The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-12-15

ronortor,e room gym WON'T rot INV.
r,ing out of him ~ tbnv sold Ana
NAV we're true nronbets
,.,.,,, ,, 49,,
.,a,,.s ~ h,s ogca. rof,eotivo un.
,,oI,te1 cigar IN the corner Of his
month. his chair tilted back and his
feet on wipdow.silL He nodded
unon nv statement Of the affair that
brought me. and without shifting his
position, gave me look of slow but
wholly friendly scrutiny over his
shoulder, and babe me sit down.
began at once to put the questions 1
was told to ask Neutrality-suspicious.
(he seemed to Delieve) satisfactorily
answered by slowly ana ruminativeiy
stroking the ieit sue Oh MS chin with
two long myers OF MS right hand, the
while ne smiled IN genial contempia-
ton Of tarred roof beyond the WIN
dow. Now and then he would give me
a mild and drawing word or two, not
brilliantly illuminative, 1t may be re-
marked. "Well-about that" he be-
gan once, ana tnen came Immediately
to full stop.
"YesT SAID, hopefully, my pencii
poised.
about that guess"
"Yes, Mr.. Beasley?" encouraged
him, for he seemed to have dried up
permanently.
swell. slr-I guess Hadn't you
better see some one else about that7"
This with the air of n man who
would he but too fluent and copious
upon anv snbiect in tho world except
the one particular point.
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% r,oasa,.,, oa,,sa,.,,,,o ~ aud 80
800 -, 80, ~ ,,..la r. go - d,d,,,t
co1 onvth,na a. oil. ond grossod
~. th;s sne,,t,, ~o, 80 ,,,.hont 10
value In his no,,t,oo, career d,so strons
no ~ bod nrovod to bic nrl,oto bannI.
ness HE habit NJ SILENCE moreover
woS not cultivated. yor could 500
thot "tbo socrot Of itn wos that bo was
horn cuiat
mr., uotohoo,, ro,,o,rod noto,oSs
and s,o1,v a. Soma odd ovos,or of
htr ooaa',,,.Lo,, h,, onosvl1obIo
Iouahod n,t,.,cht IVA bo ala too
~ ioinod ooehInrntIo,s With mo
hoo,+T,, ond lei = turinI,,,rn orizz,-
ootnoss thot souahow goyo mo the
,dan tbot no nioht ho tb;nlinc frotbar
ono,orottcoI,v, 70 bimself. yves sir
tbot old Rooslev man is certainly a
mighty funny critterp
when want awov faw Moments
lotor and ,oft him st,,I intarmittentlv
cbvoi,,,n. tho imprass,on ramaiped
With mo that ho had some such depre.
cotorv and eurrant,t,ous tbouybt
rv,o or ,hroo dave oftar that as 7
stoxtod down -to,yn rrou NYrs Amer
ttwaIt.,s noos,ov came out Of his
gote hound IN the same direction. He
sova mo Iook Of cav racoonItion and
osroroa ,Is bond sov,rc "we,,i Tn
IN ,hts roJ.bhorboodI ~ az ~ that were
a mottar ~ conoiderohla astonisbment
,,on.torod +hot was n na,ghbor.
ord mo ,yo,ro, or togotber don't
th,nL ba snoka again excent for a
",vo,, s,r,,, ~. .,yo ~ oon,ol surnrisa
at something 7 said. and. now and
then "You don't tell mev which he
had 81 most eIoouept way of exclaim-
ing. but he listened yisibly TO my own
talk, and laughed Mt everything that
meant for funny.
7 naver knew ANYBODY who pnye one
n greater RESPONSIVENESS. he seemed
r. he with van every instant and how
ba made Won feel n was the true mys.
tory of Reas,ev tbia silent man who
never toIkad axcept fos INV cousin
so,dl N children
u bannonod thot T ,hrs mot him nc
-, 80 4ta,t,D,. 49,, 49,, o,,d
v.oi,,ad an With him sovarol DAVIS In
snocass,on. IN word q hocone a
bohit Then ono ofternoon os
tnrned to leave him nj the Desnatcl
of,co no oske, mo 20 would dron IN