The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-14

about it. Finally they compromised
upon four hundred dollars. Dobbins
laughed out LOUD as he thought of it
of having four hundreds dollars in his
clothes, and of having good clothes to
put them in.
"I'll come around tomorrow with a
fellow and take EN- away" said the
man. "Shan bring you a check?"
Dobbins coughed. "The-the bills
would do just as WELL" he returned
somewhat suspiciously. "All right" ex-
claimed the other, IN see you to-mor-
row."
But he didn't see him on the NOR
row. For when Dobbins reached his
room on the following day he found
that his room had been entered. As it
afterwards TRANSFERRED, the janitor,
awed by the prosperous appearance of
the visitor, had opened the door for
him. And the visitor had carted off
not only the pictures in question, but
aiso-worse luck-the portrait of the
girl.
THE COMPOUNDED rascal" exclaimed
Dobbins in a rage, Ito take that girls
head. And-and," he added, as an
idea occurred to him, 1.-The thief never
paid for any of them, either.
But he had, for there was a sealed
blue envelope resting under Dobbins'
pillow, and within were three crisp
$500 bills.
Dobbns waltzed himself around the
room. He sang aloud in his delight.
Then a sudden thought striking him,
( he grasped the bills and rushed out to
see if they were good. They were.
! Then he came back with many good
! things to eat and drink and feasted
| like a prince.
Suddenly he thought of the girrs
head. "Confound the fellow!" he ex-
claimed. "I'll get after him. I'd rather
have that head than all these bills"
But this may have been mere airy
persifiage upon the part of Dobibns.
Time went on. Dobbins gave up
his subway job and moved into a bet
ter room. He painted more Jimmy
! Murphys and ACKNOWLEDGES and Va
| lentis and other characteristic sub
/ way sketches. One day he started on
! d tour through Staten Island-he was
| looking for the house of the man who
had robbed him of the head of the
! girl. But he never found it, He kept
! watching for the girl upon the cars.
! But he never found her.
! One day he glanced down the art
| column in a daily paper and this
] strange paragraph met BIS eye:
Loan Exhibition on West Side
/ Henry p. Waite and other we'll known
! patrons of the arts residing on the
| Drive have organized a private loan
! art fAnAOANlOH upon ETOuIu moor
! of the new Lyceum building. Among
| the contributions are and
| a few very clever things by F. V.
| Dobbins. new man, whose star from
the admiration provoked by his Sub
way pictures. seems TO be in the as
] cendant. one of the contributors seems
! 10 have a corner in this new artists
| work. etc"
/ The following week F. Vreeland Dob
bins, having provided himself with a
very elegant frock coat and all the ac-
| cessories. fastened up TO the Lyceum.
/ A few stylish equipages were scattered
/ around the street. as Dobbins ran
! lightly up the steps. The major domo
az the door stopped him
I'm "a member OF the press" whis-
pered Dobbins 90 him. with unblushins
! cnrOntery, handing him a card and
/ pushing bis way IN.
Re was dazed II was 40 long since
] h. had come into close contact with
people ~ the class that flied the place