This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...and threatening to disclose them. Jacky saw now how ignoble were his aims, and how low was his ambition, and now he was reaping his reward. It was true, in Nicky Green's case he had only done what a great many others were doing--finding out and exposing theft and trickery; and had his motive been any other but revenge, he should not now be suffering such remorse. But when he remembered that it was to gratify his own petty pride that he had ferreted out the secret, and frightened Kitty Turner into seeking her own death, he could find no excuse for himself. Of Nicky Green he thought nothing, for he was underground by his own choice; but Kit Turner, that poor, ill-advised girl, would never have been there but for him. Thus Jacky went on thinking all that weary day, eating scarcely anything, and speaking but little to anyone. As night came on, and darkness settled on the earth, Jacky began to wonder if he should sleep. He did not feel like it, for his brain seemed unnaturally active. He dreaded the visions which a sleepless night would conjure up before his eyes, and, starting up in desperation, he vowed that he would purchase sleep at any cost. Once more he made use of his friend Sol, and that night, for the first time in his life, Jacky Williams was drunk. CHAPTER VIII. Where Was She? tsjjp ACKY had vowed that he would purchase cHli s'eeP a any cost, and he had done so; (y! but it cost him one of the fearfullest headaches that ever racked a human head. And when he woke the netft morning, and knew that he should have to suffer it all day, he acknowledged that he had only added to his misery, and to the many mistakes he had already made in his lifetime. "I have got hold of the wrong end of life somehow," thought Jacky, remorsefully. "Everything I...