The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories

to himself a man is most likely to use only the mischievous half of the force-the half which invents imaginary ailments for him and cultivates them: and if he is one of these very wise p

o the essential work performed by the engineer when he handles the throttle and turns on the steam: the actual power is lodged exclusively in the engine, but if the engine were left alone it would never start of itself. Whether the engineer be named Jim, or Bob, or Tom, it is all one-his services are nece

othe the engineer in religious overalls and give him a pious na

rospers the whole of them put together. Is it because he has captured the takingest name? I think t

ience-and-Health Bible Annexes. Electricity, in limitless volume, has existed in the air and the rocks and the earth and everywhere since time began-and was going to waste all the while. In our

ace since time began, and has organised it, and backed the business with capital, and concentrated

connected fashion customary with such things, it would achieve but little more than the modest prosperity usually secured by unorganised great moral and commer

: May

daily is to be more spiritual, that I may do more as you would have me do... and may we all love you more and so live it that the world may know

gland have given voluntary contributions amounting to $73,000,000 to the

the capital S a little ea

ING OR IS

ding sunshine, the balmy air and the brilliant blue sea, without the marring additions of human pow-wow and fuss and feathers and display. Mentone is quiet, simple, restful, unpretentious; the rich and the gaudy do not come there. As a rule

man going out at the door.

hy

know who

silk manufacturer from Lyons, they say, and I guess he is alone in the world, for he al

d into a brown study, and was apparently lost to me and to the rest of the world during some minutes. Now and then he passed his fin

ne; I can't

call wh

thirst assail the creature, and its song grows plaintive and feeble and finally ceases-the bird dies. The child comes, and is smitten to the heart with remorse: then, with bitter tears and lamentations, it calls its mates, and they bury the bird

Scotch. It was a cosy place, with its comfortable chairs, its cheerful lamps, and its friendly open fire of seasoned olive-wood. To make

en to it. It has been a secret for many years-a secret between me and t

ctly.

ows what

a couple of darling young Frenchmen who were at the same kind of thing that I was doing. We were as happy as we were poor, or as poor as we were happy-phrase it to suit yourself. Cl

and an artist as poor as ourselves took us in and

great Franc

turnips, and even the turnips failed us sometimes. We four became fast friends, doting friends, inseparables. We painted away together with all our might,

ears this went on. At la

ruck-there's a league formed against us. I've been all around the village and it's just as I t

We realised that our circumstances were desperate, now. T

me-nothing. Sugges

ce may be called a response. Carl got up, and w

ictures as anybody in Europe paints-I don't care who he is. Yes, and p

't buy," M

's true, too. Look at your 'Angel

lus!' I was offered

Wh

offere

re is

dn't you

ught he would give more-I was sure of

l-and

he would c

lightning! W

and I was a fool. Boys, I meant for t

at, bless your dear heart; b

come along and offer us a

it-it makes my mouth water.

o these pictures lack

No

y great and high mer

Ye

illustrious name were attached to them they

t is. Nobody

ot joking-i

e not joking. But what of it. What

s-we'll attach an illu

ringly upon Carl. What sort of riddle might this be? Where wa

t down,

the almshouse, and I believe it to be a perfectly sure way. I base this opinion upon certain mult

u've lost

I ha

ve lost your mind. W

thousand fra

st his mind

privation has been to

o take a pill and

rst-bandage his

s brains have been settling

ity, "and let the boy have his say. Now, then-

after he was starved and dead. This has happened so often that I make bold to found a law upon it. This law: that the merit of every great unknown and neg

e was a wild chorus of advice again-medical advice-for the help of Carl's brain; but he

not pictures, no! skeleton sketches, studies, parts of studies, fragments of studies, a dozen dabs of the brush on each-meaningless, of course, but his, with his cipher on them; turn out fifty a day, each to contain some peculiarity or mannerism easily detectable as his-they're the things that sell, you know, and are collected at fabulous prices for the w

t least,

e; he changes his name and vanishes; we bury a dummy,

ever feeling hungry; and at last, when all the details had been arranged satisfactorily, we cast lots and Millet was elected-elected to die, as we called it. Then we scraped together those things which one never parts with until he is betting them

a dozen of Millet's small pictures, purposing to market them. Carl struck for Paris, where he would start the work of

he outskirts of a big town-because I saw the proprietor standing on an upper veranda. He came down to look on-I thought he would. I worked swiftly, intendin

hel, fetched out a Millet, and pointed to

Well, he taught me! I should t

embarrassed, and was si

te that you don't know the

tefullest man you ever saw, just the same, for being let

I don't know what I could have been th

ugh I wasn't rich I wasn't that poor. However, at

t hun

that time's gone by. I made a very nice picture of that man's house and I wanted to offer it to him for ten francs, but that wouldn't answer, seeing I was t

r since. I sold one picture every day, and never

ll, for that man is not going to live three months, and w

tle fact as far as I could, and

of us agreed to give it a good fair trial before giving it up for some other. It succeeded with all of us. I walked only two days, Claude walked two-both of u

m which let on that everybody knew Francois Millet; not an item praising him in any way, but merely a word concerning the present condition of the "master"-sometimes hopef

e friends with the correspondents, and got Millet's condition reporte

s. The boom was so high, and everything so ripe, that we saw that it would be a mistake not to strike now, right away, without waiting any

arl had made the last sale and the most brilliant one of all. He sold the "Angelus" for twenty-two hundred francs. How we did glorify him!-not fores

ys and keep busybodies out of the house and send daily bulletins to Carl in Paris for publication in the papers of several continen

ill inseparable-carried the coffin, and would allow none to help. And we were right about that, because it hadn't anything in it but a wax figure, and any other coffin-be

ch f

own coffin. In disguise, you know. Dis

onis

s seventy Millet pictures. He paid us two million francs for them. And as for the bushels of sketches and studies which Millet shovelled out during t

ul history, perf

amounts

became o

keep a

c

our attention to in the dining room

re

the rewards he should have had himself. This song-bird was not allowed to pipe out its he

AS A LITE

Literary Person; also, he would be famous-right away. These two ambitions were strong upon me. This was in 1866. I prepared my contribution, and then looked around for the best magazine to go up to glory in. I selected the most important one in New York. The contribution was accepted. I signed it 'MARK TWAIN;' for that name had some currency o

printers, and they put it 'Mike Swain' or 'MacSwain,' I do not remember which. At any rate, I was not cele

hostly survivors arrived there after a voyage of forty-three days in an open boat, through the blazing tropics, on ten days' rations of food. A very remarkable trip; but it was conducte

twenty dollars a week for nothing. The proprietors were lovable and well-beloved men: long ago dead, no doubt, but in me there is at least one person who still holds them in gratef

cellency Anson Burlingame was there at the time, on his way to take up his post in China, where he did such good work for the United States. He came and put me on a stretcher and had me carried to the hospital where the shipwrecked men were, and I never needed to ask a qu

ode ready at nine in the morning, while the other correspondents of the San Francisco journals had nothing but a brief outline report-for they didn't sit up. The now-and-then schooner was to sail for San Francisco about nine; when I reached the dock she was free forward and was just casting off her stern-line. My fat envel

matter of three columns of solid nonpareil at a hundred dollars a column. The cashier didn't faint, but he came rather near it. He sent for the proprietors, and they came and never uttered a protest. They only la

the 'Hornet' was along; also the only passengers the 'Hornet' had carried. These were two young men from Stamford, Connecticut-brothers: Samuel and Henry Ferguson. The 'Hornet' was a clipper of the first class and a fast sailer; the young men's quarters were roomy and comfortable, and were well stocked with books, and also with canned meats and fruits to help out the ship-fare with; and when the ship cleared from New York harbour in the first week of January there was promise that she would make quick and pleasant work of the fourteen or fifteen thousand miles in front of her. As

calm; temperature of the atmosphere, tropical, blistering, unimaginable by one who has not been roasted in it. There was a cry of fire. An unfaithful sailor had dis

side of one of them by some sort of collision, and an oar driven through the side of another. The captain's first care was to have four sick sailors brought up and placed on deck out of harm's way-among them a 'Portyghee.' This man had not done a day's work on the voyage, but had

family of them. He done it to

ers and brought and dumped on the deck where the 'Portyghee' lay; then th

-two days' rations for the

ead again and made another

hem while he was soldiering there a

men back, and they had to stop their incomplete work of fetching pr

ng result: four hams, nearly thirty pounds of salt pork, half-box of raisins, one hundred pounds of bread, twelve two-pound cans of oysters, clams, and assorted meats, a keg containing four pounds of butter, twelve gallons of water in a forty-g

ourteen days; this gave me a chance to copy the diaries. Samuel Ferguson's is the fullest; I will draw upon it now. When the following paragraph was written the

atitude 1 degree 28 mi

Another hot and slug

romised wind, and the

us going. The only th

fish about; nine bo

rge albacores seen. A

hich he could not hold

as on the bow. He, ho

nd snap went the line,

azily after us, an eno

feet long. We tried

ork, but he declined t

petite on the heads an

had throw

enty-one feet long, six wide, and three deep. The chief mate and eight men were in one of the small boats, the second mate and seven men in the other. The passengers had saved no clothing but what they had on, excepting their overcoats. The ship, clothed in flame and sending up a vast column of black smoke into the sky, made a grand picture in the solitudes of the sea, and hour after hour the out

The ship burned all n

ip has seen the light

, this forenoon, so we

ittle west to some isl

ude and 114 degrees

he meantime to be pick

about 5 A.M. We find

try to keep out of

bout north-east something short of one thousand miles. You will say random rocks in the ocean are not what is wanted; let them strike for Acapulco and the solid continent. That does look like the rational course, but one presently guesses from the diaries that the thing would have been wholly irrational-indeed, suicidal. If the boats struck for Albemarle they would be in the doldrums all the way; and that means a watery perdition, with winds which are wholly crazy, and blow from all points of the compass at once and also perpendicularly. If the boats tried for Acapulco they would get out of the doldrums when half-way there-in case they ev

-butt. The brothers were in the stern with the captain, who steered. The quarters w

n one man and a dog cross the Atlantic in a boat the size of a long-boat, and indeed it is; but this long-boat was overloaded with men and other plunder, and was only three feet deep. '

orst sea yet.' About ten at night the captain changed his course and headed east-north-east, hoping to make Clipperton Rock. If he

nning to realise more and more the awful situation we are in.' 'It often takes a ship a week to get through the doldrums; how much longer, the

n nature to cease to set it down; there will be five weeks of it yet-we mu

oods over our troubles more than I wish he did.' They caught two dolphins; they tasted well. 'The captain believed

ourse; I have been down there, and I remember that detail. 'Even as the captain says, all romance has long since vanished, and I think the most of us are beginning to look the fact of our awful situation full in the face.' 'We are making but little headwa

ill lives, and crows with the breaking of dawn, cheering us a good deal.' What has he been living on for a week? Did the starving men feed him from their dire poverty? 'The second mate's boat out of water again, showing that they over-drink their allowance. The captain spoke pre

ottles of brandy from his private stores when he left the ship, and the liquor came good in these days. 'The captain serves out two tablespoonfuls of brandy and water-half and half-to our crew.' He means the watch that is on duty; they stood regular watches-four hours on and four off. The

S DIARY TO DATE

s. May 7, 8, 9, dold

l. Never saw, never f

, such darkness, such

rain, in my

thirst, blazing heat, drowning rains, loss of sleep, lack of exercise, was persistently faithful and circumstantial with his diary from the first day to the last-an instance of noteworthy fidelity an

A good rain last night

h to fill up our tank,

doldrums, but it seem

very variable, and hop

ot much above 7 degree

ut a sail; but it was

od deal to-day, mak

lled up pretty nearl

have a fine night, fo

there is any danger of

s on hand. I never wo

s, with their loads, c

we ha

tar. It is a long time ago-thirty-two years-and it doesn't matter now, yet one is sorry for their disappointment. 'Thought often of those at home to-day, and of the disappointment they will feel next Sunday at not hearing from us by telegraph from San Francisco.' It will be many weeks yet before the telegram is received, and it will come as a thunderc

ually.' 'Our situation is becoming more and more desperate,' for they were making very little northing 'and every day diminishes our small stock

hin to-day; in his maw we found a flying-fish and two skipjacks.' There is an event, now, which rouses an enthusiasm of hope: a land-bird arrives! It rests on the yard for awhile, and they can look at it all they like, and envy it, and thank it for its message. As a subject of talk it is

orth his praise.' It will be a rainy night, 'but

them, and they trembled for their lives. Young Henry set it down in his scanty jou

'Only half a bushel of bread-crumbs left

dared to touch him, of course, for he would sink a boat promptly if molested. Providence protected the poor bonito from the cruel sword-fish. This was just and right. Providence next befriended the shipwrecked sailors: they got the bonito. This was also just and right. But in the distribution of mercies the sword-fish himse

ight. Rained hard nea

panied by terrific thu

the compass.

I ever witnesse

the safety of the whole.' 'At first I never dreamed, but now hardly shut my eyes for a cat-nap without conjuring up something or other-to be accounted for by weakness, I suppose.'

and two of his own crew came with him (nine in the boat, now, including himself). He sailed away, and toward sunset passed out of sight. The diarist was sorry to see him go. It was natural; one could have better spared the 'Portyghee.' After thirty-two years I find my prejudice against this 'Portyghee' reviving. His very looks have long passed out

rades still missing. They are still anxiously watching for a sail, but they have only 'visions of ships that come to naught-the shadow without the su

y have to keep a man bailing all the time; the hole knocked in the boat when she was launched from the burning ship was never efficiently mended. 'Heading about north-west now.' They hope they have easting enoug

is to be an

Last night wind head

d to steer east-s

o on. This morning we

e enough, we could se

second mate's boat,

. This was about half

high excitement for al

chief mate's boat. Of

m report all well; bu

all. Now that we are

rthing enough to stri

est we can, and get in

ination, it became ne

ter a good deal of un

er and stores, and ta

fifteen. The second

nd cast the other boa

l sepa

and 'visions of ships that come to naught,' it is a pathetic time they are having, with much heartbreak in it. It was odd that the vanished boat, three days lost t

ces as we go west incr

y our scanty fare is s

birds sent us, I do

her day I offered to r

tain, and last nigh

tionalities and religi

May God grant my wea

egrees 18 minutes N. F

fuls of juice, a gill

a silver dollar. 'We

upon us all!' That n

e and make everybody

uiring cons

assed a spar, but not near enough to see what it was.' They saw some whales blow; there were flyi

And so, to all the other imaginable and unimaginable horrors, silence is added-the muteness and brooding of coming despair. 'It seems our best chance to get in the track of ships wit

, May 27, Latitude 1

y chronometer, 117 de

e left the ship we re

d now we hope to be ab

week if possible.(1)

t, but the wind he

h has been about our

ame aboard last night

birds. A booby is a g

ll dinner for the fif

o in the 'Hornet's'

ll service to myself,

too weak, and get sl

I put off half till t

ayers gone up for us

m by sending us succo

f deep d

brother Henry 'bears up and keeps his strength the best of any on board.' 'I do not feel despondent at all, for I fully trust tha

at the 'Portyghee' had lain in his hammock for months, raising his family of abscesses and feeding like a cannibal. We have seen that in spite of dreadful weather, deprivation of sleep, scorching, drenching, and all manner of miseries, thirteen days of starvation 'wonderfully recovered' him. There were four sailors down sick when the ship was burned. Twenty-five days of pitiless starvation have followed, and now we have this curious record: 'All the men are hearty and strong; even the ones that were down sick are well, except poor Peter.' When I wrote an article some mo

s left, one-third of a

enty gallons of wa

the Revillagigedo Islands, so they are quite out of the question against the trades, rigged as this boat is. The nearest land available for such a boat is the American group, six hundred and fifty miles away, westw

urse (west by north) which we have made to-day.' Six hundred and fifty miles on a hatful of provisions. Let us be thankful, even after thirty-two

e of him; just that mention, that is all, with the simple remark added that 'he is one of our best men'-a high enough compliment for a duke or any other man in those manhood-testing circumstance

nd open and some of the crumbs are missing. 'We dislike to suspect any one of such a rascally act, but there is no question that this grave crime has been committed. Two days will certainly finish the remaining morsels. God grant us strength to reach the American group!' The third mate told me in Honol

tain has lost his gla

t prayer-books as muc

e is not famil

e says that if he had been offered the command of the ship sooner he should have brought h

) a day are as follows

ize of a penny for tea

ece of bread, each th

t.-Capta

cumference. Samuel Ferguson's diary says the ha

. Last night and to-

er and making us all

no doubt that only c

-preserved us through

most marvellous how ev

o us. It makes me thi

hes. Henry keeps up w

e. I somehow have grea

will soon be ended,

ck of both outward and

r chief hope is a whal

isles we are steeri

p are said to be doubt

the

y yet.-Cap

n that. A week later they

. Latitude 18 degree

. I cannot help thinki

me we had aboa

lies left-ten rations

d. BUT THE SUN SHINES

ain's

, June 3. Latitude 1

and from 4 A.M. very

t sluices, and soa

y the sea has been v

t swamped. Heaven gra

pense and condition a

o crawl, more than ste

rised to find that I w

The sun has been out

and hope for

egrees 6 minutes, lon

y any seas last night,

though it is still too

inder that water is we

ve had a good drying.

days to get a pair of

last succeeded. I me

e lived. If our chron

the American Isles to

e have only the chance

not eke out the provis

ur strength is failing

note how my legs hav

thicker than my upper

nite mercy, and feel

ve, as we have done,

bout ten days' fair pr

e, and these divided

sisted HUMAN art an

shed and

ins all gone.-

ly discontented, and

sing. God save us from

ake us himself, and n

l more.-He

. Quiet night and pr

lock show signs of fa

s something of a jo

We also had news fro

hreatening complaints

ble as foolish; still,

tting miserably weak,

not find those isles

the track of Sandwic

in the meantime. To-

t noon, with a small r

12 A.M., and a th

ttle piece of ham and

-Captai

men became alarming. Now we seem to see why that curious incident happened, so long ago; I mean Cox's return, after he had been far away and out of sight several days in the ch

ASSED BY HENRY

t that there is getti

en against the captai

he cause of all; that

o get provisions, and

hey had; and that par

ions aft.... asked C

r eat human flesh. C

him he would only be

nds we would do well t

he loudes

PL

. I think, and...

ND N

likely on...; but the

e is nothing definite

but starving men are

a watch on your pistol

dges safe

Dreadful forebodings.

the men getting to tal

own. Heart

assed some sea-weed an

ld tree, but no birds;

o-day it was said to

some of the men would

g the flesh, though

all full use of our re

gue, pestilence, and f

udden death, good

Latitude 16 degrees

Dry night and wind s

ut this A.M. an atte

hird mate tried and g

rrangement to reeve th

and almost fainting,

wice ascending, fixed

y exhausting work, an

The clue-iron which

lock works, however, v

on cut the rope. It i

ith the sail in good e

ak to do anyt

eals left.-C

Latitude 16 degrees 35

es W. Night wet and

sively that the Americ

me signs that looked

king any farther for t

, so as to get in the

ately come down prett

to 20 degrees to g

all the westing we ha

is wrong in our favou

trument can keep good

e get from the sea. Wi

eek from Sunday will

we are not safe by th

p

Islands; the provisions are virtually exhau

gh troubled me a goo

y any sleep at all. S

omplain. Yesterday the

he sail, after some di

op of the mast and rov

so that it now work

s no easy matter at a

austing in our presen

tra ration of water.

ading her up, however

wet; however, it canno

thing these times. O

lf a can of 'soup and

rrow. Henry still kee

e. God grant h

revails among the

. Latitude 17 degree

r whole stack of prov

ham-bone, with some

the water, however,

present rate of allo

from boot-legs and su

o weather it out till

in the meantime in

ked up. My hope is in

annot stand the other

d, and God, I hope, w

d way. The men are g

iet and

, June 10. Latitude

34 minutes. A pretty

nd again another beau

d all enjoy it at home

ir suspense must begin

fore very long, and H

ing we do, and has

e we left the ship we

iles, which, taking i

sions, is almost unpr

f food so much as I

y a good water-drinker

time, when I cannot.

g to do with

t they must manage somehow for five days more, for at noon they

very moment is valuable. I will take up the boy brother's dia

ERGUSON

am-bone has given us a

little meat and the r

never was there such

ughly appreciated....

did last Sunday, notwi

that we may all hav

ngs and hardships o

within seven hundred

average, daily, is s

pes have some foundat

all live t

and rind of our ham-

rom around the ham lef

h, and let us not pe

l alternative of feedi

nk anything could pers

when you are reduced b

pray we can make out

strait; but we have on

re quiet enough now.

WE ARE GOING

one.-Capta

n's log

, and we are fairly f

s. Good hope, but the

o-day. It is the capt

our yea

gs are not quite al

e very palatable after

I think, does some l

n

ot pain us much, but w

frightfully low. God

but feel better than I

cent rainbow-THE FIRS

; it's a prophecy-IT'

ver praised for His i

it and soon were SUR

d took the boat ash

men-Mr. Jones and hi

, women, and childr

and carried us up the

nd green coconuts; but

ose who would have eat

ed to see us, and all

ds. We were then help

nes and Charley are th

Gave us first about a

each a cup of warm tea

. Gave us later anothe

us go to rest. IT IS

rcy has heard our pray

rds cann

ve us a delightful be

not sleep-we were too

ot let it turn to a de

find ourselves i

ardship and heavy labour; the untrained, roughly-reared hard workers succumb. But in this case even the rudest and roughest stood the privations and miseries of the voyage almost as well as did the college-bred young brothers and the captain. I mean, physically. The minds of most of the sailors broke down in the fourth week and went to temporary ruin, but physically the enduran

y exhausted; they could not even pull an oar. They were helpless, and death imminent. It was then that they were discovered by the two Kanakas who achieved the rescue. They swam out and manned the boat, and piloted her through a narrow and hardly noticeable break in the reef-the only break in it

e captain and the two passengers did not eat strips and chips, as the sailors did, but scraped the boot-leather and the wood, and made a pulp of the scrapings by moistening them with water. The third mate told me that the boots were old and full of holes; then added thoughtfully, 'but the holes digested the best.' Speaking of digestion, here is a remarkable thing, and worth noting

hundred and fifty-one. He was already nearly half full of leather; it was hanging out of his ears. (I do not state this on the third mate's authority, for we have seen what sort of a person he was; I state it on my own.) The 'Portyghee' ought to have died, of course, and e

stretched his neck and made a brave, weak effort to do his duty once more, and died in the act. It is a picturesque detail; and so is that rainbow,

eality and thirty-three hundred and sixty by direct courses, and brought every man safe to land. A bright, simple-hearted, unassuming, plucky, and most companionable m

hed San Francisco. I do not think he lived to see his home aga

e heard of, but this hope suffered disappointment. They went down wi

tional art they rise toward the climax with graduated and gathering force and swing and dramatic intensity; they sweep you along with a cumulative rush, and when the cry rings out at last, 'Land in sight!' your heart is in your mouth, and f

We realize this when in Naples we stand musing over the poor Pompeian mother, lost in the historic storm of volcanic ashes eighteen centuries ago, who lies with her child gripped close to her breast, trying to save it, and whose despair and grief have been preserved for us by the fiery envelope which took her li

teen days of voyag

o sail yet, ne

delusion that the captain had a million dollars in gold concealed aft, and

APPET

gets in a small cellar up an obscure back lane in the First Bezirk-the name has escaped me, but the place is easily found: You inquire for the Greek church; and when you get to it, go right along by-the next house is that little beer-mill. It is remote from all traffic and all noise; it is always Sunday there. There are two small rooms, with low ceilings supported by massive arches; the arches and ceilings are whitewashed, otherwise the rooms would pass for cells in the dungeons of a bas

according to need. A flight to Marienbad to get rid of fat; a flight to Carlsbad to get rid of rheumatism; a flight to Kalteneutgeben to take the water cure and get rid of the rest of the diseases. It is all so handy. You can stand in Vienna and toss a biscuit into Kaltenleutgeben, with a twelve-

ienna; charming places, all of them; Vienna sits in the centre of a beautiful world of mount

densely wooded mountain, and is a building of great size. It is called the Appetite Anstallt, and people who have lost their app

lock. When did

no

did yo

to not

s on the

sual t

ens, vegetabl

mention them-I

tired o

sh I might never h

of food offend

it revo

, then got out a long menu a

hat you need to eat is-but

he top stood 'tough, underdone, overdue tripe, garnished with garlic;' half-way down the bill stood 'young cat; old cat; scrambled cat;' at the bott

s a case as mine. I came here to get an appeti

I am not joking; w

't eat the

y n

that was admirable, whet

been able to endure anything more substantial than ome

And you must eat them. It is a rule of the place, a

r, you will have to permit the dep

d in a way which change

whole living. If you should go forth from it with the sort of appetite which you now have, it could become known, and you can see, your

d and said

would not go; it would take the

at? Do they eat the

yes were full of gentle

y don't!

ainly

of a physician who doesn

ours since you lunched. Will

ve it off my mind. It is about my usual time, and regularity is commanded by all the authoriti

handed me th

will you ha

me to my room; I fo

oose now, the order will be filled at once; but if you wait, you will have to a

and send the cook to bed; ther

howed me into a most inviting and comfortable apart

ed hills clothed with forests-a noble solitude unvexed by the fussy world. In the parlour were

I will decide whether it shall be filled or not. Yours is a stubborn, bad case, and I think the first fourteen dishes in

re going to save money by me. The idea of coaxing a sick ma

less new engines of assassination. The doctor looked grieved, but not offended. He laid

a bad one and requires robust treatment; therefore I shall be gratified i

of-that unapproachable luxury-that sumptuous coffee-house coffee, compared with which all other European coffee and all American hotel coffee is mere fluid poverty. I rang, and ordered it; also Vienna

ter the first meal. I had not been particularly anxious to get out before; but it was different now. Being locked in makes a person wishful to get out. I soon began to find it difficult to put in the time. At two o'clock I had

the revolting dishes that ever famishing men had stayed their hunger with. During the first hours these things nauseated me: hours followed in which they did not so affect me; still other hours followed in which I found myself smacki

r down the list. Always a refusal. But I was conquering prejudice after prejudice, right along; I was making sure progres

my lips for sixty hours, victor

cken-in the egg; six do

doctor along with it, rubbing his hands

r, my grand system never failed-never. You've got your a

rion-I can eat any

d-but I knew I could do it, the sys

et as a rule I don't care for game. But don't interr

e docto

doubt nor danger. Let the poultry alone

was worth all the costly preparation I had made for it. And dripped tears of gratitude into the gravy all the time-gr