The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-11-20
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HE thought | had those?"
without doubt. Jacinto Meyer
knows academic English fairly
well, / think, but he doesn't know
slang expressions. He supposed
you We're Boosting OF your pow.
%ers!" Valdez broke into a peal OF
his gay laughter. "And you threw
a chair at him? | hope it hurt!'
He is a German?" Bruce
puzzled.
His father married one of oul
ladies. He is by birth half a Bra.
lillian. But he was educated in
Germany, and he is altogether
German in sympathies and taste
everything."
"And he is Dom David's enc.
my? Yet he comes here"
ooh, of course. The enmity is
beneath the surface. My dear
Bruce, do enemies in your coun-
try refuse to speak to one another
and shoot each other with pistols ?
Let us be modern in all things!"
Bruce sat thinking for some mo-
ments; there was a question he
had more than once wanted to ask,
yet had hesitated to do so. Now,
in the new confidence gained from
his clearer understanding of Day-
id Noel, he ventured.
lis Dom David a citizen of this
country?"
"But yes"
II, l thought he was born"
Bruce began, then stopped with an
alarmed wonder if he had be-
trayed Noel's confidence.
TN the United States?" Val
dez took up his speech readily.
HE was; in the city Of New York.
Is it pissible you do not know that
story, either? How many stories
have | told you, | wonder?"
II do not know much" con-
fessed Bruce.
swell, after the episode of the
diamond mines, Dom David was
suggested as president of the re-
public. But when the nomination
was offered to him, he declined.
He said that he was a citizen of
your United States. He said that
he was a citizen of your United
States. He was one of us; he
wanted to become one Of us, but
he would not'abandon the country
of his birth. Up to then, it had
been gerenally supposed that he
was a Brazilian. Then as the
greatest honor we could give in re-
turn for his services, he was made
a citizen of our republic, without
resigning his citizenship In yours.
[ do not know whether there has
been precedent in modern history
| know once it was done in Venice,
long ago. At any rate, it was done
here. Dom David is a citizen Of
both countries. But he never
would listen to being president.
Perhaps he was wise! He has
since held other high offices. He
is the senator from our state
now y
"Yet this man Meyer is his
enemy9o Bruce wondered.
ooh, yes. Does any man in pub
lie life escape enemies2 And he
but wait; / think he will tell you
something, too
Bruce nodded, gravely, continu-
ing to look at the letter in his
hand. He had sealed it. Now he
wished that he had added an ac-
count of the recent event to ex-
plain the crumpled pages. And
this last bit of information would
have rounded out the sketch of
David Noel that he had tried to
make for Rose. Well, he meant
to write soon again; as soon as
he received an assurance from her
tnut hIo lCGOCIS WCIC WClCOIl
after his confessed disgrace.
Milo Valdez watched his absorb.
ed companion with a quizzical
smile Of comprehension. The
young South American had his
own idea Of the kind Of letter
for which a man is willing to fight
and at which he stands gazing
in forgetfulness of all around him
Valdez was very romantic, he had
been in love several times ever,
year since his. 18th birthday
when he began by losing his hear
to a married cousin of 80 who pre-
scented him with an English pol,
He felt q new sympathy
for the shy, old American, VIII
was a protege Of Dom David.
When Bruce finally looked u.
with a start, Valdez laughing
urged him towards the hall.
1.-THE mail will be taken to til,
city in 10 Minutes he warned
the other. sPnt it in the bag
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