The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1908-03-13
He leaped for his life to the sideacalk.

He leaped for his life to the side,cdlk.
! single inmate. with the exception of a
groom exercising horse and riding
! with q curious up and down English
motion that nearly turned the Texans
stomach. He returned to New York
Respondent. but with mental picture
Of the home in which she dwelt, which
was like crumb of consolation. He
grew the more restless and unhappy
on that account He did not want
crumbs; he craved the whole loaf.
He visited the theaters and the op-
era, but his thoughts were not with
the painted puppets Of bygone days.
Throughout the mimic tragedies-he
was in no mood for comedy--he saw q
more stirring scene: A piebald bron-
cho, quivering between his knees as 1t
tore through a bunch of plunging
steers, a weight in his arms and a limp
head hanging backward, a cheek that
had brushed his own. With her a ten
cent show would be heavenly enter
tainment; without her "Gotterdammer-
love have thought the same.
He spent his time in wandering aim
lessly about, making and rejecting one
idiOtic plan after another. He was en-
tirely unknown in the city, lonely, mis-
cradle and as far from meeting the Oh
ject of his affection as though he were
back again in the Lone Star State.
In hn Of tl,n
his suspense while crossing upper
Fifth avenue he was nearly run down
by coffee colored touring car which
recklessly swung around q corner,
skidding as it took the turn. He leap
ed for his life to the sidewalk. turned
and was about to express candid
opinion Of the driver when his sulphur
Gus salutation was exchanged for one
of surprise and pleasure. The Offend
ing automobile had come to stopAand
in its solitary occupant Richard recog-
nized friend of former days, one
George Henry FitZ-Clarence de Courcy
Howard, earl of Croyland.
This gentleman had spent several
months with Richard on the ranch in
Texas. and, while the two meii had
few tastes In common, still friend
ship knit upon the boundless plains is
usually more lasting than one contract
ed in the whirl and rush Of city life.
In general appearance the two were
not unlike, both blends, rather tall and
marked with the branding iron of Wig
orous manhood although Richard was
the younger. the fresher and the more
virile. The earl had been in America
for perhaps year. seeking by various
schemes 10 rehabilitate an impoverish
ed estate and i'm all his undertakings
meeting with Indifferent success. He
had become the sole owner of salt |
in Birmingham real estate, only to |
drop his pile" again in Texas cattle. |
At present his bow was strung with |
two widely differing cords-one a Sc
cret mission, with lucrative promise, |
for an oriental government regarding |
the surreptitious purchase of subma-
rines and other war material in viola
ton of the neutrality laws; the other a
somewhat hsckneyed scheme Of ex-
changing an carls coronet for seven /
figured bank account. the figure Of the
necessarily accompanying lady being
matter OF little moment
The meeting between the two was
cordial, not to say affectionate. A
face in New York to Richard
was like water hole in the desert.
To the earl he was as welcome as
"a pun note when I'm strapped, by
gadv' Lord Croyland suggested q spin
In MS motor, and Richard, who had
nothing tut leisure ON his hands anc