Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-02-28

''Bully!" cried my host, humping
the table with his fist. James,
dozen bottles of go. There's a gem
tleman. nodding to those nearest
him; you can tell EN- a mile off. A
little shy Of strangers" humorously
falling into horse-talk, but he's
money coming down the home
stretch
Then everybody began to talk at
once, and knew that the dinner
proper was on the way.
aren't you just little above such
escapades as this?" asked of the
girl.
DO not make me any more uneom-
Portable than I am" she begged
'sBut having gone into it had too
much courage to back down."
The true courage would have been
to give the house-party."
''But men always insist upon your
marrying them at housed parties"
81 see I have much to learn. -
meekly. "And the men are right"
What an escape have had!"
Meaning house-parties, or that I
am a gentleman"
IF you had not been gentleman!
| For, Of course, you are, since my
uncle has so dubbed you. If you had
not been gentleman"
fTf you had not been lady! II
you had been bunko-steerer! And
I still do not know that you are not
one. Do you believe me? / kept my
hand on my wallet pocket nearly all
the time"
Il understood you to say that you
were poor
ooh. mean that I am too poor to
hunt for excitement in bizarre things. 4
Confess that .you look upon me
with frank contempt!"-imperiously.
"Never!"
"You neither eat nor drink. Why?"
II demand to retain some of my
self-respect"
"You must think us pack of fools"
ooh. indeed, no: only rich"
"That is almost an epigram," -
warningly. "You will lead me to be-
lieve that you belong to smart society
in some provincial town"
Heaven forfend!"-earnestly.
"But speak all the thought. Moth
ing prevents truth from either of us
tonight"
"All Of what thought"
1--WE are not fools, only rich"
well, I lower the bucket, then;
! and if I can bring truth to the top
of the we'll you will promise not to
blush on beholding herr"
II promise"
1T is maddening and unhealthy to
be rich and idle. The rich and idle
do such impossible things in the wild
effort to pass away the dragging
hours. Society Is not made up of
fools; rather knaves and madmen.
| Money and idleness result in mild
attack of insanity"
81 have always been rich. What is
| poverty like?"
1T is comparative"
at must be horrid."
Poverty is ugly only when man
himself is the cause of it."
Another epigram. have always
been under my uncles care. with
the slightest droop of the lips.
"Ah! His knowledge begins at the
table and ends at the stable: vim
tages and horses. If woman had
crossed his path he would have been
a great man"
"Poor Uncle Dan! To him / am
his favorite FLY, and he has put huge
sums on me to win the ducal race.
Everybody says that I'm to marry
the duke Of Roxclift."
"And you?" do not know why my
heart sank a little as I hesitatingly
put this question.
81? Oh, I'm going to balk at the
quarter and throw the race. To-
night, what would you have done in
my placer"
Hailed gentleman exactly like
myself"
She dallied with a rose, brushing it
| across her lips. II do not know why
| / desire your good opinion. Perhaps
it's the novelty of sitting beside a
man who does not believe in fat
/ terry"
I'VE are getting on capitally. When
I left the club tonight the widest
stretch of my fancy would not have
placed me here beside you"
YES, "-irrelevantly, most of us
are mad. Everything is so terribly
monotonous."
Tonight"
ssWeIl not tonight"
''You have not asked me who
am"
'Then you are somebody ?"-d rolly.
She contemplated me, speculatively
as it were.
| / laughed. This was the most anus
ing and enchanting adventure had
ever had the luck to fall into. ''The
world thinks So" I replied TO her
| question.
"The world? What wor1dT'
my world and part Of
yours"
Are you che Of those men who ac-
compIish something besides novel