Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-13

| NJ, difficulty, in interviewing the master If was after office hours, but as he had 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 twen- 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 house master was sorry. The records gave no clew.
 l Again the man sought the dark se- 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 1t at a gulp. Then he lit pipe and went forth again. <~- e-,
 That was an ugly lookin' customer" 1" said an habitue to the barman.
 "'E 'ad flee like 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. Heres to | getting even with him!'
 It was a strange outcome of his long imprisonment that the man should have acquired fair degree of culture. He was compelled to learn in jail to a certain extent, and reading soon be- came 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 i 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 professed ally's whereabouts.
 Grenier's name was imparted under inviolable confidence as that which he would adopt after his release. His real 1 name. by which he was convicted, was something far less aristocratic.
 Philips driver, being of the peculiar type of Lohdoner which seems to be created to occupy the dieky of han 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 route with all the directness of Roman road.
 Thus it happened as he spun round Carlos place into Berkeley square he nearly collided with another vehicle which dashed into the square from Da- vies street.
 Both horses pulled up with a jerk, there was a sharp fusillade of what cabmen call "langwidge," and the oth- CT hanson drove on, having the best of the strategical position by a stolen yard.
 Philip lifted the trapdoor.
 Has he fare, WaleT
 'Yes, sir, lydy"
 "Oh, leave him alone then! Other wise I would have liked to see you ride him of at the corner of Brutou street"
 Vale. who was choleric, replied with such force that Philip tried to say sternly:
 Stop that swearing, Vale" Beg pardon, sir, I'm sure, but I wouldn't ha' minded If it wasn't my own old keb. Didn't you spot it?'
 You don't tell me so. How oddr'
 And to think of a brewers dray- man like that gettin' old of 1t. welI'-
 Vale put the lid on in case his em- pIoyer might near any more of his sen timents.
 Philip. leaning back to laugh, for Wales vocabulary was amusing if not it fer publication, suddenly realized the queer trick that even the events s,, tho Iffo of a, f,dt-iJuol haro xF - beating themselves.
 In one day. after an interval of many years, he had been suddenly confront ed by personases connected with the period of his sufferings, with the very garments he wore at that time, with the cab in which he drove from Clerk enwell to Hatton Garden. Abingdon had dined with him; Isaacstein had sent him a message; his driver even was the cabman who made him a present of 2 shillings, a most fortunate for Vale, as it led to bis selection to look after Philips London stable. All who had befriended the forlorn boy in those early days had benefited 10 an extraordinary degree. The cof- fee stall keeper who gave him coffee grounds and crusts, the old clothes man who cut down the price of his first outfit. Mrs. Wrigley. going hope Iessly to her toll in a Shepherds Bush l laundry: Mir Wilson of Grant & Sons. | the kindly jeweIer of Ludgate Hill l were each sought out and either placed l in a good business or bOunteousIy re- 1