The Delta independent., 1896-05-13

you take in cash to approve OF me?
science, but you are more uncomfort-
able than the most cast-iron conscience
any man ever had. Ones own con-
science one can deal with, hut con-
science in the person Of another man is
beyond ones control Now. it is like
this. / am here for quiet and rest.
have earned both, and think l am
justified in"
Now, Mr.. Yates. please spare me any
cheap philosophy on the question. I am
tired Of It,"
"And of me too, I suppoee?"
"Well, yes, rnther-if you want to
know"
Yates sprang out Of the hammoc.s.
For the first time since the encounter
with bartlett on the road. denmark
saw that he WINS thoroughly angry.
The reporter stood with clinched 1st
| and flashing eye, hesitating. The
other, his heavy brows drawn down,
while not in an aggressive attitude,
was plainly ready for an attack. Yates
concluded to speak and not strike.
This was not because he was afraid,
for he was not . coward. The re-
porter realized that he had forced the
conversation, and remembered he had
invited Remark TO accompany him.
Although this recollection stayed his
hand, il had no effect on his tongue.
~ believe" he said, slowly, that Il
would do you good for once to hear .
straight, square, unbiased opinion of
yourself. You have associated 10 long
with pupils, TO whom your word Is
| law, that IL msy interest you TO know
what . man Of the world thinks Of You.
| A few years Of schoolmAsterin9 ia
enough to spoil . Gladstone. Now, i
think. Of all the"
The sentence was interrupted BY .
cry from the fence:
''Say, do you gentlemen know where
| Q fellow named Yates livesr'
The reporters hand dropped 70 his
| side. A look Of dismay came over his
| face, and his truculcnt manner
| changed with . suddcnness that forced
| Q smile even to the stern lips Of Rem
mark.
Yates backed towards the hammock
| like man who had received an unex-
pected blow.
~ say, Kenny" he walled, Its anoth-
er Of those cursed telegraph mcsscngers.
Go, like good fellow, and sign for tho
dispatch. Sign Il 'Dr. Remark, for r.
| Yates Tint will give It q sort Of 0fli-
cial medical bulletin look. wish ]
had thought Of that when the other
boy was here. Tell him I'm lying
down" He nung himself into tho
hammock, and Remark, after . mo.
| mcnt's hesitation, walked towards the
boy at the fence, who had repeated his
question In . louder voice. In short
time he returned with the yellow
envelope, which he tossed to the man
| in the hammock. Yates seized Il saw
agely. tore Il into n score Of pieces, snd
| scattered the huttering bits around
him on the ground. The professor
| stood there for Q few moments In
! silence.
"Perhsps," he said st last, "yoa'1l be
good enough 70 20 on with yoar re-
| markA"
II wns merely going 70 say an
| swercd Yates, wearily, "that you src n
mighty good fellow, Kenny. People
who camp out always have rows This
= our first; suppose we let Il be the
last. Camping out n somcthing like
married life, I guess. and require1 some
forbearsnce ON all sides. That philoso-
ply may be cheap, bat I think u
y accurate. Am really very woe.
ried about this newspaper busineas. I
ought, Of coursc, to ding myself into
the chasm like that Rosaan fellow, hut,
hang Il, I've been fiiuging myself into
chasms for fifteen years. and what
rood has it done? There's always .
crisis in . daily newspaper once. I
want them 70 understand In the Argus
ONCE that am on my vacation"
They will be more spt 70 under
stand from the telegram that yoa're on
your death-bed."
Yates laughed. That's No." he ssid;
"but, you sec, Kenny, we New Yorkers
live I'm such m stmosphere Of exsgEcr-
alton, and II did not put Il strongly
IL wouldn't have any effect. You've
got 70 give . hig dose 70 man who
hes been talEing poison all his life.
They will take on ninety per cent.
from Any statement I make, any
how, 20 yoa see I have 10 pile Il up
pretty high befRe the rcnaining ten
per ccnG amounts 20 anything"
The eouversatSon was Sotcrrupted by
the crscklin9 Of the dry twigs behisd
then, asd Ystes, WHO he'd been keep
Ing his eye servUasly o. The lssee,
tuFnsd ssvund. Y01ng Bartlett pusheA
his way ehro19h the underbrush. Hin
fhcs was ssds ~ had evidessly bssn
runuing.
Two sessss.ss for yos, Mr. Yaaessv
he pootsd- sThe lclIDws that tguu4ht
90 ssid shey Wsse imcuvtsas, - ] rss