The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-01-31

zone tHat makes me vince rs i feCdl
Ct.
I called my partners address VI
Through the tube. Again that ~frightfu
silence, Then she vas trying to chok
back The sobs. y few words l caught
They have broken my Will-they have
Broken my Will"
My partner lived in a big, gray-stone
house that stood apart and commanded
a noble view of the Hudson the
Palisades. It was, in the main. a re
production OF a French chateau, and
ouch changes as the architect had made
In his model were not positively disfig-
uring. though amusing, There should
have been trees and s~hrubbery about II,
put-"As Mrs. =. says, Joe had ex-
planned to me, what's the use of sink
Eng d lot OF cash in q house people
cant seer" Sc there was not a bush,
not u flower. Iuside-One DAY Ban
took me on q tour OF the art shops.
eve got a dozen corners and other
big bare spots to tll." said he. Mrs.
3. hates to give up money, haggles over
every article. I'm gOfng To put the Job
through III business style | soon dis
covered that | had been brought along
TO admire his business style not TO
suggest. After two hours. in when ne
bought in small lots several tons of
s~tatuary. paintings, vases and rugs
he said, This is too slow" He pointed
his stick to q crowded corner of the
shop. How much for that bunch OF
STUFF" he demanded. The proprietor
gave him q figure. III close SAID
Joe, IF you'n give fifteen off for CASH
The proprietor agreed. Now were
done" said Joe to me. Let's go down
town, and maybe can pick up what
Nv dropped.
You can imagine that interior. But
don't picture 1t as notably worse tnail
she interior of the average New YORK
palace. 1t was, If anything, better than
those houses where people who deceive
themselves about their lack of taste
have taken great pains to prevent any
one else from being deceived. n
could hardly move in Joe's big room for
the litter of gilded n tapestried fur
niture, and their crowded walls made
the eyes ache,
The appearance OF the man who
opened the door for Anita and me sug
Aested that our ring had reused him
Crom n bed where he had deposited
himself without bothering to AXE off
his clothes. AT the sound of my voice,
Ball appeared out of his private srnolS-
ing room, at the far end of the hall.
He started forward: then, seeing how 1
was accompanied, stopped with mouth
@jar. He had on a ragged Smoking
Jacket, a pair of shapeleSs old Romeo
slippers, his ordinary business waist
coal and trousers. He VAS wearing
neither tie nor collar, and q short black
pipe was elWee Has HllSeIS. we mao
evidently caught the household stripped
OF Tugs" and sunk in the do wn-at-the-
heel sloVenliness which is called COM
tort Joe was crimson with confusion,
and using his free hand to stroke al
~ternately, his shiny bald head and his
heavy brown mustache. He got him
self together sufficiently, after a few
seconds, to disappear into his den.
When he came out again, pipe and rag
9ed Jacket We're gone, and he rushed
Tor us In a gorgeous velvet Jacket with
dark red facings, and q SNOWY pair Of
clippers.
'Glad to see you. MIR. Blackjack
IN his wv HON he always addressed
every man as Mister, just as Mrs. b."
always called him Mister Ball." and
he called her "Missus Ball" before
"conlpanv.' Come right into the front
parlor. Billy TURF on the electric lights"
Anita had been standing with her
head down.. She now looked round
with shame and terror in those ex-
pressive blue-gray eyes of hers; her
delicate nostrils We're quivering. I has
1ened to introduce Ball to her. Her inn
pulse to fly passed; her lifelong rain
ing In doing the conventional thing as
(erted itself. She lowered her head
Again. murmuring In %inaudible ac-
acknowledgement of Joe's greeting.
Your wife is at home??" said I. If
n was at home lin the evening. the
other was also. and both Were always
there. unless they We're at some theater
except on Sunday night, when they
dined at Sherry's, because many fash
tonable people did It. They had no
humber happy days they had
many friends. but had lost them when
they moved way from Brooklyn and
went to live. like uneasy, out-of-place
visitors, In their grand house, pretend-
ing to be what they longed to be.
b SnrVjttcr n ha ytf1ro 4 Il III ~ - 49,. - M -
be. and as disconnected as they de-
served.
.sOh. yes Mrs, BIS at home Joe an
swered. Il guess she and Alva we're
about to go to bed" Alva was their
one child. She had been cllristened
Malvina. after Joe's mother; but when
the Balls "blossomed out. they re-
narne her Alva. which they somehow
cot the impression was smarter
AT Joe's ~blundering confession that
the females of h family We're in no
condition to receive Anita said to me
In "a low voice: Let us CO.,
I pretended not to hear. .'Rout EN-
out" said / TO Joe. Then take nv
electric and bring the nearest parson.
There's going to be a wedding-right
here And Z looked round the long
salon, with everything draped for the
summer departure. Joe whisked the
cove off one chair, his ma took off
another. TIL have the women folks
00Wn IN two minutes he cried. Then
60 the man: "Get a move on you. Bily-
6tir EN- up IN the Kitchen. Do the best
yOu an about supper-and put a lot Of
champagne on the ice. That's the main
10 alta wedding
Anita. a seated herself listlessly IN
one OF the uncovered chairs, The wran
slipped back from her shoulders and
how proud I was of her! Joe sazed.
took advantage of her not looking IN
% slap me on the back to Jerk his
head IN enthusiastic approval. Then
ne, too. disappeared.
walt followed, during which we
cou hear, through the silence, excited
undertones from the upper foors. The
words were indistinct until Joe,s heayy
voice sent down TO us an angry mo
AM nonsense I tell you. Allies got
90 come too. She's not such a. fool as
ytou think BAD exstmple--boslig
Anita started up. Oh--pleasc-
pleased" she cried. TAX me away
elnywherei This Is dreadful,
~ was, indeed, dreadful. re IScould
have had my way at just that mo-
n1ent. II would nave gone liard with
Mrs b. and Allie--and heavy
voiced Joe. tco.eBut I hid my feel
&1ngs. There's Eliowhere else TO l.
except the brougham.
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