The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-13
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The whelp, lean and dejected. skulked from beneath table filtered with rem nants of an untidy mSal. Crusts of bread bits of meat and cheese rinds. with empty grog glasses and b4ttles smelling rankly of stale beer. were Spread in slovenly ar ray on the board, and the variant odors arising therefrom caused the Whelp to lift his slender gray. snout skyward and sniff the air hungrily: then. lowering It, he nuzzled whiting softly, along the floor, coming in, suddenly and uncomfortable proximity with foot encased in mud. caked brogan. The foot kicked out sav- agely, hitting his left front paw a sound- ing crack: but bitter experience having taught the Whelp that silence was expe- ,dient on, such occasions. neither whine nor yelp gave sign that he had been hurt; yet he cEawled to a corner. and lifting the injured member. licked 1t tenderly.
 Hideous to look upon. the wolf as well as psovic blood warning in. his veins. the runt of the litter. The had inherited his mothers most unattractive features. A curious defermity in the Whelp had been in the mother an injury dealt by ;he hands of her Slav master in punishment for her crime of pillaging bit of worth less meat from the offal of his filthy aba.- toir. Half starved and weak with abuse. she had struggled but feebly when the master wrecked his vengeance and show ed his expert use of the cleaver by split ting her foot neatly from claws to first joint.
 The wound had healed in time and now the Whelp walked also upon his left front foot as If 1t were a forked stick or cloven hoof, and where the wretcheo mother. in far off Hungary, had owned but one eye to see out of, the Wneip was richer rby the sight of two-one bril- liantly brown with a fine red light shin ing beneath the iris. such as might nave burned in the eyes of his wolfish ances- tors. and the other lying opaquely gray and black trimmed. moving slowly, always watchfuliy, in the gaping socket. At times the. ,Slav master determined ne would put that white eye" out, even as he had done the mothers; yet It served his purpose better to leave 1t, for the sn- perstitious, Hungarians and Slavs or tae neighborhood dared not ;thieye, be it>eVer so little. un6sr the evil eye ofNthe 'BabS:a whelp
 In his small, dreary world. however. the whelp had found one friend-a pretty friend, gentle friend. who did not tnra from his ugliness. but who would cross his dusty head and pat nis big. gaunt body, covered with its coat oe shaggy, gray fur. splashel kere and there with black as though he had rubbed goo closely against the barrels O. soft pitch that oozed their contents between ou!g- ing slaves as they waited n the sun on thewharf to be slowed away in the hold of some of the many vessels that lay at anchor In the dock.
 His friends name was Gui,elma Anto- lotti, and her father kept the little shop just near that of Hans Laubenheimer, the German locksmith. and next but one to the corner saloon, or Sailors Choice. The window of the little shop, and, In fact, the remarkable interior, showed a; variegated assortment consisting of sea- mems compasses, accordions. concertinas. claymores and broadswords of other makes, big silver watches, curios from pretty nearly every country on the globe. dirks, pistols, from the big bulldog variety to the wicked title toy size, masquerading in. pearl and nickle; rosaries and even Bibles could be found in that odd little shop-that musty little shop, marked lR itsFsign of three tarnished gilt balls that branched over the squat front door, and might just as well have been amblazoned with Give up all hope ye who enter heIe" for Emanuel Antolotti, Italian by birth, usurer by profession and nature, had the reputation of being able to squeeze blood from the proverbial turnip, or even a stone, yet he had been unable, withal. to rob his daughter of so much as a drop of her hearts warm kindliness and generosity of disposition.
 Gulielma was pretty, undeniably so, whether viewed from an artistic or prac- tical standpoint. Her soft brown eyes looked out from face oval in shape and beautiful as one of RaphaeFs Ma donnas. and was exquisitely gentle in ex- pression. About her low. white forehead and delicately pencilled eyebrows the fine dark hair parted naturally and rippled away from the little pink ears wherein