Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1920-05-22

Hou've earned my permanent thankR
But ! am growing old How do I
know? Didn't you ever read Leigh
Hunt?"
Just a little" There was a trace
Of warmth creeping INTO her voice.
Hilliard held his breath:
say I'm weary. say I'm sal:
Say that health and wealth have missed
me-
Say I'm growing Old but add
Angela kissed me.
Ee mad spoken the lines magnid-
Gently, with the precise humor and
pathos which 20 to make them I'M
mortal TIN glad she fits into the
meter" he said thoughtfuly. "bec luse
I can understand just how Leigh Hunt
felt about Jennie"
"And-how do You think that VASE"
Very sensitive" said Hilliard. "aud
perhaps q little repressed snd-de-
crepit.' He smiled rcmulscently. ~
suppose there are very few things in
life that make a man feel more mind
full of his own crudity and general
worthlessnesS than to lase chiIds
spontaneous affection" IT was The
testing venture. She looked at him
sjdewSe.
More than if-r it weren't 8
childe"
u think So" His tone was fault
less "A woman can make a man feel
like Romeo hut ii takes a very young
sill 10 maze him feel like Launcelot--
at my age"
she is adorable, isn't She?" His
heart jumped at her cordial accept
ance Of his statement, "Only-she's
seventeen, Mr. billiard"
u know" he said graveiy. "And
that's why Fm so conscious of my
own senility. Because all that beau
tiful innocence aud ignorance is
doomed. Miss Durant-who knows
that I'm not the very last person to
see 1t? Today, I'm only a much older
man. some one she likes; tomorrow,
l may be a man without the only
and the more she liked me. the less
she'd show II. But there's been
mighty little of that sort of thing for
me in the last few years from any.
body, and | do appreciate it. and I'm
not ashamed of it. either"
NO" she said you couldn't be.
You're too human" She smiled at
him and he was transported at the
proof of her sympathy. "If ! were in
your place, I'd want to feel the same
way about it,"
He thanked her I'm his heart. IIe
had saved both Angela and himself
and held his pristine advantage.
But there was no dlSputng the fact
that he had made an active enemy Of
Woring, and an alert rival out Of
Armstrong. He smiled grinly as he
looked ar the man ahead.
"Mr. Armstrong seems tn he very
nervous. he said. Not :fat can
blame him for wanting to be in my
place, On the contrary, I'm sorry for
him.
THAT shows very good dlsrosl-
ton she said demurely
Perhaps it does. and perhaps It
doesn't. / believe every man owes II
to himself TO get what he wants. If
he does, hes a success; if he doesn't
It's his own fault"
As he said this they came abreast
OF the others. and Armstrong. who
had heard the final sentence, whirled
toward billiard.
Regardless of methodist" he de-
mnuded.
"Why-to some extent" laughed
billiard why uot?"
Armstrong delayed, so that the two
men we're few PAGES behind the rest
of the group. rs that your regular
creed, Mr.. Hilliard?"
My creed isn't composed Of words,
Mr. Armstrong, but of actions"
They had spoken SO quietly that no
one perceiving them would have re,
motely suspected that a challenge had
been offered and accepted.
factions do speak louder, OF course"
"3line." said HilIiard, "will give you
no onense. Butt generally get what
l want
$50 do I Shall We shake hands on
it?' Armstrong WIS Fry affable. but
tremendously in earnest.
with pleasure. I can count on
your generosity, see.
"And on your courtesy"
THANK you" He went complacent
ly forward; but inwardly he was
STEPPED In perturbation. The man
was so deadly sure Of himself Could
It be thar he was tactly engaged 70
Carol, in spite Of what Angela had
surmised. or so nearly on the road 70
an understanding with her that Hill
Hard was only making a fool Of him
self
Armstrong laughed gently /; wa,
like "a dagger thrust In Huiard'i
heart
lone chance in a thou
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