Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-11-02

piciOuS stuff on the plDlic through
those damn clever letters Of yours
There's where you did stop to think
sam" said L. when | say a stock
going TO rise. it rises. when / stol
talking about ii. il may go on risinI
or il may fall. But | never advise any
body to buy except when ! have ever.
reason TO believe it's a good thing. !
they hold on too long, that's their owl
lookout
"But they invest
You use words too Carelessly,"
said. "NFaen Z say buy, | don't NEAR
invest. When 1 mean invest, I say in.
vest" There I laughed. IT'S q word
don't often use"
And that's what you call honestly
jeered he.
That's what / call honesty" 1 retort-
ed, and that is honesty And though
so then.
"Well-every man has a right to his
own notion Of what's honest he said
"But no mans got a right to complair
If a fellow with a different notion crit
icises him."
None in the world" l assented. dc
you criticise me?'
mo, no, no, indeed!" he answered
nervous, and taking seriously what
had intended as a joke.
After a while | dragged in the sub
AR@As NfnAA Aha1A 4 NA'tA AAlaN NN'AA M -"
get myself in line for that club" / said,
like n seal on promenade. I'm sick OF
the crowd that / travel with-the men
and the ONE 1 feel it's about time
I settled down. I've got a fortune and
establishment that needs a woman TO
set 1t off. l can make some woman
happy. You don't happen to know any
nice girls-the right sort, | mean?'
Not many" said Sam. You'd bet
ter go back TO the country where you
came from and get her there. Shed
be eterually grateful, and her head
wouldn't be full of mercenary nom
sense"
Excuse mel" exclaimed l.. IT'D
turn her head. She'd so clean crazy.
She'd plunge in up to her neck-and
not being used to these waters, she'd
make q show of herself, and probably
drown, dragging me down with her, If
possible"
sam laughed. Keep out of marriage,
Matt" he advised, not so obtuse 70 my
real point as he wanted to believe.
II know the kind of a girl you've got
in mind. She'd marry you for your
money, and she'd neVer appreciate you.
She'd see in you only the lack of things
she's been taught TO lay stress on"
For instance?'
Il couldn't tell you any more than
I could enable you to recognize a per-
son you'd never e by describing
Amt I a gentraman?" I inquired.
He laughed, as if the idea tickled
him. cot course he said. ''Of course
"Ain't I got as proper u country place
as there is q going? Amt my apart
ment in the Willoughby a peach? Don't
I give as elegant dinners as o ever
sat down to? Don't I dress right up
to the Piccadily latest? Don't 1 act
all right-know enough to keep my feet
Off the table and knife u Of my
mouth2" All true enough; and / so
crude Their that I hadn't a suspicion
what a fiat contradiction of my preten-
and beliefs about myself the very
words and phrases We're,
You're right in it, Matt said Sam.
'But-well-you haven't travelled with
,ur crowd, and they're shy Of strangers,
especially as-as energetic a sort OF
stranger rs you are. You're too sudden
Matt-too daZzling-tOo-"
TOO shiny and new?" said /, begin
ming TO catch his drift. "That'n be
.ooked after, What / want is 0 to
me round q bit"
II can't ask % to peoples houses"
protested he knowing I'd not realize
yhat q tiinsy ~pretense that was.
While we We're talking / had been
Notwithstanding out the proposition
llonE lines he had indicated to me
without knowing it. Look here, SAM"
said. You imagine I'm trying to
IN with a lot OF people that don't
NOW me and don't want to know
But hat amt my point of view.
those people can be useful to me. /
'em. What do / care whether
hey want to be useful to me or not?
The machine'd have run down and
'usted out long ago If you and your
idea of d gentleman had been
aiken seriously by anybody who had
anything 10 do and knew how to do ii.
n this world you've got 70 make people
10 what's for your good and their own.
-FOUR idea OF a gentleman was put for
ward by lazy fakirs who were living
of what their ungentlemanly IN
,estors had annexed, and who didn't
to be disturbed. SO they fixed
he game by passing these rules you
md your kind are fools enough to abide
1y-that is, 0 are fools. unless you
haven't got brains enough to get on in
free-and~fair-for-all."
Sam laughed. There's a lot OF
ruth in what YOU say" he admitted.
However, ] ended my plans don't
,all for hurry just there. When I get
'eady TO go round, Til let you know"
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