Felix O'Day

ng related to his meeting with Father Cruse. "Ye'll not find a better man

im distinct pleasure to meet him, adding: "A big man with a big soul, that priest of yours, Mis

ady as yet, he said to himself, for friendships among men of his own intellectual caliber. In the future he might decide otherwise. For the present, at least, he meant to find whatever peace and

lf that this great middle class was really the backbone of the whole civil structure about him, its self-restraint, sanity, and cleanliness

t in their business relations, each one going about his appointed task and leaving the other fellow unmolested in his. Here, too, were women, good mothers to their children and good wives to th

eepers near by, most of whom were welcome to Kitty's sitting-room and kitchen, and all of whom had shared her coffee. Or it might be that he would call at Digwell's, whose undertaker's shop was across the way and whose door was always open, the

d have shaken their heads in disparaging wonder. Had you asked Felix he would have answered with a smile: "Why to hear Digwell laugh!" And then, warming to his subject, he would have told you what a very jolly person Digwell really was, if you were fortunate enough to find him

tle about drugs-just enough to keep him out of the hands of the police-but then none of you are aware, perhaps, that Pestler is also a student? You might think, when you saw only the top of his fuzzy, half-bald head sticking up above the wooden partition, that he was put

and rather despising Pestler, who got his theatre tickets free because he allowed the managers the use of his windows for advertisements. Felix forgave even his frozen roses whenever the Scotchman, having found a sympathetic listener, launched out upon hi

ightful half-hour, watching him handle the sea food, as he calls it, in his big refrigerator. I got a look, too, at his chest and his arms, and at his pretty wife and children. She is really the best type of the two. American, you say, both of them, and a fine pair they are, and he tells me he pulled a surf-boat in your coast

, that Polly Codman will be drivin' through Central Park in her carriage before five ye

e the American comes in-or, perhaps it is the New Yo

not told you-and not then unless you had looked close and followed the lines of care deep cut in his face and the wrinkles that crowded close to his deep, hollowed-out eyes. When he was a boy of two, his sister, a girl of six, had let him drop to the sidewalk, and he had never since straightened his back. The customary outlets by which fully equipped men earn their living having been denied Tim

e a look at it, Otto," he said, after pausing a moment to get his breath, the volume being heavy. "There is more brass than leather on the outside, and more paint

he bridge of his flat nose. "Vell! Dot is a funn

h century, I thi

's funny, for he lives over at Kitty's. Vell, dis is him-Mr. Felix O'Day. Tim Kelsey is an olt friend of mine,

amps, turning the book to the light of the window so as to examine the chasing the closer. Tim, who had been watching him, remarked the ease with which he handled the volu

s seventeenth century, Mr. Kel

should