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clubs huge quiet and graceful hotels such as the old and the long since destroyed and the very graceful cathedral of st all the cross streets in this area were lined uniformly with or red brick houses of the same height and general appearance a high flight of steps leading to the front door a side gate and door for ser...	43
or two it had its way to the front and this was due a book about myself to him and none other the rest was merely fair commercial management of what he provided in great abundance while he waited for his theatrical season to resume he was most prepared to entertain one who might be interested to see this night after di...	43
and times and buildings all facing city hall park sighing for the opportunities that they represented but i did not act something about a book about myself them me especially the the editor of whidi had begun his career in st louis years before with the western papers with which i had been connected all new york papers...	43
of those breaking out in connection with the care of prisoners in some local or state jail i saw how self interest the hope of pleasure or the fear of pain caused or or a to on prisoners feed them rotten meat torture them into silence and submission and then politics interfering the hope of pleasure again and the fear ...	43
with this great newspaper world to be conquered and i did not see how it was to be done at four in the afternoon i turned my steps northward along the great bustling commercial to street walking all the way and staring into the shops those who recall sister s wanderings may find a taste of it here in union square befor...	43
must be the influence of a star of fortune surely now if i liad the least trace of ability i should be in a better position than i had ever been in before i looked about the great room as i waited patiently and and saw on the walls at intervals printed cards which read accuracy accuracy accuracy who what where t the th...	43
about he was the important one or might be that lie prove that the others were f or in error proposed suggestions for news features as to policy and what not were coming in from him every hour cable or telegraph nearly every issue of any was being submitted to him by the same means he was as described by this same irel...	43
by a green shield v i took to be the night editor so large was the pile of copy beside him but when i ventured to approach him he merely glared the city desk s not closed yet he growled wait they come back i retired again presently one of the reappeared and i reported to him nothing to it eh t he observed but there oug...	43
very paper i read the noblest and most about duty character the need of a higher sense of and what not i used to frown at the shabby of it the cheap that would allow a great to and drive his a book about myself at one end of his house and deliver as to virtue duty industry honesty at the other however despite these lit...	43
me to others and all confirmed the conclusions which i was reaching new york was difficult and the police and were a menace vice was wealth was cold and brutal in new york the or had scarcely any chance at all save as a servant the city was with hungry men of all descriptions newspaper writers included after a few week...	43
to the ways of the city and acquainted with its interesting and eccentric might make something out of this and not come to grief but not i and so i let it go that i was losing an excellent opportunity and i think that my city editor thought so too when i returned and told him that i could not find anything new in conne...	43
evil in any form he was to concern himself with the the true the beautiful many of these young men pretended to an intimate working knowledge of many things society politics and what not else several had evidently made themselves indispensable as ship of arriving and departing and these were now pointed out to me as me...	43
could have devised or something but as it was the nature of this world depressed me so that i could not have written anything very much worth while if i had wanted to there was the for that horrible place daily from the ever flowing waters about new york there were or washed up in all stages and degrees of the and of t...	43
few weeks or months to make their way as best they might and really worse off than when they came for now they were in a weak condition physically as well as and sometimes as i noticed on the day of their going the weather was most and the old wrinkled washed out clothing out to them in which they were to once more wan...	43
brilliant mission and returning somehow covered with i hurried to the of the in washington street near fifth avenue this same morning and asked to see the business after a short wait i was permitted a book about myself to enter the of this great person who to me of the splendor of the front office seemed to be the equa...	43
not done so and so hundreds claimed that they had written letters and received no answer at the end of the or third day before christmas it was found necessary of the confusion and uncertainty to throw the doors wide open and give to all and sundry who looked worthy of whatever was left or handy we the clerks being the...	43
away she was in time for c came into the back and said oh there yon are i wondered where yon were i was looking over your said tea i added i was to her oh yea laughed my sister you and al i know what you two were trying to do yoa she exclaimed giving me a push and al the silly she has a beau already she laughed and we...	43
come back and he walked off this gave me at least a definite idea as to how i might begin but just the same it did not get me a position meanwhile here and there and not finding anything i decided since i had had experience as a and must live while i was making my way into to return to this work and see if i might not ...	43
to a or to dinner when i arrived on the scene i must have all this for after a time because i manifested some opposition leaving her no choice indeed and sundays became my evenings and any others that i chose regardless of my numerous and no doubt defects she was in love with me and willing to accept me on my own terms...	43
and myself as the proper i got the money and returned it to her but either because of her increasing illness or because she still wanted to keep it a secret when paul mentioned it in another letter she said she had not received it then she died and the matter of the money came up it was proved by inquiry at the that th...	43
in germany and in england and what they stood for was in part at least within the e of my if not my exact in america washington the history of the civil war and the subsequent drift of the nation to and so to were all within my and private and now this national in regard to political and advancement the swelling tides ...	43
a member of the staff which my position a little during this time i noticed that as soon as all the bad gone the editor became most genial with the one writer who sat next him and the two often went oft together for a bite and yet hours although i felt all the time as though i were on the edge of some great change stil...	43
achieved one friend at court advised me to stick get on he said a day or two later i believe you ve got the in yon maybe i can help yon probably be like every other damned newspaper man once yon get a start an hut help yon just the same hang that will begin in three or four weeks now i ll speak a good word for you unle...	43
for a week or two anyhow and assigned to watch the committee rooms in the hotels pacific and there was another youth who was set to work with me on this and he gave me some slight instruction over us was the political man who other men in different hotels and whose presence i had only noted when the was nearly over if ...	43
gold who eyed me very severely he sat down and examined my copy with brows he had a round face which seemed all the more ominous he could fiercely and his eyes could blaze with a cold examining glance this is awful stuff he said as he read the first page he s quite r ht yon want to try and remember that you re not the ...	43
or would the candidate where could i get the the third da i talked to about it and as a favor he oat a paper in which a rough was made which showed that the choice between david hill and with a third man as a dark horse sentiment seemed to be him and in case no agreement could be reached b the new york as to which of i...	43
i ever saw he said at one place out a great of my staff but you seem to know how to get the news just the same and you re going to be able to write if i could keep you under my thumb for four or five weeks i think i could make something out of you at this i ventured to lay one hand over his in an affectionate and yet a...	43
that i was destined to become one of the greatest newspaper men that ever lived but this brought me no additional glory i did write a description of the thing as a whole bat a portion of it was used i did get some details of committee work which were probably in the political man s general summary the next day being in...	43
writers how often have i been told to imitate charles in thought and manner i the city wanted not so much bare facts as feature stories color romance and although i did not see it clearly at the time i was their man write t why i write npon any topic when at last i discovered that i could write at all one day some one ...	43
from notions as to how people were to act and what they were to think to a certain extent they were confused by the general american passive acceptance of the sermon on the mount and the as governing principles but in the main they were all of these things and of conventional principles in general they did not believe ...	43
early even i began to adopt a toward this very work twice i took her to a once to an oi an recital and once for a stroll in park by which time she seemed inclined to yield to my to the extent of permitting me to put my arms about her and even to kiss her protesting always that i was wanton and forward and that she did ...	43
of view there was nothing to the story but i decided to follow it to the end i found the house to which the boy had taken the girl but they had just left i found the parents of the youth simple plain working people who knew nothing of his whereabouts something about the wretched little homes of both families the the po...	43
administration was now anti and these were not mr s nothing was left undone by ns to stop this traffic we d and it was true that though victims daily appeared before the police to complain that they had been and to ask for nothing was done by the i cannot now recall what it was about my treatment of these institutions ...	43
in cash for it don t yon mention me no more now be a nice young now i m a bard man just like anybody else i run a honest place i carried the pin back to the office and gave it to he stared at me in amazement why did yon do this he exclaimed you t have taken this at all it may get the paper in trouble they may have had ...	43
the greatest that ever lived make the most of chance of course go let s see it a tuesday our regular week ends friday you hand in your resignation now to take effect and go sunday give you some letters that will a book about myself yon and he at once to his desk and wrote a of and tliat ht and for days after until i t...	43
he to say see mr in the city room mr am tour salary will be am am twenty dollars to b with he was a cigar and his words and he tamed to his papers not a word not a sign that he knew i had ever written a line worth while i to the handsome city room and only empty i sat down and waited of an old papers and staring ea...	43
houses it was the region between the river and north about a mile above the and at the character of the stores never in d life had i seen such old buildings all brick and all a book about crowded together with solid wood or iron shutters after those of france from whence its al came and having something of the of the p...	43
shut up the other ton re too noisy i ve got a of work ahead of me yet tonight i got your work is she over sixteen f wish i had your job folded up some copy paper and put it into his pocket and walked into the room where the little assistant was toiling away over the night s of news i still sat there looking curiously o...	43
of sheer weariness i assume tired of an world it was not until long after when i was much better able to judge him and his that i understood what a really big thing he had done built up a journal of national and even significance in a region which one would have supposed could never have supported anything mc e than a ...	43
another way the world took and which had little in common with the strait and narrow path of the not all men in little things or lie or cheat but how few fail to compromise in big ones perhaps i would not have deliberately lied about anything at least not in important matters and i would not now ordinary circumstances ...	43
who was not a and so there i was a complete failure to begin with the and pains that went with all this uie amazing depression all but how often have i looked into comfortable homes and wished that some kindly family would give me shelter and yet half knowing that had it been ofl i would have refused it how often have ...	43
closer between all classes of labor in regard to all matters relating to the rights of labor and capital i was at this time perfectly ignorant although i was a myself in a fair sense of the word i was more or less ont of sympathy with not as a class for their rights i did not know what their rights or wrongs were bnt m...	43
and another and always i went with a and sinking sensation and always i came away from it breathing a sigh of relief to me it was a horrible place a hole of suffering and error and and yet enough i know chapter i was down the marble hall of our floor one day not long after i arrived when i noted on a door at its extrem...	43
end life of st louis which was so interesting to both of us far more than myself i am sure he seemed to be with an inward rebellion against the fact that he was poor not included in the exclusive pleasures of the rich at the same time be was growing with a desire to make other people imagine that he was or soon would b...	43
person than john t one of the newspaper men of st louis and a former editor of this same paper also by a mr somebody the washington correspondent of the paper for whom i had worked in on the world s fair he had to the art department with bis tales of me wishing i fancy to be on friendly and happy terms there dick howev...	43
to save him which resulted in her failure and his death on the a priest figured in it in some way grim to this day some of the scenes of this book come back to me as been done the fight between the two for one thing a t feast with several the gallows scene a confession i am not sure of the name of the newspaper man wh...	43
the various hotels or into short tales about six to the one at least being to a at each of the three hotels the others standing as things heard at the union station or npon the street previous to arrival this had been written by various men the last one having been the already famous w c then editor of the brilliant by...	43
from the towers in the distance is great then the harmony of the color work in the stones of the buildings is something exquisite you want to see it i myself growing this intimate conversation with men a book about of marked ability in a room too which was the of an artist s personality raised my sense of latent abilit...	43
or were by internal fires as in the case of the fascinating and minded john t to their own that great that warm heart the for indulging in these moods was to the act that i had plenty of time on my hands that just st this time i was more interested in seeing than in reading and that the three principal hotels here sout...	43
of the side lines of the i could not make np my mind whether i wanted to fight or laugh or whether i was handsome or a howling but the thing that weighed on me most was the enough perhaps to those intimately connected with it which this ball presented contrasted with my o state after spending three ng examining flowers...	43
the office and and some my staff pretty good and i was beside with glee i strolled about as though i owned the earth pretending simplicity and humility but actually believing that i was the finest ever that no one could me at this game of chapter nearly as sharp and as well calculated to one to on the wonder the the un...	43
main took them seriously enough my favorite question was what did they think of life its meaning since this was in my mind at the time and i think i asked it iso a book about of ver one of them from john l to and wh t a of doctrines i what a noble of ideas i in a room at the southern with flowers am ed in a cool silken...	43
in connection with the you did not dare tell them that yon came as an enemy or were bent on exposing them one had to approach all even the worst and moat degraded as a friend and pretend an interest perhaps even a sympathy one did not feel to apply the oil of flattery to the to do less than this was to lose the news an...	43
to the front office to explain to ur which i did in detail he said it all did he asked and i insisted that he had i know it s true he said for other people have told me that he said the same things before day there was a defiant in the defending me my the fact that the truth of the interview waa by previous words and d...	43
a worm i scarcely believe my eyes or my senses my hair rose on end my hands i ran forward off my coat and threw it over him to the spots of bnt it was of no my coat began to bom with my bare hands i tore grass and from the ditch and piled them npon the sufferer for the moment i was beside myself with terror and misery...	43
account tou saw it that s right echoed got em licked that ll all right he to beat the other sunday papers it was saturday night s sick confided youve saved his bacon he hates a big story because he s always afraid he won t cover it right and it always him but he knows you ve got em beat give him credit for it all right...	43
and my past work here with this a book ab t t myself last error m ana now to find me ont pride before i quoted and a ty spirit before by eight o clock i reached the i was depressed and in expecting the of the train had late had to be on this occasion t and i did not reach the office in time to take an evening oat whi...	43
controlled by a reckless eager impulse mr i said without further i want to know if you won t make me editor i bear that has and the position is open i t maybe yon t give it to me i and i will he replied simply and you re editor tell mr to let yon be it i started to thank him bnt the little figure moved in differently a...	43
for a high form of was considerable and yet daring the few months that i was dramatic editor and the following year when i was a member of another staff and had to these same i saw only one or two actors worthy the name only one or two performances i ch i can now deem worth while and stand la my mind as excellent and s...	43
any description which went before in acts one and two which not be straightened out in the last act the spirit of these plays my fancy at that time and elevated me into a world of which unfortunately fell in with the wildest of my youthful love as i saw it here set forth in all those gorgeous or sentimental was the onl...	43
all my pain and misery was plainly caused by just a lack or as thia had i these things all be well without them well i was very miserable i was ready to accept if by that i could get what i wanted while not ready to admit that all people were as deserving as i by ai the sad state of the poor was a constant with me bat...	43
force and taste and care in his paper was a shining for a thing like this he was as a and extremely conspicuous whatever he did or said good bad or indifferent was invariably the of local newspaper comment and when any little or error appeared in the it was always charged to him personally and so it was with this over ...	43
take me about with him to one or more of the most description in the of the section which same he had discovered and with the of which he was on the best of terms they were really hang for and thieves and characters generally was the beginning of the chinese in america bat not so to wood he had the happy faculty of him...	43
could ht me were and he saw beauty and romance in many and strange ways and places i have seen him enter a dirty horrible saloon in one of st louis s lowest regions with the air of a prince charming and there seat himself at some table his patent leather low quarters the or floor order beer and then smiling upon all be...	43
sands of my little life s down and was i so m the strength time the love time i the gay time of color and romance be gone and if i had not spent it folly richly what there be left for me then the joys of a heaven or hereafter ed no part in my wan ma one was dead for all time hence the reason for the over f the tragedy ...	43
and extreme perhaps and his own vigor and point of view a book in making a deep on me at once he was a queer little man so different from and restless with eyes so piercing that they reminded one of a hawk s and a skin so that it was italian in quality and made all the more emphatic by a large nose pierced by b nostr...	43
down be here in a little while then well go out and get something we fell to discussing the attitude of the people on the after i had left wood insisted that he had not heard he knew that was glad i was gone as he might well have been had reported to him that had raised with and that two or three of the on the staff ha...	43
without knowing really what i was talking about i made the statement that indicated so and so one of my sharp suddenly took me up with say what is anyhow t do you z was completely for i didn t it was a com a about mt new word outside the being used here and there in and and i had taken it over i about and finally had t...	43
the four courts him then if he don t mind ye and ye him arrested er locked up i can help ye that way but not otherwise go to the courts sometimes in the case of a parent complaining of a s or sou s he would a little and a see if ye can bring him around here tell him that the captain to see him then if be see what i can...	43
all that he had far been able to collect i saw him dead before me in no time at all or thought i did here johnson i called to another of onr friends who came np then help me with body he s drank and he s got a box of and he s trying to take them i knocked them oat of his hand and now he s eaten a lot of them here body...	43
and then sought to take the same tack only instead of describing the aspirations and of the two rival in general terms i assumed a specific interest and on the part of certain of their chief officers who even now aa i proceeded to assert and with names and places given in different parts of the were spending days and n...	43
at all as the days went on i was assured that owing to my efforts the game was certain to be a book about ht a big that it was tlie most the had ever and that it net the fund thousand dollars for four or five weeks then it seemed to me as though i were walking on air life was so different so pleasant these hot bright d...	43
i the well known writer of st louis the well he would get scant attention from me and the more he let me alone the better it be for him and all of and now w also began to me by attempting to give me instructions as to what was wanted and how i was to write it although as i understood it i was now working for the managi...	43
at a vast expense of energy and will power i managed to achieve a smile it was pathetic isn t train riding just glorious t exclaimed one of these bright faced i bet i haven t been on a a book twice before in all my life and look at i do it all t don t it i d love to i wish i could travel all the time oh don t yon thoug...	43
went very against the grain being very of my dignity in the presence of others and knowing the american and middle west attitude toward all these new and persistently toys and pleasures of the east and england i was inclined to look upon this one as out of place in besides a canvas strip on the coach the of this expedi...	43
you re out like that i know it s hard to think of the and your but you shouldn t neglect them oh lord i thought now he a off again i this is the same old story religion but i do go i you mustn t worry about me i know he said with a catch in his voice bnt a book about i can t help it yon know it is the children th don ...	43
we to talk daily in this building at eight or nine or ten at night i filed a report or message about one thousand words long and was pleased to bee by the papers that arrived that my text was used about as i wrote it loving the i grounds of the fair so much i there nearly all day long and all evening now one girl and n...	43
and laid hold of her fingers she did not stir pretending not to notice but i felt that she was also ton asked about miss w i said what made you do oh i thought you liked her why shouldn t it it never occurred to yon that i might like some one else certainly not why should it i pressed her fingers softly she turned on m...	43
might be greatly grieved at times in a high way they not last bnt that was rising to heights of sentiment which even myself one of the things which troubled and astonished me was that i like two three and even more women at the same time like them very indeed it seemed strange that i over now one and now another a good...	43
in the eye and yon could not for life pat it there the apparently did not want it attacked or if it did there were forces sufficiently to keep it from obtaining its wishes the police were supposed to extract regular from one and all in this area as er in the little paper he ran charged but this paper had no weight the ...	43
in which i about thinking how fine it all waa and wondering how i was to proceed about all this once she appeared suppose proved to be a fierce and soul well able to bold her own or suppose there was some mistake about this letter or the statement of the landlady i as i was walking up a book about myself and down quite...	43
and o i m from the i began and we have a story r a chaise that has been made against you today in one of the police stations he eyed me with a nervous uncertainty that was almost he did not seem to be able to speak at first on something a bit of tobacco possibly not bo loud he said come out here i ll give you ten dolla...	43
him invaluable to a city editor when some of his stories were given to me to we were thrown into immediate and contact because of his and when he knew he could not write two good sentences in order i frequently wanted to brain him but took it out in smiles and dry cynical comments his favorite were and i tub him or tub...	43
s sake that that name will do as well as any other an ex of the pacific had been arrested by for the road and express company for the crime and that npon searching his room they had found most of the stolen money also of other facts with which he had been confronted he had confessed that he and he alone had been guilt...	43
t know whether it stops here or not but it may it s due now but sometimes it s a little late have to run for it thou yon haven t a minute to spare a book about myself ton fool me about a thing like this would i not for anything i know how yon feel if yoa can get on that train yon find him they ve taken him off somewher...	43
cheap clothes of a a blue shirt gray trousers brown coat and a red handkerchief tied his neck on his head was a small round brown hat pulled down over his eyes he had the still indifferent expression of a captive bird and when i came np after and sat down be scarcely looked at me or at between him and the car window to...	43
and bills being in all the while between st louis and the east and city and the west and although express messengers even at this time owing to numerous train which had been in the west lately were always well armed still these had not been without success the death of messengers and even passengers who ventured to pro...	43
blow open the safe throwing ont the of and coin as he commanded bat this time the danger of either or passengers climbing down from the cars in the rear and coming forward he had fired a few shots toward the passenger calling fa imaginary companions to keep watch there at the same time to throw the fear of death into t...	43
i know what tbey ii do for me if the paper will let them but i know the paper won t let them and besides you re not going to be able to claim in the morning that this man was brought to tiie first i know you don t begin to try to pat anything over me i won t stand for it see t and if these people do it anyhow make a k...	43
rival to be he s put it all over me on this job and i had him beaten i had him where i could have him off the train and now i let him do this to me and tomorrow there be a long in the telling a book about how this fellow was there first and and his picture to prove it i i swore and groaned for i walked towards the re...	43
and walking back to his chair i following ami i don t think you understand quite how i felt about that i was sorry to see you go and he cleared his throat it was an unfortunate mistake all around i want you to know that i did not blame yoa so much um you might have been relieved of other work i don t want to take you ...	43
connection with our troubled lives with a sadness an ache a desire to remedy or repair if possible some of the ills and pains that had beset us au we bad not always been unhappy together what family ever has we had over trivial things but there had been many happy and now we were separated and these two brothers were n...	43
before and after they came how and no i painted the city ot st louis its large size opportunities etc and once they were here i pat myself to the task of showing them its charms but to no avail we went about together to places as long as it was new and they felt that there was some hope of finding work they were gay an...	43
i work save advance myself and better my condition generally so as to be worthy of her at the very same time i was still able to lee beauty in other women and the delights of those who would never be able to be as good as she i they might be good for me bnt far beneath her whose eyes were too pure to evil a book about ...	43
of the wood or water her a seeking in her eyes a breath of wild win in her hair a to her month and yet she was so a simple and inexperienced country girl firm and fast in american and and with no hint in her mind of all the wild mad ways of the world sometimes i have grieved that she ever met me or that i so little mys...	43
and spirits in a few years i should be neither so young nor so vital age would descend cold gray thin this glorious glorious period of love desire would be gone and then what t ah and then what i if i did not achieve now and soon all that i desired in die way of tenderness fortune beauty now when i was young could enj...	43
we now conversed more he touched the coat and with interest felt of the quality of the cloth looked me up and down seemingly with admiration more likely with amazement shook his head and said some class i must say you re right there sport with the and walked off it was in this style that i my for my ordinary day s la...	43
to tell her she np a borrowed a horse and everybody along the route she s the one that first the news here was a story indeed midnight a dark woods lonely country a girl from three a horse and tells all the what more could a newspaper man i was all ears now if she were only good looking i i dow that my first duty was n...	43
simple home on what had once been a farm her father who opened the door was a german of the most rigid and austere mien a i think her mother a simple and pleasant looking fat in the noon ii t my heroine was neither so nor so as she had seemed the n ht before there was something less alive and less delicate in her com...	43
office with or that a day or a book about two would make no at the end of the second after spoke to me of big being here the latter said don t yon want to come along with me and see i was delighted at the invitation and tiiat same evening followed to john s hotel room it was a meeting fall of an odd on my part and i kn...	43

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