New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-13
By CLINTON DANGERFIELD

OF times before; watched his mouth get grim an hard
jest as their mouths got soft and greedy.
WIHEN It was all over continued Cress when the
excited bunch gone TO work and the Copper
King was gone pack up Though he didn't say in
public tied a wet cloth round my head, which was
achin scandalous and went stakin' of TO his room.
got in an took the seat he offered me.
"'~I see, | says, that you're a collector by nature
but your business gives you mighty poor show on it
You want friends, YOU want the real kind; but YOU
don't look ike a friend the folks what knows your
real name You resemble a silk moncybag full 20 bust
in'-in which they might get a possible fist
He stared. Then he said, dry enough, Though
ii not have expected it, you diagnose the case cor
recty.
$3.50" says l. you've rcsortei to the natural
stratcgem Of the rich man
~'~Ycs,- says he grmly. ~Ive played Harua-ai
Rashid. But now I've been found out
~'@You'ye tried it aforc. ain, you.-
"'~Yes, I've tried 1t before Always I've been found
out. Always I've seen the same greedy change in faces
that were decent before. I'm quick about reading
faces.
-'-And about thinkin' damn
His lip curled. Il don't think damn: | know il.
The only men can be friends with men rich rs
myself
-'~And that's a mighty limited class. and as friend
ship goes powerful unsatisfactory"
~'"How the devil do YOU know that he snaps
~'~Dcducin that's easy as falling of log. y big
money maker ne don't often have no time develop
no interestn original strcaks. His business arrange
mcnts is as mysterious as the sphinx But there amt
nothn mysterious about him, far his personality
goes Talk with him three days and you've got his in-
side resources plumb exhausted. Amt that so,
~'~I still don't understand how YOU knew IT..
~~An men that ovcrspccalizc>, | says. that goes
bughouse on some particlar line results in the
effects; whether its big business or little business don't
make no difference OF course ovcrspcciazin KANT
kill personality in some few fcllcrs. Here's you for
example Although YOU are a multi, and will probly
git jolt on the jaw from Saint Peter there's sompn
about YOU that plumb appeals To- ! KANT tell YOU
what it is except that like YOU for yourself
He looked at me. Very hatterng, I'm sure, he
says, more dry than ever.
81 answered him kinder arid myself Yes, IT'S flat
term because its truth Of course know what you're
sayin Of me in your suspcion-pisoned heart, Hey
smqyteyn the rest Of that bunch do1Waaiv. hrs tyiH'
10 git at me in q He1C 5ray!''
"A better look come into his face He said slowly,
Il wOnder-I wonder
"'~I know what YOU wonder | interrupts. Its
this. Can it be this teller is really mani Can he he
really friend ca bGbe Of Lkm apart from my internal
money? Oy no. SAYS YOU TO yourself hes the kind that
don't gquf noftn right nor; bm he's fru 10 hold far
yeser1e SO If he egcy gifts a hole he hoey 10 me far
heIb.' Friend. YOU are dead wrong, You've got the
instincts, the wisdom of friendship sruggln in YOU.
Give EN- play. Friendship, that's q wonderful word,
Friend 1t don't mean galopn' around strkin' fists
with every temporarily peasn skate that's companion
able II means the insight