Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-12-07
XIII.
.I-NTII. TOMORROW,

On the following Tuesday afternoon.
toward s o'clock, l descended from my
apartment on my way to my broush-
son coming in.
Hello. you!" said he. slipping
away to get married?'
mo, I'm only making a call re-
piled /, taking alarm instantly.
"Oh. is that all?" said he with a sly
grin. 1T must be q mighty serious
matter"
I'm in no hurry" said I. Come UP
with me for a few minutes.
AS soon as we were alone in my sit
ting room. | demanded: whats
wrong with me?"
"Nothing-not a thing was his an
swer, in a tone / struggled with myself
not to resent. i've V seen any enc
quite so grand-top hat, latest style,
long coat ditto. white buckskin waist
coat, twenty-thousand-do dollar pearl in
pale blue scarf. white spats. spotiess
varnish boots just from the varnish-
ers, cream-colored gloves, You will
make a hit! My eye, I'll bet she won't
be able to resist you"
| began TO shed my plumage. Il
thought this was the thing when you're
calling on people you hardly know
Il should say you'd have to know
EN- well to give 'em such
a treat. Rather!'
What shall I wear?" 1 asked. You
certainly told me the other day that
this was proper. !.
"Proper-so it is--too damn proper,
was his answer. ''Thatd be all right
for a bridegroom or a best man or an
usher-or perhaps for a wedding guest,
II wouldn't do any particular harm
even TO call in it, If the people were
used to you. But"
Il looked dressed up"
Like q fashion plate-like q tailor
like a society actor"
What shall | carr"
"Oh, Just throw yourself together any
old way. Business suits good enough"
But / barely know these people
socially. l called there op-
jected.
Then don't CALL" he advised. Send
your valet I'm a cab to leave a card at
the door. Calling has gone clean out
unless a mans got something very es-
peciaI i'm mind. Never show that you're
eager. Keep your hand hid"
''They'd know / had something especias
in mind if l called?'
,Certain{y. and il you'd gone in those
toys. they'd have ssumcd you had come
toto ask the old man for his daughter
or something like that"
lost no time in getting back into a bust
ness suit.
A week passed and. just as l was within
sight of my limit OF patience, Bromwell
EIlersly appeared at my office. Il can't
out my hand on the necessary cash. Mr..
Blackfock-at least, not for a few days.
Can / count on your further i~ndulgence%'
This in his best exhibit Of old-fashioned
courtliness-the gentleman" through and
through. ignorant of anything useful.
Don't Les that matter worry you. Ell
Icrslv." sold +. friendly, for / wanted to
be on a somewhat less business-like basis
with thar family. The markets steady,
and will go mp before it goes down"
Good said he. by the way, you
haven't kept your promise to call"
.Tm a busy man. said /. You must
make NY excuses to your wife. But-ir
.thc evenings. Couldn't we get up a little
INTERCHANGEABLE. Eilersly and your
daughter and you and f-Sam. too. If nc
cares 10 Gomez
..Delightful," cried ne.
"Whfchever one Of the next FIVE even.
ings you say" i said. Let me know BY
tomorrow morning. will you?" And We
talked no more of h neglected margins
We understood each other. When he lef
ne had negotiated a three months loan o
$2o.00V.
Thy were So surprised that they couldn'
conceal II. when they were ushered intt
my apartment on the Wednesday evening
| they had iixed pom III my taste in dress
as somewhat too pronounced, my tastI
in my surroundings was not. / suppos'
the same instinct that a me like thu
music and the pictures and the books tina
were the products OF superior minds ha'
guided me right in architecture, decoration
and furniture. / know | am one of thos
who are born with the instinct for tn
best. Once Monsoon got In the way of fire.
criticism, he INDUCED himself withou
stint, after the customary human fashion
IN fact. so free did he become that had
not feared ~ brighten him and so brin
about the defea; OF my purposes, / shout
have sal on him hard very soon after "
made our bargain, As IL was, | STOOD nj
worst impudences without fiinching. an
partly consolcd myself with the amus'
ment got cut Of watching his vanity lea
him on into thinking his knowledge IN
most vital matter in the worid-just as yo