The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-11-19

celebrated worthily. With empty
stomachs and unsteady lige we tot
tered back to Batignolles. The paint
er felt sure the money order he had
been expecting for two months must
have come. Surely his landlady would
let him have ten francs until he could
cash it We entered upon his idea
without having any faith in it which
was well enough. The letter-carrier
had left nothing for the painter but
a bill and q summons. Then we
searched all the cafes in the hope of
finding somebody who would lend US
some cash. The government clerk
alone met with some success. friend
offered him q glass of beer. When
he returned, We sauntered down the
street disguised and discouraged.
Then the man about town suddenly
smiled as he looked at some brilliant
ly lighted windows on a first floor
where somebody was humping a
polka on q tin panny plano. He knew
there and perhaps
Wait for me-" He rang the bell
and disappeared. Five minutes later
he came back. his face beaming with
pleasure. and in one eye he wore a
golden louisd'or like monocle. Where
he had got it and from whom, nobody
asked. for we were too hungry. We
rushed into q small restaurant and
got two dozen hard boiled eggs. Eat
ing was considered a necessary evil.
and the rest of the money was to be
invested In drinks. We visited num-
Der of cafes and the loufsd' must have
brought us luck for now We found
comrades everywhere willing to treat.
AT midnight some rich fool invit.
ed us all for supper and when we left
we were all very much intoxicated but
we continued painting the town red.
The photographer got a black eye
hat was run over by a wagon. Three
times we lost sight of the government
clerk, who was determined to sleep
under bridge. At last at three in
the morning we stopped outside a
small house in Boulevard Clichy where
the poet knew a landlady who rented
us on the condition that we made no
noise walking upstairs.
"She opened the door leading into
a little room and We saw a small bed
in which her daughter little girl of
four years was sound asleep. She
bent down and kissed the child, that
smiled without awakening. At this
sight great silence fell upon us. and
we grew almost sober. Quietly we
laid down on the floor and in five
minutes all were asleep. l alone ex-
|cepted.
Strange thoughts coursed through
my brain, was disguised with the life
was leading and thought of my poor
old mother, who was crying her eyes
out because of me. / saw her narrow
little bed and could stand it no longer.
Without making any noise put on my
shoes and sneaked downstairs. When
reached the street I breathed easier.
had to walk clear across Paris and 1t
was seven o'clock when I reached my
room in the garnet. lit the lamp and
started to work on an engraving. What
l did was not good but the will was
there. At nine o'clock my mother en-
tered my room. She was pale and
would not believe her own eyes. At
the sight of her burst out crying at
the thought that she was old and prob
ably would not be with me very much
longer. She cheered me up and nurs-
ed me for / was sick the following
three days. Then took up my work
in dead earnest. The days of my Bo-
hemian life we're over"