The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1915-10-21

! 10 leave tnat same nlgnI
While he was packing. the telephone
rang, and Samson heard Adrienne's
voice at the other end of the wire.
Where have you been hiding?" she
demanded I'll have TO send a truant
officer after you"
I've been very busy" said the man,
"and / reckon, after all, you can't
civilize a wolf. I'm afraid I've been
wasting your time"
Possibly, the miserable tone of the
voice told the girl more than the
words.
You are having a season with the
blue DEVILS she announced. You've
ben cooped up too much. This wind
ought to bring the ducks, and"
I'm leaving tonight" Samson told
her.
1T would have been very nice Of
you to have run up to say good-by,"
she reproved. But I'll forgive you,
If you call me up by long distance.
You win get there early in the morn
ing. Tomorrow, I'm going to Philadel-
! phia over night. The next night, /
shall be at the theater Call me up
after the theater, and tell me how
1 you like it,"
! 1t was the same old frankness and
friendliness of voice, and the same
old note like the music of reed in
strument Samson felt SO comforted
and treasured that he laughed through
the telephone.
I've been keeping away from YOU"
he volunteered, because I've had a
lapse into savagery, and haven't been
fit to talk to you When / get back,
I'm coming up to explain. And, in the
meantime, I'll telephone"
On the train Samson was surprised
to discover that, after all, he had Mr..
William Farbish for a travelling COM
panion. That gentleman explained
that he had found an opportunity to
play truant from business for day
or two, and wished to see Samson
comfortably ensconced and introduced.
The first day Farbish and Samson
had the place to themselves, but the
next morning would bring others.
The next day, while the mountain
eer was out on the flats, the party of
men at the club had been swelled to
a total of six, for in pursuance of
the carefully arranged plans of Mr..
Farbish, Mr.. Bradburn had succeeded
in inducing Wilfred Horton to run
down for a day or two of the sport
he loved. When Horton arrived that
afternoon, he found his usually even
temper ruffled by bits of maliciously
preached gossip until his resentment
against Samson South had been
famed into danger heat He did not
know that South also was at the club,
and he did not that afternoon go out
to the blinds, but so far departed
from his usual custom as to permit
himself TO sit for several hours in the
club grill.
And yet, as is often the case in care
fully designed affairs, the one element
that made most powerfully for the
success of Farbish's scheme was pure
accident. The carefully arranged meet
ing between the two men, the adroitly
have brought no clash, had not VIII
fred Horton been affected by the flush.
ing effect of alcohol Since his college
days, he had been invariably abstemi-
Gus. Tonight marked an exception.
He was rather surprised al the cor
diality of the welcome accorded MIN,
for, as chance would have it, except
for Samson South, whom he had not
yet seen, all the other sportsmen
were men closely allied to the politi-
cal and financial elements upon which
he had been making war Still, since
they seemed willing to forget for the
time that there had been a breach,
he was equally so. Just now, he was
feeling such bitterness for the Ken
tuckian that the foes of less per-
sonal sort seemed unimportant.
In point of fact, Wilfred Horton had
spent very bad day. The final straw
had broken the back of his usually
unrufiled temper, when he had found
in his room on reaching the Kenmore
a copy of certain New York weekly
paper, and had read a page, which
CHANGED to be lying face up "a chance
carefully prearranged). 1t was an item
of which Farbish had known. in ad-
vance Of publication, but Wilfred
would never have seen that sheet
had 1t not been so carefully brought
to his attention. There were hints
of the strange infatuation which a
certain young woman seemed to en-
terrain for a partially civilized stran-
ger who had made his entree to New
York via the police court. and who
wore his hair long in imitation of a
biblical character of the same name.
The supper at the Wigwam inn was
mentioned, and the character of the
place intimated. Horton felt this OBJ.
jectionable innuendo was directly
! traceable to Adrienne's ill-judged
friendship for the mountaineer, and
he bitterly blamed the mountaineer
And, while he had been brooding on
these matters, a man acting as Far
bish's ambassador had dropped into
his room, since Farbish himself knew
that Horton would not listen to his
condolences. The delegated spokes-
man warned Wilfred that Samson
South had spoken pointedly of him,
AND advised cautious conduct, in a
fashion calculated to inflame.
Samson, it was falsely alleged, had
accused him of saying derogatory
things in his absence, which he would
! hardly venture to repeat in his nres-