The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-08-10
CHAPTER viI-conunued.

CHAPTER vIl-contnued.
In the end. with loud protestations
that he could lose like a gentleman.
tie cooks last money was staked on
the game and lost. whereupon he
leaned his head on his hands and
wept. Wolf Larsen looked c~lrlously
at him, as though about 10 probe and
ViVisoct him. then changed his mind,
as from the ~toregone conclusion that
there was nothing there to probe.
Hump" he said &c me. deliberately
polite kindly take Mr., Mugridge's
arm and help him up on deck. lie Ia
not feeling very we'll"
And tell Johnson to douse him with
a few buckets OF salt water" he add.
ed, In a lower tone for my ear alone.
! len Mr.. M~ugridge on deck. in
the hands OF n couple OF grinning sail.
ors who had been told OF for the pur.
pose. Mr.. Mugridge was sleepily splut.
tering that he was a g%entleman's son.
But as descended the companion
stairs TO clear the table | heard him
shrek as the FIRST bucket OF water
struck him.
Wolf Larsen was counting his win.
nings.
One hundred and eighty.nve dollars
even he said aloud. Just as
thought. The beggar came aboard
without a cent"
And what YOU have won is mine,
cir" ] said boldly.
lie favored ms with a qu,zzical
smile. Hump. I have studied some
grammar In my time. and | think your
lenses are tangled. Was mine you
should have said, not is nine"
IT is a question not OF grammar Blu,
OF ethics" | answered.
II was possibly 4 minute before be
spoke.
Dye know. Hump" he said. with a
slow seriousness which had in II an
indefnable strain OF sadness. that
this Is the first time | have heard the
word ethics In the mouth OF a man.
You and | are the only men on this
ship who know its meaning"
AT n time in my life" he con.
tinued, after another pause. 81
dreamed that | might some day talk
with men who used such language,
that | might lift myself out OF the
place in life In which | had been born.
and hold conversation and mingle
with mon who talked about Just such
things as ethics, And this is the nrst
time have ever heard the word pro.
nounced Which ia all by the way.
for you are wrong. II IL q question.
neither OF grammar nor ethics, but OF
fact"
81 understand" said. The fact Ia
that you have the money"
His face frightened. He seemed
pleased at my perspicacity.
But you wrong me by withholding
H." objected.
Not az all. One man cannot wrong
another man. He can only wrong him.
self As | see II. I do wrong ALWAYS
when ! consider the interests OF OH
ers, Don't you sce7 How can two
particles OF the yeast wrong each
other by striving to deynur each
other? II IN their Unborn heritage 10
strive TO dcyour. and to strive not "a
be dcyourcd. When they depart frorl
this they SIN"
Then you don't believe In altru
ism ?" asked.
He received the word as n II had
a familiar ring. though he pondered
II thoughtfully Let me see. II means
something about cooperation. doesn',
II. "Oh, yes, | remember II now.
ran across II In Spencer"
Spencer" cried, Have you read
him"
Not very much" was his confes
sion. His Psychology left me buttins
around in the dOidrums for many a
day. But ! did get something out o.
his Data OF Ethics.' There's where
ran across 'altruism. and | remember
now how II was used"
What else did you run across1"
asked.
In as few words ~ possible" hs
began. Spencer puts II something
like this; First. a man must acl
for his own beneht-to do this II
10 he moral and good. Next. he mus
act for the benefit OF his children. AnC
third he must act for the benefit of hi
race"
And the highest. finest. right con
duct" interiected, rs that act whicl
benefits at the same time the man, hi
children, and HIS race
Il wouldn't stand for that" he re
p'icd, Couldn't see the necessity 70