Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-04-20

SlN OF seven, lOL very long.
Thine never seems long to a man
never has to wait for anything.
i have had to reckon time with hours
fill of suspense. and those our ave
aged me; perhaps not outwardly. bu
all the same, I'm an old man, john
"Nonsense!"
when did you CROSSE"
"About Il year ago, when father died.
L had given up the English end of the
concern two years before. and was just
wandering abou the continent. l was
.dreadfully disappointed when 1 learned
that YOU a visited the shops in '9S.
unlmer I was in Switzerland. 1
had no idea there was going to be war.
n never saw Il newspapers till it was
nearly over. l should have enlisted.
And another year we passed within
two days of each other"
MOI" Bennington exclaimed.
Yes. 1t was I'm Italy at Sorrento.
that 1 learned of your nearness. You
We're off for Amalfi and / had just
come from there. For three DAYS 1 ran
your name in the hotel regis
ters."
Bennington looked about leisurely as
Warrington departed from the room to
obtain whisky and soda. 1t was just
the kind OF room he had always i'm
agined; 1T was like the man who occu-
pied it. Simplicity and taste abounded;
the artist and the collector, the poet
and the musician. were everywhere in
evidence. He strol.ed over to the man
tel and took down n of. the pictures
signed kate" He smiled. 1t was not
an indulgcnt smile. nor the smile of Il
man who has stumbled upon another
secret. The smile was rather ex-
ultant. He leaned against the mantel
and studied the face in it's varied ex-
pressiOnS. He nodded apprOvingly. 1t
was a lovely face: it was more than
lovely.-it was tender and strong Pres
emily he returned to his chair and sat
down, the photograph still in his hand.
And in this position Warrington found
him.
"Ah. you SLY dog!" he hailed. setting
liberal bumper. s I've caught you?
Well, you're not the only man who has
conquered by hat very photo
graph" He had half a notion to go in
Inc bring her out; but then, women
are such finicky things!
Bennington laid aside the photo
graph. "a certain reverence In his ac-
that in ordinary times would not have
ESCAPED W~arrington's notice.
What's this to be-" asked Benning-
ton. lifting his glass n stirring the
ice.
thinner urd INNER, as the German
has It," Warrington replied.
~ HOI GNG anu GV6Is IuCH.
And the w lightly touched glasses,
with that peculiar gravity which al
accompanies such occasions.
when a man drinks your health In
bad whisky, look out for him; but this
whisky Is very good. rick." Benning-
set down his ~'a~~ = -.ped his
ut is very good, indeed"
asked Warrington. You
know. or ought to know, that 1 get up
there only once q year"
Things are not very we'll. There's
the dcvil 70 pay In politics, and some
day l may have a jolly long strike on
my hands, grimly. But I shall know
about all the town now. He con-
trolls congressman, state senator's and
assemblymen, and the majority of the
common council is his. body and SOUL"
Why don't o men wake up and
McQuade? I'll tell you right here,
Jack. YOU have no n to blame but
yourself
do o know what they call me
up there?" Bennington laughed.
Il confess to ignorance"
Well, the newspapers say covertly
thai I'm all but q naturalized English
man. . snob, when I'm only q recluse,
g man who dresses every night for
dinner, who dimes instead Of eats.
vi arc 6OISG tUIIuK0 IL ID IIuOOSSIOl0
TO understand, and n 10 the interest
the newspapers take. In the private at
fairs OF men"
II can explain all that, my boy Buy
your clothes Of the local tailors; get
rid of your valet: forget that you have
lived in England. They'll come around
to you. then. You may talk as much
tween the Englishman and the Amer
lean. It 10 simply q case OF two mas
ters who are determined that their dogs
shall be friendly. Let the masters drop
out OF sight for q moment, and you
will md the dogs at each others
throat. And the masters2 The dol.s:r
on this side and the sovereign on the
ship these days that 10 based upon
~ per cent. Get into politics, my
They lighted cigars, ana Bennington
took up the photograph again.
"A lovely face" was his comment.
With Q heart and Q mind even more
lovely" supplemented Warrington. my
word Tor II, b may have equals. but
h has no superlors on this side Of the
ocean,
Bennington looked up sharply.
Nothing oeri0uo? 2" he asked gently.
"Serious? No. We are capital friends
ns nothing Al. boy. you should
80 neT 1cS
Il have. I saw her In London last
season. She was playing your war Of
Women. III appeared to me- enchant-
Ing. But about these actresses : =.
+ know. I know" interrupted War
:rington. Some Of them are bad. but
some Of them arc the nohlest creatures
ever put on earth: and yonder Il
one Of them. / remember. we were
more Ike two men. Without her help
IDh0Uldnsf Ma yvhaRn $500 tNAav = ~
ways read the scenario Sof : play % her
nret: and okten we've worked toee1h.
'er nale = night on one scene. I ahall