Connecticut western news., 1903-05-07

teeth. I)lcK leaned agalnSt the wall and sketched for an hour. till the kero Sene lamps began to smell and the girls threw themselves panting on the hard beaten ground.
 Then he shut his book with a snap and moved away, Binat plucking fee bly at his elbow. Show me-" he whim- pered Il, too, was once an artist, even IT. Dick showed him the rough sketch Am I that:'' he screamed. Will you take that away with you and show all the world that it is I, Binat" He moaned and wept.
 Monsieur has paid for all" said madame. "To the pleasure of seeing monsieur again"
 The courtyard gate shut, and Dick hurried up the sandy street to the nearest gambling hell, where he was we'll known. "If the luck holds, it's an omen; if I lose, I must stay here." He placed his money picturesquely about the board, hardly daring to look at what he did. The luck held. Three turns of the wheel left him richer by f20 and he went down to the shipping to make friends with the captain of decayed cargo steamer, who landed him in London with fewer pounds in his pocket than he cared to think about.
 A thin gray fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold, for summer was in England.
 Its a cheerless wilderness, and it hasn't the knack of altering much" Dick thought as he tramped from the docks westward. Now, what must l do?"
 The packed houses gave no answer. Dick looked down the long, hghtless streets and at the appalling rush of traffic. "Oh, you rabbit hutches! said he, addressing row of highly res- able, semidetached residences. Do you know what you've got to do later on? You have to supply me with men, servants and maidservants" Il here be smacked his lips - "and the peculiar treasure of kings. Meantime I'll get clothes and boots, and presently I will return and trample on you" He step ped forward energetically; he saw that one of his shoes was burst at the side. AS he stopped to make investigation a man jostled him into the gutter. All right" he said. That's another nick in the score. I'll jostle you later on." Good clothes and boots are not cheap, and Dick left his last shop with the certainty that he would be respectfully arrayed for time, but with only 50 shillings in his pocket. He returned to streets by the docks and lodged him. self in one room, where the sheets on the bed were almost audibly marked in case of theft and where nobody seemed to go to bed at all When his clothes arrived, he sought the Central South ern syndicate for Torpenhow's address and got it, with the intimation that there was still some money owing to him.
 How much p said Dick as one who habitually dealt in millions. Between ESQ and f40. If it would be any convenience to you, of course we could let you have it at once, but we usually settle accounts monthly"
 If show that want anything now, I'm lost" he said to himself. "All need I'll take later on." Then aloud: Its hardly worth while, and Pm go- ing into the country for a month too. Wait till come back, and I'll see about | it"
 But we trust, MT. Heldar, that you do not intend to sever your connection with us?'
 Dicks business in life was the study of faces, and he watched the speaker keenly. That man means something" be said. "'I'll do no business till I've seen Torpenhow. There's a big deal l coming" So he departed, making no promises, to his one little room by the docks. And that day was the Eth of l the month, and that month, he reck- oned with awful distinctness, had thir- 1 ty-one days in it!
 It is not easy for a man of catholic tastes and healthy appetite to exist for twentyfour days on 50 shillings, nor is it cheering to begin the experiment alone in all the loneliness of London. Dick paid ' shillings a week for his lodging, which left him rather less than a shilling a day for food and 1 drink Naturally his first purchase i had been without them too long. Half a days investigation and com parison brought him to the conclusion | that sausages and mashed potatoes, , twopence a plate, were the best food. Now, sausages once or twice a week for breakfast are not unpleasant; as lunck, even, with mashed potatoes, they beaome monotonous; as dinner they are impertincnt At the end of three days Dick losFr1hheed losFrt1hhed sausages, and, goinal forth, pawned his watc1rtHur rayel on sE EN2's head, which fs not ss
 as it looks Sing to the h~---zy-slnu> gravy; the he refurred to sausages afunas shed ot foes; then he confined
 himsefT TAtteE to mashed potatoes
 for day and was unhappy because of
 pain in his Inside; then he pawned his
 waistcoat ai6 his tie and thought re-
 gretfully of money thrown away in
 times past
 There are few things more edifying
 unto art thar the actual belly pinch of
 hunger, and Dick in his fe@ walks abroad-he dg not care for exercise; it
 raised desires that could not be satis-
 fied-found himself dividing mankind
 into two classes-those who looked as
 if they might give him something to
 eat, and those who looked otherwise.
 ~I never knew what I had to learn
 about the human face before" he ! thought, and al a reward for his hu-
 mility ProvidenAe caused cab driver at sausage ship where opick fed that night to leave half eaten \ great chunk
 of bread. Dick took it would have
 fought all the world for possession
 and it cheered nim.
 A month dragged thrYugh at last, and, fairly prancing wiTh impatience, he went to draw his mokey. Then he hastened to Torpenhow's address and smelled the smell of cooking meats all along the corridors of the chambers. Torpenhow was on the top floor, and 1rlr g.Az k-s