It was addressed ter
Jimmy, an' the old man couldn't bring himself ter open it. He wanted,
too, that I should go on ter New York an' get Jimmy's things; an' after
I had opened the letter I said right off that I'd go. I was mad over
that letter. It was a bill fer a suit of clothes, an' it asked him purty
sharplike ter pay it.
"I had some trouble in New York findin' Jimmy's boardin'-place. There
had been a fire the night before, an' his landlady had had ter move; but
at last I found her an' asked anxiously fer Jimmy's things, an' if his
pictures had been hurt.
"Jimmy's landlady was fat an' greasy an' foreign-lookin', an' she didn't
seem ter understand what I was talkin' about till I repeated a bit
sharply:--
"'Yes, his pictures. I've come fer 'em.'
"Then she shook her head.
"'Meester Hadley did not have any pictures.'
"'But he must have had 'em,' says I, 'fer them papers an' magazines he
worked for. He made 'em!'
"She shook her head again; then she gave a queer hitch to her shoulders,
and a little flourish with her hands.
"'Oh--ze pictures! He did do them--once--a leetle: months ago.'
"'But the prize,' says I. 'The prize ter James Hadley!'
"Then she laughed as if she suddenly understood.
"Oh, but it is ze grand mistake you are makin',' she cried, in her
silly, outlandish way of talkin'.
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