Arizona republican., 1909-12-15
HYPOTHECATEO HIS HAT
 FOR AN OYSTER sV{A
How the Candy Kid Got It Back Again and Readjusted His
 Finances.

 the Arizona rooster begins to crow the Candy Kid sauntered into res taurant He sat down at a table near the stove and said carelssly to the ! Chinese waiter who came to take his order. Six in the Milk
 There was a drizzlng rain without and the Candy Kid looked chilled and damp. He wore the same thin clothes 1 he always wore. and on this night. at least. the shorn lamb experienced no benefit from the biblical allegation. He looked like a canary bird that had ! been left out in the wet.
 : Soon. however the combined warmth O. the stove and the stew made life almost worth living again ! for the Candy Kid. From an inside 1 pocket of an antique Coat he brought forth an envelope from which he shook out three cigarettes on the tablecloth. He drew his first long. rich inhalation as Billy. the waiter. placed the check beside his ccat sleeve.
 Tine night rounders and habitues or the place watched the Candy Kid with interest There was something about the way in which he tilted his cigar cite and his vacant gaze at the ceiling that told them the curtain was about to rise on the first get
 Do you remember that look of dawning amazement that used to spread over old Joe Jeffersons face when ke woke up after his twenty years snooze and cxamiico his rusty shotgun? With no less art did the Candy Kid simulate the deepest won Jer-fading gently Into chagrin-as he went through one pocket after an other in search for his small change. wSsils the Chinaman. suspicious and penetrating. waited for his thirty five cents.
 q must-have put it-thoughtlessly in the wrong pocket the Candy Kid said in his slow. drawling tones.
 I'm sure I haven't lost .it-I couldn't have lost it." he continued. his voice betraying the first notes of sad ness He spoke plaintiveiy. with the slow notes of a quail calling her chickens.
 The Candy Kid had many pockets. and he overlooked none of them. His soliloquy ended almost in whine.
 T don't believe-anybody- even Job-ever had such hard luck as have. Here l am-nipped in the bGd. as 1t were-without even a phony two-bit piece on my person. and the unfortunate Chinaman waiting for his pay. So help me, had that four bit piece when I came in that door and now it's gone-gone"
  the waiter in q swift. rasping voice.
 Billy" replied the, Kid with. Q world of pathos in his voice: Billy. you been good friend to me-I always did like y'u-I took a strange fancy tc You-''
 You fool me one too man time." answered the Chinese: mo do IL again. never" and with quick sweep he hatched the Candy Kids hat from the hook and took it with him to the depths of the kitchen
 The Candy Kid rose slowly and looked at the vacant hook where his hat had been. Well. wouldn't that make you love your mother in law" he asked, as though he solicited a re- ply from the. others. T paid five iron dollars-for that hat-two weeks ago and ] had to borrow the money. The Yellow Peril again. There is too much suspicion and too little bencvolcnce in the Mongolian race
 He walked out into the wet. bare headed. and went down the street tn the only place open at that time of night. Around a counter men were sitting eating hoghes. The Candy Kids practiced eye appraised them a, glance. He sat down beside n newspaper man and waited for him to ask him about the loss of his hat. After a long and painful silence, the Kid said. aftabiy:
 know you are wondering why am not wearing a hat this evening""
 The newspaper man grunted and continued his meal
 It is pardonable curiosity on your part" the Kid continued ingrati- atingiy; "a curiosity shall take pleasure in gratifying Do you know, Mir. Shiftkey. that ever since you loaned me that two dollars four years ago-you see how well l remember the occurrence-it has weighed heav- lily on my mind. have often contem- plated paying it back; but whenever ] happened to have the money you all was seemed so affluent that my hand was stayed and the opportunity lost | Now. I wish-how I wish,-that I had | yielded to the impulse, for then I | could with better grace make known | to you the little request I have to 1 ask you tonight"