Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-05-17
| THE
|! DELUGE
By
DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS
Author Of The Cost. The Plum Tree.
The Social Secretary. etc.
(copyIight, 1905, The BoDbs Merrill compsn,
CHAPTER IIi.-continued.

CHAPTER iIl.-Continued.
We'll fix it up later, Blackjack,
said he
All right" said l. And from thai
minute | was almost silent. 1t was
something in her tone and manner
that silenced me. / suddenly realized
that | wasn't making as good an i'm
preston as ! had been fiattering my
self.
When man has money and is will
ing to spend 1t, he can readily fool
himself into imagining he gets on
grandly with women. But | had bet
ter grounds than that for thinking
myself not unattractiye to them, as a
rule. Women had liked me when
had nothing; women had liked me
when they didn't know who l was.
felt that this woman did not like
me. And yet, by the way she looked
at me in spite of her efforts not to do
so, | could tell that / had some sort
of unusual interest for her. Why
didn't she like me? She made me feel
the reason. | didn't belong to her
world. My ways and my looks offend
ed her. She disliked me a good deal;
she feared me a little She would
have felt safer if she had been graft
flying her curiosity, gazing in at me
through the bars of a cage.
Sam-not without hesitation, as
recalled afterward-left me with her,
when | sent him to bring her brough-
am up to the Broadway entrance. AS
she end I were standing there alone,
waiting in silence, | turned on her
suddenly, and blurted out: You don't
like me-"
She REDEEMED little. smiled slight
ly. What a quaint remark" said
she
l looked straight at her. But you
shall"
Our eyes met Her chin came out
little, her eyebrows lifted. Then.
in scorn of herself as well as of me,
she locked herself in behind a frozen
haughtiness that ignored me. ~Ah.
here is the carriage" she said. fol-
lowed her to the curb; she just
touched my hand, Just nodded her
fascinating little he-i 1.
See you Saturday, old man." called
her brother friendlily. Ny lowering
face had alarmed him.
That party is off," said /, CURLY !
And lifted my hat and strobe away |
AS l had formed the habs of dis |
missing the disagreeable | soon put 1
her out of my mind. But she took
with her my joy in the taste of things. /
couldn't get back my former keen
satisfaction in all | had done and
was doing. The luxury. the tangible
evidences of my achievement, no long
er gave me pleasure; they seemed to
add to my irritation.
worked myself up, or rather, down,
to such mood that when my office
boy told me NJ. Langdon would like
me to come to his Office as soon as
1t was convenient. l snapped out:
The hell he doesi Tell Mr.. Langdon |
I'll be glad to see him here whenever
he calls" That was stupidity. a pre-
mature assertion of my right to be
treated as an equal. l had always
gone to Langdon. and to any other
of the rulers of finance, whenever l
had got a summons. For, while
was rich and powerful, held both
wealth and power, in sense, on suf-
ferance; | knew that, so long as
had no absolute control of any great
department of industry. these rulers
could destroy me should they decide
hat they needed my holdings or were
not satisfied with my use of my
power. l was surprised when Lang
Ion appeared in my Office a few min
ties later.
He was tallish. slim man. care
ully dressed, with a bored. weary
ook and a slow. bored way of talk
ng. | had always said that if | had
lot been myself should have wished I
0 be Langdon. c
His expression, as he came to my a
flee, was one of cynical amusement.
S If he were saying to himself: "Our |
riend Blackjack has caught the swoll-
n head at last Not a suggestion e
+ i'll humor, of resentment at my inn 4
ertinence-for, in the circumstances, Il
had been guilty of an impertinence-
ust languid. amused patience with o
he frailty of friend. y see said Z
e. that you have got Textile up to
81 RI
He was the head of the Textile
rust. which had been built by his
and had fallen to him A
, the confusion following his broth
r-in-law's DEATH AS he was just then
eeding some money for his share in ly