Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-10-19

That's what / need. A woman-tha
right sort of wife!"
w.
! A CANDIDATE FOR "RESPECTA-
BILITY."
To handle this new business proper.
ly l must put myself in position TO
look the whole field Over / must get
in line n in touch with ~"respecta'
bility." When San Ellersly came in
for his "rations,' / aid Sam, / wans
you to put me up at the Travellers
club" 4
THE Travelers!" echoed he, with q
blank look. ;
THE Travellers" sale /. It's about
the best OF the big clubs, isn't it? And
it has as members most Of the men
do business with and most Of those J
want to get into touch with"
He laughed. 1T can't be n
Why not?" / asked.
"Oh-I don't know. You ee-th
fact is-well, they're a lot of old fogie,
up there. You don't want to bother
with that push, Matt. Take my az
vice. Do business with them, but avoid
them socially" !,
II want to go in there" l insisted. y
have my own reasons. You put me
up"
Il tell you, it'd be 10 use" he re-
piled, in a tone that implied he wished
TO hear no more of the matter.
You put me up" l repeated. Ana
if you do our best, I'll get in all right
I've got lots of friends there. Ant
you've got three relatives in the COM.
mittee on membership"
At this he gave me q queer, sharp
glance-a little fright in it.
| laughed. You see, I've been look
ing into 1t, Sam. | never take a jumr
till I've measured it,"
You'd better wait a few years, un.
til he began, then stopped n
turned red.
Until what?" said 1. Il want you to
speak frankly"
We'll, you've got a lot of enemies
a lot Of fellows who've lost money il
deals you've engineered. And they'll
say ali sorts of things"
I'll taxi care of that" said /, quite
easy in mind. "Mowbray Langdon's
president, isn't he? Well, he's my clos
est friend" / spoke quite honestly. II
shows how simple minded / was in Ger.
ain ways that l had never once noted
he important circumstance that this
closest friend had never invited me
to his house, or anywhere where IG
meet his uptown associates at intro
ducing distance.
Sam looked surprised. "Oh, In that
case" he said, I'll see what can b.
done" But his tone was not quite cor.
dial enough to satisfy me.
To stimulate him and give him an
earnest Of what l intended to d. fol-
him, when our little social deal had
been put through, l showed him how
he could win ten thousand dollars ir
the next three days. And you needn't
bother about putting up margins" said
l, as often a before. I'll lake care
of that"
He stammered a refusal and went
out; but he came back within an hour
and in a strained sort Of way, &C.
cepted my tip and offer.
That's sensible" said I. when will
you attend 30 the matter at the TRAY.
elers? / want to be warned so 1 car
pull my own set of wires in concerts
"Tll let you know" he nswer
hanging his head.
l didn't understand his queer actions
then. Though l am an expert in finance
l hadn't yet made a study Of that 9th.
er game-the game of gentleman"
And l didn't know how seriously the
frauds n fakirs who play it ak il
and themselves. / attributed his con,
fusion to a ridiculous mock modesty
he had about accepting favors: II
struck me as being particularly silly or
this occasion, because for once he wa,
to give as well as to take.
Tie uldll L Call IOI Ills pTOI1LS, Dul
wrote asking me to mail him the checl
for them. / did So, putting in the en-.
velope with it a little jog to his mem.
DRY on the club matter. / didn't Sc,
him again for nearly a month: and
though / searched and sent / couldn't
get his trail. On opening day at Morris
park, l was going along the passag,
behind the boxes in the grandstand. on
my way to the paddock. / wanted tc
see my horse that was about to RUIZ
for the Salmagundi sweepstakes, and
to tell my jockey that I would Civ,
him fifteen thousand instead Of tel
thousand, If he won-for l had quite [
bunch down. I was a figure at thu
tracks In those days. l went into rae.
ing on my customary generous scale
l liked horses, just Is 1 liked every
thing that belonged out under the big
sky; also l liked the advertising my
string of thoroughbreds gave me.
was rich enough to be beyond the stage
at which a mar excites suspicion by
frequenting race tracks and gambling
houses; / was at the height where
prodigalities begin to be taken as evi.
dences of Astounding superfluity, not OF
a dangerous profiigacy. Jim Harka.
way, who failed at playing the sam.
game / played and won, said to ms
with n sneer M day: You certainly
do know how to get a dollars worth OF
notoriety out of a dollars worth OF
Advertising"
Continued Next Week.)