The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1920-11-19

with Drle1 excuse TOT MS tofOi-
ness. Fitzhugh took the chair at the
opposite side Of the desk and scanned
some important papers requiring his
signature. conversing busily with Hunt
as he read. He had signed but one Of
them. when. with an ejaculation upon
the warmth Of the weather, he flung
off his cap, and Nosening the clasps
of his coat collar, walked into the ada.
cent room.
In few minutes he reappeared (:
and. having discarded the motoring
buster, he was outwardiy transformed.
Snow-white ducks. white outing slip
pers, with siiken hosiery shimmering
where II showed. soft white shirt,
| through the attached collar of which
was lOOped a. voluminOus tie of blood
red hue. a crush hat, white as an
Easter lily, turned up in front and
down behind and encircled by n GRIM
son ribbon-these made up his attire.
"You look like the epitome OF a
comic OPERA" Hunt laughed, aside
! from the phone. whittier away?
Yachting"
"No," replied Fitzhugh, appending
his signature to the rest of the papers.
mo, I'm not going yachting" He put
down his pen, picked up his cane, stood
up. I'm going into the pit"
| "But what the" Hunt, who had
half-riseu from his chair. sank back,
bewildered. "What the dickens do you
want to expose your hand for. DAMP"
| Daniel showed his teeth In an odd
grin. For an instant It somehow sug-
gested to the other something sinister
like wolf barring its fangs.
"Better come along and watch me-
Hunt, "-starting toward the door. "I'm
going to give 'em something to talk
about. Coming?". He waited at the
door. Tapping his cane against his i'm
maculate trousers.
And this day began a spectacular
flourish Of snowy histriOnics unrivaled
before or since on the Chicago Board
Of Trade. During the rest Of the days
session in the wheat pit, Fitzhugh. the
actor. was the center of all attraction
The visitors In the gallery remarked
him and pointed him out to one anoth
err; the spectators, dealers. brokers
clerks, officers OF the board, ali those
whose duties brought them on the
floor" soon or late found their atten
ton directed toward him. His extreme
height. emphasizing his unusual garb
rendered him strikingly conspicuous
among his fellows. OF them all hi
was the only one who stood out dis
tinctly. He was the only one Of hi.
sort. The dramatic scene cOmp0ftet
with him. He was In his native ele
ment. This was the moment he hat
dreamed Of long ago when he hat
stood up yonder in the visitors gallery
! his whole being keyed to the martha
pitch of gold that screamed to hin
from the battlefield.
But how different the realization
None Of those who clamored abou
him, chatting him, seeking to take ad
vantage of what seemed to them
mental alteration, knew he was betnl
tortured by a ghost. The ghost Of
woman of raven, hair and olive ski
and sad. accusing eyes that ever re
preached him, that ever seemed t
say: you were cruel, Daniel-al
ways cruel" They did not know tina
when often he gesticulated to no enc
or that when he Numbered his loudes
: and appeared most abandoned to iii
feverish excitement Of the pit, the uI
. braidings of the ghost were cuttin
him to the quick, were flashing him tn
hardest.
AS the days passed Fitzhugh's PAL
sion for Showing off" increased anna,
2 ingly. Ever prolific with freaks of &C
! ing. he kept his associates ON tente
= hooks of curiosity. None could imal
Inc what he would do next. He a
| ways did the unexpected. Nothin
4 was too fantastical. Once during
j Saturday noonhour he started furOl
!. In the rotunda of the board of trad
I by stridlng through the crowd playlr
bOisterOusly on mOuth-Organ, whit
n round him capered several monkey
e borrowed from some Forquer stree
}. Italians; anon ut a dinner In his apar
n ment one evening he received h
/. guests In war paint and feathers ar
n the full regalia of an Indian chieftai
Il Yet those who knew him intimate
r AS Hunt and two or three others.
l. were not long In noticing change h,
come over him. When he thought
y was unObserved he was given to lOl
d periods of brooding, and, as they rigf
70 ly supposed, all his bizarrerie was q
s. the real Fitzhugh, but only a mas
n. all his theatrical excitement not gen
O. inc. but only cloak for an inner U
y happiness.
Of 1t was during one of these da
O. periods that he stole secretly away
n. not even Hunt knew of his whel
e. abouts--and for nearly week was u
I'd seen in Chicago. The day he return
he went to his safety deposit vault a
to locked therein packet of pape
These papers, obtained at great prl
ne and with commensurate difficulty. We
IL the deeds to the FitzrandOlph hon
o. stead in Maryland. And 81
Id he was not happy. Still tn ere remain
Al .l..Iu l.. q.