Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-09-24
THE OTHERS OTHER MAN
rtY ll, ARTlHUR W. rAEBELL.

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1t was yesterday, after an interval Of
Jour years. \
I had not seen him since we parted
last on" Com mencement day, and had
wished each other good luck on what
Vas coming. In my case it was q medi-
cal:course at one of the German llniver-
sites; in his, a few years sojourn at the
law school in Cambridge. Those years
had now passed. Twas about to become
full-hedged M. d., and Phil-lazy,
good-natured, joking Phil Wheeler, the
man who led his class lin smoking rank
tobacco)--=was. about, to call himself a
lawyer. "a lawyer laughed every
time l thought Of it; for while Phil was
the best fellow in the world when it
came to brewing Il delectable punch or
to doing the fascination talk act to a
shy countryR maiden at her first swell
dinner yet7hethad no more the making
OF even a mediocre barrister in him than
has many another good fellow, who
thinks himself cut out Ky destiny for
the bar. 81 G. &n.ess A., szraa.s
However, Phil had always been one
Of my best chums, and, Of course, | was
downright glad to find my self saunter-
ing into the old YARD at Cambridge
once more, and on the point Of yelling:
''Oh, Phil Wheeler!" up to his window in
Holworthy, just as 1 had done SO many
times before during our undergraduate
days.
After my yell waited (, few moments
to see; if he was in. Up the window
presently slammed and a familiar
enough-looking head was thrust out to
see who had called. 1t had been so long
since Phil had either seen or heard from
me that he failed at first to recognize
me; but it was only for a second; then,
when he saw who it was, his face
cracked into thousand creases, and he
shouted Justify down: @ r. " T.
For heaven sakes, Jack Fenway, is
that you? Come up quick!"
So up I went to receive one Of those
Cldtime. greetings hatsleaves a mans
right arm. sore for a week afterwards
I>ut Iskip all this and come to the point
Of the story.
Oh entering the room 1 had noticed a
letter lying open upon the table. Evi-
IDENTIFY I had interrupted Phil in the
midst of it. so, after we had exhausted
and lived through the opening lombard
ment of usual questions, i glanced at
the note again and told Phil to finish it.
He smiled and picked it up.
"Oh, yes, that reminds me-, he said,
S'I'ye got something to tell you. Here's
q letter from Miss Lancaster-you re-
member that girl 1 met down at Bar
Harbor my sophomore vacation?"
DOL? Don't I? Cad man, she was a
dream you. And if my memory
doesn't play me false L believe you did
nothing but dream of her that whole
winter. Atany rate you did deuced lit
tie studying"
Eyes, Jack, she was nice girl. I al
ways thought good deal of her, And
Phil's face broke into one of those mis-
chievous smiles that were inimitable
with him. ~. IS -
I hadn't seen one of those smiles for
years, but / remembered on the spot
that | never liked those particular ex-
pressions of his, for had learned from
experience that they were generally
prelude to some act of deviltry, an IN
conscious hint on his part to show that
the fellow was dangerously near the
point of springing one of his exasperat-
ing jokes. remembered especially one
Of the last times that I had seen such
smile on his amused face. It had been
at a dance near his home, when he in
troduced me to a young lady he was
very anxious to have me meet. AS I
crossed the hall with my arm in his, he
had whispered:
'She's an old friend of mine, Jack;
trife gay, but sound at heart. So pitch
and make yourself doubly agreeable
for my sake, old man."
And | remember l Immediately pro-
ceeded to do so by flirting disgracefully
with her the whole evening-just for
my chum's sake. you know. The other
fellows were crazy with me for monop-
olizi1lg her; could see it from the way
they kept watching US. One fellow es-
pecialIy stood out all the dances behind
some palms, savagely twisting his N us
tacllc #iWith%*o hand and the other
plunged desperately down into his
trousers pocket. lie looked unspeaka-
bic things al nc all the time l was cane
ing with her, but [ only laughed in my
sleeves and pitieel the poor fellow. And
50 the evening passed. Finally the last
waltz came, and just as was congratu-
iating myself on having scored one in
Pills favor--and incidentally one in
my own-Who shou come up to us in
ting 1nidst Of a Delightfully."- exclusive
;tete a -tete3 but I'i,il, with the nan who
$1,000 out the dances Oh his arm Is
oh, Jack" he calmly and suavc)v
exclaimed, before you go, want very
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