Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-10-05

London and seven was the adventurer who
took such an amazing interest in every
body else. He stood on a level with the thiefs
shoulder; fair featured and freckled. with
a sparrOw-like frame. and an expression
rather like that of Dores neophyte among
the urspiritual monks. His turn came
presently
Name said the warder, glancing at his
list.
John James Turk"
He had 1t pat this time but he had for
gotten it when called into the dock of the
Old Bailey in the morning, for he knew
himself only as Turkey
Age
Fifteen"
He knew no more than the warder how
old he was. but in answer to a question by
the magistrate who had sent him for tIial
some one in court had called "hfteen, and
Turkey accepted it at that
The warder,- a big. mld-eyed man-of a
different race. almost. from the derelicts
before him-glanced at the little sparrow
hawk as ne thrust the list into mis- belt
and shook out his bunch of keys
Follow me- he said to the squad.
Turkey. Jingling In his ragged breaches,
not so much with cold as with intensity of
interest was more and more captivated
He felt his dignity and Importance as
prisoner. These gates of steel and solid
walls the mute warders with keys and
batOns at their belts, and unspeakable
authority in their Boards froze him with
delight. He remembered his first panto-
mime, as viewed from the gallery, and felt
like it.
The thief by profession. a gentIemanly
young man in black, observing the trem-
ulous condition of his little noighbor, whis-
pered that he had No cause to be fright
cred Turkey swelled visibly-
Mel" said he. Il ANTI likes it.'
on ycu like it?' The thief was much
nicer in accent and grammar than Turkey.
sion and moved in good society at railway
stations and music halls. What are you
IN for?'' he continued.
Three ioss," returned the boy.
Three months. eh2'' The graduate could
not stoop 10 slang with the novice. Mines
FIVE years" .
Turkey eyed him more graciously you're
a toff.' ne said.
'Well-not-ezactly." he said. with some
hashfulneSs. Not you might say in
QuOd. But | bin through the schooIr' The
school rendered into the vernacular, is
the reformltOry. AS who should say that
though his education had not included the
university. he had at last been to Eton.
"Ah"' observed the thief They should
have sent you back there, sonny. and not
Car said Turkey. out loud and very
wrathful
silence there," echoed metallically from
the left.
An hour OF unbroken silence followed:
the two men in the broad-arrow livery
came in with bundles of broad -arrow
clothes and boots. which they cast upon
the floor
Pick Your sizes" said the warder.
The order of the bath came next The
hrst prison bath has a curious effect. You
enter in Your own clothes and come out
twenty minutes later disguised beyond
knowing. full-blown prisoner
sun the night Of wonders was not ended.
Back went the seven friends to the recep-
tion room: Turkey In a warm cloth Jacket
ana noieSkin trousers, sizes too large for
MN. and looking with his assortment of
Drodu arrow marks like an exaggerated
INe OF spades. Placed on the scales the
doctor found him a stone and a half below
the weight proper for his age Light
labor he said to his attendant warden.
WHO wrote Il down l'