Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-05-11

shapely forehead could be traced the
lines of a regretful frown.
II ussMsure of it," he groaned.
The fellow is returning to make
himself q. nuisance to me. He did not
tell you his story, then, Mr.. Thain?"
Fl showed no inclination to do
so-in fact he avoided so far as pos
sble all discussion of his past"
Richard Won't" the Marquis con-
tinued. raising his ayes TO the ceiling,
was one of those sturdy. thick-head-
ed, unintellisent yeonxen who have
been spoiled by the trihe of education
doled out to their. grandfathers, their
fathers and themselves. A few hun
! retainers to the mobiles under whose
patronage they lived. Today. in these
hidcous1y degenerate days, Mr. Thain,
when half the world has moved for
ward and half stood still, they are an
a~nachronism. They find no seen,1y
place In modern life"
David THAN a very still. There
was just a little lash in his eyes,
which came and went as sunlight
might have cleaned. across naked
steel.
But l must not forget" his host
went on tolerantly, that ! am speak
ing now to one who must to some ex-
tent have lost his sense of social pro-
portion by a prolonged sojourn in 4
country where life is more or less q
tumble"
You refer to America? ?"
Naturally! As q country re-
sembling than anything, a
gigantic sausage machine wherein all
races and men of all social status are
broken up on the wheel, pulled up
with false ideas, and thrown out upon
the world, a newly nedged, cunning,
but singularly ignorant race of IN
dividuals, America possesses great in
terest to those-to those. in short -
the Marquis declared, with a little
wave of the hand. whom such things
interest. am English, my fore
fathers were Saxon, my instincts are
4perhaps feudal. That is why l regard
the case of Richard Won't from a point
of view which you might possibly fail
to appreciate. Would it bore you if
! continue?" r
Not in the least" David THAN as
sured him.
Richard Won't was head keeper a,
Mandeleys when I succeeded, 10 the
title and estates. an advent which &C.
Cured a few years after my wife's
death. He was already occupying a
peculiar position there, owing to the
generosity Of my predecessor. whose
life he had had the good fortune to
save. He had very -foolishly married
above him in station-the girl was a
school mistress, I believe. When
came to Mandeleys, ! found him liv-
ing there, a widower With one daugh-
tor, and a little boy, his nephew. The
L -a-Y i-h4It4S h~- ~AA<hA~z ~A~sA. sk,
OF station and intellect, and wa
with interest, and she responded
Consequences which in the. days Of
our ancestors, Nj. THAN, would have
been esteemed an honor to the per:
sons concerned. ensued. Richard
Won't, like an ignorant. ciodhopper
viewed the matter from the wrons
standpoint. . You said something
believe? Pardon nss: I sometimes
fancy that I am . little deaf IN ms
left ear"
The Marquis Leaned Forward bu,
David THAN. shook his head. Hill
lips had moved indeed, but 10 wore
had issued from than.
80 far" his host went on. ''tht
story contains no novel features.
exercised what my ancestors Il
whose spirit I may say that ! livs
would have claimed as an undeubtsk
fright. Richard Won't, as I have said
With his inheritance OF ill-bestowed
education. and q measur Of that ex.
traordinary eocialistic poison which
seems, during the last few genera,
tions. to have settled like an epidemic
classes. resented my action. His be:
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