Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-12-03

h at Yale. 1t had been a
G question of money with
Bobby from the beginning. According
to his own admission, his money was
source of great annoyance to him.
then before he fully realized 1t. 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 Robertson r..
Rigby, 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
ings, and now Mr.. Robertson r. 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 1t 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 busi-
ness with him. Then the witness OF
the drawing room turned into shrewd-
ness as IL 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
q certain, or rather uncertain. Miss
Clegg That petite and aggravating
young woman had been especially ex-
asperating at the Gable 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 rift In her constancy. Never
before had she shown such signs Of
huctuating. He could not understand
it-in fact. he dared not understand It.
.She was a most annoying young per-
son." said Mr.. Rigby to himself wrath
fully more than once after he went to
bed that night. Anyhow, he could not
see what there was about Howard
Medford for any girl to countenance.
much less to admire. Mr.. Medford GER
tainly had ruined the Cable dinner par
ty for Mr.. Rigby, and he was full Of
resentment.
Miss Keating." called Mr.. Rigby for
the third time, may l interrupt your
conversation with Mr.. Deever long
enough to ask q question that has been
on my mind for twenty minutesr'
Mr.. Deever was the raw young gen.
tieman who read law In the ONCE Of
Judge Smith next door. Bobby main
tanned that II he read law at all It was
at night. for he was too busy with oth-
er occupations during the day.
Miss Heating. startled, turned round
about promptly. "Yes. sir" at last
came from the pert young woman near
the window.
II guess III b golng." said Mr.. Dee
yer resentfully. rising slowly from ths
side OF her desk On which hs had bssa
lo01ginE q 4-Asy "a =.
sWait Q" minute, EDDIE" protested
III Keatins. "NAAka xaax- AuryxT