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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1896)
-l THB COUKIBR. ,XHE LINCOLN L FT K.8S1L k-J i d . m r,s 'iai OCCUPIES MIDDLE GROUND BETWEEN THE "OLD LINE" OR OLD FASHIONED LIFE COMPANIES AND "AFTER DEATH ASSESSMENT"OR CREDIT SYSTEMS. IT ISSUES A CLEAN PLAIN POLICY ON THE FIVE YEAR DISTRD3UTION AND FIFTEEN YEAR SELF SUSTAINING PLANS For full information apply to W. R. Proctor, Sec'y at home office rooms 3o4-5-6-7, Farmers and Merchants Insurance block or to Fred S. Clinton or Allen S. Green , general agents. A. went in for little flyers of that sort." "Because she never happened to take you for an outing in the country, Dickie? Heavens, what a lot you have to learn!" "Shut up, Basil, I'm no innocent, and you know it, but I don't suspect all the women I know of indiscretions.'' "Never mind Basil's cynicisms, old boy," the fourth man said, soothingly. 'You're a good sort, Dickie, and this 'yarn of yours was an amusing experience for you. People who play games must expect an audience." Dickie was somewhat mollified, and resumed the story. "Luck being my way, and not theirs, I sat facing them, which was awkward, but I only bowed formally and made no attempt to speak to them." "That was nice of you," Basil said politely. He wished Dickie would wind up his tale; he wanted to go to Doris. The husband of the bride was getting restless, too; he had scarcely been mar ried three weeks. Dickie had no very keen intuitions, but he bad about finished. "When my interesting friends passed my table, on their way out, Mrs. A. stopped a moment and looked me full in the face. 'If 1 had known you were to be over here 60 long, I should have asked you to lunch with me,' she said. 'I have accomplished my business most satisfactorily.' And then she passed out. She looked calm enough, but I'll bet you a fiver she was cussing her luck inside." The men ro6s simultaneously. Dickie, who was by naturo a quiet man, felt flushed from so much talking. He had drunk rather heavily of John Dowar's Scotch whiskey at dinner, too, which loosened his tongue and made him rather excitable. He thought the men had not shown sufficient interest in his story it might be a startling finale if he disclosed the woman's name. He felt irritated and grieved at not making a sensation. "Say, you fellows, hold on a minute!" he cried out. "As it was only a game you say I got on to, and as Basil knows the type collectively and the woman in dividually so well, I don't mind telling you it was" the husband of the bride, all his sense of honor roused, sprang forward to put his hand over Dickie's mouth, but the words came through his fingors "our hostess!" Dickie gasped. Basil felt the cords about his neck swell with rage and indignation, but he shut his teeth tight together and checked the impulse to throttle Dickie. The other men laughed carelessly; the affair was nothing to them. The hus band of the bride was the first to speak. "Dickie's half seas over," he said, apologetically. "I'll call a cab and send him home. You two men go in to the women; they will think we are settling the affairs of the nation. Make any ex cuse for Dickie; explanations are not necessary in this house, fortunately." But Dickie rebelled. Having made his sensation, he felt more amiable and quite capable of taking care of himself. He was terribly ashamed, too, if the truth were known, at having proved a traitor in the house of a woman who was entertaining him. His head Bwam sickeningly, but he pulled himself to gether. "It's all a damned lie, Basil," ho said, defiantly, "a damned Ho from beginning to end. Open the window and give me a blast of cold air. Brain work would certainly be tho death of me." Basil, roused out of his wonted com placency, threw up tho window and puEhed Dickie down into a seat by it. The other men stood by awaiting devel opments. Dickie mopped his brow, but he felt hotter already. "I never saw any clandestine meet ing," ho said, the words flipping over each other in his hurry to impress the men with this part of his story. "And I never went to Brooklyn never in my life; and I just made tho thing up out of whole cloth. You see, I went over to Boston last week," he continued, with a hang-dog air, "and there they dragged mo to a lecture." Dickie's whole figure drooped dejectedly at tho mere recol lection of it. "The spook got up and drivelled about cultivating the imagina tive faculties, and. and things like that." Dickie was getting into pretty deep water, but ho floundered on, determined to save Doris' reputation. "Well, I took in some of the rot," he said tho attention of the men encour aged him "and you know what a beast ly quiet chap I am, no sort of a diner out, eo I thought the first opportunity t got I would work my imagination see what I could do if I tried, don't you know and gad, I think I'm a howling success." He stopped breathlessly; never had he been in such a perilous mess before. "I got so warmed up to my subject a while ago that I felt chagrined when you fellows took it all so calmly, scarcely lining your eyebrows, so I thought I would give you a denoument that would amount to something, you poor innocents!" Dickie chuckled. He felt that he could even afford to bo con descending under the circumstances. Basil came around and pulled Dickie out of his chair in much the same fashion that he had pushed him in. The relief that Dickie's explanation afforded him was intense. Not that he would believe Doris capable of intrigue, but hn could not hear any bandying about of her name. "Dickie" and Basil spoke deliber ately, as a man who had been uniler a great strain "Dickie, you're a fool, but I am not so sure but that it's the kind of foolishness that might be turned to account. Give us your hand, old boy, and be your own quiet self after this. 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