Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-11-24

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'This boats got good bass voice."
he remarked.
BASS voicel Do you know what
I'd like to do? I'd like to bore ten
inch hole In her bottom and let her go
down.
'sYou must have lost, Liberty"
"Don't call me Liberty. Call me
Lib--just Lib; that's enough. But let
me tell you something. Never in all
my life have ever come as near be-
ing a rich man as I was just now. /
had won-by George. I had SO much
money stacked up in front of me that
a mulatto from the North called me
'marster.' And then cog slipped. We
could have split and had small for
tune apiece
"Blundering fool again?" Drace In
Quired.
Eyes, sir, and I was the fool. l
wanted to be a rich man-and came
within one of 1t. You know, some
times Fortune hesitates as to whether
she shall crown you or slap you"
"In your case, she didn't seem to-
hesitate long, Lib"
"No the hair-tangled hag! And
then do you know what she did just
as I was forced to get up from the
table in as hot a fever as ever
scorched mans blood? She smiled
at me. Now, Til swear to that. But it's
al A %n11 hos h TO
and then stretches out and lets the
| undertaken measure him."
Eyes, Lib, and I'd advise him to
bring along extra tape when he comes
! after you"
Shottle attempted to smile, but the
fever within him was still so hot that
his effort ended In grim tightening
of the mouth.
That's all right, Virgil, but you
must remember that you are one out
5000 at poker and get up from the
table with money still in his pocket is
beyond me. However, It means that
you haven't got poker In your blood,
which of itself is marvel But want
to tell you that every man is food for
some sort of desperate passion. If 1t
isn't gambling, 1t may be love. How
about that?"
Hasn't caught me yet" answered
BRACE, 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
ed, II may marry. Liberty; that sort
! Of thing runs in our family, you know.
But / don't think the subject very In
teresting."
81 grant you In this we walk
shoulder to shoulder. But there Is
something Of vital interest Just now
i lost"
Eyes, and a very natural thing"
Drace agreed.
mo- 1t wasn't natural. 1t was I'M
natural that l should lose just at that
time. 1t was an accident. Listen to
me for just minute. Anybody can
do the natural and expected thing. A
dog or cat or any other animal al.
ways does. 1t 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
met before would make it. But you
never met such a man as I am, be-
fore. You couldn't look forward and
see me. Could your"
81 didn't" BRACE cheerfully admit
ted
"And it would have been hard for
you to believe that I exist, which
don't, according to the belief of some
of my folks. Now, then, what are we
getting at? Another stake? No,
am not going to ask you to risk any
more of your money. But this Is my
proposition: You let me have 500;
if win, I'll pay back all I owe. And
If l don't, I'll belong to you-your
property, body and soul but with
form any mental service in public.
And it Is further understood and
agreed upon that if by any chance /
can raise 500, am to have the privi-
lege of buying my freedom. The first
500, you understand, was stake and
not loan. Before you decide, weigh
the advantages Of owning man. ]
win be your Greek, your enslaved phi
losopher, be your Epictetus and turn
your MILL We will revive the ethics Of
ancient society. Won't that prove that
history really does repeat itself?"
YES" answered Drace, shut don't
care any more whether history re-
peats herself than I do that STAN
mering man repeats himself"
Nov my dear friend soon to be my
master, / hope-I ask you; isn't 1t
something to own companionable
slave?'
Eyes. BY the way, do you know
New Orleans very well?'
"What! Does a bloodhound know
a.