The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-07-28

bulldog fashion. They are being false
to their traditions,-not conducting the
family feud properly"
This was too much for the polite man.
He risked ''beastly rudeness," squared
himself in his deep leather chair suffi-
GENTLY to take in the alcove and its &C.
cupants, and said, in a disappointed
tone:
"Oh! Lorimer and Fairbanks. What's
the matter with them? Why, they're a
regular Damon and Pythias, Castor and
PolluX, or any other of the immortal
inseparables You choose. One never
comes to the club but the other is sure
to follow"
The cynic brought his oye-glass DELHI
erately to bear on the men in the
alcove: Fairbanks is superb-loolSing
fellow. But what about the vendetta?"
"a rubbishy piece of inherited lum-
Der, which those youngsters seem in
clined to relegate to memory's attic,-a
proof of common sense to which take
off my hat"
But the vendetta?''
''Oh, yes. Well, got the history of
1t from my grandfather, who at one
time owned plantation between the
belligerents. 1t began with the shoot
ing of bull. Fairbanks shot Lorimer's
bull, or Lorimer shot Fairbanks bull
Doubtless my grandfather transmitted
the CORY legend correctly to me, but
my villainous memory has refused to
| retain it. l confess to a certain confu-
sion as to the original ownership of the
bull whose horns have been as the
horns of a very serious dilemma to all
the succeeding Lorimers and Fair
banks"
"Gammon!" 81
Gospel truth. OF course there was a
row over that bull, but believe his is
the only gore that stains the scuteheons
of two proud families"
'Be serious for once, Mckenzie
Serious as sexton, pom honorl NV
generation for family feuds forbids
levity. In the succeeding Grafton,
tradition hath it, there were q boy and
girl of the two households madly in
love with each other-perhaps the IA
Their and the mother of this, identical
pair. Doubtless by that time the ea.us
belli-or built, if you will permit vile
pun-begsn to look trifle shriveled;
SO an imaginary grievance of more re-
spectacle origin was manufactured.
Years of bad blood had not improved
the temper of either family. Con-
sequently, row number two: hands
parted, hopes blighted, and all that
sort of thing. 1 have the satisfaction of
feeling that have helped the thing
along somewhat in modern times"
s'Satisfaction."
"Unquestionably. When people have
been quarreling over a dead bull half a
century after the buzzards have done
with it, tits a source of satisfaction to
feel instrumental in furnishing fresh
material for their ammunition. l want
ed to sell out my place up there. L was
wedged in between the two places of
these mortal foes. 1 reaped golden
harvest from their idiocy. They bid
| against each other in the most reckless
fashion. The result have been made
comfortable for life. Fairbanks ruined
himself buying the property, which has
enabled him to impinge closer and
closer upon the neighboring place. The
Lorimers have nearly ruined themselves
in lawsuits about the boundaries, and
| VIZ oOhSc Va e.AS pun OAeA sCA0Ctto "a Q
ratified more feebly as each year goes
by. But noblesse oblige. you know.
Ta-ta- promised my daughter a drive
| in the park this afternoon" -
And must be going too
Tho long reading room was deserted
by every one but the two men in the al
| cove. But for the full hour they had
been sitting there, shielded from close
fsurveillance bystheir position in the em.
brasure of the bay-wiudow, they had
seemingly been oblivious of the coming
and going of the other men. They had
come together with more earnest pur-
pose, perhaps. than any Of the men who
sauntered in and out, smoking, reading.
gossiping, idling the hours away, wait
ing for dinner time.
At the beginning of the interview the
younger man had said:
II told you, Fairbanks. that would
act tEcuhle FoR sgaia until bad sqDe.