The sun., 1908-03-22
AT THE MARDl
n GRAS RECEPTION
The Real Gentleman George Comes
to the Front at the
Wrong Time,

sKeesAei Where have hSerd that name
before eB Eve seid whln Adar1 spoke 10
her for the fustl' ponde-ei dub'us.
"As II the papes hagen't been top
heavy with II 10 cays,' reterted Gente-
man George hnggold. "G'wau with your
civilian lots
So demolished reed the card that |
had just drawn from the secrit ricords OF
the ChGrakter Surety Company;
Keesee. Lemuel--I renew my recommen-
dation that the bond OF insured as guardian
OF the Millennium Trust be cancelled At matur-
ity. have just learned from a sure source
that certain coupon bonds belonging 10 the
trust we're found hypotheeated at the Argen-
tine Bank to a large amount, and that insured
took up the loan Oh condition that nothing
should be said about the matter, II will be
remembered that reported last year A SINH
lar instance where insured's name had been
extensively forged The conclusion Is in
evitable that our risk Is lmperiled by thief
and forasr, 40 near and dear to insured as
TO be immune Of punishment,
Il riooollect now, large | cried in the
very next breath. Young Lionel Keesee
was blsekbGleI at the Olympus Club, and
ell the upper tndom hss its feet in the
clouds In conscience.
But large IVES alree1y bury scratchin
for deer life with quill on the broad Official
stGshunsry priggeI from the vHlese Of our
Minister TO England whln he skipped the
pond TO jine In our nation Il anthem Of I'm
a pilgrim end I'm ranger
Cit on your liy'ry, Smithero, said
large loftily as the rid wax smit 10 hiv-
ings. 'and take these prisents with the
comphmints Of your master, the Hon.
Michael Diveroo, to the house committee
Of the Olympus Club, Old Lemuel stands
by his son, the club refuses TO expein It's
scshun. There will be slandor and libe! scots,
and what We know may be velooeble ee4er
TO give out or 10 withhold, to say nGwthin
Of workin 1t bot ways
In a shart week large was insconcsd at the
Olympus Club like a rat in tub Of butter
Lemuel Keeeee, as chairman Of the house
committee In name and the whole thing in
deed had been prompt to respond 10 the
oorchus request Of the American Minister in
behalf Of so high a zion Of an old English
family a. the Hon. Michael Diveroo.
can see him nova tall, stately man,
drissed 10 kill with the Buggundy showing
rid under his clus shaved chops, standin'
behind the deek in the Office with the steward
and the cashier kotooing on eeder side.
"Tell your noble master says he. that
| shall do mesif the honor TO call prisintly
at his hotel and eXtind to him the privileges
Of our club The hull house is his
Watch out, thin mintally retarted, as
/ slammed out back'ards, FOR whativer
isn't nailed
Nor was this all l, too, was soon in
cluded in this perfuse hosr itality, sharin'
in the heeltaNs and broken pieces Of the
servants quarters. Having at Jargeis re-
quest brewed a sample Of Pell Nell t2sser
dry gin, maraschino, lime Juice, ice and
soda-I 90 cart the fancy Of the dun viva
muses. OF the smokin' room that found
mesilf timporariy established as mixer
extraordinary with full powers, free 10
come and 20, the most unobserved yet OBJ
servant Of all observers.
II didn't take long thin to size that the
feeling In the club. like my brew. was
strained Nawthin' was talked OF upstairs
and down but the afront put on Demuel
Keesee by the blaokballlng Of his son
Lionel, fresh from collidge honors and
without q known inemy In the worold. Yit
the talk was all with baited breath, and the
chairman Of the house committee still
oontinered TO perfumm his iuties, though
RloWerin' and In silincs, without in amy
way indlcatn' how and whin the t'under-
bolts Of hiS wrat' wud fall
"Why doesn't he organize a club Of his
own with hisself and his boy as the new
clothesl' | asst
And thin II was explained by the pollyglot
diligaShun from Babble in attndance that a
truce had been taoltl agreed upon Until
after the great evint Of e club year-the
Mardi Gras recepshun. Without Keesee 8 sc-
tive prisnoe and supervishun this funcshun
Of all fClncshuns wud surely be defunot;
and he was too nobby obliging TO fall short
Of what was eXpicted Of him, Besides, his
young wife, whom he had marret but two
years before, was 70 head the receivin
line; the invitashuns ha been issued in her
rerna. y wuAn't do 70 mar her trump.
seen her mesilf the very mkt day as she
druv up TO the side intranoe TO take her
husband hum, lying back in the luxurious
landoo, supubb in her stables; as lovely
as the day, as impressive as the night,
with her milk white skin and her ibbon
hair and her great black eyes with their
lambmt fame. ] seen his diverenshal ap-
proach and her careless greeting as II
dropping a rose from a cloud and reeli7ed
that 10 cross or deny her-indeed 1t wudn't
do at all.