The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-20
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. APRIL 20 1902.

had been seen to leave the restaurant
on five successive days without stop
ping at the cashiers desk. and that
enough was as good as too much. He
would now either pay up or be hand
ed to the first policeman. At this she
blusterer succumbed. He passed some
silver to the cashier and sneaked out.
There's a noble business for you,
Sam!" said Johnny. Beating people
out of 15-cent lunch, and we'll
dressed man, tooi 1t makes me sick
to live in the same city with that kind
of folk
HUH" replied Sam. st get 1t be-
tween meals as well. / can't stand
the city much longer. I'd sooner take
to the country and work in the fields.
I'm sick, Jaek-just sick for a breath
outdoors"
well, WE'LL" cried Johnny in aston
ishment. II didn't suppose you had
any such ideas, Sam-I thought / had
a monopoly on 'em-how long lhaVe
you been feeling this way?"
II don't know. 1t keeps growing
stronger all the time-so you feel like
cutting loose, too, do your"
You know me of old, Sammy; you
can guess how sitting in a lawyers Of
flee from to suits me-but what
are we going to do about it?"
do? Get out!" replied Sam prompt
ly. I'VE have a pair of feet apiece"
YES" replied Jack, admiringly.
That's so-but-well. Well 1 don't
know where to cut for. You and
seem to have snapped places. SAM
used to be the one to suggest trouble.
II tell you, / can't stand 1t here,
Johnny. It's just desperation that
pushes me on. 1 hate every stone in
this city. 1t smothers me. But when
you come to what to do, I'll own up
that I'm scared. That's the way you
get living here: you don't dare do
things any more. I'm going to do
things now, though, just the same. l
wish I had a thousand dollars.
my! So do I! But I haven't. Say,
are you in dead earnest about wanting
to pull out, Sam, or do you just feel a
little owly to-day?"
I'm in dead earnest-did you ever
know me to talk for the sake of MAX
| ing a noise? 1 mean every word of it
WIN? You speak as though you had
something up your sleeve"
IT have. I've laid awake nights when
| things were particularly no good, figur-
| ing out just what I'd do. 1t was only
| dreams then, because / had nobody to
| back me, but il you're in, we can turn
it into a bully old reality-have you
saved any money at all?"
by sticking tight to my room, never
spending a cent, and thereby getting
| the reputation of a miser among the
| boys, I've got a few dollars, over one
| hundred and fifty in the bank. |
| would take an awful good time to pay
| me for that hundred and fifty; still,
I'm ready to let her fly If you want 1t,
Jack"
"A hundred and fifty! Boy, that's
millions!" said Jack, rubbing his
hands. eve got a hundred that aunt
Sarah gave me tucked away. /
wouldn't touch that when l was dow
to hard pan, and now I'm mighty GLAD
1 didn't" He slapped his friend on
the shoulder. Were all right-we're
distinctly all right, SAM" he said.
"Well, please tell me how" said sam
$50 1 can Join in the smile. Two hum
bred and fifty dollars doesn't look like
much of solution to me-
mot when you look at 1t with your
New York eye. Now, you listen: do
you remember the boat father gave me
lust before he died and everything
went to smash-the JUDITH
YES" said Sam, thoroughly interest
ed. "Well?"
II own her yet. l had to let every
thing else go, but couldn't part with
the boat l get out in her on sundays
and the world seems a good place nVe
minutes after slipping moorings-ano
| Monday it looks all the worse. harry
Shawn takes care of her for the use OF
her. down at his club. She's a S0-footer
with big beam, safe as a government
bond, if she's used right, and woulc
carry you to Europe if you wanted tc
go. The cabins big enough to sleer
four fellows comfortably. She's got as
fine kit in the galley as money could
buy-oil stoves, pots, pans, knives
forks and chinaware. There's youI
house, and a house that will travel
right along with you. We can live as
cheap as we please, with nobody &c
stick his nose in and laugh at US. We
| can go where we please without any
body being able to tell us to do this
that or the other thng-how does that
strike you, Sammy"
why, Johnny can't tell you how il
strikes me. 1t looks like all / hoped fol
in one bunch. But you know I'm nc
sailor, old mani wouldn't be mucf
use aboard"
You're not afraid, are your"
mot l."
Then the rest is easy. Sailing isn't
so much but what you could pick the
most of it up in a short time, unless
we have awful luck"
Sans face beamed. 81 don't care sc
much about the luck. 1t doesn't seem
to me it could be much worse than the
present. You really mean you'll start 2
Eyes, sir. I'll tell you what VII dc
with you. Sam; Well burn our bridges
1 dare you to go right now and give
our outfits notice that we're going tc
quit"
shake" said Sam, and held out his
hand Now, how about where were
going to go? l don't care much where
it is, so long as it's away from here
do your"
mo, not particle; but 1 had sort
of notion for Cuba.
THAT suits me down to the ground
I'll come to your house tonight, ano
we'll get the details figured out. It's
only the grub and such, isn't it?''
THAT'S all. l wish we had a THIRD
fellow to make the crew; three Is just
right, but l don't know of anybody, dc
you?"
mot a soul, Johnny"
90, WELL we can manage. 1t will be
hard watches, for two. We're good fol-
it, though When you're once out or
the open sea, there isn't much to dc
but hold your course"
1.-THE open sea! o, o, how that
sounds! / can smell it this minute!
wish it was this afternoon we pulled
out"
Here, too: we'll get away soon
enough, however. We won't let any
garden truck sprout under our trot-
tiers; shake hands again for luck
Sam"
They shook with energy, then sep
arated, with heart on fire. AS they
scuttIed hack to the offices, the pave