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Show CONDENSED 1 classics I I & y I pUDD'NHEAD WILSON $ I I B Br MARK TWA'1 ' H condensation by Jehn Kendrlck Bangs, g. I "I an aorry to ""HsW. know 70a are Hj ,H amoklna; no much, I HHsMnaiv?' Mr. Clemena," r- HHHnK marked lady In HHHRPfT Mark Tnnin'i I HHWv' '' ? h da'a' "Ti HHf I la the aecond time fc.! within the week HHjfMK'j I have Been yon HHIC' with a box cl-HBRxu cl-HBRxu enra andcr your HLV'JkA 1 """ "Don't be HHkHflL.v' I dlalurbed, dear Hk' Madam," HHHHTif Mark, In a confl-HHHzi' confl-HHHzi' drntlal tone, "I'm Hfjjri moTlng HHHP L Bintln." HR clinraetrr- HHKjLH lalto humor Bum-HHHfeajMj Bum-HHHfeajMj ne i,mli orne Cletnrna Indicated H(alid of bla early daya. lie aVton la Florida, Mo., Nor. SO, 1833. taKttaaea achoola sjave him all the PEnl cdoeatloa he got. IEnixklar !" MTbe a"dcd Aate" (la HsEtotUaa nlth Charlea Dudley War. KfHi sawyer," "A Tramp Abroad," tlaK rrlaec aa the rnuper," "Haekle-HnVfT "Haekle-HnVfT n" The TrnKedy of Pndd'n-frS? Pndd'n-frS? riba," were aorae of the ta Bib1i1ii1- nkleh kept Americana and iWmL-ttt taachloa; for many years. HJEjkTla died April 31, 1910. BAWS0N'S LANDING, on the B I Missouri sldo of tbo Missteps' Misste-ps' ilppt. In 1830, was a modest ' Btft with few claims to distinction. KfiflW among her first clttawns, I HJjYork Leicester Diiscoll, forty HEnof age, Judgo of tlic county eerart, ' KttlcmUhed Virginia stock, uetlinp-; uetlinp-; BrcMkRess, and esteemed by every-w every-w that knew him. Another citizen Enpute wai Col. Cecil Burleigh Es-HJ, Es-HJ, wba, except for one Important Htkar, later disclosed, has nothing Ht & this story. Resldecst here , Ho m a certain Percy Nortlramher-i. Nortlramher-i. HJd Drfejeoll, brother of the Judge, HbH and a prosperous wuor of et Hl among whom -was w "liltely Hch of twenty, Roxann by name. H the Drlscoll hose on the tflrst of Hratrr, 1830, two boy baUics were Bi Oae of tlteSe, christened Tom, Hftt ton of Percy NorthKmhcrland R fter, tagged with the unrao oi Hrfet Cbambre, or '3iainbtr.j" for Hit tos the son of the slavo-glrl Hi, by a father at first unknown Hafcrrevelaed to be Cotouol Essex. hli a week of the birth df Drls-Hi Drls-Hi son the nwtlicr died, .nnd In tlio Hnl course of events 'both boyt He entrusted to tlio maternal care Hx tUve-mother. Htat the same time Into tills quiet Hwaltr cause one David Wilson. HMI anticipating a Bucceuftil HI etreer, a hope Wirstod In the Hi;, alnce a gift of Irony, ono of ftaiost tangible assets, Jell upon H M literal as to he unnpprecln-HjiM unnpprecln-HjiM suspicious of humor. -H rth I owned Imlf of that dog,' "Dirkl one morning when a snnrl-AHpeUw snnrl-AHpeUw cur disturbed him. Hflijr "ked somebody, wise then IwouIdkUl my half I" r1 DavldL Hrt(Wni Ml away from hlra in a How could n man kill half of n H' killing the oUier half nlso7 Vf tils man must be out -of his bnmox," said one. Krfect Jackass," said another. W. Pd'nhead, that's what he HU a third. Hi from that day forward -Tudd'n- WUjoa he was. H iWnhead had two fads HJ' flnger-prlnta. T3io first H?"llf practiced, lacking ell- practice law upon, aad the " collected with great ssidu. WL A 5 woraan r ch'IC over HtiT d,le of "dd'nlieafl's nc- I Hmm. hoa,t ,eav,nS nscr- ' mZ!" 'hnwh-marlt. bchlnfl. nnd : HUM ere.carefu"y nam5, ro- K le on of Oris-Chambers, Oris-Chambers, the on of icr. Hither. Asllkoaatwoowus dKJeT.h k tlmt MV0 n uKa y Wcrc taOtetlnpiWi. UiJt,flTr-pr,n,80fflwSre HWlon;,a,C('' nnd fl)Jded io K, Cl?m thnn Ulat VOtr Z , '"'onts-Tom'fi aW" heart ., . r dukcsi io a Vttaihf thC 8,nvo Bhou,d b- KSbT?0d ,,y th0 'c"- that HCd frew to ronnlwod lu & ,h0 river," that i Une dreatl of the 1M thT wntere? WhB 0(WtIon 'Cr0 be,nB no HS eld ,0 tlmt tempta-W tempta-W Tom .turn c,'mber8 Into lfieo0fc,mmber8 by n vTf) Hi only L, Bnrments, these . HtltnJ''wnsin this man- J'S Dr,BC01' Krow SlH ' Chambers, abused negro. After n few years, never hnv- upon mm by lloxnna. Pcrrv nn.Mi died, pcoso, but nI lZl8 Z Julge ha prayer for children of ha own denied, adopted tho uprSilMHou. Tom, nnd made the boy hi,K ! sent him to college. llVgavetev ery advantage that an affectionate father could have given n boy of ?, 8 own,buttheruwranterlalwldchwns the real Tom wns poor, and tho soil unfruitful. Tho boy acaulred a tS for dissipation for which tho slmj o life of Dawson's Landing offered I no assuagements. Ho plunged Into (be gay whrl of St. Louis, garnering no", ing but disgraceful gambling debt Vorst of nit ho was at heart snob abused tho real heir now becomo h! slave, nnd acquired a profound detestation detes-tation for his ancient nurse, Itoxana. of whose renl relation to him he wns unaware, until goaded to Intense ro sentiment by his contemptuous and brutal treatment, she ncqnnlntcd him with tho terrible facts of his birth nnd ancestry, nnd demanded that he trrnt her as a mother on penalty of exposure. The revelation ' prostrated tho Impostor Im-postor for a brief period, but failed to spur him on to better behnvlor. ITe went from bad to worse, stooping even to housebreaking In order to ontnln frnids to pny his gambling debts. In Ws mother's power, nnd she not nt nil disinclined to blackmail, ho was drlv. en to nil sorts of expedients to satisfy Ws own nnd her demands. But through ft ail he managed to mnlntnln an out. "ward nppearanco of superiority thai enabled him to dazzle his infcrlori nnd deceive his equals. The Judge's love for the boy blinded him to the lnd's evil character, but once he near-ly near-ly disinherited him on the score of cownrdlce. A pair of mysterious Ital Ian twins settled at Dawson's Landing, Land-ing, and nt n public meeting, Tom hnvlng provoked him to action by his Insolence, Lulgl, the stronger of the two, hnd kicked tho scion of the House of Drlscoll off the stnge Into the nudlence, tho stnln of which Insult a real F. F, V. would have wtped out upon the Held of honor, but for which the cowardlco of Tom foend ample satisfaction In Uws police court, which proceeding so outraged the arood Judge tlmt for the honor of his family he personally fought a duel with the of-; fending Italian, woundlag him, and thus laying th foundations for much future trouble. Came now the supreme touches lr tho career of the spurlcms Tom. For tho pityment of newly wcqulred gam-1 bllng debts, with Itormm's consent, Tom sold his own mother bnck Intoi tho slnvery from whlrti nt Drlscoirs death she had been freed, but In violation vio-lation of his promises ho sold her "down tho river," n crime that reactefl upon his unflllal head when the resourceful re-sourceful lloxnna escaped, and under threat of exposure of his renl status In life, required him to Indemnify tier new master lest she he apprehended nnd returned to him. Having no other resources Tom resolved upon the robbery rob-bery of his benefactor, the Judge, In the fulfillment of which venture lio murdered him, his weapon being nn orlentnl knife of unusual design, which ho hnd stolen from Luigl, tho Itatinn In one of his theft-raids. The murder of Judgo Drlscoll brought great excitement to Dawon's Lnndlng, nnd tho Italian twins narrow ly escaped lynching for tho crime. Tho whole community adjudged tlicra ..nt.. n I... ri.ti1itWn.iit Wltann who volunteered to defend Uicin In court, n poor reliance since the wero his first nnd only clients. Hut Pudd'nhcnd was unafraid. The -mi-denco ngnlnst them was most conTJne-lug, conTJne-lug, hut There were finger-prints upon alio knife handle, and tlxey wero not nhe finger-prints of tho accused I Whoso finger-prints were tlieyt Tom, secure In ills enso of satoty because of tho ovenvllmlng evidence ngulnst tho twins, veitured to tnunt Pudd'nhcnd upon his confidence hi winning Ills case. He entered nisi study, nnd sentlng himself nt Puddn bend's side while he studied the prints; In his collection, lie picked up no of, tho records. i "Why here's oi RoxyVt label, he. said contemptuously. "Klgger-pnws eh? There's a lino across her tlntmb-print. tlntmb-print. Now how comes thait" Pudd'nhend tnking tho glnss from Tom's hnnd held It up to tho lamp. The blood sank suddenly out of his fnce. ITe gazed at tho polished stir. fnco with tho glassy staro of a corp. The mystery wns solved I , Tom's thumb-print standing clcnny ntirtinp.1 hofore him on the glnss nnd thnt on tho handle of tho bloodstained blood-stained knlfo wero Identical I -To tho minutest detail," paid the foreman of tho Jury, ns he returned a verdict of murder ngnlnst tho unhappy "vJ1ie twins wero acquitted, the defrauded de-frauded heir lifted up out of slavery nnd restored to his Inheritance , nnd Tom forever branded ns nn Impost" wns "sold down tho rlverj' for tl io benefit of th 1"" , ,c ,nl Percy Northun d "lsco- Copyr.Bht. U. . 'nh l Co. (Tlio Boston ' .J!" ,,i col. United KlnRdom.i ' , ?ne copy- rlRht net. by "? ' ,.j,tf r- Doiton, Mass., O. t nd af aecved. Printed by pei n Jjo ronnement with Harper fc 'It., auliw tied publUhara. |