The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-06-01

''LUCY HASN'T FORGOTTEN YOU, SAM"
too, he read with frown, but It was
one Of surprise. A ring of the tele-
phone interrupted his musing.
"Mr. Rensselaer, he repeated into
the telephone. send him right up"
There came q knock at the door, and
he opened 1t to let young Rensselaer,
in.
You're Just in time, Bert" he de-
clared. What have you to do this
eveningT
Anything or nothing" replied Rens-
selaer AT 8 o'clock all want to
do is get as far away from the mutton
abattoir as possible and forget all
about it until the next morning. But
what reckless dissipation have you in
mindT'
"I have some friends over in New
Jersey that am more or less obliged
to see," replied Phillip, land thought
you might sacrifice yourself enough
to run over with me. understand it's
only an hour and half If you take the
tunnel. F-Jslkly, 1 want to get into
the subway, to smell the subway
smell, and renew, If l can, the i'm
pressions of novelty that / enjoyed in
my boyhood. You see, / was only a
kid the last time was here"
"It must have seemed a wonderful
place to you then" said Rensselaer,.
For myself, I'd rather be a cow
puncher than anything I can think OF,
but my respected auntie can't conceive
of ones living anywhere else than in
or near Manhattan, and, moreover, she
fears l might contract a misalhance
out west, as she still declares my ia
Their did"
"That was his one best trick, wasn't
itT inquired Phillip.
''No doubt of it." returned the other.
3 SIN the first Rensselaer, in a hundred
N years who has been able to battle
without the aid of a valet and the first
% one to have blood enough to gush
10 when he was cut, and my mother
d, well, she was a real woman, gentle,
" but brave, too; sweetly feminine, but
IS strong and healthy; tactful, but sincere
and honest" His voice quavered, and
II he stopped.
ct wish l might have known her."
70 said Kelvin" That is a good country
u to produce real human beings"
Rensselaer, turned to him quickly.
% "Of course I'm not going to ask you
what your plans are nor how you
70 reached your present point" he observ-
10 ed, 'but you're doing a stunning thing
If it's your aim to gain profitable con-
" spicuousness. There hasn't been so
IS much real money in the financial dis
: trict in years. You certainly must have
- put In a remarkable FIVE years. Where
IS did you go from Montana"
Il ooh, down to Tennessee in the real
estate business" said Phillip guarded
" ly. 81 managed to get in pretty good
30 on them. 1 did a stroke or two down
10 there that brought me senaa success
and some influential friends. Now I
am going to make big play. You
~ know a certain Wall street crUwd, san
"a in business, broke my father, and ae
died from it,
~ 81 remember your telling NE some
3 thing about that. BGt be careful! y>yu
don't everyday your game" warned
~ Rensselaer,, whereat Kelvin 0aly snill-
IS ed, though gcimly enough.
They had reached the bottom VI The
IS hotel elevator shaft now, snc eaey
turned into the subway corridor, q con
% venience which Impressed Kelvin very
Is much.
''Its q bad development" stated
So Rensselaer,, shaking his head. "Thete
N is a growing tendency toward tnese
direct entrances both in Business and
30 In tenement districts, and It is bound
Is to produce race OF toilers who viii
see no sunlight whatever They viii
~ practically be human moles, like thu,
50 eTrand boy OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ana nm
:. developed physically, mentnny snt
morally, white and soft and nabbv. Tx
DO putty. They will not be men; they VI
20 be worms"
"Som9tineu the worKa may Hur1,
u Philip speculsted, "aad If y 40.
watch out! When a country NOu.
70 Its middle class e is in n bed wa,
90 You can crush oct OF mani kind ever
:, thing, evec hope, with enc cxrs1ssao.
." the capacity - KIN"
30 Rensselaer laughed. Ann vor Ina,
~ tpc anything norT. ymussug than
night with abodt City of those chaps
% ! don't SEQ the fun in it." cbiecte
50 Fhlllp. Il saw e crowd OF newsboy
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