The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-05-08
By HOLWO RTHY HALL

Wen enough to know how to approach
en-? Know Cullen? Know the Du-
rants? Know Embree and McEachern
and Cooke? Know"
AT one time" said billiard, with
sudden tragedy in his eyes, "all those
people you've just named were about
the closest friends l had in the
world"
well, if you've got nerve enough TO
try to pass yourself off as a stranger,
why"
Just momentw The young mans
gesture, although calm, was never
theless commanding. Now listen !
l lived in Syracuse twenty-siX years
If / ever had any friends there I've
lost 'em now. L"
"lNhose fault was it?"
"Whose fault? Don't make me
laugh! The point is that my friends
and | aren't on speaking terms"
eco ahead" said Harmon. satisfied.
"Do they know you went to FranceT
They don't know anything. l left
between two days, I've never written
anybody so much as a line to tell
where | was, or what | was doing. l
went over on tramp. A French lieu
didn't give d--n whether l got
killed or ISt-and then / got this"
His hand NJ Is on his cheek, where Il
long scar i tossed it. "And for over
year I've ben hoping that somehow.
Of those mtn :. principally Gull
len and Durant and McEachern. Get
back hard-you understand! Perhaps
this suggestion of yours will give me
the opening Perhaps it will. That's
what I'm wondering. Pm thinking it
over. That's ALL"
Harmon controlled himself; his
voice, when it came, was low and
seductive.
well" he said, "could you get back
any harder ut people who haven't
treated you right than by going back
up there and making good? BY put
ting something over on em-something
big, you Understandable making
those fellows look cheap? That's bet
ter than using a club on 'em, isn't it?
Goals of fire, man, Goals of fire Show
'em what you can do--and take your
satisfaction in that. Don't fight your
enemies-you don't have to! Make
profit out of 'em! And then :.
oh well, don't care what you do after
that-come out in the open and give
'em the ha-ha or not, just as you like.
Could anything be n neater little come
back than that? More sort of Biblical
and thorough? Poetic justice? Could
it?"
billiard was still alert and rigid.
There's good selling argument?
And something good to SELF"
"As straight as shOestring, and as
sure as you're a foot high. And If
you can't do business on this basis,
you couldn't sell gold eagles for
dollar apiece! That's fat"
$50 l could go back-and honestly
make good? All the way? Prove what
/ can do? And not have any back
fire In it,"
"And have a chance" said Harmon,
nodding, Ito put yourself in right
again. That's what my whole idea
was. If you're going to cash in on
your hard LUCK, boy, you've got to
speak up. That's my policy. Cash in
on this thing the doctors did for you
Let's play it together, son. If it's a
sort of embarrassing you want, I'll
help you. / don't care a continental
what you did to get in wrong in SYRIA
cuse-its success that counts. Moth
ing else but success. Is it bar
gain?"
Hilliard shut his teeth tight; re-
flected yielded abruptly.
Its bargain !" he said. I'm with
you'll"
zone moment! Let's be frank with
each other. Don't get any impression
that I've done anything that's"
"NIr. HilIiard, you don't have to talk
like that to mel I've had you sized
up from the start. haven't II"
Eyes, but / wanted you to know
"But / do know, son! Wild oats.
sort Of Am l right. or am / wrong?
That's why I'm banking on you. Peo-