The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1915-10-07

am, lAilS hlnl, GAd making MIN ISei 2
heart-warming sympathy.
1t was not until much later that
Samson realized how these two really
great men had adopted him as their
little brother" that he might have
their shoulder-touch to march by. And
1t was without his realization, too.
that they laid upon him the imprint
Of their own characters and philoso.
ply.
Il have come, not to quarrel with you.
but to try to dissuade YOU" The Hon.
Mr.. Wickliffe bit savagely at his cigar
and gave despairing spread to his
well-manicured hands. You stand in
danger of becoming the most cordially
hated man in New York-hated by the
most powerful Combinations in New
York"
Wilfred Horton leaned back in q
swivel chair and put his fees UP on his
desk For while he seemed Interested
in his own silk socks.
It's very kind OF you to warn me"
ne salu, quietly,
The Hon. Mr.. Wickliffe rose in ex-
asperation and paced the floor. Tho
smoke from his black cigar went be-
fore him in vicious puffs. Finally he
stopped and leaned glaring on the
table
Your family has always been con-
servative. When you succeeded to the
fortune you showed no symptoms of
this mania. In aod's name, what has
changed you?"
Il hope | have grown up explained
the young man, with an unruflled
smile. "One cant wear swaddling
clothes forever, you know"
The attorney Tor an instant softened
his manner as he looked into the
straight-gazing unafraid eyes of his
client.
I've known you from your baby
hood l advised your father before
you were born, You have by the
chance OF birth, come into the control
of great wealth The yorld of finance
is Of delicate Balance. Squabbles in
certain directorates may throw the
Street irto Snaic. Suddenly you
emerge from decent quiet and run
amuck in the china shop, believing
and tossing your horns. You make
war on those whose interests are your
own. You seem bent on hari-kari.
You have toys enough to amuse Why
couldn't you stay put?"
'"1hey weren't the right things.
They We're as you say, toys" The
smile faded and Horizons chin set
itself for a moment as he added
IF you don't think I'm going to stay
put-watch me-"
why do you have to make war
to be chronically insurgent?'
Because young man. who had
walked up, spoke SLOWLY am read
ing a certain writing on the wall The
time is not far off when, unless we
regulate a number of matter from
within we shall be regulated from
without"
Take for instance this newspaper
war you've inaugurated on the police"
grumbled the corporation lawyer. It's
less dangerous to the public than
these financial crusades, but decidedly
more so for yourself You are re
garded as a dangerous agitator, mar
plot | tell YOU, Winfred aside from
all other considerations the thing is
perilous to yourself. You are riding
for a fall. These men whom you are
whipping out of public life will turn
on YOU
so hear Here's letter got this
morning unsigned That is, thought
it was here. Well. no matter 1t
warns me that / have less than three
months to live unless call of my
dogs"
1t is said that the new convert is
ever the most extreme fanatic. Will
fred Horton had promised to put on
his working clothes, and he had done
it with reckless disregard for conse-
quences. At first, he was simply obey
ing Adrienne's orders; but soon he
found himself playing the game for
the games sake. Political overlords
assailed as unfaithful servants, showed
their teeth. From some hidden, but
unfailing, source terribly sure and di.
rect evidence of guilt was being gath
cred. For Wilfred Horton, who was
demanding a day of reckoning and
spending great sums of money to get
it, there was a prospect Of things do
ing.
Adrienne Lescott was in Europe,
Soon she would return and Horton
meant to show that he had not buried
his talent
For eight months Samsons life had
run in the steady ascent Of gradual
climbing, but in the four months from
the first of August to the first OF De
cember, the pace of his existence sud
denly quickened He left off drawing
from plaster casts and went into a
life class.
In this period Samson had his first
acquaintanceship with women, except
those he had known from childhood
and his first acquaintance with the
men who were not Of his own art
world.
Tony Collasso was an Italian illus
traitor who lodged and painted in
studio-apartments in Washington
Square, South. His companions were
various, numbering among them Q