Part 5 (1/2)
”You'll fetch one? How _dear_ of you! We'll trim it--with your roses--make it bloom Come early and help me dress the tree”
Two hours later he opened the door into his breakfast-roouiltiness of a truant boy He wore culprit sha ht almost have read his friend's dejection in his eerly forward, answered the season's greetings, and said quickly:
”Are you still in the same mind about the West, Mr Bulstrode?”
(Poor Bulstrode!)
”Io _alone_?”
Bulstrode gasped
”Since last night a lot has happened to me, not only since you've befriended me, but since I tussled with that fellow here I'd like a chance to see what I can do alone If you, as you so generously plan, go with me, I shall feel watched--protected It eaken o all to pieces, but I'd like to try th If I could suddenly master that chap with my fists after months of dissipation----”
Bulstrode finished for hiive me any extra money,” pleaded the tramp, as if he foresaw his friend's impulse ”Pay my ticket out West, if you will, and write to the man who is there, and I'll start in”
Bulstrode beamed on him
”You're a man,” he assured him--”a man”
”I may become one”
”You're a fine fellow”
”You'll trust me, then?”
”Implicitly”
”Then let et off at the first station and pawn my clothes and drink and drink to a lower hell than before--but let o to-day”
Prosper ca, and the servants below-stairs were all agog Waring was a hero
”Prosper,” said his master, in French, ”will you, after you have served breakfast, go out to the market quarters and see if you can discover for me a medium-sized, very well-proportioned little Christ smiled faintly