SHORT
Dear Kit:
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
STORY,
THE GOLD POT:
BY PAULINE WORTH HAMLIN
Wost 112th Street,
New York:
I have been in New York one week and it is the longest week I have over known. I am at last comfortably settled, but of what a time I had finding a place to live! You see, the places 1 wanted would not have me," and"}
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EXTRA
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1914.
money. I'm going to move to-stand the manager. He wonted Doar Kit: morrow, Kit; next time address me at-East 33rd Street.
East 33rd Street,
Dear Kit:
New York.
a goat..
playing in hard lack too, so I Don't ever talk to me again about me to dine with him. I told him Your second letter brought me take care of the baby while the wusic. The music that came that I always dived at home (a to the realizing sense that I am mother does foolhardy thinge and over "that telephone was the bottle of milk on the fire escape). neglecting my best friend be risks her life for the pleasure-sweetest that has ever fallen upon He insisted, however, and when cause I'm traveling `s rook raad, loving populace. To-night she my ear, for it was Jim's voice! 1 repeated my refusals he grew bat my letters have been such a cut her foot on the wire but went Jim! My own big, western Jim, No, I am not in the worst part of angry and said I could go to wail that 1 thought I would give through her act as if nothing had and it said, "Hello, Daisy, honey, the town at all. I merely moved dinner with him or quit my job, you a rest. I am sorry you were happened and when she got will you marry me to right?" I no I could be nearer to the theatree told him that I was very sorry so worried. Please don't worry through her sandal was soaked said, "Yes, Jim, I will, just as and save car fare. I am sending had misunderstood him but I about me; if worst comes to the with blood. I am thinking that quick se I change my collar." back your draft dear. In the first thought I had been hired to play worst, I will make apple pies for times have not changed material. He was in the room in ve place I don't need it, and in the the fiddle, not to dine with him. a hotel. I am beginning to think ly since they butchered people to minutes, and I cried it all out on second place I could never get a so I left. I laughed all the way that an apple pie is my only real make a Roman holiday. I asked his shoulder and then-Dad came draft cashed. There is no one home about it—for Kit that man accomplishment anyway..
I her husband how he would like in. I don't want Heaven to be [This story of a western girl in any difference whether I am us in this great full, empty city to is old enough to be my father. wonder if it would do any good? to go to Colorado and be a cow any nicer.
-East 33rd St., New York, puncher, and his face lighted up We are coming home, Kit, New York is from Maclure'sing the gas or not, the meter identify me. When you send He has binok beady eyes and chin
as if the spot light had bean coming home just as 8000 BY Í merrily just the same. money to this chicken you'll have whiskers; he rubs his hands Dear Kit: away and will be found one of the I'll tell you men may come to send it in green backs-certified together and talks like a nanny Do you remember when we turned on it and he said, "Some got some new clothes, and as soon most entertaining that has
and men may go, but the gus greenbacke. I would give
we used to go over to Denver ae day-ah, some day we will go to as we order a headstone put up boon published here for some
nickel to see a silver dollar-
-East 33rd Street children and wish we were enlos- the land where people he.." at Mrs. Deyo's grave, and se time.
meler goes on forever."
I was lonesome yesterday haven't seen one since I left home.
New York. ladies when we saw the wonder. Don't you suppose your father soon as Jim thrashes the manager that I was even glad to ece the My, how rich I feel here when I Dearest Kitten:
ful maidens tobind the shop could use him and advance his of the moving-picture show and cockroaches as they made their have three paper dollars. I roll All-day long I have been think-counters in such resplendent fare ?
Dad gives all the Sullivan children early morning parade.
the bills up and cram them into ing of you, for I remember that attire? Well, I've burned out Yes, Kit, I do write to Dad: Ia bank account, I've shipped You should ecs the people run my little pocketbook and then sit it is just two years ago to-day that fuse too. I've been working write every week just as if I were the tight rope man with his wife for the trains, Kit. At first I and look at it.
since you lost your sweetheart.in a five-and-ten-cont store for hearing from him, but be hus and baby out to the ranch, "and thought there was only one train This, placa surely has all am hoping that time has soften four days. I am getting five never written me hut one letter. am going to go back to the inconveniences. The ed the sad memories and that you dollars a week and it costs me it said, "When you get over your fire-and-tea-cont store to tell all day, but I have found out that modern
Puzzle pioture fool notion of setting the river on the girls I am Mra. Jim Walton they run about every two minutes view from my window is magnif. are happy again, but after all, eight to live.
cent-seven fire escapes filled we never get away from the find the other three dollars. The fire, I'll send you money to come and give each one of them five and so do the people.
Thank you dear for the offer of with milk bottles, bear bottles, sorrow that has been real, no first day I was very energetic. I home on." Do you think I dollars of Jim's money. Good-by, sroundin good could give up after that? Why, true-heart. I will see you next the other way around. The New money, but I strack out on my garbage cans and various and matter how wholeheartedly we bustled
and looked with Kit, I have to win-I just have week and all the weeks that follow York apartment" bouées are divido responsibility against Dad's sundry packages of various and throw ourselves into the doing of shape
reproach upon the girls who to.
it, and when I get through ed into two classes. To order to wishes and Jim's, and I am going sundry sizes, I was looking them the things around us.
I remember when I went to you sat back and let the customers I met Mr. Watson on the Street aqueezing you, there won't be get into the one, you have to be to stick it out. I gave the greater over this afternoon and wonder- so good that you would bore St, part of my money to Mr. Watson ng what would happen if there and tried to say something that do the work. The second day to-day. He acted like a sheep enough loft of you to squeal Peter; and in order to get into for bis eervices in placing me ou should be a fire. I guess nothing would count, how you looked at I slowed up a trifle and to-day I killing dog and tried to take an the other, you have to E3 20 bad the stage, but he hasn't been to but the fire would excaps. You me and said that you had como let the customers bring their pur excuse. I said, "Don't orawl, Mr. that you would shock Bernard ses me for ten days, Lle must be know when I firat came, I thought to a stone wall that you could chases to me just like the other Watson, I hato a crawler," and Shaw. As I so a middle classer, ill. I know if I could play the they were open-air refrigerators. noither scale, dig under nor go girle do-and to-night I am left him to think is over, I guess I will have to live on the old fiddle before the managers as Mr. Watson has not come back so around, and I remember how I dying, Egypt, dying. I know * roof. If you should decide that play it here inside these four am interviewing managers told you to try making a fower now why they don't pay the girls
Mistake About the Siberia you would like to live in the house walls when I'm homesick, they myself. They are quite different garden at the foot of the wall. enough to eat on. When the day's Dear Kit:
would take me on.. Last night 1 from what I pictured them, but You bave done that, dear, and I work is done the girls are 100 I know I have neglected you
Explained. of the first part you must eiga iried to slcap but couldn'. I never mind, Kit, my chin is am thinking that you are gather- tired to eat. One girl told me if but I've jast been too busy to lease that roada liko the marriage
Captain G. E. Warner, of the ing already, glowing armfuls of I stayed six months I would get write and yes, I will confeas Shire Line str. Cardiganshire ceremony, and you must swear01 to thinking of home, where quare..
sweatest roses, heartease and six dollars a week, I told her if too blus. To-day I met Madam lately' arrived in Shanghai, gave with both hands on the Bible that any way we look we can ass the
mignonette. After all. yours is stayed six months I would get Malbini, who has made quite a some information to the N.-C.. you will never break it. On, the sky touch the earth, where the
a sweetness that has come from six feet in the potter's field. I sensation here. I didn't know Daily News which helps to throw other hand, if anyone should offer hearts are as big as the great out-
of-doors and every man's word is I have an engagement! It keenost suffering and so shall went to another manager last who she was, but happened to light on the mysterious report the landlord sighty-five cente
the kind ? want suffering ever have its place in night and he told me that my take to her in the park. She got that the P. M. S. Siberia was in more for the apartment than you as good as bis Lond. The birda is not are paying, you would have to are singing there now, right now, but will keep mo osting a little this scheme of things entire playing was very ordinary, and my story out of me some way, 1 need of assistance.
aren't they Kit, and the Maripen longer. I am playing in a mov-When I think of your courage that in this day and age you must don't know how, and abe said: At 5 p.m. on May 1, when either move out or raire the ants. lilies are blooming, and oh Kit, ing-picture show. I will tell you and brave heart in the midst of be very extraordinary of you, re My dear girl, go back to Jim. the Cardigcashire was in the Do I like New York? Aek an animal in a cage at a Zoo if he it's God's country! Why, honey, how it came about. There is a your sorrows, I am reminded of not in the race. He advised me He is worth more than anything region of the Saddles, the wire- here the people don't even have woman in the basement next to Mrs. Browning's lines from "The to go home and said if I needed else. Home and children are of lesa operator reported to Capt. likes his quarters. Why, honey,
Mask":
any assistance he would gladly more account than all the fame Warner that he had just received I would give a five dollar William air that isn't breathed by ame who is dying with consump
"Grief taught to die this smile, give, it. I asked him how he that the world can heap upon from the Osezaki Station the for just one breath from off that million other people. Nobody tion and who hasn't any money
happened to bo baman. you, and the love of a true man, signal 8.0.8." (Stop other dear desert, or the sound of a host truste anybody else, not the least except the twelve dollars a month be said,
And wrong did teach this jest-
more than all other riches. communications. Ship in dis- beat, or one neigh from old Black little bit. The rooms are so that Uncle Sam gives her in ex- Eye. Now don't think that I am head out of the window to change times I wonder what makes Uncle
small that you have to pat your change for her haaband. Some-ing bold;
know, my dear. I gave up love tress, aftor which followed the These flowers were plucked Dear Kit:
and hunted fame. When I found report of a supposed accident to going to give up after I have put|
He will go from a gardron bed, my hand to the plow, for I am your mind and then you bump Sam so generous.
Tell me truly is there a land it, it was as empty as a broken the Siberia as it was published in broke if he doesn't look out. While B death chime was where there are sunsets? Is there bubble. The greatest fame laste Saturday's paper, Capt. Warner not, Mr. Watson was here to into your neighbor's fire escape."
West 112th Street,
Well, she heard me playing and tolled."
a land where you have daily when the day is done. Don't map where the Siberia was but a day, while love remains looked up the position on the day, and he says that the chances
New York, eent for me sad naked me to play
I can see how through the bitter evidences of your Maker's having are good for me to go on very
Dear Kit:
"The Old Kentucky Home." I suffering of his death. you have been on this earth? is there a
give up your life chasing supposed to bo namely, longitude soon and I am making the old
Do you know what the word went in and talked to her, and become more tender and sympa land where the wind sighe
gold pots fiddle hom about twelve, hours 'a
at the end of 121.10 east, latitude 22.40 north, bohemian means? It's. the she said that her daughter, whethetic for the grief of others. Jag
through the trees, where the low rainbows, dear. Go home; you and it struck him at time that -Erat 33rd Street, You didn't mention Jim. Did polite term for grafter. The died, played, and she had always
ing of cattle makes life and where will find the gold pots there,"
Buch a position was a very strange New York, you get a smell of old earth I wonder. Some way. I am bebe clean off her course,
I wonder if she is right, Kit? one for the Siberia, as she would go to South Dakota, and Kit, bohemian goes around living off kept her violin although she
occasionally? Here you can't
However, as he was about 900
hu
I get famous..
-West 112th Street,
Oh Kit":
-East 33rd Street,
New York.
-East 33rd St..
New York,
-East 33rd Street,
New York,
I
Have written a note to Madam Malbini saying, "I have found the Gold Pot-it is. Home,
"S. ".0. S."
ia Dad still angry? They will of the other fellow and pretends could have sold it at a good price Kit Dear:
So Dad sold the authomobile see the sky and everything is ginning to think that she is. both come around all right when like it's bohemianism. I want to because it is a fine one and very
tell you about the people next old. She brought it out and ask because it hurt the feelings of paved, even the people: I will There have been lots of great miles from where the chip was door. They are not New Yorkers, ed me to play on it, and I did. the horses. How I laughed when tell you what New York reminds men in this old world of oure, supposed to be in distress, it was they have hearts yes, real hearts Kit, when I held that dead girl's I read your letter. And Dad eaye me of stage scenery. It's lovely but the One who taught love is useless for the Cardiganshire to
act a bunch of excess baggage, violin in my hands and looked he isn't sentimental. Wasn't it from a distance but go up close the One whom the world has attempt any assistance, They found out that I was alone into the face of her mother, I funny for the boys to lasso the and feel the rough edges and it's reverenced through all the ages. "Old Kentucky wheels when he drove it over to a different story. 1 and they have put themselves out played that
New York.
Dear Kit:
What do you suppose bappened
to-day? When I paid my rent
didn't ask the man for a receipt
I remember
Kitten Dir:
Hotel Plaza,
A: 10 G.M. the wireless operator reported to Captain New York, Warner that he had just re-
ceived
B message from the/ When the judgment day comes Onezaki Station that the
to be nice to me. I remember Home" a thousand times better the round-up? I met the oddest once when Jim osme on here, he you know we don't deal in re mother used to say, wherever you than I have ever played before a man yesterday who had such wrote back that it was as lous- coipts cut in our country-soo in this world, you will always manager. When I got through, strange ideas of the West. He some as hell. Now, I have my and Gabriel blows his horn and previous signal of "8.0.." sent naturally it never entered my
and people with hearts of gold. Mra: Doyo said, "Take it, dear asked me how I happened to be own private opinion that hell is head. Well to day he came and Mrs. Sallivan gave me a rose to you have earned it. Just then educated. I told him that my anything but lonesome, but just all the people come crowding out in the early morning had asked me again for the rent day. Now, you may think that's there was a knock at the door and futher was a Princeton man and the same I agree with Jim: Sap- toward the gatos, St. Peter will been found to be an error, no told him I had paid him and he measly little thing you who a man came in and asked who he believed that education was a pose you know who I mean by 65,"Stand brick all you good ship having nont this message, said, "You have a receipt ?" I can pick an armload from your was playing. He said be owned good thing. He gasped. Then Jim-from your letters I would people until Katherine Baker sad another message having been told him no, that he had not given bedroom window, but I want to a moving-picture ebow and would he asked me if there was such a never guess that you were ac passes in," because you are the mistaken for it. one. He shrugged his shoulders tell you that to me it is a princely put me on- to-night I shall as culture in the West. I told quainted with him. There I go. Why didn't you tell me that should have occurred is strange
must pay.
best the earth holds.
The fact that such a mistake him that most of the Western again, scolding you when you Jim was here all the tima watoh in view of the clearness of the -East 33rd Strest, people were from the East origi-are my best and only friend.
New York. nall, and that they liked the Say, it was sweet of you to sending my every move and reporting "8.0.S." signal, which is formed
West so much better than the the
New York:
and said, "Very well then, you and its fragrance is so wonderful!
gift Its coloring is exquisite appear. It made me pretty mad,my hair isn't red for nothing. that when I breathe it in, I can What did I do? I simply walked our garden at home with its Dear Kit:
stamped envelopes. Of daily to father? No wonder you by three dots, three dashes, and hundreds and hundreds of roses." No, I am not living in a bass- East, they stayed out there-but course they carry them in the didn't know certainly where be three dots, and so, of course, was ed to my dresser, took out my I can smell them and can feel ment, and even if I am, it is a that not more than pinety-eight post-office here, but your brand was. He would have to be as selected for the sake of its Colt's Automatic and gently bat firmly told him that I should their soft petals and Kit-my great deal cooler. Whatever per cont. of them were educated. is so much better. If I were notch agile as a California files to keep clearness,
made you think such things? I also told him that there were ing my gun for managers don't be in such a hurry, I am that the news of the supposed
track of me. Wait a minute, advise him to waik over to the heart cries out:
art cries ou go home where the Please don't tell me about the churches in Denver and schools would look like a nutmeg grater telling you about it as fast as I accident was known in Negasaki Passengers from Japan report desk and write a receipt for the
round-up or about the dance at in San Francisco. Ee anid he I call on one every noon. money I had paid him. He walk-robine sing.
Where the air is sweet with the the Kettle Ranch, but please do was in Datrost once, I'll bat if ed. After he went away I lost
-East 33rd St
on the let instant, twelve hours breath of spring,
tell me where Jim is. Why do Detroit had found it out thai-
You know I have not written before it reached Shanghai." The all my nerve and oried of coureo
Where a feeling of peace is in you keep him up your sleeve so but I'm getting my spirit up, as Dear Kit:
for quite a while. Everything greatest anxiety was caused, as and wished for Jim. Say Kit,
religionsly? You say you think Jim used to say, so I'll stop and I have quit the five-and-tea- has been going wrong and I got Kasho faland, where it was sup- don't you really know where Jim everything-
be went to South Dakota, but you talk about something else. dent store and am playing in an to the place where I didn't care posed that the vessel was ashore, don't know surely. Don't tell This I have decided, Kit, that other moving-picture show. The whether I lived or died, with a tu not only a very bad count bat Why don't you tell me about me that Dad looks lonesome and Jim is the one who does not care. manager wants to buy my violin, leaning toward the latter. Now, is inhabited by extremely fierce out whether he took it, please dic? You are wrong in saying haggard; it makes me feel that I Funny Jim giving up a girl with- He says it is a Sirad and here's the truth, Kit. I hadn't natives H. M. 8. Minotaur was that I didn't love him or I cught to go home, but Kit, all oat a word if he cared. He made me a good offer for it, bat had anything to eat but milk for is readiness to go to the assistance wouldn't have left. Mr. Watson roads to fame are hard and mine wouldn't have kept silent this he will never have money enough two days and I was buying it by directly any definite news could enge my imitation of the birds is no exception. Thanks, honey, long-he couldn't."
to buy it. Poor little Mira. Deyo the pint. I was sitting in my be obtained. It seeme strange alone will make my fortune. No, for the silver dollar, I wouldn't I am glad my letter helped (she is dead, Kit-died last week 2x4 room one night with a bad that, as far as our informant he hasn't come yo. I think give it for ten paper ones, Paper you, dear. I thought afterword with all her hardships never cold case of brain storm and heart knows, the message from the meter in my kitchenette-it keeps something must have happened tramare seem to me like street car that perhaps it would have been it and I am very certain that I storm combined; when the janitor Osexski Station reporting the
I can't believe that any transfere.
batter if I had not alirred the never shall. I am taking care came down and said there was a mistake that had been made, was me company. At doesn't make
men would choot a girl out of My moving-picture show didn't memories. I'm glad you feel of a baby after my not-ahe be- telephone call for me. Of course not known in Nagasaki even two
pao out very well. The people so sweetly about it,
I didn't believe him, but hated hours after it was received on longe to one of the tight-rope liked the music, but I couldn't Baat 33rd St., New York. performers and they have been to let him know it, so I went up. board the Oardiganshira
is? Hasn't he been there since I want to go home. I want to
I left? He was offered the forego home.” manship on the Double Z. Find
dear.
Dear Kit:
Woot 112th Street."
New York.
I am so glad there is
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