Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-11-21

~ Il think when he's little cooler
Mr. Blair will be the first to admit
this"
Mel perhaps Il may be" admitted.
rather grudgingly But you shouldn't
have sneered when | talked about 0ur
| being rivals, MS Il | had been TOO far he
meath you for such a thing 20 he possl
] bic. You did sheer. now, didn't You ."
Dick Mullion was looking down. with
a frown on his face, and he said noth-
lirg TO this, The doctor, after looking
! at him a few moments and getting no
answer or comment, said severely
Whatever feeling there may be be-
tween You, this sort Of accusation and
counter-accusation is aitcg Their mex
cusable | don't want 70 preach. But
| II docs sem TO me. when the world all
! round us Is fun of sin and suffering
and sorrow. an awful thing when hon-
est well-dispossd young people with
every reason TO be coutented with lhCir
surroundings set the example OF strife
and discord. Ii there is a rivalry be-
tween You, fight your battle out like
men, by emulatiug each other IN The
virtues of gentlahCod Don't stand
snaring at each other like cats on a
wall"
own wes a good deal impressed by
the old mans words, spoken as they
We're with mingled earnestness ana
good humor, and with no trace OF
pheachiness at all | readily agreed,
therefore that | might have been hasty
and a little to blame y ough own
said nothing about the abstraction OF
the book, and was grateful that Dick
Mullion did not mention the circum
stance, either. even, under the
strength OF this feeling, held out my
hand, which Dick Mullion took with a
little more reluctance than | thought
was proper Then | left the two 10
gether TO go on deck, and was surprised
to run into old Atkinson, who had been
on his way to the reading room. and had
caught the last words of the Doctors
discourse.
Psalms singing old humbug' was
the stock brokers' Characteristic com
ment on the few words he had accident
ally overheard.
No said The isn't that TO do
the old boy Justice, he means what he
says; and think if you'd been there all
the time Mr. Atkinson. you'd agree
with me.
"Ah, well, perhaps replied Mr. At
kinson with shrug of the shoulders.
The stockbroker was one OF those per-
sons whom even their friends have TO
say that they have no soul And fa-
yoring my attentions to his daughter
as he did, he put uncle and nephew un-
der the same ban as undesirable persons
to know.
| think he must have gone straight TO
his daughter with some sort Of hint as
TO a disturbance having occurred in
which Dick and were concerned for
shortly after this /, with my senses
made acute by my admiration for this
girl, saw that she was deliberately seek
ing an interview with Dick Mullion.
who, as II seemed to me, was deliberate
~ trying to avoid her
But who can avoid woman for long?
Especially when she's rs pretty as lit
tie Jennie Atkinson The end was that
she had her way, and |, near the corner
of a deck house near whore they were,
heard her first words 10 him.
What's the matter with you this
morning, Mr.. Mullion? You look MS IL
something had happened to worry you"
! | suppose | ought to have gone away,
but | didn't. | was maddened by notic-
ing how different their voices were
when they spoke 10 each other from
what they were when they spoke to me.
II am worried said he in low
voice. which was new to me. No. you
needn't be sorry for me IN a fool. |
believe At least, I'm the victim of an
idea
could not help starting violently
when | heard this for il seemed to me
to point to the fellows being mad Az
! moved, my chair creaked. and the next
moment Miss Atkinson came quickly
around the corner Of the deckhouse and
met me face to face.
And she gave me- most nasty look.
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