Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-23

N
CT question of money with
Bobby from the beginning. According
ITO, his own admission, his money was
a source of great annoyance to him.
He was not out of debt but once and
then before he fully realized it. So I'M
usual was the condition that he could
not sleep. The first thing he did in the
morning was to borrow right and left
for fear another attack of insomnia
might interfere with his training for
the football eleven.
Robertson Ray Rigby, immortalized
as Bobby, had gone in for athletics,
where he learned to think and act
quickly. He was called one of the
lightest but headiest quarterbacks in
the east. No gridiron idol ever escaped
his Jimmy" or "Toppy or Pop or
johnny" When finally he hung out
his shingle in Chicago-"Robertson r.
IRigby, Attorney at Law"-he lost his
identity even among his classmates. 1t
was weeks before the fact became gen
orally known that it was Bobby who
waited for clients behind the deceptive
shingle.
The indulgent aunt who had supplied
him with funds in college was rich in
business blocks and apartment build
ings, and now Mr.. Robertson X. Rigby
was her man of affairs. When he went
In for business, the old push of the
football field did not desert him. He
was very much alive and very vigor-
Gus, and it did not take him long to
'.learn the signals"
With his aunt's unfaltering prosper
ity, his own ready wit and unbridled
versatility he was not long in estab-
fishing himself safely in his profession
and In society. Everybody liked him,
though no one took him seriously ex-
cept when they came to transact bust
ness with him. Then the witness OF
the drawing room turned into sbrewd-
ness as it crossed the Office threshold.
The day. after the Cable dinner Bob
by yawned and stretched through his
morning mail He had slept but little
the night before, and all on account OF
a certain, or rather uncertain, MISS
Clegg. That petite and aggravating
young woman had been especially ex-
asperating at the Cable dinner. Mr.
Rigby, superbly confident of his stand
ing with her, encountered difficulties
which put him very much out of tenn
per. For the first time there was an
apparent riff in her constancy. Never
before had she shown such signs OF
fiuctuating. He could net understand
TIN fact. he dared not understand it.
dShe was a most annoying young per
son." said Mr.. Rigby to himself wrath
fully more. than once after he went te
bed that night. Anyhow. he could not
see what there was about Howard
Aiedford for any girl to countenance
much less to admire. Mr.. Medford Ger
Itainly had ruined the Gable dinner par
Ity for Mr.. Rigby, and he was full OF
resentment.
Miss Heating" called Mr.. Rigby fol
the third time, may interrupt YOU
conversation with Mr. Deever long
enough to ask question that has beer
on my mind for twenty minutes?"
Mr.. Deever was the raw young gen
tleman who read law in the Office Of
Judge Smith next door Bobby main
tanned that If he read law at all 1t was
lat night, for he was too busy with 9th
err occupations during the day.
Miss Heating, startled. turned round
about promptly. Eyes. sir" at las
came from the pert young woman neal
the window.
Il guess I'll be going" said Mr.. Dee