[The Missing Link by Edward Dyson]@TWC D-Link bookThe Missing Link CHAPTER VI 1/14
CHAPTER VI. A DEPARTURE INTO ART. NICHOLAS CRIPS seated-himself on a warm stone, on a convenient boulder spread the contents of yesterday's "Age." The "Age" contents on this occasion was the lunch of Mr.Nicholas Grips.
Nickie had been given the meal half-an-hour earlier by a kind soul in one of the suburbs, to whom he had pitifully presented his urgent need of sustenance of an inviting kind.
Very adroitly Nickie the Kid had dwelt upon his necessities, while impressing the lady's with the eccentricities of a peculiarly capricious appetite. It was the day after the distressing incident in Biggs's Buildings.
Mr. Crips was no longer dressed in his clerical garments; they were carefully stowed away in a niche in a riverside quarry where he had long kept his wardrobe.
To-day Nickie was dressed in the rags of a simple mendicant. The strongly melodramatic adventure the previous day did not seem to distress Mr.Crips; he ate heartily, but had only reached his second course, which was represented by the chicken, when his attention was attracted by a very lean, very pale, hollow-eyed, sad stranger who had seated himself on a sloping tree nearer the river, and was eyeing the banquet hungrily. Nickie the Kid, was not selfish.
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