Bisbee daily review., 1911-04-30
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that night, every one turned on me The injustice of 1t hurt me most They said got up the dinner, that asked them to give up other engage nents and come. that I promised all kinds of jollihcation. if they would come: and then when they did come and got in the papers, and every one but ourselYes-laughed himself black In the face. they turned on me! l. who suffered ten times to their onel I shall never forget what Dallas Brown said to me. standing with 6 coal shovel in one hand and a--wen, perhaps 1t would be better to tell II all in the order 1t happened.
 1t began with Jimmy Wilson and . conspiracy. was helped on by a foot square piece of yellow paper and Japanese butler. and 1t enmeshed and mixed up generally ten respectable members of society and policeman Incidentally. 1t developed pearl col Ter and 6 box of soap, which sounds incongruous. doesn't itf
 It is a great misfortune to be stout, especially for, man. Jim was TO sund and looked shorter than he really was, and as all the lines Of his lace or what should have been lines, were really dimples. his face was about ss flexible and full of expression as pillow fin a tight cover. The angrier he got the funnIer he looked, and when he was raging, and his neck sweIled up over his collar and got red. he was entrancing. And every body liked him. and borrowed money from him. and laughed at his pictures Che has one in the Hargrave gallery tn London now, so people buy them tnstead), and smoked his cigarettes, and tried to steal his Jap. The whole story hinges on the Jap.
 The trouble was, I think, that no enc took Jim seriously. His ambt tion fin life was to be taken seriously. but people steadily refused to. Hi3 art was a huge joke-except to him self. If he asked people to dinner. every one expected a frolic. When he married Bella Knowles. people ehuckied at the wedding, and consid- cred it the widest prank of Jimmy's career. although Jim himself seemed to take 1t awfully hard.
 We had all known them both for years. went to Pennington with Bella. and Anne Brown wss her ma ercn of honor when she married Jim. My first winter out, Jimmy had paid ne 8 lot of attention. He painted my portrait fn oils and had a studio tea to exhibit it- It was very nice pic cure, but 1t did not look like me, so stayed from the exhibition. Jim asked me to. He said he was not a pho tographer, and that anyhow the rest of my features called for the nose he had given me. and that all the Greuze women have long necks. have not-
 After I had refused Jim twice he met Bella at Q camp in the Adiron- Jacks and when he came back he came at once to see me. He seemed 10 think 1 would be sorry to lose him, and he blundered over the telling for 90 minutes Of course. no woman likes to lose a lover. no matter what she may say about it. but Jim had been getting on my nerves for some time. and l was much calmer than he expected me to be-
 If you mean" I said finally in des peration, that you and Bella are-ars in love. why don't you say so, Jim; think you will find that I stand il wonderfully"
 He frightened perceptibly.
 I didn't know how you would take fl. Kit" he said, land l hope we will always be bully friends. You are ao solutely sure you don't care a whocI for me?"
 Absolutely" I replied. and we shook hands on it Then he began about Bella: 1t was very tiresUme.
 Bella is a nice girl, but had room ed with her st school, and was under DC illusions. When Jim rayed about Bella and her banjo, and Bella and her guitar. had painful moments when I recalled Bella learning hei two songs on each instrument, and tho old English ballad she had learned tC play on the harp. When he said sh' vas too good for him, never batteC aa eye. And I shook hands solemnlI across the tea table again, ana wished him happiness-which wal sincere enough, but hopeless-ant said we had only been playing a game but that it was time to stop playing Jim kissed my hand, aud it was realll very touching
 We had been the best of friendl ever since. Two days before the wed ding he came around from his tailor s and we burned all his letters to me He would read one and say: Here orackerjack. Kit" and pass it C me. And after had read 1t We woull lay it on the frelog. and Jim woul say. T am not worthy of her, Kit
 wonder if can make her happy?" O -"Did you know that the duke o Belford proposed to her in Londol last winter7'
 Of course, one has to take tn wonan's word about thing ike that but the duke of Belford had bee mad about Aauds Richard all tha Einter, ..--.-----