Bisbee daily review., 1913-07-19

many more telegrams they wanted Bartlett knew Billy. Billy said that she was going to marry this man and so she would marry him-unless some thing more effective than verbal op- position were used. He had never ex- erted any authority over Billy and
 knew that it would be too late to be- gin now. Billy would only laugh at
 him. But after all, he was Billy's fa-
 ther, he loved the girl and had some right to object to her marriage with tramp
 Who are your people?' asked Bart lett to gain time. He must make
 plan 10 separate Billy from the impe-
 cunious suitor. Authority was use less. He must use tact, fnesse. My father was a minister" re-
 turned the Watermelon. Yours was
 a grocer, Billy told me. Families don't count in America.s
 Bartlett nodded agreement. why did you become a trampg'
 Through inclination, not the whis- Ky bottle. Not that am above get | ting full once in a while. cause I
 ain't. Just, Pm not a drunkard See2 took to tramping because I hate Co, work. It takes too much of your time An office is like a prison to
 me. A man loses his soul when he stays all day bent over a desk. Be- ] sides. don't like work"
 Lay" e5 Yes" snapped the Watermelon,
 'bUt a man. I love your Billy-my Billy, and I can work for her" ! Bartlett nodded indifferently, hardly hearing what the other said. He frowned thoughtfuIly at the floor as
 he pondered the situation. If he ubi
 iected to the youth in Billys pres.
 ence, she would stand up for him, all her love would be aroused to arms and she would see no wrong in her hero. Ef the fellow snapped his firil | gers. she would run away with him. What did Billy, tender, gently-guartf, | ed Billy, know of tramps, of, the l rough, unhappy side of existence? | Nothing, But if she caught glimpse | of 1t with her own eyes, saw this loy- CT of hers in his true light. dirty, ! drunk, disreputa ble, the shock would kill her love utterly and Bartlett
 would not have to use that authority 1 of his which was no authority, which | Billy would refuse to obey. She had
 been free too long for any one to gow 1 ern her now. The only person whs i could effectually break the uuforttk
 nate tangle was the Watermelon him | self. Bartlett glanced at the gloomy
 face beside him and read it as he had
 grown used to reading men and l events.
 | The Watermelon was young, hardly l older than Billy; he was desperately
 in love, with a love that was pure
 and true and generous. He was think. ing of Billy and not of himself His
 opposition to Bartlett was merely the | anger aroused by Bartlett's sneers,
 He was in reality filled with humility l and repentance to a degree that he
 would do anything to kill the love
 Billy bore for him, knowing with his | mans knowledge that he was not | worthy of her, and longing with his | youth and love to sacrifice himself
 for her best good, seeing through | young, unhappy eyes, only the past, | bis own shame and profession. Bart lett looked at him keenly and decided
 that his plan would work, that he would not have to take a last desper- l ate and intellectual stand against Billy.
 See here. August we are going to ! our place in Westahaven. It's a small town in this state, up the coast away ! north of Portland. Come to her there at the end of August, come as you
 are, a tramp, dirty, shabby, drunk"
 T don't drink, not as the others
 Come drunk. Let her understand what being a tramp means. what your
 life has been if she stiT wants you, hardly see how I can stop her. That's only fair, for what does she know about you and your life? You l know all about her, what she has done
 and been and is going to do. Leave her now, this evening. Go on being tramp and then come to her, at the last of August Come as a tramp,
 mind. Don't let her think that it Is test she is being put to or she will only laugh at 1t and us and go on wanting you just the same. scorning to be tested, to think that her love could fail. Give her some other ex- cuse for your going. You must see that it is only fair to the little girl to let her see what she is up against. '-
 Yes, l see. tried to tell her,'s agreed the Watermelon gloomily.
 If she loves you through it all. she can have you. and I suppose I win have to consent I can afford a peuni- less sOn-in-law and I guess an Ameri- can tramp is preferable to a European noble"
 T won't be peuniless." said the Watermelon. T could work like g nigger for month and own forty dol. lars. thirty of which I would owe for board"
 That's just it, declared Bartlett promptly. You can't support Billy in the way she Is used to being sup ported. can't give her the things that have become necessities to her"
 T can support her in my own wav-s said the Watermelon.
 But that isn't Billy's way. you couldn't keen A servant for ipgtsr,,