The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1906-11-01
I Copyright. by the S\
H ODE Deluge
- BY DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS IN
BY DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS

Ia grin. zone would think you didn't
shove OF millions OF dollars OF suR-
picious stun on tho public through
those damn clever letters OF yours"
There's whore you did stop TO think.
/ SAM" said l. when I say n stocks
J going To rise. u rises. when I stop
q liking about IL. 10 may so on rising
or u mny fall. But never advise any
body To buy except when I have every
reason To believe It's n good thing. II
they hold on too long. that's their own
lookout"
but they invest"
You use words too cnreicssly." !
said. when I say buy. don't mean
invest. when mean invest. say In
vest" There laughed. It's word j
don't often use"
"And that's what you call honestly"
jccrcd he.
That's what call honesty" I retort-
cd. ''and that Is honesty" And thought
so then.
"well--cvory man has a right to his
! own notion Of what's honest" he said.
| But no mans got n right to complain
IL n fellow with a different notion crit
iciscs him"
None in the world" asscnted. do
you criticisc mc7'
mo. no. no. indeed" he answered.
nervous. and taking seriously what j
| had intended as a joke.
After a while I dragged In the sub
ject. ''Onc thing can and will do TO
| get myself I'm line for that club" l said,
like "a seal on promenade. I'm sick of
the crowd that travel with-tbc men
and the women. feel It's about tlmc
| settled down. I've got a fortune and
| establishment that needs n woman TO
set Il of. can make some woman
happy. You don't happen TO know any
7 -. Ill. a tawAe ri n n
Not many" said Sam. You'd bet
ter 20 back To the country where you
came from and get her there. Shed
be- ctCrnnlly grateful. and her head
wouldn't be full OF mcrccnnry non
/ sense"
Excuse me-" exclaimed ]. IT'D
turn her head. Shed go clean crazy.
| she'd plunge In up To her neck-and
not being used 60 these waters. shed
make n show OF herself. and probably
drown, dragging me down with her'
possible"
sem laughed. Keep out OF marriage.
Matt" he advised. not so obtusc To my
real point as he wanted to believe.
/ II know the kind or "A girl you've got
| In mind. she'd marry you for your
money. and she'd never appreciate you.
She'd see I'm you only the lack or things
she's been taught To lay stress on.
! For instancc?'
II couldn't tell you any more than
could enable you TO recognize n per-
son you'd never seen by describing
I him"
"Ain't I n gent'a-ran7" / inquired.
lie laughed. as II the idea tickled
/ him. "Of course" he said. "Of course"
Amt ! got as proper a country place
az there Is n goingI Amt my apart
ment in the willoughby n peach? Don't
/ I give aR elegant dinners IA you ever
| sat down to? Don't ! dress right up
/ TO the Piccadily latest? Don't I act
| all right-know enough to keep my feet
of the table and knife out OF my
MOUTH" All true enough: and | so
what fiat contradiction OF my preten-
sions and beliefs about myself the very
words and phrases were.
You're right In Il. Matt" said Sam.
| "But--well-you haven't Travelled with
our crowd. and they're shy OF strangers.
! especially as-ns energetic sort OF
/ stranger IS you are. You're too sudden
/ Matt-too dazzling loo"
too shiny and new" said I. begin
ming 10 catch his drift. 'ThatN be
\ looked after. What | want Is you TO
take me round Bit
II can't ask you To peoples houses"
protested he knowing I'd not realize
{ what nl.nyy pretcnse that was.
While We were talking / had been
/ thiul.ir---W out the proposition
along limos he had Indicated To me
without knowing Il. Look here. sam"
1 | said. You imagine I'm trying to
I butt In with lot OF people that don't
know me and don't want 90 know
me. Eut that amt my point OF view.
I Those people can be useful 20 me. l
need EN-. What do 1 care whether
I they want to be useful to me or not?
4 The machiue'd have run down and
rustcd out long ago n you and your
\ friends idea OF gentleman had been
! taken seriously By anybody who had
anything 10 do and knew how To do Il.
1 In ;a,..s world you've Eot to make people
} do what's Tor your good and their own.
/ Your iicl 81 gentl,mu was put for
ward by lazy faklry who were living
| Off 81 what their unEentlcmanly an
| ccRtUrs had annexed. and who didn't
want 10 be disturbed. So they fixed
\ the game by passing these rules you
I and your kind are fools enough To abide
! by-that r.. you are fools, unless you
/ haven't got brains enough To get on I'm
! q frcc-uud-fuir-for-nll"
sam laughed. There's a lot hf
I truth in what you say" he admitted.
/ However. I ended" my plans don't
/ call FOR hurry just there. When I get
| ready 10 90 round. I'll let YOU know"