Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-08-07

| III us management inc younger
generation holds no suffrage; and is
| not slow to declare that the Primordial
is rightly named, characterizing the
individual members of the board of
! governors as antediluvians, prehistoric
monsters who have never learned that
| laughter lends a saver to existence.
| And SO it is that the younger genera
| ton (Which is understood to include
| Maitland and Bannerman), while it re-
| ligiously pays its dues and has the
name of the Primordial engraved upon
it's cards, shuns those deadly respec-
table rooms and seeks it's comfort else
| where.
Maitland found it dull and depress-
| ing enough, that same evening, some
| thing before seven. The spacious and
impressive lounging rooms were but
| sparsely tenanted, other than by the
| ennuied corps of servants; and the
| few members who had lent the open
| doors the excuse of their presence
were of the elderly type that hides
| itself behind a newspaper in an easy
| chair and snorts when addressed.
The young man strolled disconso-
| lately enough into the billiard room,
| thence (dogged by a specter of lone
| liness)>to the bar, and finally in sheer
/ 0OSpCl dllOA, " tLS IoOlu, WaSIS
| he selected a table and ordered an
| evening paper with his meal.
When the former was brought him,
he sat up and began to take a new in
| terest in life. The glaring headlines
| that met his eye on the front page
| proved as bracing as a slap in the
face.
E'The Maitland Jewels" he read,
half aloud: 81 Daring Attempt at Burg
| larry. Mad Maitland Catches Hand
some Dan" Anisty in the Act of Crack
| ing His Safe at Maitland Manor.
! Which Was Which? Both Principals
Disappear
| The newS-Story was exploited as a
| beat" it could have been little else,
since nine-tenths of it's Exclusive de-
tails" had been born ful1-winged from
the fecund Imagination of busy re
| porter to whom Maitland had refused
| an interview while in his bath, some
three hours earlier. Maitland dfscov-
| cred with relief that boiled down to es-
| sentia1s it consisted simply of the
| statement that somebody presumably
HIMSELF had caught somebody (pre-
sumably Anisty) burglarizing the Ii
| brary safe at Maitland Manor that
morning; that one of the somebodies
| Ono one knew which, had overpowered
| the other and left him in charge of the
butler, who had presently permitted
| his prisoner to escape and then talked
| for publication.
| 1t was not to this so much that Matt
land objected. 1t was the illustra-
| tons that alternately saddened and
| maddened the young man; the said IL
| Illustrations comprising blurred half
tone reproductions of photographs
| taken on the Maitland estate; dia-
| gram of the library, as fanciful as the
text it Illuminated, and two portraits,
| side by side, of the heroes, himself
and Anisty, excellent likenesses both
of the originals and of each other.
Mr.. Maitland did not enjoy his din
| ner.
Anxious and preoccupied, he tasted
| the dishes mechanically; and when
they had all passed before him, took
his thoughts and cigar to a gloomy
corner of the smoking room, where he
sat for two solid hours, debating the
matter pro and con. and arriving at
no conclusion whatever, save that Hig-
gins was doomed.
At 1918 he began to contemplate
| with positive pleasure the prospect of
| discharging the butler. That, at least,
was action, something that he could
do; wherever else he thought to move
he found himself baffied by the blank
darkness of mystery, or by his fear
Of publicity and ridicule.
At 1920 he decided to move upon
Greenfields at once, and telephoned
! O'Hagan, advising him to profess ig-
norance of his employers where
| abouts.
At 1922, or in the midst of his ad-
monitions to the janitor, he changed
his mind and decided to stay in New
| York; and instructed the Irishman
| to bring him a suit case containing q
few necessaries; his intention being to
| stay out the night at the club, and so
avoid the matutinal siege of his Iodg-
ings by reporters and detectives.
! At 1O:45 a club servant handed him
the card of a representative of the
Evening Journal. Maitland directed
that the gentleman be shown into the
/ reception room.
At 10:46 he skulked out of the club
by side entrance, jumped into cab
/ and had himself driven to the East
Thirty-fourth street ferry, arriving
there just in time to miss the last
train for Greenfields-
Denied the shelter alike of his lodg-
ings, his club, and his country home.
the young man in despair caused him.
self to be conveyed to the Bartholdi
hotel, where, possessed of devil of
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