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BEASLEY
BY N(
town, a young
tells the story, Is an
unaccountable action of a
who, from the
house, apparent
with invisible per
larly mention:
joria.'”" Next
his stran
David Bea
{tician, and
With Miss
nseen
IPSIS Newcomer in a small
waspaper man, who
azed by the
ne
man
ers
Hon
unis
Apperths
Beasley ar
Miss Apperth
concerned
Ii
———
it
that
teacher
iat (to
didn’t
Charlotte
I do
astonished
not know why
me to find
was a
except ti
enced ey
looked
Miss
perthwalite of mathe
matics my
e) ‘she look it.
more like Corday!
pl
at lunch the
kept me
polities,
had the pleasure of seeing
posite (when
Mr.
Spencerville
fear that I would break
but no stroll in the yard
warded me afterward,
hoped,
left the
again for a
me next day
Dowden occupied
from
again).
re
obviously
out
with her
I din
disappeared before I
and 1 did
fortnight. On
did return the house for
lunch, menl Mrs. Apper
thwaite's (I dined aurant near
the Despatch office),
of town for a little
informed us, over the
day and She
gether out of my thou
indeed, she almost di them
the Honorable David Beasley.
A better view I wi
of Yhis not
as ily
for she
table, not see
she not to
my only at
at a rest
and she
visit, her mother
following Satur-
Sunday. was not alto.
hts,
vided
however
which afforded
did
ineres
IR
gentleman
in hi ised it
served make the
didoes of which he had
and I the au
profoundly nexplic
glimpse of him the lighted
had vaguest mj
f his appearance
a few days my
Miss Apperthwaite I was
the office and him full-face
ing In at his gate, 1 t
invoice «
lessen my
interest rather;
it also
m;
to extraordl
been the
nary
virtuoso ore than
Ms
doorway
fence m
ever
in
the wression
given me
but one aft
ernoon
after terview with
in
starting for
met on
he was tu
as careful
without
There
“taking.”
something easy and genial
eal and He
person yofi like to meet on
whose cheerful pa
feeling indefinably a It
youn did. He w tall,
gaunt. perhaps—and his
ather pale shrewd
something in its oddity
ful of the Inte Sol Smith
hat was tilted back a little, the slig!
est bit to gide, and the
brownish hair above his high forehead
was goin gray before long. He
looked about forty.
The truth is, I had expected to see
a cousin german to Don Quixote; 1
had _ thought detect signs and
gleams wildness, ght
something a little “off. One glance
of that kindly and humorous
me such expectation had
sense, Odd he might have been
zooks! he looked it—but
Never, The fact that Miss
thwaite could picture such a man
this “sitting and sitting and sitting”
himself Into any form of mania
maduess, whatever gpoke loudly of
own imagination, indeed!
“Qimpledoria” was to be
der some other mat,
. As I began to know some of
my co-laborers on the Despatch, and
to plek up acquaintances
there, about town,
Mr. Beasley the subject of
Everybody knew him. “Oh,
know Pave Beasley!” would come the
reply, nearly always with a chuckling
sort of langh. I gathered that he had
a name for “easy-going”
ed to eccentricity. It
what the ward-heelers
Jowers got out of him in
times made the political managers
ery. He wag the first and readiest
prey for every fraud and swindler that
came to Wainwright, T heard, and yet,
in spite of this and of his hatred of
“speeeh-making” (“He's ns silent as
Grant!” sald one informant), he had
a large practice, and was one of the
most successful lnwyers in the state.
One story oy told of him (or, as
they were apt to put it, “on” him) was
repeated so often that I saw it had
become one of the town's traditions,
" One bitter evening In February, they
related, he was approached ujon the
re
conspicuously
hing
about
wae |fomet rem
arks
a8 we say this man-
and quizzi-
wns the
the
careless
at reet
aging sends
gaver than
ns thin—even
face was long,
and gentle;
unremind-
Russell,
and
not
it
ane sparse,
1Z2 to be
to
of however wll
“3% ©
been non
ind
“queer?”
Apper
as
or
her
The key to
sought un
here
I sometimes made
inquiry
yes, 1]
which amount.
was sald that
and camp-fol-
campaign
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i
hy a
old
ingenuities by
out
whining and shiv
the
had
rity
ragged,
reprobate, notorious for
which he
the patience of the cha
He nsked! Beasley for
sley in his
over
ering
ns
worn
organizations,
a dime. Be
hut
had no money
gave man his
without himself,
bad
re
pockets, the
cont, went home any
and spent six weeks In bed with a
the direct
gold the
procs eds In an
of pneumonia
snlt, His
coat, and inves
five-day
of whi
a
eneticiary over
’
ted the
in thy
Coupe Of
ree, closing soenes
5
ch brickbats wer:
1
to higl
high, effect
featured spectacu lar
One he veler's show
intim
pursuers,
sent through a fev
window in an to
wholly ima
attempt
ginary
ted at a perfectly
idate
the
he projec ac
of
were
Beas
tl
him.
rity
soothe
w's chi
the
hospital in company.
and
en
borne to the
It w
1
this eg
as due in part to recollections
ened and others of a
that langhed
I know
similiar
peo when
pi le
Dave
I should say
the n
I could Wer now
however, to shed the
upon the mystery of
Hammersley and Simpledoria, It
not the Si iny of Miss Apper
that revelat
10st popula
Wainwright. diser
anything,
est light
until
nee the fon
came.
Tha
widow of
afternoon 1 went to call
¢
a second-conusin of mine:
cottage not
upon
lived in a
Apperthy
I found her sitting on
Mrs. vaite's, th
Laborers on the Despatch, and to
Pick Up Acquaintances Here and
There About Town, | Sometimes
Made Mr. Beasley the Subject of
Inquiry.
ant veranda, with boxes of flowering
plants along the ralling, though Indian
SUMIner was now upon depar-
ture. She was rocking meditatively,
and held a finger in a morocco vol.
apparently of verse, though 1
suspected she had been better enter
tained in the observation of the people
and vehicles decoronsly passing along
the sunlit thoroughfare within her
view,
We
and
close
exchanged
news of
inevitable questions
mutual relatives: I had
told her how [1 liked my work and
what 1 thought of ‘Walnwright, and
was congratulating me upon hav-
ing found so pleasant a place to live
Mra, Apperthwalte's, when she In-
terrupted herself to smile and nod a
cordial greeting to two gentlemen
driving by. They waved thelr hats to
her gayly, then leaned back comforta-
bly against the cushions-—and if ever
two men were obviously and incontest-
ably on the best of terms with each
other, these two were. They were
David Beasley and Mr. Dowden,
“1 do wish,” sald my cousin, resum-
ing her rocking—"l do wish dear Dn-
vid Beasley would gat a1 new car of
gome kind; that old model of his is
n Jdisgrgee! 1 suppose you haven't
met him? Of course, living at Mrs,
Apperthwalte's, you wouldn't be apt
to."
“But what Is he doigg with Mr.
Dowden?” 1 asked.
She lifted her eyebrows. “Why
taking him for a drive, 1 suppose.”
ns
-
“No. I mean—how do they happen |
to be together?”
"
old friends
“They are!” And, In answer to her
look of surprise, I explained
had begun to speak of Beasley nt Mrs
Apperthwalte's, and described the ab-
ruptness with which Dowden
changed the subject,
“1 see,” my cousin nodded,
hendingly. “That's simple
Dowden didn't want you
of Beasley there. 1 suppose
compre
George
tnlk
for everybody-—especially if Ann
perthwaite heard you,”
“Ann? That's Miss
Yes; I was speaking directly
Why shouldn't she have heard
She talked of him herself a little
and at some length, too."
“She did!" My cousin stopped rock
ing, and fixed me with her glittering
eve. “Well, ne
“Is it
The lady gave her boat to the wavy
again, “Ann Apperthwaljte
about him still!” she with
thing like vindictiveness, “I've always
suspected it. She thought
new to the p n't know any-
thing 1
tion
to her.
inter
of a
80 surprising?”
08
thinks
sald, SOMmMe
you were
lace and dl
about
it to. hat's
“I'm still "WwW to
“and
or anybot
1g tm
ace” I urged
the pl
don't know
“They
net
used to he
and
she doesn't deserve
hal it
194d to
and
io
they
“Oh, a good while—fi
I think—n
Ann
en, you §
ng been”
1
“since be engaged?’
ve
ago, ayhe more;
Apperthwait
(Such
along,
now,"
“They got
ie home from
after she can
the idl
she’ LO
$ 11s nantic gl
oticnil romantic gi
per,” 1
“Put tetich
interrun
nected with :
i exact
streak
08
wavs been
I feel
oie
that's why
she treat
him over out
that 1
ALS Ai
broke his
optimism ane
the-best-of-1t.1
for any
will.”
“What did
“Nothing I”
dignant
in the w
“Bn
“Li
body
shes do
My c
word from }
ide world!”
t there have heen
must
sten she
tell
me,"
me If you ever
in your |
Heaven
robably
to
lifer
heen mgaged - Knows
long-—over two years; p
and al
n't
set a
three
off ;
wou
ways she
begin
day for
Apperthwaite died, an
nded high and
David
world te
woul to
idn't
Then Mr.
her and her mother
dry with
had every
her
one
stra
nothing to live on
thing in the
«till she wouldn't! And then,
here and
off, Said
be
give
and
day,
she'd
told
she
to
she came up
broken it
stand It to engaged
another minute!
couldn't
David Beasley
“But why?"
“Because --my cousin's tone
shrill with her despair of expressing
“hecanse, she sald he was a
no imagination!”
“She still says so,”
thoughtfully.
“Then it's time she got a little imag-
ination herself!” snapped my compan-
ton. “David Beasley's the quietest
man God has made, but everybody
knows what he is! There are some
rare people In this world that aren't
all talk: there are some still
ones that scarcely ever talk at all-—
and David Beasley's one of them, 1
don't know whether it's because he
can't talk, or if he can and hates to;
1 only thank the Lord he's put a few
like that into this talky world! David
tensley's smile is better than acres
of other people's talk. My Providence!
Wouldn't anybody, just to look at him,
know that he does better than talk?
fie thinks! The trouble with Ann Ap-
perthwaite was that she was too
young to see it. She was so full of
novels pnd poetry and dreaminess and
man
I remarked,
anyt g as it really was: She'd study
her mirror,
romance there that she just couldn't
bear to have a fiance who hadn't any
chance of turning out to be the crown
prince of Kenosha In disguise! At the
very least, to suit ber held have had
to wear a ‘well-trimmed Vandyke' and
coo sonnets in the gloaming, or read
‘On a Baleony' to her by a red lamp.
.
“well, sir, Dave's got some.
thing at home to keep him busy
eénough, these days, | expect”
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