Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-26

AA6 = Say. II saw Ills advantage dllU
let fly his story at me before l could get
mine going.
why" he said, II can tell you one in
stance right here in New York-or he was
here until he went to Nevada, or some
such fa- country.
1T was through my name that I be-
came acquainted with him.. My name is
rather an one, you know. 1
was staying at an uptown hotel which
has since been pulled down to make room
for a larger b~uilding-it used to be called
the Sutherland; you nay remember it.
There was a good billiard room there, and
I was very fond Of sitting and watching
the games.
lone morning 1 had gone into the bill
Hard room to see if I could get a little
game of caroms with the marker-it was
raining hard, so that l couldn't go out for
9 walk after my breakfast-and just as I
got into the room a bell boy came rum
ming after me with a parcel. I didn't ex-
pect a parcel from nyone that morning.
SO I took the package and looked very
carefully at the address, which was Mr..
William Fitz Clarence
This isn't for me- I said, I'm not Mr..
William Fitz Clarence
I said that I saw another mana
neatly dressed, fresh-complexioned young
felloW-look up with a start.
q What name did you say?' he called
out.
"The, bell boy hurried over to where he
was standing, by the cue rack. and said,
Is this Mr.. Fitz Clarence?'
THE answer, as I noticed at the time,
was given with some hesitation of man.
ner- 'Ye-yes-Oh, yes: that's for me.
They ought to have sent it last night
MY curiosity was excited enough to
make me wan to scrape an acquaintance
with the young Englishman-I saw he
was an Englishman. So 1 strolled over
to him and remarked, You and I came
very near being namesakes.'
He looked up quickly and said, I beg
your pardon?'
"The marker was just ready to COM
mence a game with him and stood by the
table, waiting. There was no one else in
the room at the time. I repeated my re-
mark, and the young man answered. oh!
er-how is that?
"'It seems that your name is Fitz Clar-
ence,' 1 said, and mine is Clarence-with-
out the Norman prefix
Him, we'll that is odd, isn't it? I
don't think I ever met the name just in
that FORM he said.
after that his manner lost the slight
embarrassment hat had marked it when
the boy first brought him his parcel. I
watched him play a very good game with
the marker, and then he played with me.
w played several games together,
~ ! was d WEI, llS dOlC HAOI Wig ain
neither Of us seemed to nave any press
ing business to take us out. But at last
we got tired of the green cloth and grad
ually fell into conversation about the
subject tina had first served to intro
duce us.
1--we often wondered how my name
came to be what it u.s. I said. I suppose
the Fftz must hav been knocked off by
some accident generations ago.
/" 50 I should imagine he answered.
IT noticed that he seemed shy of the
subject, and that made me all the more
nxiou to continue it.
Funny thing, that tendency of the
English to cut words short, isn't 1t" l
said.
eyes, 1T is a national trait he an
swered. Are you an Englishman?
"When I told him that I vas an Eng
lishman the information didn't seem to
please him particularly. I went on to ex-
plain that / had lived nearly 10 years in
this country. and then he asked IT l
thought of going back to England at all
soon.
"I don't know I said; haven't been in
England for Is years.
HE seemed rather pleased with that
information, 1 thought. And then he went
on to ask, with a rather evident effort to
seem unconcerned, L suppose you keep
pretty well posted about the news in
England, don't you"
II told him that I had so many new in
terests in this country that I had got out
of the way Of reading European news
with any great interest.
after that we chatted about a multi
tude of things. He told me that he was in
New York only temporarily. He was
looking about him, he said, trying to
make up his mind IN what dlrectlon ne
would strike out.
course we got to be on pretty good
terms after that. / saw him again that
same evening, and the next morning at
breakfast. But l noticed that the more
we talked together the more he seemed
troubled or embarrassed about something
he had on his mind.
sat last, one night in the smoking room,
he suddenly said to me, quite irrelevant
ly, i fancy a good many Englishmen in
this country want to cover up their trou-
bles, eh?'
Yes I said, "a good many Of them
have to, I'm afraid
"'Well, look here he went ON. i don't
want to be taken for a fugitive from
justice. 1 may as we'll tell you, my name
isn't Fitz Clarence at all
"'You surprise me- / said.
"'Perhaps l shall surprise you more
before I'm DONE he said. Did you ever
hear of Lord Camelford?
"'The Yorkshire millionaire coal min
OWnerv | said. OF course 1 nave.
"'H'm-Thought So he muttered, half
to himself. ~'Everybody's heard of poor
jim. Well, he's my brother. I don't
mind telling you the truth about it. be-
cause / shall soon get out of this place.
and they can't set the police on me. 1t
isn't a crime to run away from millions.
and even if you wrote to my brother
about it, he wouldn't try to track me
down.
eft is a nice thing to have plenty Of