The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1922-11-24
CHAPTER I-continued.

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"Dou't call me Liberty. Call me
Lil,--Just Lib; that's enough. But LEI
NE tell you something. Never In all
nay life have | ever come as near be-
ing rich man as ! was just now. !
had won-by George. / had so much
money stacked up in front of me that
a muatto from the North called me
'tDarster.' And then cog slipped. We
could have split and had small for
tune apiece"
laundering fool again2" Drace In
CURED.
"les, sir. and I was the fool.
wanted to be u rich inan-and came
within one OF 1t. You know. some
tunes Fortune hesitates as to whether
she shall crown you or slap You"
''In your case, she didn't seem to
hesitate long, Lib"
mo the hair-tanged bag And
then do you know what she did Just
as | was forced to get up from the
table IN as hot a fever as ever
scorched mans blood? She smiled
at ue. Now. I'll swear TO that. But It's
oil over. A fellow has his little day.
aud then stretches out and lets the
undertaken measure him"
Yes. Lib. and ia advise him to
bring along extra tape when he comes
after you
Shottle attempted to sni1a. rlt the
fever within him was still so hot that
his effort ended in a grim tightening
of the mouth.
''That's nll right. Virgil, hut You
must remember that you are one out
OF million. How a fellow can lose
500 Mt poker and get up from the
table with money srll In his pocket Is
beyond me. However. Il means that
you haven't got poker In your blood.
which of Itself is marvel. But l want
TO tell you that every man is food for
some sort Of desperate passion. IF II
isn't gambling. II may be love. How
about that?
Hasn't caught me yet" answered
Drace. stoutly. even though the pic
ture of the girl In the passageway was
at the moment floating bright before
his minds eye. "Of course" he add !
ell. 81 may marry. Liberty: that sort |
of thing runs In our family. you know. |
But | don't think the subject very in i
teresting."
Il grant you. In this we walk
shoulder to shoulder. But there Is
something OF vital interest. lust now
IL lost"
Yes and very natural thing"
brace agreed.
~No. II wasn't natural. II WIS I'M
nrturai that I should lose Just ri that
time. II was an accident. Listen to
me for just a minute Anybody can
do the natural and expected thing A
dog or cat or any other animal al
ways does. II Is doing the thing that
nature didn't intend that marks the
progress of civilization. Now. have
a proposition to make that may seem
unnatural. Perhaps no man you ever I
met before would make 1t. But you (
never met such man as ] am. be- I
fore. You couldn't look forward and
see me. Could your" c
II didn't" Drace cheerfulIy admit c
ted e
~And II would have been hard for
yoW to believe that exist. which I Y,
Don't. according to the belief of some bs
0f my folks Now then. what are we fl
getting at? Another stake? No. I 81
ma not going TO ask you 10 risk any ID
more ~ your money But this is my IT
i'r''Fosition; You let me have 500; tn
= win. ~ pay hack all I owe. And Il,
don't. III belong 10 y0u--your
i reseife body and soul but with Il
IS understanding. ! am not 70 per-
erin any ineRial service In public n,
nd Il IS further understood and W
greed upon that If by any chance 7 w
: as raise SOD am TO have the privl- al
te-e ~ buying my freedom. The first "
s'oo you understand, was stake and bl
not loan. before you decide. weigh ID
che advantages Of owning man. n,
otr - your Greek. your ensIaved phi OF
sosng'her. be your Epictetus and turn m
you. mIll. We will revive the ethics Of ri
snctent society. Won't that prove that
really does repeat itselff" n.
'syes." answered brace. ~but ! don't n,
>ars any more whether history re- Il
yeats herself thny | do that STAN
nering man repeats himself" c
~Nox my dear friend soon to be my v