Bisbee daily review., 1913-11-21

brains has got to take you young peo- pie in hand. You're not able to look after yourselves. I'm fond of Alan Pierce, for one thing, and l don't care 10 see sanatorium that might have been the child of my solicitude kid naped and reared as a summer hotel by Papa Thoburn. A good fat man is very, very good, Minnie. but when he is bad he Is horrid"
 "Its too late" l objected feebly He can't get it now"
 Cant he!" She got yp and yawned, stretching. Well, I'll lay you ten to one that if we don't get busy he'll have the house empty in thirty-siK hours, and a bill of sale or 1t in as many days" Then she told me what she knew of Thoburn's scheme. and it turned me cold
 
 Doctor Barnes came to me at the news stand the next morning before gymnasium.
 Well" he said, you look as busy as a dog with fieas. Have you heard the glad tidings?' "What?'' I asked without much spir- 1t I've heard considerable tidings lately, and not much of 1t has cheereo me up any"
 He leaned over and ran his fingers up through his hair.
 "'You know, Miss Minnie" he said somebody ought kindly to kill our friend Thoburn, or he'll come to a bad end"
 Shall I do it, or will your" said l filling up the chewing gum jar. (Mr. Pierce had taken away the candy easel
 Doctor Barnes glanced around to see if there was anyone near, and leaned farther over. The cupboard isn't empty now!" he said. Not for nothing did I spend part of the night in the Dicky.bird's | nest! What do you think is in the 1 cupboard?"
 q know about it,, I said shortly. "Liquor-in a case labeled Books breakable.'"
 Almost goal. But not only liquors, my little friend. Champagne-cases of ! it-caviar, canned grouse with truf- fes, lobster. cheese, fine cigars, every ! thing you could think of, erotic, ex- otic and narcotic. An orgy in cans and bottles, a bacchanalian revel; a cupboard full of Indigestion, joy, for 1 gstfulness and katzenjammer Oh. my suffering palate, to have to leave 1t all without one sniff, one sip, one nibble!" He's wasting his money" l said They're all crazy about the simple ' life"
 He looked around and, seeing no one in the lobby, reached over and took one of my hands.
 Strange" be said, looking at IL No webs. and yet it's been an amphi- | bious little creature most of it's life. My dear girl, our friend Thoburn is a rascal, but he Is also a student of mankind and a philosopher. Gee" he | said, think of a woman fighting her way alone through the world with bit Of fist like that!" Jerked my hand away.
 '1t's like this, my dear." he said Human natures a curious thing. It's human nature, for instance. for me to be crazy about you. when you're as hands-offieh as curly poreupine And it Is human nature. by the same token. to like to be bullied. especially about health, and to respect and admire the | fellow who does the bullying. That's why we were crazy about Roosevelt. and that's why Pierce is trailing his hngly robes over them while they lie on their faces and eat dirt-and steved fruit"
 He reached for my hand again, but l put 1t behind me.
 But alas" he said, there is another side to the human nature, and our l friend Thoburn has not kept a sum- mer hotel for nothing. It is notorious ly weak, especially as to stomach. You may feed 'em prunes and whole-wheat bread and apple sauce. and after a while they'll forget the fat days, and remember only the lean and hungry ones. But let some student of human nature at the proper moment introduce just one fat day, one feast, one reYei-"
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