The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-08-01

and yet sometimes he was like Lei cester. Don't you remember that | Oxford insolence of Leicester's which used to madden some people and l how while saying the most innocent sounding things he was just laughing at them all the time? That's what I felt about this fellow. He speaks English with a foreign accent, and yet I felt sometimes as though he knew England well.'' Probably he does." ''He says he's only been in the country three months" You saw him go away with
 "Yes, I saw him. That young fel- low who was with her introduced him. By the way, do you think she was near enough to know who we were?"
 "I should think not They moved away directly the stranger came up."
 we shall see her at the concert tomorrow night, I suppose. My word, Purvis, I feel nervous
 ''Give it up. Sprague-give it up, man. You asked her years ago, and she refused you. What has happen ed since is not likely to endear you to her.
 Rather I think it is. Do you know have a feeling that she is thankful to me now?"
 By the way, I should like you to challenge this Signor Ricordo to golf tomorrow. I will get match with during the afternoon we can play a fourscore."
 'I suppose one of us must ask him to play again; but do you know, don't like the fellow"
 "On the other hand, I do," said Purvis. 1T shall make up to him to- night. He is one of those men who make you want to know them better. I'll warrant he could tell us a curious history if he liked"
 The next day Signor Ricordo and Sprague played their return match. but the latter was not at his best. He complained that he had an at- tack of indigestion, and that his nerves had gone wrong. AS a con- sequence Ricordo won easily.
 You play a remarkable game, sig nore; that is for one who has had so little practice" he said.
 "Ah, I am but a beginner, MT. Sprague," he said quietly; ''some time perhaps I may play good game"
 You never suffer from nerves. I suppose ?"
 4 "Yes, horribly."e
 ''Then you have wonderful self command"
 "A man can will anything. There is no difficulty that will-power can not overcome. Golf, like life, is a game; to will to win, is to win"
 'I willed to win; but lost"
 '.No, you made up your mind to try. I always go further. I wilIed to win. if not one day, then the next
 ''And you always do?"
 ''Yes. always do."
 Sprague laughed uneasily.
 s'Do you mean to say that you have gained everything that you have set your mind upon?" he asked cur iously.
 ''Not yet, but shall. Some games are long. they take time. But there is always tomorrow to the man who wills"
 "Is that part of your Eastern philosophy?"
 eff you will. Eastern or Western. it does not matter-human.' z "But human nature has it's nmita- tions. Life is not very long after all."
 T do not know your English liter ature we'll Signore Sprague; but I have read your Browning. He had the greatest brain of the nineteenth century, I think. His mixture of Eastern blood may account for it. He said, Leave "now" to dogs and apes, man has for ever.' That is always true. There is no death, or if there is, man always rises again."
 'Then you believe that what a man fails to do in this life, he will do in another?"
 Always. There is one thing a man never loses-memory. It may leave him for a time; but it always returns. Do you know Italian, sig nore?"
 'eNo."
 My name is Ricordo. It means remembrance. It is not only name, it is an expression of an eternal truth. Nothing is forgotten, nothing Even those whom we call dead re- member"
 "Ah, you are beyond me-" laughed Sprague uneasily. 'I am no philo- sopher. Still, I shall remember what you say about willing When next we play I shall will to win."
 "So shall I.''
 What will happen then?" Victory for the strongest will"