Part 13 (2/2)

I showed hiht me by an old professional at Saint Andrews K B Horsfal was in ecstasies, if a two-hundred-pound, keen, brusk, American businesswould please hio another round, just to test out his new acquisition and give hi

To his supreain beat hiin,--he reduced his score for the round by eight strokes

On our journey back to the city, he began to talk again, but on a different tack this tie,--you'll excuseyou are wearing in your pocket”

I looked down at it and reddened, for e in design and workmanshi+p, and apt to betray an identity

I slipped it off er and placed it in hed

”'No sooner said than done,'” he quoted ”You see, George,--any one who saw you coht could tell you had not been travelling for pleasure The marks of an unco out all over you Now, golf clubs and a signet ring like that which you were sporting are enough to tell anyluxuriously and for the love of it”

I could not help ad my new friend's method of deduction, and I thanked him for his kindly interest

”Not a bit,” he continued, ”so long as you don't mind For, it's like this,--I take it you have left home for some personal reason,--no concern of mine,--you have come out here to start over, or rather, to ht to start at the bottom of the hill

But, fro that doesn't suit you You are the kind of a felloho, if you felt like it, would tell a o to the devil, then walk off his prelishman exactly

”Well,--out here they don't like Britishers who receive remittances every month from their enerally not hed, rather ruefully, al I were ”Withyou, Mr Horsfal, that it will be necessary for me to leave the hotel to- for all I aood joke ”How do you propose starting in?”

”I have already co an eye on the advertisements, which seem to be chiefly for real estate salesmen and partners with a little capital,” I said

”But, the fact is, I have ht suit h to be considered, the chances are there will be some flies in the ointment:--there always are”

My friend looked at ,” I went on, ”it is in with the near end of the business district and call on every business house, one after another, until I happen upon so that will provide a start

”I have no love for the grinding in an office, nor yet for the grubbing in a warehouse, but, for a bit, it will be a case of 'needsthat I can get, to begin with, and leave the matter of choice to a more opportune tie?” he inquired

”Choice! Well, if you asked reen-keeper and professional golfer; gymnastic instructor; athletic coach; policeilist At a pinch, I could teach school”

K B Horsfal grinned and looked out of the carat the apparently never-ending sea of charred tree stu

”Not very ambitious, sonny!--eh!”

”No,--that is the worst of it,” I answered ”I do not see ambitious Besides, I have no desire to amass millions at the sacrifice of my peace of mind Why!--a millionaire cannot call his life his own He is at the beck and call of everybody He is consulted here and harassed there He is dunned, solicited and blackered and pestered until, I should fancy, he wished his millions were at the bottom of the deep, blue sea”

”Lord, ht One would alh it yourself”

”I have not,” I answered, ”but I know most of the diseases that attack the man of wealth”