Show aws CONDENSED CLASSICS 42 WILSON x X X by MARK TWAIN T X condensation by J j john ohn kendrick bangs 1 I am norry to know v 0 you o ts lire J IM ino oki klaf HO I 1 much clr clement clemens TV marked vt lady lidylu alln kiark rk ali s enair darn ahlo in the lift second time vill lilu the t be breeh tat k I 1 have tiem it iron ill n b box OIL 0 of t cl kar under your 7 our atria 11 dont t d n r dam rie rill plied cd lundli in in a conel destini tone one im us t mo Ts avith charleter istle humor sam ml inagh jj n u eb orne clemens indicated abe vicissitudes ot of bin early dayn lie 11 w turn tn in bio alot nov bov 30 vh the common brave him nil all labe formal education he mot boti idna it rite glided age aee tn conjunction with pharies ant eneri ner ton sawyer savvy re A ll 11 the prince and the Inu per huckleberry glnn tile the b of hudaa hend head wilmon P were ollie of thi the ya ta booke ark prk which kept icett Amerl cann and euro p r 0 a lia for ninny many allu rk wala died april sl 21 1010 1910 U LANDING on the LIP I 1 missouri side of 0 the Al lisis in 1830 ft n modest village with few claims to conspicuous among tier her fart citizens on S ivas york leicester droscoll lorty forty years of ago age judge atthe county court of unblemished virgl virginia wit stock childless anal esteemed by every body that knew hill 1 Another citizen of repute cecil Du curleigh durleigh Bur lelh r essex volo except for particular later disclosed has aias nothing to do with uth tills story here also was a certain percy northumberland driscoll brother of 0 the guage married and ami a prosperous owner toi slaves among whom was walf it ft lakely t neneh tell of vanty hodana by annae naha ahe droscoll on thed of ferrua r 7 1 af acl ava bor babies born one bf b these r tom rom was the son fron of vercy percy the other tagged with nith the name 01 1 valet de Clia chambra Chamb rc a or r chambers for short raf iio njg by n nt art but later reve laed to be colo r within it week of the ilia birtil birth of jf D ans 18 coils son the mother died and n the natural course of oc eventis cen tsi loth both J 0 T p wnm veril entrusted tw to the tuat maternal ernat catle A I 1 mot h er 3 tir alib sape time tato this judit ta ty cro antiro one david daod Wll soni cerully a i successful it lassil aint career a siope liepe blasted blatted in arc 1 borning a gift tf il irony one brie at ar davids dm ids most t tangible tn iafe assets fell upon I 1 ca cars rs so 90 literal as to bo be the five had suspicious of balnor 1 I wish I 1 owned half qt tb that ai dog 1 lah one mairn ins when a it saari ta ins ing yellow cur why asked q alien bell I 1 woula my y halt replied Dafid da adi ills fell bwy y from bilm in ili alamri alrow hw n kill imir of a dos without killing tw tue odier half also sin ely this wad out of his big mind A 1 onen A ass said iles a what lie ile Is I 1 said a alf d and and f from jojn that at day fo forward rivard hend head wilson alls oa jl he TV was k no now W had two fa fabb palmistry and prints the first lie ho occasionally practiced lacking hicking clients cl 1 id to practice law upon and the ilia ve second ond tilt hit with grent great assiduity 6 man mail or child ever eer entered the brcic rc leof as aa leaving bahng a fingerprint fanger or his th marki ki behind and all of these were carefully pare garet fully tilly named rai m corded tied filed thus it ft hap belled that flint on it day ay cama reinna and charges ch argea tom the aon of darls edtl and the son of tier her and M like os as afo ivo peor peas were tahe il ho tn in calor bor idze and that save gave to lo n amther nM ther diey were ahle ana anil jibe ithe fanger prenta of all were taken wheeled and added to the of wilson what that more inore natural natura t thith than that the like likeness of the h enfant ln fant tomp own on o n father coult nott not tell mm from the claro baw should bugge suggest st to a mothers heart ani ana child children reri jy hy the slave should be anio tile ali the master the slave especially jen the heart beart wits was constantly oppressed j by the lie fear that when tier her calpe WW brew to lo manhood lit might bp be sold haold down the ho river er that thai ever present to tay dread of tile he playe ok of the lapir datoo lint hatire abat beffie no cafin fo for r lovi AC hori should jl yle 1 ap I bilat tempha hii rind divitti t arn lato and abd toia into by it these being afe lie only ou fand verible hy by atio t to boys were arc differ entla tOld anyhow etwas it alti manner that it came to be the proud orf off borane of of driscoll grow lato iab thop etoy s t abused and neglected and hint flint the haf child 0 of o a negro slave and all ni unknown father became the lie scion of ft a tily family of lineage dut but ii i mero mere change of cl clothes clollie otlie anti and abes doe not penetrate far bei be low lov tho surface A eilken gown can not after the currents curry aits nits of it a sl shoddy eddy soul and I 1 externally tho the spurious hearm he fl 48 s oil ri P V internally lie he was negro after a few years never baa ing discovered the deception IL practiced upon him by roxana percy driscoll dle penniless but auf tits his brother the judge his bis prayer for children of tits ills own adopted tho supposititious tom toiv and the boy his heir lie ile sent him to college llo ile gave him every ry alvan advantage tap ahat hat an affectionate father could have riven given a boy of tits ills own but the raw material which was the ral rea tom was poor and tile soll soil unfruitful acquired a taste for dissipation 1 for which tho the simple life of lawsons dawsons Dawa Daw ons sons landing offered po no plunged into ile he gity gay whirl of st louis garnering ing hut but disgraceful jul git nibling debt worst of bf nil all he was wag at henrt a snob abused the rent real heir now flow becot iio alc slave and up acquired atred u profound detestation for la his ancient purse nurse roxana Ilo xann of whose real relation to him it lie e iva was s until goaded to intense re by his bis contemptuous and bracal treatment she acquainted him with the he terrible facts of tits ills bi birth rth and nn ancestry cestr end and dom demanded that lie he treat her na as a mother on penalty of exposure the revelation prostrated the iro im costor for a brief pr period iod but failed to spur him on to better behavior ile he went vent from bad to worse stooping caw even to housebreaking in order to obtain funds to pay lits his gambling debts achas in lilg mothers power and sho glia not at nil dis inclined to blackmail lie he was daiv en to all sorts of expedients to satisfy his own awn null tier her demands demanda but through gl tt it nil lie he managed to maintain nn an out ward appearance of that thai enabled him to dazzle tits infer fore and deceive tits his equals the judges love for the he hoy boy blinded him film to the kids gilld s evil character but once lie nearly ly disinherited him on oil the score of cowardice A pair of mysterious idill inn an twins settled at Daw Dawson sons 8 land iriv ins anil at a public meeting torn tom linting having provoked him to io action by tile his insolence lulal tile tho st of the two had bad kicked the scion of the house of driscoll orf off the sange into the audience nud lence tile the of which insult n s real P F P V would have wiped out nut upon the held field of honor but for which the co cowardice wardloe of toni tom found ample so satisfaction Us faction in tile pollee police court will which c it proc proceeding cedIng so outraged the good judge that for T the lie honor of tits ills family lie ho fought a duel net with the of tell ting italian wounding him film nil tags laying the foundations tor for much trouble irame amne now the supreme sup renic touches it thecae th career cr of the spurious tom for ta tie payment of newly acquired acquire il antii debts with Ron Rox nas anns consent orn sold ids his own mother back into the slavery front from which tit nt driscoll she lia hall been freed but in vo 00 Y ishlon 1 ilen of tits his promises pro nils lie he sold liei bet fowzi fow t ii tile the river a crime tant reacted tian his 1119 held heid when tile to re cr frow asep r cebul fill R roxann ox ana and under it 1 tahri impat at 0 of r exposure of his real status clr life required alrod him to indemnify tier bior ji nt bvm ster lest slie site 1 ae apprehended irne Oto to hint him having no other hiop e M Ps torn avin resolved upon the rolli robi uy r the die judge in ili ri ailt of vilich venture lie incurred mur inu 17 hairl S ills lit weapon being nn nil or orle unusual design deign de ign ahiel be hall arto luigi tile the italian tn in itne one n ot 11 left aralds h of judge driscoll brough ra ement to dawsons lawsons Daw sons innel lp italian twins narrow ly csc ed aching for the crime tho le nd jid judged thern them guilty ll li ddn bead wild vaun 1 yi to defend ile fend them lit in coure a i 1 reliance since tile the were were nd hd only clients lint but d a laurald frold tile af denro nga ant hem wag most convince ing but there were fidger prints upon the knife handle andle li ind they were v ere not the inger finger prints of tile tk cell gedl 1 whose fingerprints finger prints were they hey toni tom secure JIVIs s sense of safety beci luse of chewer I 1 I 1 ming evia evidence ence against the ilip tans ii stured to faunt dpn his confidence in binl fang hla his case ge he entered his hir and se athir himself at puddle heads beads side kylill lip studied the printa it in his collection picked icken up one of tho he I 1 records I 1 why heres beres ol of s libel label he id paws ell cht therus theres it ilni lin if across cross tier her thumb print now how i ames e that dolif tho the glass from tonis liand blind held I 1 8 up lp to tho the lamp the mewl blood sank su ug F aly 1 I 1 out 0 of f his far H lie gazed at sur face with tile glassy glass of a corpse or apse the mystery was PT P J toms thumbprint thumb print d dlug cherly r e him ie e glass rind and that on tit the handle ati tj tho the bloodstained knife frere a I 1 all 1 to tile cuir test a IL arild the foreman of the jury a ib returned a n verdict of inu inemer ageal e unhappy ind at A the twins were aklu the lie do fr heir lifted up daa jbf pl slavery ald restored to ilia I 1 Inh n h frince anti and tom forever treaded brunda I 1 an as all impostor ans gold down tho the riv ri for tile tho I 1 benefit of all cred Hors I 1 1110 into cpr y arland copyright liO litiby Iby the rs blushing bli shing co taiti dottori roso copyright t la in the in do abi I 1 X its col onles a def doveles howth copy a y he F t ling co As ays at at I 1 ti re b bac d ar i t t wr audbor Aut bor 1944 b |