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point.
During his first day in the town. he
put up at the Darnivostock hotel, but
round the lodging so abominable, the
rare so eXecrable and the service so
insolent that he was glad to engage
an old peasant woman of all work and
oegln housekeeping in some unoocu-
pied rooms of the Trading Company's
store.
Besides this old woman. his only
companion was young Russian clerk,
VINO spoke a little bad English, which
he practiced on Hardy with such per-
sistence that he became nuisance,
entertaining him with such re-
marks as
Good morning, Mr.. Hardy. The
barn of my store is not so large as the
barn of my uncle. Have you seen the
barn of my uncle?" or, Good evening.
Mr.. Hardy. Do you think the black
horse is as good as the white horse?
Neither the one nor the other is so
good as the horse of my aunt"
This interesting person was pos
sessed of the skin of baby, pink
cheeks, very thick, red lips, blue eyes
and tin-foil hair His name was vasili
Ogorodnikoff. He imagined himself
a great merchant and his manner to-
ward Hardy oscillated between super
clllousness and the other extreme of
sudden servility when reminded of his
position. He was either presumptu-
INN Cgih a
to treat him as an equal
And here, from the very start,
Hardy got his first taste of hard work,
and came to realize what a blessing
1t In: how it ennobles mans sur
roundings, however, strange, prosaic
or uninvting, and what royal pana-
cea it is for blues inconsistencies, love
sickness, or any species of fostering
discomfort In addition to the daily
business of the store, it was necessary
for him to take stock, familiarize him
self with the details of the trade, get
what idea he could of the accounts
study the commercial possibilities OF
the region. He saw Immediately. that
if he did not wish to continue at the
mercy of Vasili, he must learn the
Russian language as soon as possible
this, indeed, must be his first object
He must swallow Russian in great
gulps and must digest it. He there
fore looked about for a teacher. The
only available person he could find
was Russian Jew, who, despite his
youth, wore great bale of bushy red
whiskers, falling to the fourth button
of his shabby waistcoat.
Mordecai Baruch knew English very
well, as he had spent several years II
New York in the factory of rela
tive engaged there in the manufacture
3 of caps. He undertook to teach Hardy
Russian. and he found the latter {
most assiduous pupil, devoting as
many as four hours a day to the sub
ject.
Hardy had not been long in Stry
etensk before he received a lettel
from Mrs. Johnny Folkstone, the Bos
, ton society leader, calling him {
naughty boy for running away to the
ends of the earth and deserving all hi!
friends, and assuring him that society
would not have been able to do with
out him. money or no money, had h
i seen tit to remain.
Another letter, received not Ion!
y after his arrival in Stryetensk, gav'
. him more pleasure.
1t was written on the daintiest ant
, lightest of Japanese paper, in yer.
= small and exquisitely- formed script
:, AS Hardy picked this letter up iron
- his writing table, there was something
about it that suggested feminnity
even before he opened it,
!. "a woman, eh?" he muttered, "an'
;, in japan. | wonder who are in Japal
= this summer? Perhaps the Castle
tons"
He held the envelope closer to hi
: ewes to examine the script to see
- he could guess at the writer's identity
. when the problem was solved. A fam
: and elusive perfume arose to his nos
y trils, SO faint as to be almost impel
ceptibe, yet imperishable as tn
memory of a kiss. and the image O
Aisome took shape again in his min
-Aisome, as she had stood that nigh
ON the wharf at Hakodate, biddln
him good-by, dainty as a moon'fowel
', eyauisite as a Queen of Fairy'land.
1 Yokohama. August 10. 1903.
You will perhaps be surprised M hear
L Inc, from me. bat you will not accuse IN
S, NJ forwardness | am sure, when go
n ,a,rn my reason for addressing you i
-, dis manner Some time ago the estlm
VI ahla Mr. Sano did me the honor OF desir
0, ,ng Ia marry me. Soon after your de
d narture for Hakodate he again oHere
~ me his hand, and when ! made II pia
,o him that / should never consent, u
Il became very angry and accused me-ho'
n shall I express myself?-Of having becom
10 ,nfntuoted with the American, mcanin
,,nu In his Jealous rage he revealed IN
fact that he had given secret orders
n 49,. cantaln Of the Shikoku Maru 70 hav
II ,,, 1isnnspd Of lyon will never, he eN
o. oIatmrd crashing his teeth like VOL
.n'ahald vour beloved American again
Is yo,i' can imagine that this confession d'
N 40, ADVANCE Mr. Sano TO any great eN
No., IN my esteem Though ] did not be
-, 100, myself To him, | was nearly franti
,,,cerning YOU. | went TO the hlSher au
a ,"rttiss told them frankly of Sanos Pre-
o. o w. 10 me and Of his plot against you
II NE disclaimed any interest In yol
s.,st,,er than the fact that yon were lnnt
ST ~. ana that YOU were a well-know
CENT "'' IL would not be WIS