Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-28

frankly. Morgan looked around. His
face hardened when he saw De
Spain and he involuntarily took n
short step backward, De Spain, with
his left hand lying carelessly on the
cigar case, faced him. Il heard YOU
wanted to see me-" continued De
Spain. Il want to see you. How's
your back since you went home?"
Morgan eyed him with a mixture
of suspicion and animosity. He took
what was to him the most signifi-
cant part of De Spain's greeting first
and threw his response into words
as short as words could be chopped:
What do you want to see me
about?"
Nothing unpleasant, 1 hope" re-
turned De Spain. Lets sit down a
minute"
Say what you got to say"
We'll, don't take my head off,
Duke. | was sorry to hear you We're
hurt. And I've been trying to figure
out how to make it easier for you
to get to and from town while you
are getting strong. Jeffres and l
both feel there's been a lot of un-
necessary hard feeling between the
want to ask you to accept this 10
show some of it's ended" De
Spain put his left hand into his side
pocket and held out an unsealed
envelope to Morgan. Duke, taking
the envelope, eyed it distrustfully.
Whats this?" he demanded, open
ing it and drawing out a card.
Something for easier riding. An
annual pass for you and one over
the stage line between Calabasas and
Sleepy Cat-with Mr.. Jeffries' COM
, Dliments -
| Like a flash Morgan tore the card
pass in two and threw it angrily to
the floor. Tell Mr. Jeffries," he
exclaimed violently, to"
The man that chanced at that
moment to be lying IN the nearest
chair slid quietly but imperiously
out from under the razor and start
ed with the BARRIERS for the rear
door, wiping the lather from one
unshaven side of his face with a
neck towel as he took his hasty way.
At the back of the shop a fat man,
sitting in chair on the high, shoe
shining platform, while a negro boy
polished him, rose at Morgan's inn
precation and tried to step over the
bootblack's head to the floor below.
The boy, trying to get out of the
way, jumped back, ana the fat man
fell, or pretended to fall, over him
for it might be seen that the man,
despite his size, had lighted like a
cat on his feet and was instantly
, halfway up to the front of the shop,
eXclaiming profanely but collective
ly at the lads awkwardness, before
De Spain had had time to reply to
the insult.
The noise and CONFUSION of the
incident were considerable. Morgan
was too old a fighter to look behind
him at critical moment. No man
could say he had meant to draw
when he stamped the card under
foot, but De Spain read it in his
eye and knew that Lefever's sud
den diversion at the rear had made
him hesitate; the crisis passed like u
fash. Sorry you feel that way,
Duke" returned De Spain, undis-
tuTbed. 1T is a courtesy we were
glad to extend. And want to speak
to you about Nan, too"
Morsan's face was livid. What
about her?"
''She has given me permission to
ask your consent to our marriage"
said De Spain, some time in the
reasonable future"
1t was difficult for Duke to speak
at all, he was so Infatuated. "You
can get my consent in Just one way"
he managed to say, that's by get
ting me-"
''Then I'm afraid I'll never get it,
for I'll never get you, Duke"