The Washington herald., 1920-07-10
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through the town, and he halts at
q rum m-dispensary.
asks.
have says 1, fishing out my
silver dollar. I always 60 about
with adequate sums of money
Then we'll drink says VAIN
wright.
Mot me, says 1. Not any
demon rum or any Of It's ramifca-
tions FOR mine. It's one of my
non aknesses.
It's my falling says he.
what's your particular soft
Industry says I. promptly.
I'm hard-working. diligent. In
oustrious, and energetic
My dear Mr.. Trotter.' says he,
surely I've known you long
enough to tell you you arc liar.
Every man must have his own
particular weakness. and his own
particular strength in other
things. Now. you will buy me a
drink OF rum. and we will call on
President Gomez
Well, SIR" Trotter went on,
we walks the four miles out,
through a virgin conservatory OF
PAINS and ferns and other roof
garden products, to the Presi-
oents summer white house. II
was blue, &nd reminded you of
what you see on the stage In the
third act, which they describe as
same as the first' on the pro-
grams -.
There was more than fifty peo-
pie waiting outside the iron fence
that surrounded the house and
grounds. There was generals and
agltators and epergnes in gold
laced uniforms, and citizens In dia-
nonds and Panama hats all
waiting to get an audience with
the Royal Five-Card Draw. And
In Kind of a summer-house In
front OF the mansion we could
see a burnt-sienna man eating
breakfast out of gold dishes and
taking his time. judged that the
crowd outside had come out for
their morning orders and requests
and was afraid to intrude.
But {. Wainwright wasn't. The
gate was open. and ne walked in
side and up to the presidents ia
BILE as confident as a man who
knows the head waiter in a Is
cent restaurant. And 1 went with
him, because l had only rs cents
and there was nothing else to 90
The Gomez man rises from his
chair. and looks colored man as
he was, like he was about to call
out for corporal Of the guard, post
No. l. But Wainwright says
some phrases to him in a pecu-
liarly lubricating manner; and the
nrst thing you know We was all
three OF US seated at the table.
with conee and rolls and iguana
outlets coming as fast as about
ninety poems could rustic 'em.
And then Wainwright begins
to talk: but the president inter
rupts him.
You Yankees says he politely,
'assuredly take the cake for as
surance. ] assure you'-or words to
that effect. He spoke English
better than you or me. You've had
lopg walk says he, but it's
nicer in the cool morning to walk
than to ride. May I suggest some
refreshmentsr says he.
Rum. says Wainwright.
Gimme a Cigar,' says /.
We'll, sir, the two talked an
hour. keeping the generals and
equities all in their good uniforms
waiting outside the fence. And
while l smoked. silent, 1 listened
to Clifford Wainwright making a
solid republic out OF the wreck OF
one. l didn't follow his argu-
ments with any special colloca-
tion OF international intelligibility
but he had Mr.. Corners attention
glued and riveted. He takes out
a pencil and marks the white
linen tablecloth all over with fg-
ures and estimates and deduc-
tions. He speaks more or less dis
respectfully of import and export
duties and custom-house receipts
and taxes and treaties and bud
gets and concessions and such
truck that politics and govern
ment require: and when he gets
through the Gomez man hops up
and shakes his hand and says he's
saved the country and the people.
Il found out afterward that
Wainwright was a regular beach
comber-the smartest man on the
whole coast. but kept down by
rum. I liked him.
One day / inveigled him into a
walk out a couple of miles from
the village, where there was an
old grass hut on the bank of a lit
tie river. While he was sitting
on the grass, talking beautiful of
the wisdom of the world that nc
had learned in books. took hold
OF him easy and tied his hands
and feet together with leather
thongs that I had in my pocket.
Lie STILL says /. and mediate
on the eNigencies and irregulari-
ties of life till / get back
Il went to a shack in Aguas
Frescas where mighty wise girl
named Timotea CarriZo lived with
her mother. The girl was Just
about as nice as you ever saw
In the States she would have been
called a brunette: but she was
better than a brunette should
say she was what you might term
an ecru shade. / knew her pretty
we'll. 1 told her about my friend
Wainwright. She gave me a dou-
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