The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-22

as have been saying. We are totally different, I'm
afraid. What did | say just fow' Givssne ele-
mentary man And 60 not think you are an ele-
Hentary Are your"
Very decidedly in my feelings"
Toward mes"
Yes"
But all the bloom is off you Martin" she said,
attempting the easy Of old friends. Laugh
ter and sunlight and things like daisies and anger
and the fun OF letting looseonce in whlle.r-3 oh
you are way beyond all OF them. You're not a
savage"
He looked back at her painfully. feeling convinced
perhaps. That feeling OF the stake lost, the prize
beyond winning. the out OF reach is terrible
Bachelors trough the ages have accumulated vast
amount OF evidence in support OF its claim 70 sharp
pam; aq =, h.....
Dorothy said after thick vegetation of slencs had
grown up between them Il suppose ought to ask
You take me to the elevator
Lassiter motioned to the waiter with his eye
glasses held between his thumb and forehnger IL
seemed 70 him in the moments OF paying the check
palm bedecked courtyard that the girl had never
seemed so beautiful The fish that breaks the hook
Is always the larger for having escaped. Martin felt
like the typhoid fever. he has never been able TO
remember saying goodnight TO her; in iaet he only
began TO realize reality when he found himself stand
ing the edge OF the sidewalk
Chance played fast ann loose then with the Blake
Professor OF Experimental Psychology. A haek--a
good. old-fashioned Kalamazoo-made hack--had just
discharged its freight of eyenng-dress gentlemen
and sparkling, scarfed ladies at the hotel door.
Ny man." said Martin to the driver, have you
an engagement" -
The fellow on the box shook his head. fEsf
You speak English?
The driver nodded. Lasster climbed in, adjusted
his glasses on his thin aquiine nose, and placed his
feet on the seat before him
Take me where there is trouble-trouble with q
large I, he said savagey.
Ihe driver wiped the edges of his hat on his coat
sleeve; with perfect mpudence he lit cigarette.
pulled il down in four Titanic in haings and with
four volcanic explosions OF smoke. The horses ears
hung down. The Cuban snapped the stump directly
over the animals forelock, Then he turned around
slowly and Inspected his passenger. His deliberate
manner was the more obvious because though is
characteristic OF his profession 1t is far from char
acteristic OF his race
Would Senior wish to attend rot7" he asked,
starting his horse forward down the Prado.
"Yes-an OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES anything Is q riot
in deaagg dReLog5ssssf
~Soon!" exclaimed Lassiter in surprise. How can
The Cuban laughed at his passengers Ignorance.
: There IS ten--t~enty, many sailors OF the United
II i Carnival, SenoT. Some Of the police of duty
this afternoon rovved to the boat, Senor. They made
fases-ke this: They mean We dare you t9 come some
you 10 San Valencis Street. You will not be dis
appointed. SSenor, Tn peso por hofa"
VIII il be safeT
The driver shrugged his shoulders casting a super
cious glance UP at the laurels under which in the
central plaza, the carriage rolling Senior is
looking fq[~what is the word-troube-troube with
Lassifsr's instincts in spite Of the cnban's irony
were iHmediately in s4Eyor g the safer and saner
plan Of turning back, He reflected that he was in
strange land. among strange people, speaking
strange tongue people who produced large npl-
people who thought easily OF assassination, riots,
rumpusts and rebeilions dungeon tortures and axe
cutions at sunrise A scientist who has forgotten
his Undergraduate days thinks Of the4e things coQly
and logically. Furthermore. any other Bostonian
would have sprung the old conservative, self-as
sured phrase, 1T IS best; LassiteT, remembering
that he carried his grandfathers gold watch, did in
deed say TO himself III is best that return 10 the
hotel" hen be thought Of the cleaning Miss
Finch and he felt that if sausage machine had been
chain, gold pencil, cigarette holder and all
Go 70 IL" he said to the driver, remembering
that this expressive bit OF slang had fallen from the
most beautiful fps in the world He leaned back on
he cushions gazing about at the iron gratings and
shutters in the tinted walls OF a narrow side street
where the horses hoofs the cobble-stones echoed
IS they fell with noisy cloop- -cloop-cloop.
Another noise. however was asserting itself In
rout somewhere, there glow OF light and
he distant humble Of voices. laughter and meehan-
cal pianos. Through cross lane surging crowd
4 merry makers moving in two streams. No
women were there; between the lines OF little
aioons pool rooms and cafes gay with crepe paper,
eason or individual voon. shouting. laughing.
ostling. drinking. waving hands and, like Martin
-assiser wishing to see trouble, was composed OF
men. II came, went and eddIed like dust m the
gind Here and there three four sailors uni
orms appeared IN group. Here and there two OF
hree Of the brown clad, swarthy. waxed moustaehed
olicemen stood at corners OF streets, directing
hose who paused TO keep with the movement OF
he others These groups watched by the
il the quarter from which trouble
You'd come had already been determined.
This IS no place thought Lassiter, "foT the
,lske Professor Of Experimental Psychology"
The crowd, surging forward through the cross
ireet at this moment. engulfed the hack PasseTsby
eered at the gleam Of Martins glasses and At the
oemnity Of his face that out O keeping
dth The occasion and the time Of night He seemed
ke newly starched and roned shirt blown BY the