The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-10-18

country place. 1 looked everywhere
searching. restless, impatient. AT las
l knew what allied me-what the laef
vas that yawned so gloomily from
everything had ICE thought beauti-
full. had once found sufficient. l was
in the midst Of the splendid, terracee
pansy beds my gardeners had just Sc
out; l stopped short N slapped my
thigh. "A woman!" 1 exclaimed
That's what 1 need. A woman-the
right sort OF wife!"
w.
A CANDIDATE FOR "RESPECTA-
BILITY."
To handle this new business proper
ly L must put myself in position tt
look the whole field over. I must ge'
in line and in touch with "respecta-
bility:" When Sam Ellersly came ii
for his "%rations," 1 said: Sam. I wan
you to put me up at the Travellers
club"
THE Travellers" echoed he, with
blank look.
The Travellers" said I. tits about
the best of the big clubs, isn't it? Anc
it has as members most Of the men
do business with and most Of those
want to get into touch with"
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why not?" 1 asked.
OH don't. know. You see-the
fact ts-well, they're a lot Of old fogies
up there. You don't want to bother
with that push, Matt. Take my adj
vice. Do business with them, but avoid
them socially"
Il van to go in there" I insisted. 81
up
Il tell you, it'd be no use" he re-
piled, in a ton that implied he wished
to hear no more Of the matter.
You put me up" l repeated. And
If you do your best, I'll get in all right
I've got lots Of riends there. And
you've go three relatives in the COM
mittee on membership
At this he gave me a queer, sharp
glance-a little fright in it.
laughed. You see, I've been look
ing into it, Sam l lever Take a jump
till I've measured it."
You'd better wait a few years, I'M
til he began, then stopped and
turned red.
Until what?" said 1. II want you to
speak frankly"
Well, you've got a lot of enemies
a lot OF fellows who've lost money in
deals you've engineered. And they'll
say all sorts Of things"
III take care of that" said I. quite
easy in mind. "Mowbray Langdon's
president, isn't he? Well, he's my clos
est friend" | spoke quite honestly. 1t
SHOWS how supplemented 1 was in Ger
tain ways that l had never once noted
the important circumstance that this
closest friend had never invited me
to his house, or anywhere where I'd
meet his uptown associates at intro
ducing distance.
Sam looked surprised. ooh, in that
case" he said, TN see what can be
done. But his tone was not quite cor
dial enough to satisfy me.
To stimulate him and give him an
n of what 1 intended to do for
been put through, 1 showed him how
he could win ten thousand dollars in
the next three days. And you needn't
bother about putting up margins" said
l, as 1 often had before. "Ill take care
of that"
He stamnered a refusal and went
out; but he came back within an hour,
cepted my tip and offer.
That's sensible" said I. when will
you attend to the matter at the Trav-
elers? l want to be warned so I can
pull my own set of wires in concert
I'll let you know" he answered..
hanging his head.
1 didn't understand his queer actions
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l hadn't yet made a study of that 9th
er ga1ne-the game of gentleman"
And l didn't know how seriously the
and fakirs who play it take it
and themselves. I attributed his con-
fusion to a ridiculous mock modesty
he had about accepting favors: it
struck me as being particularly silly on,
this occasion, because for once he was
to give as we'll as to take.
He didn't call for his profits, but
wrote asking me to mail him the check
for them. 1 did so, putting in the en-
velope with it a little jog to his mem
Org on the club matter. l didn't see
him again for nearly a month; and
though / searched and SEN 1 couldn't
get his trail. On opening day at Morris
park. ! was going along the passage
behind the boxes in the g~randstand. on
my way to h paddock. I wanted tn
see my horse hat was about to run
for the Salmagundi sweepstakes. and
to tell my Jockey hat I would give
him fifteen thousand instead of ten
thousand, If he won-for I had quite q
bunch down. I was a figure at the
tracks in those days. I went into rae
ing nm customary generous scale.
I liked horses, just as I liked every
thing that belonged out under the big
sky; also / liked the advertising my
string of thorcughbreds gave me. ]
20 y SiiousA " pe DeyOl0 lne Stage
at which a mar excttes suspicion by
frequenting race tracks and gambling
houses; I was at the height where
prodigalities begin to be taken as evil
dences Of Astounding su%perfluity, not OF
a dangerous pro1igacy. Jim Earka-
way, who failed at playing the same
game l played and won, said to me
with a sneer n day: you certainly
do know how to get a dollars worth OF
nOtoriety out Of a dollars worth OF
advertising"
Continued Next Week.)
Gambling at Sea.
From London Truth.
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