SHORT STORY.
THE GIFT HORSE
BY
FREDERICK ORIN BARTLETT
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1913.
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TO LET.
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LET farnished from end of
FROM, let Febrassy, MEIRION: Mesh, honse on Peak; two bed-
No. 10, Peak, furnished or untar- nished. 8 Rooms.
No. 6, DES VEUX VILLAS, 58, The PEAK, from 1st Alarch, 1918.
Premises will be thoroughly repaired, painted and colourwashed.
No. 21, SHELLY STREET.
moms, two sitting nomi, large verandab, tennis ground.-89, Peak, Hoogkong, 21st Feb., 1918 109
TO LET LARGE substantially built
Godown, situated on water front, To let or for sale, 'OLENSHIEL,' | East Point. For further particulars apply Darker Road, No. 124, Poak, 8 rooms Property Offco, Jardine, Matheson & frem. 1st March, 1918.
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CRAIG RYRIE, No. 4, the Peak to let; fire situation; 8 rooms; tenci
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The great point of distinction Arkwright bad. no sooner between the two pretty suburban received the warranty deed of towns of Edgemere-on-the-Rivulet his new house, and placed on and Edgemere-on-the-Heights lay order for his machine, than the in the fact that the former was question naturally arose og tö easily reached by a short and plewhat disposition should be made beian walk from the railroad of the horse. He himself, being No, 1190, The PEAK, furnished, station, while the latter was a practical mas, was eager to sell from middle of April until end of Outo- comfortably accessible only to her; but his wife, being a lady of bar, 1918. Four Bedrooms, Tennis those who ownod automobiles. It some sentiment in spite of social Court and Garden, wouldn't be safe to say-not, at aspirations, refused to consider any rate, to a dweller on the this. Being aleo a lady of some Heights-that this was the only force of character, this decision point of advantage possessed by was final- the latter town over the former, "Well, then ?" inquired Ark- Nor would it be quite fair. Every wright, washing his hands of the one knew, for the fact was well whole matter. advertised, that in the mere mat-
There's Cousin John," replied ter of price per square foot the Mrs. Arkwright I'm sure he Heights was as inaccessible to the would take the best of care of the average income as to the Nellie." average pedestrian. Furthermore,
"Your proposition, then, is that the owning of an automobile in and of itself entails certain we should give John the horse soolal obligations and confers and rig outright ?"
"Woll? "
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cut in eagerly. "I could build most of it myself.” ̈
"Then I'll Break to Mrs. Ark Arkwright about it to-night, if you
think-
you
well-recognized prestige and "Ho's your.cousin,” Mra. Ark- this inhered, of necessity, in wright reminded her husband. every resident of the more exclu-And, besides, he lives so near Five town, On the Rivalet a man that if we gave Lim Nellie wei was known by the company he could borrow her whenever we
Wished." kept on the Heights he was known by the car he kept. For My dear, our machine is preOffice, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. example, the big horse on the mised for delivery next weak.” Bummit which "overlooked. the "Oh, I'm not suggesting that whole town of Edgemere-on-the-we over should need Nellie ogain, Rivalet was owned, as they said, but if we should- by a Fronch car, while the other establishments could all be easily Thon we would.' graded, from the neighboring six- "That's so," admitted thousand-dollar touring-car to the wright thoughtfully, "I'll speak modest geven-hundred-and-fifty-to John this moroing." dollar runabout which lived on Cousin Jolan 'was seated in the the very fringe of the Haights. smoker and was reading the Arkwright, ever since he intiasocial page of the morning herited from his father-in-law a paper. He look about as much mall block of Standard Oil stock, interest in the financial page ne had hovered unsatisfactorily mid-man does in the race returns who way between the two towns. His never made a bet in his life. house was located where the land However, every one in Elgemere- could hardly be said to have on-the-Kivulet read it, if for no more than a gentle tendency other reason, not to be outdono toward an upward slope, and by his neighbors on the Ileights, quite this side of where it began Whon Arkwright came along and its abrupt and really distinguished took a seat beside him Bainbridge He could not afford a looked up and nouuod.. machine of any kind, but he "I see coppers promise to be bought a borse and carriage, which active again, observed Bain met him every day at the station bridge.
accent,
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"Will you? I-I can't tell how grateful I'd be."
"Don't mention it. Will let you know to-morrow."
Arkwright rose. As he was leaving he turned and said, as an afterthought:
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"Don't suppose you'd object to our using her now and then ?" "Lord, man, aho's your horse ! I'd want you to feel free to use her whenever you liked."
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to keep the horse out of the kit obea. Then, too, the general contour of the surrounding sky. line must be taken into considera. tion. Bainbridge's first visit re salted in nothing more tangible than a general discussion which ended with an invitation to the architect's assistant to come down that night'
ighi'an i take dinner. Bainbridge felt frear to dove- lop his owa ileas with the younger man.
"See here," be ventured, after
the assistant bad boxed the compass around the bit of green- sward, squinting through half- closed eyes at everything on the horizon-line.
See liere; what
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"Thanks," said Arkwright, with a patronizing smile. I'm not suggesting we ever should. want, you know is just a barn." once the machine comes; but if
"What you want," the assistant we should
corrected him, "is a stable and Any time," brake in Binnot only a stable, but a stable bridge, with a generous wave of that will blend into your house." his hand.
"Of course I want it to look all right, but—~-"
on his return from New York. By "Didn't know you were inter- following a wall-chosan but cirested in coppere, replied Ark quitous route which took him paal|wright,
Of course Mrs, Arkwright agre the best front lawns of Edgemere- "Oh, reз.
I'm not holding ed to the proposition, when her hus
"We will attend to flat." on-the-Rivulet, he was able to any, but I've always been inter
band reported it to her that night,
And this was all that Bainbrid consume a decent interval of same lested in them. How's the new
as if it wore bis own inspiration.ge was allowed to say. Indeed, twenty minutes before jogging up house coming along!"
Arkwright immediately tele-
beyond signing the paper of spe the graveled driveway to his home. Expect to move in next weak," phoned John, and he, the next cifications in a sort of daze, he But his ability to associate with Arkwright answered, with some day, went to see an architect never again saw either the archi his nearest Heights neighbour-pride. And by the way, that about the stable.
lect or his assistant. In due courie the run-about man was
Now, ordering a stable isn't of time, however, men appeared duo reminde me that I must do some wholly to the latter's kindly, con; thing with Nellie.
like ordering a bale of hayat and began to dig. During the Won't need descension.
her with the machine, you the soul of an artist, and for a watched them, not only with in least, not for an architect who has
next month or two Binbridge know."
"Going to sell her?"
house in a town like Edgemere terest, but with considerable "No, I'm not," Arkwright on-the-Rivulet. To preserve the curiosity as to just what the drawled thoughtfully. She's a harmonies and keep the structure thing was going to look like. Arkwright and his stock, as well valuable horse and ought to bring of land, and still have it large had moved into his new hou:0
on an available twenty square feet
Ia the meanwhile Arkwright as to the total and complete eat a good price, but well, I have a isfaction of the American public. little sentiment about the bag. enough to shelter a horse and carriage, is rather a neat problem.
It was at this point in his career that the Federal government un- scrambled the oil trust to the
complete and total satisfaction of
He had always been a conservative; We've liad hor five years, you The architect's idea was to guard but as his stook, following its know."
atter dissolution, began to jump,
point upon point, he felt himself
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THE ALI XANDRA CAFE C¤- "Didn't know but what I'd like an excrescence--so to com- becoming more and more radical. give her to some friend-some bine it with the house that the not be Beaten, it Fqalo, For Dead. For another ten points he would one who would be good to her.".
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Every point of advance osrried bridge, with the first real interest him one step higher up the slope he had shown.
back of his house. Hardly bad "For her keep. I suppose the stock ceased its upward flight she's worth to-day five hundred before he had negotiated for the dollars if abe's worth a cent. The purchase of a house on the Heights rige and trapping cost me another which, at the most conservative five hundred. But you under- estimato, called for a twenty-five-stand how it is; she's been a sort Child 61 Storm, hundred-dollar machine.
of pet, and so I'd like to have her
That neither good fortune nor somewhere near, where I could bad affects us alone is a platitude, keep half an eye on her. If she
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but the devious outworking of ever was lonesome, or anything, The Harvest Moon, this axiom is not always platitu- I'd never forgive myself. Haven't dinous. John Bainbridge, Ark-room for a stable on your lot,
wright's cousin who lived at have you?"
By Justus M. Forman. The Wooing of Infamy,
Edgemere-on-the-Rivalet, had "Why, I don't know," "Bain. The Great Lord Masareem,
noted with patriotic indifference bridge answered mistiuly; "I
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from town he scanned his daily ving down to the station every Seekers Everyone, paper; he had read the report of morning.
ite demise with patriotic skepti "I don't know, another màn cism, and he had smiled over its I'd rather see have her," said final resurrection with patriotic Arkwright.
amusement. And yet, all the "Say, it would be great! while, this episode was preparing Could take the kiddies out Sun-
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Sure," nodded Arkwright,
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