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"How ot?" Pinkey, an early caller at the Prouty House, sitting on his heel with his back against the wall, awaited with evident interest an answer to this pointed question He explained further in response to Wallie's puzzled look: "Kale--dinero--the long green--htened, "about 1,800" He was in his blue silk pajae like a knife-blade

There was no resemblance between this roo-blue alabastine had scaled, exposing large patches of plaster, and the sa had happened to the enamel of the wash-bowl and pitcher--the dents in the latter leading to the conclusion that upon some occasion it had been used as a weapon

A former occupant who must have learned his art in the penitentiary had knotted the lace curtains in such a fashion that no one ever had attempted to untie they pillows and counterpane and sagging middle, was such as to throw a chill over the spirits of the cheeriest traveller

It had required all Wallie's will pohen he had arrived at ht, to rise above the depression superinduced by these surroundings His luggage was piled high in the corner, while the two trunks setting outside his doorway already had been the cause of threats of an alaruests who had bruised their shins on thehted corridor

Pinkey's arrival had cheered him wonderfully Nohen that person observed tentatively that 1,800 was "a good little stake," Wallie blithely offered to count it

"You got it with you?"

Wallie nodded

"That's chancey," Pinkey commented "They's people in the country would stick you up if they knowed you carried it"

"I should resist if any one atteingerly with his bulging wallet

"What with?" Pinkey inquired, humorously

Wallie reached under his pillow and produced a pearl-handled revolver of 32 calibre

"Before leaving I purchased this pistol"

Pinkey regarded him with a pained expression

"Don't use that dude word, feller Say 'gun,' 'gat,' 'six-shooter,' anything, but don't ever say 'pistol' above a whisper"

A little crest-fallen, Wallie laid it aside and commenced to count his money Pinkey, he could see, was not ihteen hundred exactly I spent 250 purchasing a ca outfit"

Pinkey looked at hi-pan, coffee-pot, and lard-kettle of which his own consisted He made no comment, however, until Wallie mentioned his portable bath-tub, which, while expensive, he declared he considered indispensable