there to dinner with that gang of of and bet i make a whole lot more money some of those tin horns that spend all th got on dress suits and haven t got a decent suit of to their name hey what do you think of this mrs was strangely unmoved by the tidings from uie real estate and column of the advocate times i street � j k to i thomas april x i i and this morning was too to entertain her with from recorded he rose as be looked at her bis eyebrows seemed than usual suddenly yes maybe � kind of shame to not keep in touch with folks like the we might try inviting them to some evening oh thunder let s not waste our good time thinking about our little bunch has a lot liver times than all those just compare a real human hke you with these birds like � all talk and dressed i like a you re a great old girl he covered his of softness with a complaining say don t let go and eat any more of that poison for heaven s sake try to keep her from her i tell you most folks don t appreciate how important it is to have a good and regular habits be back bout usual time i guess he kissed � he didn t quite her � he laid lips against her cheek he hurried out to the muttering ex rd what a family and now is going to get pathetic on me because we don t train with this lord sometimes i d like to quit the whole game and the office worry and detail just as bad and i act and � i don t mean to but i get � so dam i z l� � chapter m to george f as to most prosperous citizens of his car was poetry and tragedy love and hero i the office was his ship but the car his perilous e ashore among the tremendous of each day none was dramatic than starting the engine it was slow on cold was the long anxious of the and sometimes he had to into the of the c which was so very interesting that at lunch he would chronicle it drop by drop and calculate how much each drop had cost him this morning he was darkly prepared to find something wrong and he felt when the mixture exploded sweet and strong and the car didn t even brush the door and with many by as he backed out of the he was confused he shouted morning to sam with more cordiality than he had intended i s green and white dutch house was one of three in that block on road to the left of it was the residence of mr samuel secretary of an excellent firm of his was a comfortable house with no manners whatever a large wooden box with a tower a broad porch and glossy paint yellow as a of mr and mrs as from their house came midnight music and laughter there were � of and fast rides they furnished with many ha y evenings of discussion during which he announced firmly i m not and i don t mind seeing a f ow throw in a drink once in a but when it comes to trying to get a lot of raising all the like the do it s too rich for my on the other side of lived d in a strictly modem house whereof the lower part was dark red brick with a the upper part of pale like clay and the roof red was the great scholar of the neighborhood the authority on everything in the world except babies cooking and y he was a bachelor of arts of college and a doctor of philosophy in of he was the manager and counsel of the street company he could on ten hours notice appear before the board of or the state and prove with figures all in rows and with from and new that the street car company loved tlie public and its that all its stock was owned by and and that whatever it desired to do would benefit property owners by increasing and help the poor by lowering rents all his acquaintances to when they desired to know the date of the battle of the of the word the future of the mark the translation of or the number of of coal tar he awed by that he often sat up till midnight reading the figures and in government reports or with amusement at the author s mistakes the latest volumes of and but s great value was as a spiritual example despite his strange he was as strict a r and as firm a republican as george f he the business men in the faith they knew only by passionate instinct that their of industry and manners was perfect dr proved it to them out of history and the of had a good deal of honest pride in being the neighbor of such a and in ted s intimacy with at sixteen was interested in no save those regarding the ages and of motion picture stars but � as put it � she was her father s daughter the difference between a light man like sam and a really fine character like was revealed in their appearances was young for a man of ei t he wore his on the back of his head and bis red face was wrinkled with laughter but was old for a man of forty two he was tall broad thick his gold were in the folds of his long face his hair was a tossed mass of greasy blackness he puffed and as he talked his key shone against a black he of old pipes he was altogether and and to and the of 