The Washington herald., 1913-02-16

SIS. When We got to the hotel l regis
tered for my companlon-my host for the
evening-and told the clerk to put It all
on my bill. Then looked around Tor
Jimmy and he had disappesred-prob-
ably, figured. to fine some place to keep
the dog over night. In minute he re-
turned without the dog.
You never saw anybody more tick
led he remarked with 4 merry, rippling
chuckIe.
WHO, the dog?
1.-The bartender back there, ] heard
him say that he had two little girls that
were crazy for a dog, so Just gave it to
him.
Think that over. Me. that never felt
1 could afford a dog, putting up for an
ugly little gargoyle faced pup for a bar
tender. total stranger with whom
had nothing at all in common
Owing to some slip or other the
draft didn't come that morning. We
spent the entire day just sitting around
the post-office steps thinking 1t surely
would come on a later mail, but 1t
didn't. i said We put in the entire day
on the post-office steps. I'll amend
that. We went away for our meals.
OF course. had to put up for all the
meals, either directly or indirectly.
James Randolph Rising would insist
on paying for them most of the time,
but he'd do it with money he'd borrow
from me. I was going to cheap lunch
counters, but my boyhood friend didn't
like 20 eat at such places.
'At the end of a week. most of
which We had put in around the post
office steps in Buffalo. / found that
James Randolph Rising had cost me
$4'. besides $50 that I'd lent him. And
my vacation was nearly over. Each
day. each hour he had assured me that
nothing short of a miracle could pre-
vent that draft coming ere nightfall,
and back I'd go to the post office. I
didn't want to abandon my investment
and then Keep thinking that probably
the draft came an hour or so after I
caught my boat. My idea was to be
on hand when the draft was cashed
and get mine. So / just stayed and
stayed and stayed. But when l found
that my vacation was all gone except
two or three days began to think that
I'd do well to get home in time to go
to work the day after my vacation
ended and before all my own money
was gone. I mentioned the matter to
my comrade
by the way he began. in his breezy
fashion-taIking in the clipper. carefree
tone of telephone girl telling you that
fnc line you want is busy-'why wouldn't
| 1t be good scheme for you to let me
have enough money to get me to New
York and can soon see what the trou-
BILE is? Then can forward you a check
covering the several little amounts that
you have so kindly let me have and you
will not need to delay here longer
"As a matter Of fact. / had about de-
cided that stood the same chance OF
getting back anything / had lent to
James Randolph Rising that I would to
get quarterly dividend from foreign
missionary society. Still I didn't like to
get him down on me after making 50
large an investment in him. II SO more
would make him feel any like getting to-
gether the 800 he owed me. 1t would be
poor policy to refuse. I asked him how
much he thought 1t would take to get
him to New York. Oh, SIS would fix him
nicely, he said. So / gave him SIS !
still had q little more than that left out
Of my vacation fund. He went and con-
srlted a timetable.
There's a train for New York in less
than thirty minutes he told me mo-
ment later. "rn call a taxi and well go
right down to the station
'Taxicab, mind you. Personally. I've
always struggled along with the vulgar
street cars, But said nothing and saw
him take the train. thinking gleefully
that I could soon return to Chicago and
begin to save money again.
The next day was back home. Did
I hear from James Randolph Rising
Yes. about year later got a souvenir
postal card from him that he had mailed
on the train while en- route to Califor.
MIA
Just been passing through q stretch
of country that God forgot, he wrote.
Best regards.' And that was every