Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-11-04

! quiries among the neghbOrs. He stroll
ed about, reading the names over the
small shops, the corner public house,
the dressmakers' semiprivate resi-
| dences.
AT last he paused before a somewhat
| grim establishment-an undertakers
office. He entered. A youth was whis-
Ting the latest music hall song.
do you know anything of a Mrs.
Mason who used to live in this locality
about ten years ago." he asked.
Mrs. Mason? There may be forty
Mrs. Masons. What was her Christian
name an address?'
Mrs. Hannah Mason, II Frederick
street"
The youth skillfully tilted back his
stool until he reached ledger from
shelf behind him. He ran his eye
down an index, found a number and
| pulled out another book.
/ 1--WE buried her ON the Goth of No
| vember, nine years SINCE" he said cool
! ", rafting both tones back into their
! places
You did, eh? Is there anybody here
who remembers herY
| Something in the husky voice of this
stark, i'll favored nan caused the boy
to become less pert
Fathers In" he said. ''Tll ring for
him."
Father came. He had vague mem
DRY Of the woman, widow with two
children-boys, he thought. Somebody
helped her in her last days and paid
for the funeral-paid cash, according
to the ledger. He did not know who
the friend was nor had he any knowl-
| edge of the children's fate. Work
house, most probably. What work
house? Parish of Southwark. Easy to
find. Just turn so-and-so, and so-and-
SO.
With gr0nt of acknowledgment the
inquirer passed into the street. He
gave an eye to the public house, but
resolutely quickened his pace At the
workhouse he succeeded, with some
difficulty, in interviewing the master
journeyed long way an exception
would be made in his case.
Books were consulted to ascertain the
fate of two boys, John and William
Mason. who would now be aged TWEEN
ty and eighteen respectively. Youthful
Masons had certainly been in the
schools-One was there at the moment,
in fact--but none of them answered to
the description supplied. The work
hnTSa CT DO
gave no clew.
Again the man sought the dark Sc
clusion of the street He wandered
slowly toward a main thoroughfare
and entered the first public house he
encountered. He ordered 6 penny
worth of brandy and drank it at a
gulp. Then he lit a pipe and went
forth again.
"That was an ugly looltln' customer"
said an habitue to the barman
"'E lad flee like a fifth act at the
Surrey" agreed the other.
If they knew the toast that Jocky
Mason had pledged so readily, they
would have better grasped the truth of
this unfaVorable diagnosis of his char
acter.
Ten years penal servitude, four
years police supervision, my wife dead
and my children lost, all through a
smack ON the head given me by Philip
Anson," he communed Here's to
getting even with him.
1t was strange outcome of his long
Imprisonment that the man should
have acquired a fair degree of culture.
He was compelled to learn In Jail to a
certain extent, and reading soon be-
came a pleasure to him. Moreover, he
picked up an acquaintance with a
smooth spoken mate of the swell mobs-
man and long firm order-a dandy who
strove TO be elegant even in convict
garb. Mason's great strength and in
domitable courage appealed to the
more artistic if more effeminate rogue.
| Once the big man saved his comrades
life when they were at work in the
| quarries.
The influence was mutual They
! vowed lasting friendship. Victor Gre
nier was released six months before
| Mason, and the latter now crossed the
+ river again to go to an address where
he would probably receive some news
of his protested ally's whereabouts.
/ Grenier's name was impaired under
/ inyiolable confidence as that which he
would adopt after his release. His real
name, by which he was convicted, was
something far less aristocratic.
Philips driver, being of the peculiar
type of Londoner which seems to be
created to occupy the dicky of ham
som, did not take his master down
Park lane, along Piccadilly, and so to
Pail Mall. He loved corners. Give
him the remotest chance of following
a zigzag course and he would follow
it in preference to a route with all
the directness of Roman road.
Thus it happened as he spun round
Carlos place into Berkeley square he
nearly COlli6pl with another yehipla