Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1910-11-17
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FOR TUNE
HUN
Novelized by
LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE
From the Play Of the
Same Name by
WINCHELL SMITH
Copyright. 1910. by Winchell Smith and
Louis Joseph Vance

Spaulding nodded, accepting defeat
with the better grace because of an
innate conviction that it was lust as
we'll after all And, furthermore, he
admired Duncan's stand, so he offered
his hand-an unusual condescension
You'll make good somewhere yet, =
he asserted.
II wish ! could believe it." Duncan's
grasp was firm since he felt more as
| sured Of some humanity latent in his
late employer. However, goodby"
GOOD luck to you" rang in his ears
as the dJor put a period to the inter
view. He stopped and took up the
battered suit case and rusty -overcoat
which he had left outside the Junior
partners office, then went on, shaking
his head Much obliged" he said
huskily to himself, "but what's the
good Of that. There's no room any
where for a professional failure. and
that's what am-just q ne'er-do-well
I never realized what that meant
really before, and it's certainly taken
me damn long time to find out
But know now, all right"
Despondently he went down to the
sidewalk and merged himself with the
crowd moving with it, though q thou
sand miles apart from it, and, presently
diverging, struck across town toward
the Worth street subway station.
"And the worst of 1t is he's too
sharp not to find it outfit he hasn't
| to let me know IL he has. It can't 60
on this way with US. / can't let him.
Got to break with him somehoW-now
| today | won't let him think me
| what I've been all along to him. Bless
/ his foolish hearth
| There was no depreciation Of Kel-
| logg's goodness in his mood, Simply de-
termination no longer to be q charge
| upon it. To contemplate the sum to-
| tai Of the benefits he had received at
| Kellogg's hands since the day when
the latter had found him i'll and half
| starved, friendless as a stray pup. on
the bench III Washington square stag
/ gefed ms IMAGINATION.
He could never repay it, he told
himself, save inadequately, little by
little mostly by gratitude and such
consideration as he purposed now TO
exhibit by removing himself and his
| distresses from the others ken Here
was an end to comfort for him, an end
| to living in Kellogg's rooms, eating
| his food, busying his servants, spend
| ing his money, not so much borrowed
as pressed upon him
There crawIed In his mind clammy
memory of the sort Of housing he had
known in past days, and he shuddered
inwardly, smelling again the effiuyia Of
dank oilc1oth and musty carpets, 81
nshballs and fried ham, Of old style
plumbing and of SO a week humanity
In the unwashen raw, the odor of mis-
cry that permeated the lodgings o.
which his lack Of means had intro
duced him. He could see again, and
with a painful viyidness Of mental VI
sion, the degenerate sbroWnstone
fronts" that mask those haunts CT
wretchedness, with their flights Of
crumbling brownstone steps leading
uD to oaken portals haggard with fax
inc paint, f1anked by squares OF soiled
note paper upon which inexpert hands
had traced the warning, not Abandon
hone all We who enter here but Fur
nished rooms to let with board
And to this be must return, TO thaf
freadmill round of blighted days and
ioyless nights must set his face.
Alighting at the Grand Central sta
ton he packed the double weight OF
his luggage and his cares few blocks
northward On Madison avenue ere
turning west toward the bachelor
rooms which Kellogg had established
id the roaring Forties, just the other
side OF the avenue-Fifth avenue.
The elevator boy, knowing him OF
aid neglected to announce his arrival
and Duncan had his own key 20 the
door Of Kellogg's apartment. tie lel
himself in with futile stealth IS was
quite right and proper, KelIogg's man
Robbins was in attendance, sIape-
fed Robbins. thunderstruck by the IN
expected return of his masters friend
and guest. Good LordF' ne cried az
SIGHT Of Duncan. Beg your pardon,
sir. but-but 1t can't be you!'
your mistake, Robbins. 0nfortu-
nately ii is, Duncan surrendered his
luggage. Mr. Kellogg In q
sNo, sir. But I'm expecting him any
minute. He,n be surprised 60 see You
back"
think SOP said Duncan duly. he
doesn't know me Il he is
You see. sir, we thought you was
out vest
so you did, Duncan n1oFed TO-
ward the door Of bis own bedroom
Robbins following