yer got EN- sure"
Got what?'
BLUE divils."
| was about to make an indignant de-
NAL when a suppressed litter reached
our ears from the floor above and look
ing up we saw half dozen heads peer
ing down at US When they saw they
were discovered the storm broke, they
howled and shrieked with laughter
stamping and shouting up, and down the
corridor. Recognizing that we had in
some manner been made the victims of
practical joke, we went up, Dennis
haughtily, I shamefully
''Howley Mither! Look at that now.
Put down that sarpint or ollie arrest
livery mithers son of yez fur carrying
deadly wepins'
Arrest nothing! Here, have drink"
and advancing came the man l after
ward knew as Arthur Melton-in one
hand whisley bottle and in the other
the neck of a huge snake whose body
was coiled in loose folds round him. He
was tall, slender, young fellow, with
one of the most ideally artistic heads
I've ever seen. A regular name of dark
brown hair fell all ways about his head
and face, and, for a wonder, suited him
HIS face was sallow and thin, while his
eyes were so big and bright as to be al
most startling.
While Dennis was paying his respects
to the bottle, the others standing round
! sun grlnning, the young fellow ad
yanced smiling toward me, and when
ne did 50 all the little anger L still felt
left me.
Say, old man, it was tough, 1 know.
ana we apologize. But jeei | wouldn't
nave missed it for tenner Waow!'
ttere they all exploded again while DEN
MS and | grlnned sheepishly. After the
offlcer had left, formal introductions
TOOK place, and I'm afraid they had
something to do with my headache Of
the next day
me ice having been thus broken T
round the men about me the best ma
tureu crowd imaginable, and during the
next rev days one or another Of them
was IN and out Of my den continually.
helplng me in the disposal of nv the
mates" and taking as much interest in
setuhg the right artistic effects as T nv
SCI But FOR the finishing touches the
consensus of opinion appeared to be that
l must nave Bessie. On inquiry found
| she was 2 model who more or less dwell
aiilosg lheq1 and during her leisure de-
.oIed herself to the endless wants of tho
~ posS, stltehlng on buttons, keeping
e e,.p On me laundry, etc.-in fact, moth
eflng the whole crowd.
expected to see something anciant
anu PROBABLY Irish, but was agreed blv
surprised when one of the fellows
Drought tail, slender girl to nv room
ana introduced her as Bessie. She co1ld
naIoly nave been more than nineteen.
anu WIN her pretty face and graceful
ways she would have seemed far more
az nome in fathers house entertaining
ms guests than living and Cumming
Win pand of vagabonds like us How
ever, as she seemed to have no doubts
as 10 the propriety and desirability of
her position, ! naturally fell in with the
rest and soon began to regard her Al
most necessary and important part of
lhe rookery." She was always ready
ana willing to do all she could for anv
Of us, and all she could was no little
II one of the fellows got sick Bessie i'm
medlately installed herself as nurse to
tne envy or the others, who always de-
clared the victim to be taking. When.
dressed in dainty little costume and
looking as sweet and charming as ma
lure and art could make her, she would
beard the most iraScible art editor in his
den, and she rarely came back without
having disposed of one or two at least
OF the drawings entrusted to her As for
posing, 1t was simply a gift. She enjoyed
1T thoroughly and would catch the spirit
Of character as l never saw a model
do before. She had her own little private
room, the walls OF which were covered
with the choicest bits Of the boys work,
and-well, if she was good to them, they
showed their appreciation of her by the
thousand little attentions that help to
make woman's life pleasant. One of
her best qualities was a happy knack of
making herself scarce when there were
things going on that weren't lust so'
but If there was bad headache the
next day in consequence there was al
ways some strong tea and other delica-
cies for the culprit.
believe we were all of US just a little
smitten; but it's a pretty hard matter
for ten men to make love to one girl;
two, or possibly three. might, but tent
Besides, is was SO evidently her proper
course to treat us all alike, that we had