The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 26, 1903, Page 1

e SROOND and LAST He was not to be c} the other mer rallled r is ex- ar r aire Macaire's s in scanty at S tire Itisa g denoue- " .. i look out for the next big fellow’s got his w t h he & y Call’s new e A g shing its read Some of the man's etk novels of the e had once kad ar-fig ] day by writers in 2 irit Those w} re 0 VA ea i SIEUR BEAUC L e o8 € ) doi ’ € mins h o L i ) ot { : T b wiedg s an s . - A s B X hout allowing xing " £ 8 with ty . F get e A 12 o ¥ t out y ba, sig nas i deigning . y t ke ba n ) be practicaile . e s had ¢ gree . Ther five to, one. ‘He is a brave w ght to be praised instead of k r k s aid the masked min r! acalr “You have ed me a of bother, I'm sure g g | ! keag eman, but if he were ¥ uggested that he had K g I T, it - as an ex , e T imugine that 1 don’t f v music ts, clent, no doubt. 1sic I I flat- ¢t things in the w me to s you with your man in the mask laughed glanced down at his ruined better work v rhape.” he said. “But ed its last tune. good enough tried to make y England, but parently several ore I began making a profes se of m ¥ ut 1 can't af- ford to despise it, as it's been the bes' ¢ the money-making line I've this country worse for the country, then,” the millionaire “1 hope, though, vou're not so discouraged as to back to your et for muscle 4. Indeed, 1 to leave i own—wherever that m: I shan't leave it till I've done what [ man answered v nonchalance which perbaps. clo. er fecling. “Not if it takes me ame to do. he young ; : s so you came to England with an inquired Macaire, in the affect when red way he co a motive e now was to get this young r his patronage and match ain champion who had in swaggering deflance of ough. It was something to taken off his galling off y 4-he singer's mask as re Gra and he was 8 . nd was ber ‘protest be P ) find himself feeling so keen an / EAS S ir et ar alien subject. - ¥ e - ‘Don’t most men travel with an’ ob- ped 1o ses was the MeAt jert7” rotorted fhe man with the mask. gt - ® “There’d be .no incentive to a lazy fel- sent the AgETesSOr oy clze. And for fear I. go back to a condition of laziness I must be off, sir—— acaire sald to himself. thanking you.again for what you did as he dearly loved for me.” siastic patron ~ “Stop a 'bit,” ejaculated . Macaire. “I've something 'to suggest to you. As teampt Literary Lpn ot e SO A ,t;)_e Library. 44, Section. APRIL 261903, you say, few men—that is, faw men of ave a talk to you ed. It might utual advan- Again the young man laughed. “You can guess that T'm open to offers, sir if it's anything of that sort you mea Jat's preci at [ mean a ed the milllo Mg tow ith me. I'll ta It w Kk a - w w r s w 1 > wh ke a fan g a A k the . & cad i b E undy be § i an eltbo yst agne Now en the hors s the ahen r r P i row off " v mer: k on while 1 my d 2 w 3 a only e . . ' 3 be s It ois g s pick r \ ar t - MACAIRE'S PROPOSITION “You'll think me a pugna s that kind of su which does not wear away with unless in mortal illness. He did not the word “sir” in addressing the he were kdwtowing though b snconsciously alm grantgd that he was M And Macaire aw this, and was y amused by it, e ring certatn differences between them “The shortest road to my regard, as far as that concerned. “is by being a ‘pug call it. If I hadn't thought you one thtough our acguaintance to-day we shouldn't be dining together mow. And what I've just learned only raises you in my estimation. 1 believe now that T even heard you speak to my friend Andersom responc