White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-06-03
ReCluse of Fifth Avenue

| "ouiu presently lake Herman LOddOD
to his lavishly appointed apartment
where he would dine largely. He pic.
tured Milman's solitary and dismal
meal. There would not be many mora
for him In the family home on Lower
Fifth avenue. The Patrfcian age was
gone.
l.. Peter Milman reached his home
without encountering anyone who
knew him. Fashionable New York
with her residences and clubs had
long passed on her northward way.
Those few houses which, like his own,
were still owned by their builders
families, were mostly unoccupied save
for few weeks in the year. With
these people Milman had now nothing
in. common. He had rejected their
overtures They spoke of him with
pity, almost with contempt. A legend
Of eccentrieity grew up about him and
presently gave way to rumors Of men
tai deterioration.
Sneed, who concerned himself great
~ with the sudden change in his en-
ployer's habits, saw him return with
obvious relief. Sneed had read the
papers and realized the extent Of
Hazen Brewers troubles. He wished
he dared ask Mr.. Milman if he, too,
were badly hit. Peter Milman's face
told him nothing. Nor was his GUS
tomary manner changed.
|. IT am going over the upper rooms
after luncheon" said Milman. "Please
see that they are in order"
The upper rooms. 1t was in these
spacious chambers that the old fur
niture was stored about which experts
raved The six rooms were arranged
as a museum. Milman moved from
piece to piece. Everything had its
definite association. He stopped be-
fore an Eighteenth century card table
covered with sealskin. On this table,
in 1745, Peter Milman had lost
thousand pounds on cut of cards
with a blood Of South Carolina.
Those six chairs, called "banister-
backed by their creator, Heppel-
white, had been made to order for
Milman.
There was one room devoted to the
Dutch furniture that had come to the
Milmans from a marriage with Van
Sluyter heiress Peter Milman bent
down to look at Dutch church stool
which a Van Sluyter servant had car
ried to a place of worship two hun
dred years before. 1t was black in
color, and on one side bore picture
of the Last Judgment and some ap-
propriate verses.
IT don't read Dutch" Milman OBJ
served, "but 1 remembered the trans
lation. Listen, Sneed, it may do you
good"
certainly, sir" said sneed respect
fully.
'"The Judgment of God is now prepared;
there is still time, leave unwis-
DOM
The pious Will be separated from the
wicked. Gods wisdom encircles
the Universe"
every true, Mr.. Peter, SIR" said
Sneed. There was look on his en-
ployer's face that he did not under
stand, something -lhard and ruthless.
"There are some of the wicked I /,
should very much like to separate
from the pious without waiting for
post-mortem judgments. am not sure
that such an act would not be logical
way of acquiring merit. I take 1t,
Sneed, that in your essence you are
law-abiding7"
always" said Sneed with con-
scious rectitude. "In that respect, Mr..
Peter, I'm like you.'
"a very admirable frame of mind"
said Milman.
Sneed had rarely known him COM
ment on any of the exhibits before.
To day it seemed he had word for
everything.
"On this settle with folding candle +
stick" he observed, benjamin Mil
man fell asleep in the Revolutionary
war and was captured by red-coat
major, who gave him liberty owing to
his pretty skill on six-string bass
viol The viol Is in the next room.
These three mahogany pieces" he
said, pausing before a six-legged high
case of drawers, "once belonged to
the man whom Aaron Burr speaks Of
as my friend Hamilton whom I
killed.
(To BE CONTINUED
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.