The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-11-02

grin, "one would think you didn't
shove off millions of dollars of sus-
picious stuff on the public through
those damn clever letters of yours"
There's where you did stop to think
} Sam" said l. When l say a stocks
going to rise, it rises. When 1 stop
talking about it. it may go on rising
or 1t nay fall. But l never advise any
sbody to buy except when have every
reason to believe it's a good thing. Ii
they hold on too long. that's their own
lookout"
But they Invest"
You use words too carelessly,"
said. when l say buy. 1 don't mean
invest. When 1 mean invest, l say in
vest" There l laughed. It's a word /
don't often use"
And that's what you call honestly"
jeered he.
That's what call honesty" L retort-
ed, and that is honesty" And I thought
SO then.
"Well-every man has a right to his
own notion of what's honest he said.
If a fellow with a different notion crit
icises him."
None in the world" 1 assented. DO
you criticise me?"
No. no, no, indeed" he answered,
had intended as a joke.
After a while I dragged in the SUBJ
ject. lone thing I can and will do to
get myself in line for that club" I said,
like a seal on promenade. I'm sick Of
the crowd that I travel with-the men
and the women. feel it's about time
establishment that needs a to
set 1t off. l can make some woman
happy. You don't happen to know n
nice girls-the right sort, 1 mean"
Not many" said Sam. You'd bet
ter go back to h country where you
be eternally grateful. and her head
wouldn't be full Of mercenary nom
sense"
Excuse mel" exclaimed !. It'd
turn her head. She'd go clean crazy.
She'd plunge In up to her neck-and
make a 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 to my
real point as he wanted to believe.
in mind. Shed marry you for your
money, INT she'd appreciate you.
| She'd see In you only the lack of things
she's been taught to lay stress on"
For in~stance?"
II couldn't tell you n more than
L COulQ eIiaDie you 10 recognize d per-
son you'd never seen by describing
him"
"Ain't I a gent'eman?" I inquired.
He laughed, as If the idea tickled
him. "Of course" he said. "Of course"
Amt I got as proper a country place
as there is a going? Amt my apart
ment in the Willoughby a peach? Don't
1 give as elegant dinners as you ever
sat down to? Don't 1 dress right up
to the Piccadi1y latest? Don't I act
all right-know enough to keep my feet
off the table and knife out of my
mouth?' All true enough: n I SO
crude then h a I hadn't a suspicion
what a fiat contradiction of my preten-
sions and beliefs about myself the very
words and phrases were.
"You're right in it, Matt" said Sam.
"But-well-you haven't Travelled with
our crowd. and they're shy of strangers,
especially as-as energetic a sort of
Matt-too dazzling-too-'
'Too shiny and new?" said I, begin
ming to catch his drift. "Thatll be
looked after. What l want is you to
take me round a BIT"
II can't ask you to peoples houses"
protested he knowing I'd not realize
what a fimsy pretense shat was.
While we were talking I had been
Misunderstanding out the proposition
along lines he had indicated to me
without knowing it. Look here, Sam"
l said. You Imagine I'm trying to
know me n don't want to know
me. But that amt my point Of view.
Those people car be useful to me. I
need 'em. What do I care whether
they want to be useful to me or not?
The machine'd have run down and
friends idea Of a gentleman had been
taken seriously by anybody who had
anything TO do n knew how to do 1t.
In this world you've got to make people
do what's for your good and their own.
Your idea Of a gentleman was put for
ward by lazy fakfrs who were living
off OF what their ungentlemanly an
cestors had annexed, and who didn't
want to be disturbed. So they fixed
the game by passing these rules you
and your kind are fools enough to abide
by-that is, you are fools, unless you
a free-and-fair-for-all."
Sam laughed. There's a lot of
truth in what you say" he admitted.
However. / ended" my plans don't
call for hurry just there. When I get
ready to go round, I'll let you know."
VII.
|BLAcKLocK GOES INTO TRAINING
This brings me to the ugliest story
iIly CllclllSS IlASS COlCOCleu against
me. No one appreciates more thorough
ly than I that, to rise high, a man
must have his own efforts seconded by
the o of v~ituperation that his enc
mics send to overwhelm him and which
washes him far higher than he could
hope to lift himself. So 1 do not here
refer to any attack on me in the pub
lie prints; l think of them only with
amusement n gratitude. The story
that rankles is the one these foes OF
min set creeping, like a snake under
the fallen leaves. everywhere, any
where, unseen. without a trail. It has
been whispered into every re it
is. no doubt, widely believed-that I
deliberately put Bromwell Ellersly "in
q hole and then Tortured him until