Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-23

some more the next day." said Uncl
 Peter Zines.
 From this headquarters the old maj went forth to join in the diversions o
 his grandson. And here he kept !;
 watchful eye upon the uncertain Bill!
 Brue; at least approximately. Be
 tween them, his days and nights wer,
 occupied to crowding. But Uncle Pe ter had already put in some hard win i ters, and was not wanting in fortiluae Billy Brue was a sore trouble to tho
 old man. T jest can't keep him of
 the streets nights" was his chief com
 plaint. By day Billy Brue walked the
 streets in decent, orderly trance ol
 bewilderment. He was properly pug.
 zled and amazed by many strange , matters He never could find out what was going on" to bring so many folks i into town. They all hurried some. where constantly, but he was never able to reach the center of excitement.
 Nor did he ever learn how anyone could reach those high clothes lines,
 strung 40 feet above ground between
 the backs of houses; nor how there could be "so many shows in town, all
 on one night" nor why you should get
 so many good things to eat by merely
 buying slug of whisky" nor why
 thousand people weren't run over in
 Broadway each "A hours.
 At night, Billy Brue ceased to be the
 astounded alien. and, as Percival said
 Dr. Won Herzlich would say, began
 to mingle and cooperate with his en- vironment." In the course of this
 process he fell into adventures, some
 of them, perhaps, modifying. But 1t may be told that his silver watch with the braided leather fob was stolen from him the second night out; also that the following week, in Twenty ninth street saloon, he accepted the hospitality of an atfable stranger, who had often been in Montana City. His explanation of subsequent events was entirely satisfactory, at least, from the time that he returned to consc;ousness of them.
 "I only had about $3O in my clothes," he told Percival, but what made me so darned hot, he took my breastpin, too, made out of the first nugget ever found in the Early Bird mine over Silver Bow way. Gee! when l woke up I couldn't tell where I was. This cop that found me in a hallway, he says I must have been give a dose of Peter. I says, All right-rm here to go against all the games.' I says, but pass me when the Peter comes around agin,' I says. And he says Peter was knockout drops. Say, honestly, didn't know my own name till had a chanst to look me over. The clothes and my hands looked like I'd seen 'em before, somehow-and then I come to myself"
 After this adventure, Uncle Peter would caution him of an evening:
 Now, Billy, don't stay out late. If you ain't been gone through by Ill., just hand what you got on you over to the first man you .meet-none of 'em'll ask you any questions-and then pike fur home. The later at night 1t gets in New York the harder 1t is fur strangers to stay alive. You're all right in Wardner or in Hellandgone, Billy, but in this here camp you're jest a tender little bed of pansies by the and these New Workers are terrible careless where they step aIter dark"
 Notwithstanding which, Mir. Brue continued to behave uniformly in a to make all judicious persons srieye. His place of supreme delight was the Hightower. Its marble splen- iors, its myriad lights, the throngs of men and women in evening dress. made for him a scene of unfailing fascination. The evenings when he vas invited to sit in the cafe with Uncle Peter and Percival made mem 1ries long to be cherished.
 He spent such an evening there at he end of their first month ln New York. Half a dozen of Percivars friends sat at the tabIe with them rom time 10 time. There had been fogng Beverly Van Arsdel. who. Perci. Tsl disclosed, was heir to all the ,an Arsdel millions, and no end of a swell. And there was big. handsome Eddie Arledge. whose father had treated him These two young gentlemen poke freely about the inferiorIty of many things "on this side"-as they lenominsted this glorious Land of many things from horses O wine. The country was rapidly be- 'oning. they agreed. TO place for a gentleman to live. L-4die Arledge con- essed that. from motives of economy. ie had been beguiled into purchasing n American claret.
 T fzncied. you know" he explained O Uncle Peter. that it might do for In ordinary luncheon clzret. but oa ay sacred honor. the stun is villain us. Now youll agree with me. Mr. sines. I dare say. that a Bordeaux of ven recent vintage is vastly superior o the very best so-czIIed Anerieaa lsrst."
 whsrsupon BsTeriy Van Arsdei hay ng said: To be sure-fancy as Insricaa BHrszndy. row, or a Cha lisi- Uncle Peter betrayed the first ign of irritafio, Pereival had detect { since his coming
 well. you sss. young n.n. we're