Evening star., 1898-10-22

in Liverpool, nor absolutely ruinous to the
character of Tbamas Hatchard. beyond
which nothing nfdce could be said. He Of
fered the opinion on his own account that
the achievement of Thomas had been
mighty.
You can put your money on that, Mac" ;"
and Beazleyt wedt off again, Ito pay up
the balance of that composition and every
is simply All II H. has taken the cake.
And didn't he train for it, poor chap.'
NO man enjoyed good cigar more than
tSmmS-c1u tohn6eg Wat ny take him in in with bad
hasn't had one smoke since July I. 'ST. OF
course he could have had as much 'baccy
as ne wanted; but no. it was a bit of the
training-giviRg up every luxury, dye see?'
Il wish l was Thomas the night" re-
marked Macfarlane. Hell have a worth
while snoker 81
He rather liked a good lunch, and did
1'stlce 10 his grub, too, continued Beaz-
iey well, for ten years he's taken his
midday meal standing, on milk and bread
not half bad all the same-at the Milk-Pail
IN FenWick street, and he wouldn't allow
nlmseif cup of tea. You saw how he
lived at HeSwall, Oxley?"
Yes. he found out that he could get n
little house, with a bit of garden for $40,
taxes included, and SO he settled there and
cut the hole concern here. There was one
sitting room for the children and another
for themselves. and the garden the
drawing room; but l don't believe Hatchard
was ever happier, and Mrs. Hatchard has
turned out heroine
Tommy played up well,'' broke in BeaZ-
ley, and he never missed chance. There
has not been any brokerage lying loose in
the corn market these ten years, you bet:
and what he got he did well; do you hear
that MacConnell of Chicago has given him
his work to do? Tommy is boomeling down
the daepwater channel now, full speed.
What's to be done? That's the question.
We simply must celebrate"
oil Ial wi h.
creditors will be giving him a dinner al the
Adelphi, and that sort of thing. But there's
something Hatchard would like far better
than fifty dinners. He has never entered
the corn exchange since his failure, and l
know he never would till he could look
every man in the face. What do you say
! to ask William Greatheart to call at his
office and take him."
take to politics. It's just the thing Great
heart would like to do, and it will please
the man tremendously. l bet you new
hat there will be a cheer, and L see them
shaking hands with Tommy. 1t will touch
up two or three scallawags on the raw
first-rate, too, who have made half dozen
compositions in their time. But what about
ourselves, OK
Aye" said Macfarlane 'We're not COM
mon shareholders in this concern Were
founders that's what we are"
Il was thinking before you men came in
that nice piece of silver for their dinner
taDle-tney Will come " loNll hoW-SdS
a bowl with some little inscription on
it. -
THE very thing; We'll have it this after
noon. And Ok, you draw up the screed.
but for my sake, as well as Tommy's, put
in something about honor, and, old fellow,
let it be strong; it'll go down to his boys,
and be worth a fortune to them, for it will
remind them that their father was an hon
est man."
1t is not needful to describe, because
everybody in the Liverpool corn market
knows, how William Greatheart came into
the room arm in arm with Thomas Hatch
ard. and how every single man shook hands
with Thomas because he had gone beyond
the law and done noble deed, and was
credit to the ceFn business: and how Tom
my tried to return thanks for his health a
week after at tha1Adelphi and broke down
Utterly, but not before he had explained
that he wasn't at all the good man they
thought him; ebut that he happened to have
had better friends than most men.
What is not known is that on the very
evening of the great day a special messen-
ger brought ever to the cottageSat Heswall
a parcel, which, being opened, contained
a ma sSive silver bowl, with this inscription: