The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-05

nothing back. In return, Mr. Carter
would tell of going to school bare
footed in the winter-of falling in love
at an early stage-of earning his first
dollar, and finally being able to sell
the public lath and shingles by the car
load. He had also enjoyed few FAM
lily quarrels, and had found the world
cold and heartless; but his story al
ways stopped right there, and Smith
was unable to tell whether Mrs. Carter
was still living or had been laid to
rest. That was the only mystery about
an otherwise open and pleasant friend
ship.
Mr.. Smith and Mr.. Carter saw Lon
don and Paris together, and they trav-
eled through Italy and finally brought
up in the shadows of the Matterhorn,
in Switzerland, for a stay of two weeks.
Mr.. Smith didn't care for mountains,
being in the real estate business, and
knowing how hard it was to unload
them on the public, but Mr.. Carter
was more solicitous of his welfare
more anxious as to accident. His de-
meanor somehow reminded Smith of
the death watch set over a prisoner.
Up to the time of leaving Paris he
had called Smith Smith. After that he
called him Zebulon, and seemed to love
the name. On one occasion he had
asked Smith where he would like to be
buried in case of death, and on an
other had hoped that he would die
without suffering if he died at all.
These things somewhat worried Smith
for a time, but he finally dismissed
them from his mind as somehow be-
longing to the lath and single BUSH
ness.
During the first three days in Switzer-
land Smith and Carter met with I'M
pleasant weather and did not wander
from the hotel. In this interval Car
ter's solicitousness became so great as
to be almost offensive He would even
get out of bed at midnight to see that
Smith hadn't kicked the bed clothes
off or was lying on his back. He
bought the choicest wines and the best
cigars-he told his funniest jokes and
his best stories-he worked harder to
give Smith good time than as if he
was being paid hundred dollars a
day. Smith wondered over it, but he
was soon to know the awful truth. On
the fourth day the two walked out to-
gether in a twin-brother way. In
Switzerland the only way you can walk
out is to walk up hill. They walked
up hill. They had assembled at least
500 feet above the hotel roof when they
came to a bridge spanning a ravine.
1t was 200 feet to the bottom of that
ravine, with no cushions on the
rocks below. The two men sat down
to get breath, and Smith noticed that
Carter was looking at him in hum
CRY way-the way wolf is popularity
supposed to look at a. baby weighing
about twenty-four pounds of fat.
whats the matter now?" asked
Smith as a chill crept up his back.
81 have you at last" replied Carter
as he smacked his lips and sharpened
his teeth.
Come off and explain YOURSELF"
Then Carter settled down and told
little story, and as he told it he kept
one eye on Smith and the other on that
dark, dank, deep ravine. While he was
attending to his lath and single BUSH
ness at Plum Creek his wife went up
to Oconemawac on a visit to her sis
ter. Her sister gave high teas and
lawn parties, and at one of these the
wife met a suave, sleek william. She
didn't like his sickness, but the william
pursued. What arguments he used
against the lath and shingle business
the deponent couldn't say, but the re-