The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-24
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was kind of veranda. above which appeared Q large signboard with the words Smiths Hotel'' in green and gold letters.
 Here we are,'' said Jacobus, signing as he looked at his mud incrusteG pat ent feathers ''The whole crowds here. I'll show you to your room. and by the time you've had wash, if you want to. dinner II be ready. l guess you'll be ready for it too"
 There was a narrow, uncarpeted pas sage, with an uncarpeted and still mar rower stairway leading steeply up to regions above; also there was a strong nay, overdeEeloped-sIn of dinner which could be all too easily divided into its component parts-corned beef and cabbage. with perhaps a body guard of onions.
 'fOne more flight for you,'' explained Jacobus. ''They ain't got too much accommodation here, and Miss de Lis1e, me and my wife and the other ladies are on this floor. gentlemen above Here you are" and with a light knock. which was a notification, not a request, he flung the door open. On a narrow bed visible from the threshold a young man, hardly more than a boy, was stretched reading something that looked like manuscript He glanced round. but did not move on seeing Mir. Jacobus and a stranger. ''I thought you said this was my roomr' exclaimed LoYeland, startled. 'So it is and there's your roommate. 1 Didn't know whether you'd be in, Ed. can introduce you to each other right now. NIT. Ed Binney, our prop l erty man, prompter and second vil- | 1afn-Mr PercevaI Gordon of England. 1 our new juvenile. Now you know l each other, and l guess, Eddy. you | can put Mir Gordon up to all he needs 1 to know"
 | This was worse than the Bat hotel. where each man who earned 25 cents i could have his own cubicle. But now | Loveland was not paying his own way. | The mana cement was to do that l and feed him too As he had but 1 quarter in the world. thrust upcn him as loan or gift by generous Bill. i IoveIand was not in a position to be i critical. Here he was, and tere he would have to stay till he heard from home or something turned up.
 AS for hearing from home. he had 1 begun almost to despair. for his two cables had remained unanswered now IA1SoC AiAy OStS an interval of more waiting for tele- gram from his mother he had written i to her and to Betty Marlborough. 1 ashamed to take outsiders into the 1 deepest secrets of his humf1at1ng ad- 1 ventures But at best it would be a fortnight before Bill Willing could fer
 ward to some address yet to pc gwen
 q letter from across the sea.
 Ed Bfnney looked as though ne
 might have pleasant qualities if ap- preached in the right way So with
 amazing self restraint Loveiand re-
 Trained even from the mild insult or
 cisgusted glance. He said Tn ms nee
 Foice that he hoped MT. Binney would hot mind his coming, as he really could not help himself, whereupon MT. Binney grinned, showing teeth white as girls, and replied that if IL were Tot MT. Gordon it would be some one else, who might be worse, as IL strueh
 Mir. BiEney that Afr. Gordon would at least be fond of washing h1nseh.
 To this MT. Gordon responded tnat there were few things he liked Detter'
 but it seemed as if there Wou1dnt De
 much opportunity at Smiths hotel-
 You had to do it in sections with
 washbowl, said MT. Binney, but never
 mind-you got there just the same II ycu were in earnest. Then they ootn
 laughed, and Binney exclaimed with
 evident relief that be was jolly glao