The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-10
(Continued,l

l wish that he had stayed at home
 In the meantime Chester wa
 swinging rapidly uptown, his thoughts in a, turmoil. He had wrecked his future with Goldsmith & Elkins pS
 an outburst of temper the very first
 day. He could not know that it had
 been studiously provoked Goldsmith
 had called to warn him especially
 that he must be careful in his de- meanor. What a fool he was? |
 it were not for that unconquerablt
 feeling that there was some ghastIy ludicrous mistake in his misunder. standing with Perry, he would not have refused to explain. But wha
 explanation could he have made? MT. Langham accuses me of having buncoed him out of five thousand do1- lars.'' That would be a fine way to
 a ssuage MT. Elkins' suspicious His wrath against Perry grew and in tensified until he half resolved to gt to the Uruguay and have it out at once. Fortunately, calmer reason prevailed. His mood was not ono which would have been conducive to a cOlQ-DlOOQed gan to cast about in his mind as to what he must do now, immediately, in order to subsist. He would go to Warsaw and work for the Stree Railway there. But he had quixoti- cally sent practically his last dollar to Perry 1n payment for the alleged lean. Also he knew in his innost r., I,4 ,a% eli ir1+ +oc, intention of ever going so far away
 from Edith. Then he thought ot
 cabling Goldsmith, but he could int TO words in which to convey his side of the case. There was so much that was still mysterious in it, so n1uc1 that he himself did not understand
 Goldsmith had said: There is no appeal" He could not believe tha.
 he would ever again be reduced to
 the level where he was when he
 bought the clothes and rented the
 apartment in the Uruguay.
 Chester stumbled up the stairs to
 his room in the tower. He found q letter lying on his desk. It was the
 second weeks bill from Tilt & Eek ford for his donations to the hippo rotanus. He drew out his check
 book mechanically and looked at the
 last total of his account. It was twenty dollars and some odd cents. l. 'If pay that" said Chester to r imself, FI won't have enough to pay my weeks bill here.''
 A sudden revulsion of feeling swept over him. He strengthened up and threw back his shoulders. There
 were two deep lines which had not
 been visible before on each side of
 his close shut mouth.
 E'It isn't matter of 'can' or | night said Chester between his teeth. Possibility has no connection
 with this thing. I must make good.
 If fail, now I know that my last l chance is gone. Moreover that hip popotamus gets his vegetables every week no matter what Chester Taylor
 gets"
 He sat down at his desk and wrote out the check.
 Now he remarked, as he affixed
 the stamp, T am going out to dis cover a job.'' e
 Two hours after Chester had left the offices of Goldsmith & Elkius, he was on his way down town again.
 His decision to mail the check to Tilt & Eckford seemed somehow to /, have given him a mental stimulus. ] and as he walked he considered his
 resources. The incongruity of walk | ing in order to save carfare after 1 mailing a check for several dollars to pay for food for the hippnpotamus l never occurred to him.
 There is a modern slang expres- sion,'' reflected Chester, (which says Beat it while your shoes are good 1 The proper paraphrase to apply to | my case would be: Get a job while your clothes are good.' I really am better off than when I parted with my last forty cents a few months
 ago. I have several days board, and a fund of cultivated optimism. It's wonderful how cheerful you can keep
 feeling if you have once acquired the
 habit. I still maintain that my most
 valuable asset is that little gamblers
 advice. I wonder how soon I shall
 have to pawn these clothes in order 1 to continue to eat. Which reminds l me that I am hungry. Previous ex-
 rerience teaches me that the food in
 Chinatown is both cheap. and filling.
 Mott Street for mine, as my friend
 the roustabout would say"
 CHAPTER xxx.
 | In Mott Street Roof Garden. He turned off Broadway. and walk
 ed down Mott Street to it's intersec-
 ton with Park Row. He hesitated