The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-09-12
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EE1gEg5S Use N. EsEsEsFCIAA. ekGxDi ~No.~
I~AsOnEE one zRast giving a crush
- <ancesatSthe Country c3ub, and
- B4uun4 etho1gh he was only
7Ezeer end gnast&oG The Be~er-
lazszzaSs11 nassaDeds enough 90 be re-
fseutfER aEGhat right had a gay and
frRmnaoasGzEOE1dkeo~c omesarr7 thrust its
Eizht beaseeN happiness upon him
observation-disclosures said MOP It=~as
hsre bu1y4ng aHcMRpAa, She-to dShimself
mcrueax, arSEE5 RssEsen he had read the
single teaegEarns which sladscome while
he Iag at 6nuer he 4FSgent out and
fouudEase1rsf =ascozneraef$t3n v'eran-
da, where ReefEFvozlfdes $had not. as
yet 1ntEzzdeiA
Bloazt Nsas a. .1evel.l eyed, square
sEouIde1ed yo4ng man aof an up to
date zvoEEl, and the stoek<from which
he had Descended WIS prosaic and
practicRS rather ,thanssspoedc or >send-
mental BUT just now44re was uncon-
sciousfyssgfzzng aNveryt lifel1ke fi1nita-
ton of the disappointed lower the
world over.
1t .was tIzs, : and = by : the merest
chance that. Gantry @fouadi him. The
railroadAnan atrIeastkwas unfeigned-
" glad,
ssBunAup= chair - said B1ount, not
too ungEsciously, considering his just
cause to be neutrality-suspicious.. st was
thinking OF you just a little while
ago. Dick I3saW your name in the
Itst<of frawcontdnenta1 Representatives
to the&rafhc meeting, and-well, at the
present moment think you are the
one mankin the fwor1d I1wanted most
to.meets'
'aE1atssoundss goodsfo me-" laughed
D1ckxG az1KF, settling himself comfort
ably In a lazy cha1r=and feeling IN his
pockets fora cigar. 1.-THE -+effete east
has corra1led you, HASN'T 1t, Evan? I
thought maybe ftswould when heard
you 1Veretakdng the spostgradnate'f rills
IN the Harvard ela7 school. By the
waE,ShoW much longer are you inrfor?"
:. at amsout-of the law school, if@that
b what you mem,'' said BIount-"out
and admitted to the bar. If you get
into zfzoUf4e with tthe@Boston police let
me RoEeand RIlt ask for change of
venue 70 the greasewood hills and
Judge5Iyncfs court
care you ever coming back to them,
B1ount9 LrbeIieEe. Ssou told me once in
the old college, days that you were
yVestern&boEnAv
1T told you the truth, and until to-
night I neversthought much about go
ing back, - was B1ountss rather cryptic
grammatic answer.
hs"But now you are thinking of it?''
inquired the railroad man, waking up.
That's good. We're needing a few
bright young lawyers mighty bad Is
that why Fmsthe particular fellow you
wanted toemeetF"
Blount passed the newly come tele-
gram across the interval between the
two chairs. Read that he said.
of vol
low paper carefully and held it up to
the softened glow OF the electric cell
ing globe. Its date line carried the
name OF the chief city in the grease
woodtcountry," the capital Of the state,
and the time markings sufficiently in
dictated its late arrival:
TO Evan Shelby Biount, Standish Apart
rnents. Boston:
J You have had everything that money
could buy you. and you owe me nothing
but an occasional sight Of your face. If
you are not tied to some womans apron
string. why can't you come west and
DAVID BLOUNT.
IT was characteristic of Gantry that
he folded the telegram in the original
crossings before he handed it back
4sWeu?'' said Blount when. the pause
had grown overlong.
Il was Just thinking" was the re-
Rective rejoinder. 1--WE used to be
fairly chummy in the old Ann Arbo1
days, Evan. and yet never Knew till
this blessed minute that Senator
BIount was your father
"He was and is" was the quiet re
ply. f'I supposed everybody knew it."
81 didn't Gantry denied, adding
'rWhat you don't tell people about
sssursssz would rake aapretty big book
ir it were print-z. Leng ago you ad
mgtted to me that you were western
b0En. but you never told me any
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