Show CONDENSED CLASSICS ALU ALL SORTS AND conditions s OF MEN I 1 3 s T S by WALTER BESANT th I 1 condensation by charles H lincoln 4 ce fek sir walter ile moat ant novelist and biographer lover loter tit of london audi and of the lie poor folk who lived in the lumur 0 of the I 1 I 1 tit lab mei ai cropo tro poll Is w as born bora at 1 10 0 r t 0 mouth hugland AUK aug 11 1830 lie he died aled on june 0 1901 gewant lief tant yn one of the nio most many aed fit 0 d men a 0 lila a time lie vm as colu cited at alner cabied co leg london and at Cam brIdgel lie taught la in a college OB an the picturesque tur esque inland rolnus of mauritius he was secretary erre tarr of the Hsio lorn tion kraj lie earned the undy tok tax gratitude of scores of garlin W yo to oge ir erter tv establishing the eszti of authors Ant Aut born bors which kept them hem from roi being dupea by and lift ile labored lati ored to improve prove lie he conditions of the poor of his bla ninny novels all sorts boris and conditions of men biers out above the otheron others other nn st tole talc of the poor that gripped the winds of his fea reader derx HE girl was the greatest heiress THE T in england on tho the orrow she was to leave the university where in anticipation of assuming the responsibility of her fortune sho had acquired nil all of tho ilia theory of political economy that text books could give her speaking to a girl friend ia she summed up tile the sources of her wealth alth iao to begin with there Is the brewery you cannot florna brorn a big brewery it if it belong bolting st to au you hide aldo it away messenger marsden companas Comp anys f their ameir their old and mild th their ir bitter tbell family ales that barly at eight and pix alx lx the ilia nine g allon gallon cask if paid for on delivery their 0 men these things stare one jw n the face wherever you to go I 1 an fattu messenger marsdon marsden 0 company kovs the sole ole partnering part nerIn ein what lawyer sweetly i calls the concern 1 I also there was tp nn unconscionable sum bum of money men a y in the funds and whole streets of houses yet angela messenger never niver had been inside ono one of her own houses never had visited her brewery she knew all the theories about people but she bile know people them selves sho she resolved 1 I etrace efface myself I 1 vanish idis appear your stour angola angela will swill bo al a dressmaker and she will live by her hersell s elf and become what her great grandmother was ono one of the fhe people this was in juno june 1881 for a long time to come fashionable london would see angela messenger no more but in district a charming young woman claiming the name of kennedy a feared from n no 0 where in particular to open dressmaking rooms at mrs hoarding boat oling house she met the man the man had all of personal refinement re lac education and aristocratic polso poh e that was to be expected in the favorito member ot the family of lord jocelyn le breton the ago of twenty three lie ho had bad been told the secret of his birth his only claim upon that home of wealth and so social clatl distinction was waa one of gra gratitude for in truth lie he had been the child oi 01 a sergeant in the english army and instead of le bretain Bre trin his name naline was goslett harry goslett the be first nama being pronounced arry in the neighborhood where he had been born free to make hla his choice he resolved to g go 0 back bach to ills 1113 own people mrs boarding house was old and mean the lite boarders numbered an elderly couple from a new Bamps hampshire hire town hugging the delusion that they were rightful owners of a peerage peer fige and awaiting the day when their rights would be recognized a sleight of ennd performer out of employment who bored his fellows by practicing his magic upon them ia a learned scholar from australia who claimed the discovery of tho the original tablets of stone upon which the ten commandments had ben be n writ written tip hut but who was wa deprived of the glory due such an achievement by me of rival scholars a clerk in the great brewery who for thirty years had labored under suspicion of stealing certain valuables from a safe of the concern holding on to an ill paid position through the decades without hope of promotion or fear of discharge until guilt might be proven or the missing valuables discovered in such surroundings angela and harry naturally gravitated toward each other without question they took each other at face value their talk naturally would come around to the wealthy miss messenger whom none of choso concerned with the th e story except alsa K kennedy I 1 edrin over grer bad seen the they sp ap fia to what they would do with her money it if they had the opportunity tho cabinet harry bad ideas ilo ila ila had observed a Is lack ck in UM tho life of tile tho east end of london with its two millions lons of people wo we havo have no pleasures a theater cheater and a music li hall allin in road that hau haa to serve for two ralli lons of people now it if this young heiress wanted to do any good she elio should build a palace of oc pleasure here let us talk over your balaco ol of pleasure she said bald and as time went on I 1 they elaborate cla horat ed cd and amplified tho the idea its as UK needs of tile tho people among whom I 1 U ved became more apparent to them tohle it was a fanciful iden idea largely of interest erest because it gave him opportunity to talk with the ilia little dressmaker to her it was tho the opportunity tor for which the greatest heiress lit in england had bad gone searching in white chapel but first come camo the ilia stepney dressmakers association never befool had london seen such a bushness busl nesa ness conducted upon such extraordinary principles tho the young women employee actually were encourage tt to deavil lea choir work at certain hours t I 1 exercise a and play they were fun dished appetizing food at the expense of tile the shop lawn tennis lentils courts provided tor for them in tile hie evening t they hey were encouraged to dance an tuai sing bang and a share of the earning a ol 01 ilia establishment was theirs 1 rillas miss kennedys Kenn edys backer in this venture was supposed to bo be the wealthy miss of the brewery tho the maker already deep in love with tho the dressmaker suggested that tha t miss mims kennedy might persuade persua do nilso messenger to io start tho the palace ot delight as lie he now called it what Is a balaco of ho he was vaa asked truly wonderful it 19 eaid harry to thial how monotonous are the gifts find ibid bequests of rich men schools chur chesi boa petals abat la Is all chilt lith la their belr round y dhembe then ho proceeded to to give hla his imagination full in a day arellin are ilin that unknown to him for the time being was to become a wonderful de erful reality through the magic of tide tle messenger millions while tile the palace was growing miss Kcira edy through her supposed influx erica with the unseen MISS Ares messenger was bringing sunshine into the lives of the poor folk of sirs mrs Bor malacko bog boarding riling house the see beccera liers tor for c u peerage were set bot up in the messenger mati mansion tilon in the city ond and had a taste of all that wealth could bestow tho the discoverer oi of the tablets of stone had ills his discovery put into a book andaas sent home to agy and pride mhd sleight of hand man mail was glyen given opportunity to ills his skill and proposed marriage mair lage enrel in re turn AU this through the er ers influence with the heiress of the bre brewry wory t P the young cabinetmaker cabinet maker for mat hla parl par found tile the long missing valuables ani afia fr treed 6 the old cleric clerk from the alto suspicions lie had labored tinder tind er for I 1 thirty yeigi scars rs at the same time tl harrr discovered proof that he himself was waft a fairly well todo per person ian no ila laid ills his heart and fortuno fortune rit it we feet of the dressmaker tho the the wedding was set all this 41 s time be it rain remembered embe red the young nan and no inkling of u tho ilia girls identify nor andr did he anuw that hla his imaginary palace of delight actually actu ully wasAnO nW koeln form in brick and stone alio girt however had ad 16 long since discovered tah secret or harrys life harry saw his palace of delight 0 only si tv tallen lien llen nil was completed it con a grea great hall where a thotis thousand and couples could danca without crowding oh od vet days it ans to be a play for children there n a concert room with organ and piano and a platform i rooms far painting drawing wood carving ng ant and all manner of small arts lip ii the palace of delight sald said an kela gela vc shall not bo be like a troop of resellers revellers rei rev ellers thinking of nothing lin thing but da danca nee and song and feasting we shall learn something every day we shall all belong t to 6 tha same class clam this Is our own palace the club of the working people we will not let anybody make money out of it we nye hall use it for ourselves and we shall make inake our enjoyment by ourselves the first notes of tho the great organ of the palace were the wedding march of the girl and the man the tha first festivities within the walls attended their wedding feast and still the man whose imagination had given birth to these maryda had never guessed that his bis bride was anything but what she he see seemed meI i the truth came a only yaca in the evening ening she caroo came to him no na longer clad as a simple dressmaker but radiant in white satin mystic wonderful with white yell veil and walte flowers and round he her r white throat n necklace of sparkling diamonds diamon ds and I 1 diamonds in her hair talc lier her my boy bay said eald lord jocelyn proudly but you havo have mar ried r not aless kennedy at nil all but blit angela messenger harry took his br brt dos fles hand in a kind of stupor forgive forche me she said it say rou forgive me then lie her velt veil and kissed her forehead before them nil all hut but lie he could sot not speak because nil all in a moment the sense of f what this would marn gnp i poured upon his brain in a great vave mae tina and he would fixin fain hava been ulon alone copyright Cp 1519 1919 by the ht pest PublIsh publishing ins co tbt boston poat po ii I 1 vh tha united the mi M its colonies and tinder tha copy cois I 1 pov noat 4 mam U WA BA all rih ts 1 harved wa 1 3 k f P |