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Show I Helping the Other Fellow : By O. Henry I (Continued from yesterday "And t hrn Wain wright be gins to talk; but the president Interrupt him. " 'You Yankees,' says he, polite, 'assuredly 'as-suredly takr the tak tor assurance. I ' twmp yon or -word to that effect., Ha spoke Knirhh teller than you or in. 'lou'Vf Iim.4 a long wuik.' hf, "but IVm mvt-r in th cool morning 10 ! walk than to rll. M;iy i UBt t no me refrenhmt-nta T Hays hv. " 'Kum,' . uyn Wain wrlght. ' XJitnme a cigar,' aaya 1. "W.il, mr. thn two talked an hour, keeping the generalH and etiultlea all In tn-.j- good untforma waltlnc outside the fence. And while I amoked, silent, 1 listened to Clifford Wainwrifjht mak-' mak-' Ing a solid republic out of the wreck of one. I didn t follow his arguments with any special collocation of intema-. intema-. tlonal Intelligibility , but he hud Mr. (Jomea' attention glued and riveted.; He takes out a pencil and marka the white linen tablfcloth all over with j figures and etttlmatfit and deductions. He speaks more or lea.i diri ctf ully of Import and export dutit-a and customhouse cus-tomhouse receipts and taxes and treaties an-l budgets and cono anions and Huch truck that pulitir-a and government gov-ernment require; and when he gets through the Gomei man hop up and phake.1 his hand and says he's saved the country and the people. "I found out afterward t hat Wain-1 wright wns a regular beachcomber J the smartest man on the whole coast. but kt nt ilovn bv rum I liked him. I Tell im', what would this job you speak of pay ."" "Why," said I, hesitating over commerce, com-merce, "1 should say fifty or a hundred dollars a monin maybe two hundred' "Ain't It funny," ttatd Trotter. 1gging IIh toes in the kand, "what a chump a man Is when It tomrs to paddling his own canoe I don't know, of course. I'm not making a living here. I'm on the bum. lint well, I wish you could have seen that Timotea. Kvery man has his own weak spot." The gig from the Andador was coming com-ing ashore to take out the capisn, purser and myself, the lone passenger. "I'll g-uarantee," eald I confidently, "that my brother will pay you seventy five dollars a month.' "All right, then," said William Trotter. Trot-ter. "I'll" Hut a soft voice called across the biasing sands. A girl, faintly lemon-tinted, lemon-tinted, stood in the Calle Real and called. he was bare-armed but what of that? "Us herV said William Trotter, looking. "She's come back! Jin obliged; but I cant take th Job. Thanks, Just the same. Ain't It funny how w can't do nothing for ourselves, but we ran do wonders for the other fellow? You wm about to get me with your financial proposition; but w e've all got our weak points. Timotea's mine. And, say!'' Trotter had turned to leave, but he retraced his step or two that he had taken. "I like to have left you without saying goodbye," said he. "It kind of rattles you when thev go away unexpected for a month and come back the same way. Hhake hands, ro long' Hay, do you remember remem-ber them gunshots we heard a while ago up at the cuartel? Well, 1 knew h hat they was, hut I didn't mention lilt li-lt was t'ltffoid Wain w right being shot hy a suad of soldiers against a stone wail for giving away secrets of state to that Ni carnal a republic- Oh, yes. It was rum that did It. He backs. ided and got his. 1 guest wg all have our weak points, and can't do much toward helping ourselves. Mine's waiting for me. i d have liked to have that Job with your brother, but we've all got our weak points. Ho loner' e e e e A big black Carib carried me on his back through the surf to the ship's boat, im the way the purser handed me a letter that he had brought for me at the last moment from the post-office post-office In Aguaa Kreacas. It was from my brother. He requested me to meet him at the St. Charles hotel In Mew Orleans and accept a position with his house in either cotton, sugar or sheeting, and with five thousand dollars dol-lars a year as my salary. When 1 arrived at the Crescent City I hurried away far away from the St. Charles to a dim chambre garnle In Bienville street. And there, looking down from my attic window from time to time at the old, yellow, absinthe house acroKs the street, I wrote this story to buy my bread and butter. "Can them that helps others help thimselvcs?" fThe Knd "One day 1 Inveigled him Into a walk out a couple of ruliea from the villa1, a here there was an old Kraxfl hut on th bank of a little rtver. Whll he was sitting- on the tfras, talking; beautiful beau-tiful of the wisdom of the world that he had learned in books. I took hold of him easy and tied his hands and fart together with leather thongs that 1 had In rny pocket. " l-le still,' says I, 'and meditate on the e&lirenries and Irregularities of life till 1 set back.' "I went to a shack In Aruas Frees where a miirhty wise (fir I named Timotea Cnrrir.o lived with her mother. The sTirl was Just about as nice as you ever saw. Jn the states she would have been railed a brunette; but she was better than a brunette I should say she was what you might term an ecru shade. 1 knew her pretty well. I told heh about my friend Waliiwrlxht. tine gave me a double handful of bark calipers. 1 think it was and some more herbs that I was to mix with It, and told me what to do. I was to make tea of It and give It to him, and seep him from rum for a certain time. And for two weeks I did It. You know. X liked Wain wright Hoth of us was broke; but Timotea sent us goat-meat and plantains and tortillas every day; and at lajtt I irot the rum of drink lifted from Clifford Wainwrikht. He lost his taste for It. An1 in the cool of the evening him anil me would sit oa the roof of Timotea's mother's hut. eating harntlt-s truck like coffee and rice and stewed crabs and playing the 1 accordion. ! "About that time r resident Oomes found out that the a1vice of C W'atn-wriftrht W'atn-wriftrht was the stuff he had been look-Ins; look-Ins; for. The country was pulling out of debt, and the treasury had enough boodle In It for him to amuse himnflf occasionally with the night-latch. The people were beginning to take their two-hour siesta a sain every day which wa the surest sign of prosper-uy prosper-uy "So down from the resu'ar capital he sends for fllf ford Wain wright and makes htm his private Keeretary at , twenty thousand l'eni dollars' a year. V -la- an nillKh U'alea.eiifh u.al (on the watr wag-en thanx to me snd Timotea and he was sooa in clover with th government gang. Ion't for-i for-i get whst done it csjissya bark with j them other herbs mixed make a tea i of it. snd give a cupful every two i hours. Try it yourself. It takes away I I he desire. I "As 1 sntd. a man can do s lot more i for another party than he can for himself him-self Wainwright, with his brains, got a whole country out of trouMe and on its fevt: hut what could he ilo for himself? him-self? And without any special brains, but with some rii-rvf and common sense, I put him on his feet hecauMe I never had the weakness that he did nothing but a cigar fur mine, thanks. And Trotter paused. I looked at his tattered tat-tered clot he-. nml at h' drvpty sunburnt, sun-burnt, hard, thoughtful fac Ildn't tartwnnlit evr offer to do anything f'r you?" 1 asked. "Wamwrtghi." corrected Trotter. "Yes. lie offr-d me some pretty good fobs. Hut Id have had to leave Agues Krescsss. so 1 didn't lake any of 'em up. Siv, l didn i tell vou much about tli at gr! Timotea. We rather hit it off together. She was as good as you find Vm anvwhere Spanish, mostly, with Jut s twist pf lmcn-peeroa top. What if they dd ;ivt in a griss hut an-d wnt bare-armed "A inn i It aa." went en Trotter, she went aay 1 don t know where, to. Bui " "You'd better covne back ' to the itatfB." I Insisted "1 can promise you i ponitivelv that my brother will give you a position in ro'ton. suarnr or sheetinars 1-sm pot cerra.n which." think she went back with her mother." said Trotter, "to the viHaee la the mouataims that they some f rem- |