The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-08-09

as he dropped the coin into MS pocket
After l had paid the judge l strollet
down to the south side. into the new
residence district, with some idea O
seeing where the young lady lived VIII,
had first had me arrested and the,
wanted to reform me. When I cam,
to the number she had written in thu
memorandum book there was a piece
OF Grape on the door. 1t gave me q
shock. l hung around for awhile, MOI
caring to disturb the people inside and
yet hoping to find out that it was moi
the young lady who had died. Finally
came away. having made up my
mind somehow that it was the youns
lady and feeling sorry that she was
gone. That night i opened the mem
orandum book she had given me and
began a sort Of diary in a cramped
abbreviated hand. The first items read
| as follows:
Sept. 3o.-Giv. this book by young Ia
| who tho't 1 stole her purse. She hopes
| may take the right road.
| Oct. Loot job in Ent-mark, 1917 w
VanB St. SO. Is this the right road?
| Oct. 3.-Went to address young lad.
| CAV. me. Found Grape on the door. Hope
It's the old man.
From time to time since then l have
taken out the little black memoran-
dunn book and made other entries of
those happenings in my life that SEEM
| ed to me especially important. some
times a mere list of figures or names.
| writing them in very small. 1t lies
here before me now. and out of these
bare notes-keywords. as it were
there rise before me many facts. the
deeds Of twenty-five years.
When ! got back to the Persons for
dinner, Miss Cox was curious to know
| what l had done with my first day of
Il bet he's been to see that girl who
had him arrested" Lou suggested mis-
chievously. And from the way he
looks I guess she told him she hadn't
much use for butcher boy"
Pa Pierson laughed. He was q great
admirer of his daughters wit.
Il don't think he's that much Of
fool to waste his time trapesing about
after her." Hillary Cox snapped back.
well, I did look up the house."
admitted and added. "But the folks
weren't at home"
After supper We sat out on the steps.
and Hillary asked me what kind Of a
place the young woman lived in.
told her about the Grape on the door,
and she looked at me disgustedly.
Why didn't you ask 2" she demand
ed
Il didn't care to know II it was 10
perhaps"
Il don't see as you have any particu-
lar reason to care one way or the
other" she retorted. Ana she went of
for that evening somewhere with Ed.
For the want Of anything better to do
l borrowed a book from the law stu
dent. who was studying in his room,
and thus by way Of an accident began
a habit Of reading and talking over
books with Slocum.
So was soon fitted into nv hole in
the city. In that neighborhood there
must have been many hundreds of
places like Ma Persons boarding
house. The checkerboard Of prairie
streets cut up the houses like marble
cake-all the same, three story and
mansard roof. yellow brick, with long
lines of dirty. soft stone steps stretch
ing from the wooden sidewalks to the
second stories. And the group of us
there in the little basement dining
room. noisy with the rattle of the street
cars and dirty with the smoke Of fac
tory chimneys in the rear, was a good
deal like the others in the other houses
on the outside Of pros
perity, trying hard to climb up some
where in the bread and butter order of |
life and to hold on tight to what we
had got. No one, I suppose, ever came
to Chicago-at least in those days.
without hope in his pocket of land |
Ing at the head Of the game some time. |
Hillary Cox smiled on me again the |
next day, and We were as good friends |
as ever. As have said, the energetic
cashier of the Enterprise market had
taken me in hand and was forming me
to be business man. She was q
smart little woman and had lots of
good principles besides. She believed
IN religion on Sundays, as she believ-
I'd in business on week days. So on
the Sabbath morning We would leave
Ed and Lou and Dick Pierson yawninR
over the breakfast table, while Slocum
md l escorted Grace and Hillary
downtown to hear some celebrated
in one Of the prominent
churches. Hillary Cox had no relish
or the Insignificant and humble in re-
1g1on. such as we might have found
lround the corner. She wanted the
'est there was to be had, she said. and
he wanted to see the people who were
% much talked about in the papers,
Perhaps the rich and prominent citi.
ems made more Of point of going to
hurch in those days than they do now.
t was pretty inferior church So
iety that couldn't show up two or
hree Of the city's solid merchants who
anne every Sunday with their women,
II dressed in their smartest and best.
Hillary and Grace seemed to know
most Of these people by sight. wo-
nen are naturally curious about one
mother. and l suppose the girls saw
heir pictures and learned their names
q the newspapers. And in this way l.
o. learned to know by sight some Of