The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-12

don't doubt she'll find a berth and do
we'll where she ST going"
| Miss Armstrong said Hardy, I'm
not due at the docks until tomorI ow, and
then ! shall put in for an afternoon off.
| This afternoon we shall spend without
| troubling ourselves about anything, We
| are human, and must eat, just as every
| night we must put ourselves away in g.
! frame Of iron Or wooden pillars covered
| with blankets and sheets and sleep, or
else we go mad and die. There is de-
cent eating house not far from here;
| we Will go there and dine. You'll have
| tea ready for us, Mrs. Brierey, by g.;
| and If the evening hangs, which it will,
| we will look in at q music hall and pur-
| chase shilling's worth of pure vulgar
| lty, which TO me, when perfectly unaf-
fected, Is more humorous and more artis-
ucally refined than much OF the gen.
teel comedy of the West end theaters."
Julia laughed and looked at the widow
| who said 81 don't visit the halls myself
| They've got one good singer at White
! chapel, / hear. He comes In dressed as
| coSter and brings a donkey with him
| which he sings about, and they say it's
so affecting that even strong sailors cry
If he sang of the donkey's breakfast
| Jack would cry more, said Hardy, and
saying he would return in minute he
| went to his bedroom for wash down
| and brush up, leaving the. widow ex-
| planning to Julia that the term donkey's
breakfast signiiied the bundle of straw
| which sailors who are reckless Of their
| money ashore carry on board ship with
them as a bed.
Whilst he was going up stairs man
| dressed In blue serge, smoking curly
| meerschaum pipe. came out of a bedroom
| and passed into an apartment that had
| been converted into a sitting room. They
| glanced at each other, and Hardy went
T.
he stayed few minutes His carpet bag
had arrived before him and in it were O.
| change of apparel, two or three shirts,
brush and comb and the like. The rest
of his buds were in his sea chest, which
had been sent to the docks. He smart
ened himself up and looked q many
young fellow. The light of the sea was
in his eye and the freshness of its breath
was in his CHEEKY expression, and the
color of his cheek was warm with the
sun glow.
Are you ready?' said he to Julia; and
they went out, attended to the door by
the widow, who appeared to have taken
a liking to Miss Armstrong; but no one
with a womans heart in her could have
heard the girls. story without being
moved.
Hardy paused on the door step to say
to Mrs. Brierley, IFS the man in blue
serge, who smokes a meerschaum, the
captain who's logging with your"
Eyes, sir"
What ship does he commander
1.-THE CLAIMS Castle"
'I know her, exclaimed Hardy; "a
fine Indjaman. What the deuce does a
swell like him do in these lodgings? He
should put up at hotel"
His homes at Penge,' answered the
| widow, land two or three weeks before
he sails he always comes and stops with
h..4.o - t. NVlHf lnTC
ings good enough for a captain of all
| lndiaman?"
"T'hey are good enough for the owner
/ of ar Indiaman.e They .sare good enough
for a German prince, - ssid Hardy in his
pleasantcst manner SHOULD bring this
lady here if they were not OF the high
est?' and nod0ing to her he stepped on
the pavement, and Julia walked by his
side. 80
| tHe1Was free in his comments upon the
nastiness of the East end of London,
| and by his abuse Of the mud and the
shops; and the quality of the passing
folks, he implied apology for intro.
ducing Miss Armstrong into such
neighborhood. .c5Gs..
ITS sweeter to me than Bodley," she
said, referring to the place. she came
from What is the good OF fine houses
and broad streets and handsome car
riages to girl who has no money WHO
has but one friend, from whom she must
be shortly separated forever, perhaps,
I and whose most ambitious dream dare
not 20 beyond finding cabin as emf
grant or stewardess aboard a ship and
the berth of a servant, or, which is
worse a nursery goVerness when she ar
riVeS?'
They walked for awhile in silence; but
the silence was in their mouths, not IN
the street One of the music numbering
"a a,11o TfV1ur NJ
street corner they were approaching.
Huge wagons were grinding thunder into
the solid earth. There was a fight over
the Way-tWo Italians were going Tor
each other crowd of dirty women
were dancing round them, encouraging
them by the stimulating plaudits of the
stews. An optician, with row OF chro-
nometers In his window, stood upon his
doorstep bowling "Policer' They turned
the corner, and the notes Of the organ
died away behind them, and after little
walking they arrived at an eating house
with big windows and sheet of paper
stuck upon the glass, with red waters
telling what was to- be eaten inside.
Hardy and Julia walked in. 1t was g
long room, with tables separated one
from another by brass rails and baize
curtains, and MEETINGS for receiving head
gear About a dozen people were in 1t
some of them neighboring tradesmen,
some of them obviously captains and
mates With few of the men were wom-
en-, who were evidently wives or sweet
hearts; in fact, the prices charged kept
the place sweet.
Hardy and Miss Armstrong sat down
side by side at an empty table. A waiter
arrived, looking. hard at the lady, and the
sailor gave his orders. He guessed the
girl was hungry; he knew that he was.
and if he could not have spent SOW
ereign when ten shillings would have
no true salt. 1t is worth saying here
that all the money our friend had was
about G206, and he had come to London
with 20 sovereigns in his pocket and a
check book AS he was an only child
he would inherit his fathers leavings;
but what would they amount to? A coun-
try practitioner, who dispensed his own
physic and was glad TO get three and six
pence a visit! A country practitioner
with a1,3O0 In bad debts on his books
and a horse, gig and boy to keep! Still,
whatever the doctor left would be George
Hardys who Odd not value the prospect
beyond the worth Of the furniture, and
had begun to save a little on his own
account, with some light dream of amass-
ing enough to enable him to purchase
shares in a ship, which he would COM
mand.
He ordered a good dinner from the bill
of fare and asked +sthe waiter If the
champagne of the establishment was real
wine or chemicals. The waiter named
good brand, and swore there was moth
ing in the marketsto equal It, 1t was nine
shillings a bottle.
II never drink champagne, said Julia
| "But I do exclaimed Hardy ''Rear