The Penn's Grove record., 1915-10-22
when THEY met
BY ENNET HARRIS.

ACNAAh6 DaS q 6G2hAh6 DAGAAh ~ oA0A
lup. Behind the glasses B~ritherby's
eyes at the moment were resting on
the Janeway bungalow across the
street, but Grallup did not know that
and he stiffened Indignantly and
passed his new neighbor with a stu
diously ayerted gaze.
The next time they met neither took
the least notice of the other. Grallup
remarked to his wife that that fellow
who had bought out Korker's equity
evidently was a u or two above Bib
beTly Heights-oc thought he was.
Britherby, a day or two later, was
talking to Morfew, whose house is be-
tween Grallup's and the former Korker
place.
Who's your distinguished neighbor
on the north?" he asked. The nabob
of the place, I presume. 1 think /
made a mistake in not asking his per-
mission to butt in here. He seems to
resent It."
"Nonsense!" said Morfew. That's
Billy Grallup. Nothing of the nabob
about Billy. Great chap, Billy. You'll
like him when you know him"
81 don't believe I'd want to know
him." said 5ritherby.
Morfew meant to ask Grallup what
he had been doing to his face, but for
got it and so the feeling between
Britherby and Grallup remained and
grew. In course of time they were in.
troduced and acknowledged the intro
duction as coldly as politeness al
lowed. After that they bowed scru-
pulously when they met.
1t was early last fall that the pas
sive hostility of the two men became
active to the verge of tragedy.
One still. calm night, somewhere
about twelve o'clock, Grallup was
aroused from an uneasy slunber by
the bark of a dog.
"Confound it," exclaimed Grallup.
81 wonder whose darned dog that is.
1 wish l was within good shotgun
range of it-and had the shotgun"
A quick succession'of staccato barks
seemed to answer his thoughts with
defiance. Grallup got up and leaned
out of the window, listened a minute,
closed the window and said something
improper.
81 might have known it." he contin-
ued, savagely. Hes about the only
man in the suburb who would main
tain a nuisance like that"
He tried to ignore the noise, but the
closed window had.only slightly dulled
it and it was too maddeningly irreg-
ular. He bounded out of bed and into
his slippers, threw a coat ove his
shoulders and, stopping only to take a
couple of croquet mallets from a closet
in the hall, hurried out of the house
and ran down the street toward Birth
erby's. The barking had stopped, but
he knew where to go.
He was almost at Morfew's when he
was aware of a ghostly white-clad fig
ure Fastening toward him. The next
moment he was face to face with
Britherby, who was in pajamas and
carrying a baseball bat.
For an instant they glared at each
other in the moonlight. Then Birth
erby spoke: $50 you thought it was
about time to do something, did your"
he snarled. Il should think it was
myself. A man who will keep a dog
like that I've got my opinion Of, any
way"
What are you talking about?" de-
manded Grallup. I'm after that in,
fernal dog that's been barking his
head off in your yard all night, if you
want to know. Do you mean to say it
isn't your dog?"
Il never owned a dog in my life"
said Britherby. 81 thought it was
your dog and l was going to take the
liberty of killing him-and you, too, if
you offered any objection"
81 had much the same idea" said
Grallup. But if it isn't your dog,
whose"
Furious barking interrupted him. 1t
came from the ear of Morfew's house.
$50 it's his dog!" said Britherby.
snow, what do you think of that"
81 think as you do" said Grallup,
grimly. "Morfew's a good man in
some respects, but this is an outrage.
I suppose he's lying there snoring!"
'IIl tell you" said Britherby, pois-
ing his club. "If you'll stand by me
I'll batter his door down and if he
doesn't get up and kill the beast, we
will"
"Tll just go you on that PROPOSE
ton" said Grallup.
They pounded until Morfew came to
an upper window and asked them what
the dickens they wanted.
1--WE want you to come down and
do something with that dog of yours"
said Britherby.
You've no business keeping a brute
like that around" supplemented Grail
lup severely.
Have you two been drinking or are
you just plain crazy?" asked Morfew.
Routing a mar out of his rest at
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