The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-03

I wonder they ever sent you any al- 1owance.''
 MT. Taylor, I can see no use in prolonging this conversation, Good bye.''
 What. Hello, Langnam. Are you serious? Whats the matter?'' Do you refuse to acknowledge that you borrowed five thousand dollars from me the day before you left?'' 'I certainly do. This is getting past a joke"
 "Yes, it is. That's all I have to say to you. Good bye."
 Chester heard the sound of the l receiver as it crashed onto the hook, and hung up his own instrument in l dumb anna cement. Could it be possi- ble that Perry was really serious |? Had he been drunk at that party :? No, he remembered that he sang a. lot and made 8 general ass of him self, but that was because he was feeling so good at the improvement in his worldly circumstances Why should he borrow five thousand dol lars from Perry, after all that Perry
 
 just made a pot of money himseIf7 Did Perry despise him because he had been broke, vagrant, 8 tramp, practically down in the gutter? Was man to be branded as an infamous scoundrel because his pride kept him from borrowing his own or his fath- er's friends? And here was Perry accusing him of borrowing, of almost stealing five thousand dollars.
 It is long drive from the Stock ton on Washington Square to the Uruguay, and it can be seen that Chester was in dangerous mood. His thoughts had proceeded as far is indicated at the close of the pre- ceding paragraph before he hailed a cab where Fifth Avenue opens into the Square. He was still weak from the fever, and, since the temporary flush of his triumph in Warsaw had strangely irritable. Then was the constant galling thought of the un- answered letter to girl who enter ed daily into his thoughts, and whose memory pre-empted most of his waking moments. By the time the cab drew up in front of the Uruguay, Chester had lashed himself into a towering rage? He was not yet twenty-four, and older men have done the like. His fingers shook as he handed his card to the clerk.
 Send that to MT. Langham, quick he said.
 As he stood fuming in the office MT. Twining stepped out of the eleva- tor.
 ''How are you, MT. Twining,'' cried Chester eagerly. "and how
 MT. Twining's icy stare froze the question on his lips.
 :'How do.'' said the latter curtly; and passed on.
 stdr. Langham says that he will consent to see you," said page at Chester's elbow. ''Oh, he says that he will consent. does he.'' growled Chester between his teeth. "I rather think that he'll be sorry he put it that way before I'm through with him.
 Perry was standing in the middle of the sitting room when Chester en- tered, and did not advance to meet him, or offer his hand.
 "Now tell me what in the. Devils | the matter, Perry. and be quick about l it."
 ''Mr. Langham, if you don't mind | and you know perfectly well what's | the natter Chester swallowed an oath, and mastered himself with mighty cf- fort.
 ".Please explain. as if knew noth- ing about it,'' he said evenly.
 Before you went away" said Perry, you took occasion to ac- knowledge to me several times that you were rather deeply in my debt. tried to avoid the subject because know of no such obligations with my friends. We can no longer meet on that basis. however, so am rath- CT glad that you put yourself on rec ord. The night that gave the house. warming in your honor in this apart ment. which I had taken off your possibility that you would ever be able to pay for it, you obtained from me f1vethousand dollars by 8 low un- worthy subterfuge. Thereafter you purposely avoided me, declined to even talk to me over the phone, and sneaked out of the city. I am won dering how you had the nerve to come back.''
 Perry walked up to the bigger man, the man with the desire and the power to kill him with his hands. and confronted him square9y.
 f'I am wondering," he repeated, sehow VOL ever had the nerve to ra-