WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:03.720 This is section thirteen of The Gilded Age. The LibriVox 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.919 recording is in the public domain. The Gilded Age, A 3 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:09.400 Tale of to Day by Mark Twain and C. D. Warner, 4 00:00:09.880 --> 00:00:15.000 Chapter thirteen. Whatever to say be tooke in his intante. 5 00:00:15.439 --> 00:00:20.679 His language was so fair and pertinanite, yet seemeth unto 6 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:25.199 many hearing not only the ward, but verily the thinning 7 00:00:26.079 --> 00:00:30.199 Caxton's Book of Courtesy. In the party of which our 8 00:00:30.239 --> 00:00:34.799 travelers found themselves members was Duff Brown, the great railroad 9 00:00:34.840 --> 00:00:39.320 contractor and subsequently a well known member of Congress. A bluff, 10 00:00:39.479 --> 00:00:43.560 jovial Boston Man, thick set, close shaven, with a heavy 11 00:00:43.679 --> 00:00:47.280 jaw and a low forehead, A very pleasant man if 12 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:50.759 he were not in his way. He had government contracts, 13 00:00:50.799 --> 00:00:54.880 also custom houses and dry docks from Portland to New Orleans, 14 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:58.880 and managed to get out of Congress in appropriations about 15 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:03.840 wait for weight of for the stone furnished. Associated with him, 16 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:07.640 and also of this party, was Rodney Shake, a sleek 17 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:10.680 New York broker, a man as prominent in the church 18 00:01:10.760 --> 00:01:14.480 as in the stock exchange, dainty in his dress, smooth 19 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:18.239 of speech, the necessary compliment of Duff Brown in any 20 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:22.640 enterprise that needed assurance and adroitness. It would be difficult 21 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:26.640 to find a pleasanter traveling party, one that shook off 22 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:31.480 more readily the artificial restraints of Puritanic strictness and took 23 00:01:31.519 --> 00:01:35.719 the world with good natured allowance. Money was plenty for 24 00:01:35.799 --> 00:01:39.319 every attainable luxury, and there seemed to be no doubt 25 00:01:39.319 --> 00:01:42.760 that its supply would continue, and that fortunes were about 26 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:46.319 to be made without a great deal of toil. Even 27 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:50.439 Philip soon caught the prevailing spirit. Barry did not need 28 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:54.359 any inoculation. He always talked in six figures. It was 29 00:01:54.400 --> 00:01:56.760 as natural for the dear boy to be rich as 30 00:01:56.799 --> 00:01:59.879 it is for most people to be poor. The l 31 00:02:00.359 --> 00:02:02.680 of the party were not long in discovering the fact 32 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:06.000 which almost all travelers to the west soon find out, 33 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:09.840 that the water was poor. It must have been by 34 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:13.159 a lucky premonition of this that they all had brandy 35 00:02:13.199 --> 00:02:16.120 flasks with which to qualify the water of the country. 36 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:19.280 And it was no doubt, from an uneasy feeling of 37 00:02:19.319 --> 00:02:23.680 the danger of being poisoned, that they kept experimenting, mixing 38 00:02:23.719 --> 00:02:26.639 a little of the dangerous and changing fluid as they 39 00:02:26.680 --> 00:02:30.360 passed along with the contents of the flasks, thus saving 40 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:35.400 their lives hour by hour. Philip learned afterwards that temperance 41 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:39.120 and the strict observance of Sunday, and a certain gravity 42 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:43.360 of deportment are geographical habits which people do not usually 43 00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:47.479 carry with them away from home. Our travelers stopped in 44 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:50.280 Chicago long enough to see that they could make their 45 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:53.439 fortunes there in two weeks time, but it did not 46 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:57.960 seem worthwhile the West was more attractive. The further one went, 47 00:02:58.120 --> 00:03:02.080 the wider the opportunities open. They took railroad to Alton 48 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:05.080 and the steamboat from there to Saint Louis for the 49 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:08.439 change and to have a glimpse of the river. Isn't 50 00:03:08.479 --> 00:03:12.280 this jolly? Cried Henry, dancing out of the barber's room 51 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:16.639 and coming down the deck with a one two three step, shaven, 52 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:22.159 curled and perfumed after his usual exquisite fashion. What's jolly? 53 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:26.759 Asked Philip, looking out upon the dreary and monotonous waste 54 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:30.479 through which the shaking steamboat was coughing its way. Why 55 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:34.159 the whole thing? It's immense, I can tell you I 56 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:37.280 wouldn't give that to be guaranteed a hundred thousand cold 57 00:03:37.319 --> 00:03:41.560 cash in a year's time. Where's mister Brown. He's in 58 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:45.000 the saloon playing poker with Shike and that long haired 59 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:48.360 party with the striped trousers who scrambled aboard when the 60 00:03:48.439 --> 00:03:51.719 stage plank was half hauled in. And the big delegate 61 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:55.439 to Congress from out West. That's a fine looking fellow. 62 00:03:55.479 --> 00:03:59.479 That delegate with his glossy black whiskers looks like a 63 00:03:59.639 --> 00:04:03.479 Washington man. I shouldn't think he'd be at poker. Oh 64 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:06.680 it's only five cent, Auntie. Just to make it interesting, 65 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:10.199 the delegate said. But I shouldn't think a representative in 66 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:15.240 Congress would play poker anyway in a public steamboat. Nonsense. 67 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:18.199 You've got to pass the time. I try to hand myself, 68 00:04:18.199 --> 00:04:20.639 but those old fellows are too many for me. The 69 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:23.839 delegate knows all the points. I'd bet a hundred dollars 70 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:25.720 he will ant he his way right into the United 71 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:28.959 States Senate when his territory comes in. He's got the 72 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:32.959 cheek for it. He has the grave and thoughtful manner 73 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:37.240 of expectoration of a public man. For one thing, added Philip, 74 00:04:37.959 --> 00:04:41.079 Harry said, Philip, after a pause, what have you got 75 00:04:41.079 --> 00:04:44.240 on those big boots for? Do you expect to wade ashore? 76 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:48.319 I'm breaking him in the fact was Harry had got 77 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:51.160 himself up in what he thought a proper costume for 78 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:53.800 the new country, and was in appearance a sort of 79 00:04:53.879 --> 00:04:58.680 compromise between a dandie of Broadway and a backwoodsman. Harry, 80 00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:03.839 with blue eyes, bush complexion, silken whiskers, and curly chestnut hair, 81 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:07.959 was as handsome as a fashion plate. He wore this morning, 82 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:11.600 a soft hat, a short cutaway coat, an open vest 83 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:16.560 displaying immaculate linen, a leathern belt round his waist, and 84 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:21.160 top boots of soft leather, well polished, that came above 85 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:23.920 his knees and required a string attached to his belt 86 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:27.319 to keep them up. The light hearted fellow gloried in 87 00:05:27.399 --> 00:05:31.000 these shining encasements of his well shaped legs, and told 88 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:34.480 Philip that they were a perfect protection against prairie rattlesnakes, 89 00:05:34.839 --> 00:05:38.480 which never strike above the knee. The landscape still wore 90 00:05:38.519 --> 00:05:42.519 an almost wintry appearance when our travelers left Chicago. It 91 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:45.639 was a genial spring day when they landed at Saint Louis. 92 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:49.199 The birds were singing. The blossoms of peach trees in 93 00:05:49.319 --> 00:05:52.560 city garden plots made the air sweet, and in the 94 00:05:52.680 --> 00:05:55.759 roar and tumult. On the Long River Levee, they found 95 00:05:55.759 --> 00:06:00.439 an excitement that accorded with their own hopeful anticipations. The 96 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:03.680 party went to the Southern Hotel, where the Great Duff 97 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:07.000 Brown was very well known, and indeed was a man 98 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:10.360 of so much importance that even the office clerk was 99 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:13.839 respectful to him. He might have respected in him also 100 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:18.000 a certain vulgar swagger and insolence of money, which the 101 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:22.160 clerk greatly admired. The young fellows liked the house and 102 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:25.319 liked the city. It seemed to them a mighty free 103 00:06:25.399 --> 00:06:28.839 and hospitable town. Coming from the east, they were struck 104 00:06:28.879 --> 00:06:33.199 with many peculiarities. Everybody smoked in the streets, for one thing. 105 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:36.920 They noticed everybody took a drink in an open manner 106 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:39.600 whenever he wished to do so, or was asked, as 107 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:43.800 if the habit needed no concealment or apology. In the evening, 108 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:46.439 when they walked about, they found people sitting on the 109 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:49.720 doorsteps of their dwellings in a manner not usual in 110 00:06:49.800 --> 00:06:52.680 a northern city. In front of some of the hotels 111 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:56.480 and saloons, the sidewalks were filled with chairs and benches. 112 00:06:56.839 --> 00:07:00.920 Paris fashion said Harry upon which people lounged in these 113 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:05.920 warm spring evenings smoking. All was smoking, and the clink 114 00:07:05.959 --> 00:07:08.879 of glasses and of billiard balls was in the air. 115 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:13.800 It was delightful. Harry at once found on landing that 116 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:17.360 his backwoods custom would not be needed in Saint Louis, 117 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:20.439 and that in fact he had need of all the 118 00:07:20.519 --> 00:07:24.040 resources of his wardrobe to keep even with the young 119 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:27.240 swells of the town. But this did not much matter, 120 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:31.040 for Harry was always superior to his clothes, as they 121 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:33.560 were likely to be detained some time in the city. 122 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:37.079 Harry told Philip that he was going to improve his time, 123 00:07:37.439 --> 00:07:41.199 and he did. It was an encouragement any industrious man 124 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:45.439 to see this young fellow rise carefully, dress himself, eat 125 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:50.319 his breakfast, deliberately, smoke his cigar tranquility, and then repair 126 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:53.439 to his room to what he called his work. With 127 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:58.639 a grave and occupied manner, but with perfect cheerfulness. Harry 128 00:07:58.680 --> 00:08:02.000 would take off his coat, remove his cravat, roll up 129 00:08:02.040 --> 00:08:05.279 his shirt sleeves, give his curly hair the right touch 130 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:08.879 before the glass, get out his book on engineering, his 131 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:14.079 boxes of instruments, his drawing paper, his profile paper, open 132 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:18.639 the book of logarithms, mix his india ink, sharpen his pencils, 133 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:22.079 light a cigar, and sit down at the table to 134 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:25.879 lay out a line, with the most grave notion that 135 00:08:25.959 --> 00:08:29.399 he was mastering the details of engineering. He would spend 136 00:08:29.519 --> 00:08:33.080 half a day in these preparations without ever working out 137 00:08:33.080 --> 00:08:36.799 a problem or having the faintest conception of the use 138 00:08:36.840 --> 00:08:41.000 of lines or logarithms, and when he had finished, he 139 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:43.519 had the most cheerful confidence that he had done a 140 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:47.600 good day's work. It made no difference, however, whether Harry 141 00:08:47.679 --> 00:08:49.799 was in his room in a hotel or in a tent. 142 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:53.679 Philip soon found he was just the same. In camp. 143 00:08:53.759 --> 00:08:56.639 He would get himself up in the most elaborate toilet 144 00:08:56.720 --> 00:08:59.679 at his command, polish his long boots to the top, 145 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:02.960 lay out his work before him, and spend an hour 146 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:06.519 or longer. If anybody was looking at him, humming airs, 147 00:09:06.759 --> 00:09:12.240 knitting his brows and working at engineering, and if a 148 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:15.159 crowd of gaping rustics were looking on all the while, 149 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:19.080 it was perfectly satisfactory to him. You see, he says 150 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:21.559 to Philip one morning at the hotel, when he was 151 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:24.080 thus engaged, I want to get the theory of this 152 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:26.759 thing so that I can have a check on the engineers. 153 00:09:27.080 --> 00:09:29.320 I thought you were going to be an engineer yourself, 154 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:33.799 queried Philip. Not many times. If the court knows herself, 155 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:37.679 there's better game. Brown and Shike have or will have 156 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:40.240 the control for the whole line of the Salt Lick 157 00:09:40.480 --> 00:09:44.559 Pacific Extension forty thousand dollars a mile over the prairie, 158 00:09:44.600 --> 00:09:47.519 with extra for hard pen, and it'll be pretty much 159 00:09:47.559 --> 00:09:50.600 all hard pan. I can tell you, besides every alternate 160 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:54.759 section of land on this line, there's millions in the job. 161 00:09:55.399 --> 00:09:58.159 I'm to have the subcontract for the first fifty miles, 162 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:01.279 and you can bet it's a soft thing. I'll tell 163 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:04.080 you what to do, Philip continued Larry in a burst 164 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:07.159 of generosity. If I don't get you into my contract, 165 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:10.240 you'll be with the engineers, and you just stick a 166 00:10:10.279 --> 00:10:13.000 stake at the first ground marked for a depot, buy 167 00:10:13.039 --> 00:10:15.240 the land of the farmer before he knows where the 168 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:18.000 depot will be, and we'll turn a hundred or so 169 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:21.000 on that. I'll advance the money for the payments and 170 00:10:21.080 --> 00:10:23.720 you can sell the lots. Shake is going to let 171 00:10:23.759 --> 00:10:27.080 me have ten thousand just for a flyer in such operations. 172 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:30.440 But that's a good deal. Of money. Wait till you 173 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:33.360 are used to handling money. I didn't come out here 174 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:36.559 for a bagatell My uncle wanted me to stay east 175 00:10:36.600 --> 00:10:39.320 and go in on the mobile custom house work up 176 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:41.879 the Washington end of it. He said, there was a 177 00:10:41.879 --> 00:10:44.320 fortune in it for a smart young fellow. But I 178 00:10:44.440 --> 00:10:47.240 prefer to take the chances out here. Did I tell 179 00:10:47.279 --> 00:10:49.679 you I had an offer from Bobbitt and Fanshaw to 180 00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:52.600 go into their office as confidential clerk on a salary 181 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:56.080 of ten thousand. Why didn't you take it? Asked Philip, 182 00:10:56.360 --> 00:10:58.720 to whom a salary of two thousand would have seemed 183 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:04.000 wealth before he's started on this journey. Take it. I'd 184 00:11:04.080 --> 00:11:07.480 rather operate on my own hook, said Harry in his 185 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:11.519 most airy manner. A few evenings after their arrival at 186 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:14.679 the Southern, Philip and Harry made the acquaintance of a 187 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:18.679 very agreeable gentleman whom they had frequently seen before, about 188 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:23.200 the hotel corridors, and passed a casual word with He 189 00:11:23.279 --> 00:11:25.240 had the air of a man of business, and was 190 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:29.480 evidently a person of importance. The precipitating of this casual 191 00:11:29.559 --> 00:11:33.919 intercourse into the more substantial form of an acquaintanceship was 192 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:37.120 the work of the gentleman himself, and occurred in this wise. 193 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:40.360 Meeting the two friends in the lobby one evening, he 194 00:11:40.440 --> 00:11:44.279 asked them to give him the time and added, excuse me, gentlemen, 195 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:49.360 strangers in Saint Louis. Ah. Yes, yes, from the east perhaps, ah, 196 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:54.000 just so, just so Eastern born myself, Virginia Sellers. Is 197 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:58.559 my name, Beriah Sellars. Ah. By the way, New York? 198 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:01.840 Did you say that? For my just met some gentlemen 199 00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:04.799 from your state a week or two ago. Very prominent 200 00:12:04.840 --> 00:12:08.200 gentlemen in public life. They are. You must know them 201 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:11.799 without doubt. Let me see, let me see. Curious those 202 00:12:11.879 --> 00:12:14.879 names have escaped me. I know they were from your 203 00:12:14.960 --> 00:12:18.600 state because I remember afterward my old friend, Governor Shackleby 204 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:21.600 said to me, fine man, is the governor one of 205 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:24.840 the finest men our country has produced, said he, Colonel, 206 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:28.039 how did you like those New York gentlemen? Not many 207 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:31.600 such men in the world, Colonel Sellers, said the governor. Yes, 208 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:34.360 it was New York, he said, I remember it distinctly. 209 00:12:34.840 --> 00:12:39.399 I can't recall those names somehow, but no matter. Stopping here, 210 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:43.440 gentlemen stopping at the southern in shaping their reply in 211 00:12:43.480 --> 00:12:46.279 their minds. The title mister had a place in it, 212 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:49.320 But when their turn had arrived to speak, the title 213 00:12:49.639 --> 00:12:53.440 colonel came from their lips instead. They said, yes, they 214 00:12:53.440 --> 00:12:55.840 were abiding at the Southern and thought it a very 215 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:59.639 good house. Yes, yes, the Southern is fair. I myself 216 00:12:59.679 --> 00:13:04.240 go to the Planters, old aristocratic house. We Southern gentlemen 217 00:13:04.279 --> 00:13:07.039 don't change our ways. You know. I always make it 218 00:13:07.159 --> 00:13:10.039 my home there when I run adown from Hawkeye. My 219 00:13:10.200 --> 00:13:13.279 plantation is in Hawkeye, a little up in the country. 220 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:16.919 You should know the planters. Philip and Harry both said 221 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:18.879 they should like to see a hotel that had been 222 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:22.519 so famous in its day, a cheerful Hostelry Philip said 223 00:13:22.519 --> 00:13:25.519 it must have been where duels were fought there across 224 00:13:25.559 --> 00:13:28.679 the dining room table. You may believe it, sir, an 225 00:13:28.759 --> 00:13:32.879 uncommonly pleasant lodging. Shall we walk? And the three strolled 226 00:13:32.919 --> 00:13:35.639 along the streets, the colonel talking all the way in 227 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:38.720 the most liberal and friendly manner, and with a frank, 228 00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:45.000 open heartedness that inspired confidence. Yes, born East myself raised 229 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:48.759 all along know the West a great country, gentleman, the 230 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:51.559 place for a young fellow spirit to pick up a fortune, 231 00:13:51.879 --> 00:13:55.519 simply pick it up it's lying round loose here. Not 232 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:58.440 a day that I don't put aside an opportunity. Too 233 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:01.399 busy to look into it. Management of my own property 234 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:06.240 takes my time first visit looking for an opening. Yes, 235 00:14:06.840 --> 00:14:10.759 looking around, replied Harry, Ah, here we are. You'd rather 236 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:13.840 sit here in front than go to my apartments. So 237 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:18.440 had I an opening? Eh? The colonel's eyes twinkled. Ah, 238 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:21.879 Just so, the country is opening up. All we want 239 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:24.919 is capital to develop it, slap down the rails and 240 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:27.879 bring the land into market. The richest land on God 241 00:14:27.919 --> 00:14:31.720 Almighty's footstool is lying right out there. If I had 242 00:14:31.759 --> 00:14:35.519 my capital free, I could plant it for millions. I 243 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:41.240 suppose your capital is largely in your plantation, asked Philip. Well, partly, sir, partly. 244 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:44.480 I'm down here now with reference to a little operation, 245 00:14:44.679 --> 00:14:47.879 a little side thing, merely by the way, gentlemen, excuse 246 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:51.440 the liberty, but it's about my usual time. The colonel paused, 247 00:14:51.720 --> 00:14:55.519 But as no movement of his acquaintances followed this plain remark, 248 00:14:55.679 --> 00:14:59.519 he added, in an explanatory manner, I'm rather particular about 249 00:14:59.519 --> 00:15:02.840 the exact time have to be in this climate. Even 250 00:15:02.879 --> 00:15:07.559 this open declaration of his hospitable intention. Not being understood, 251 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:12.679 the colonel politely said, gentlemen, will you take something? Colonel 252 00:15:12.679 --> 00:15:15.039 Sellers led the way to a saloon on Fourth Street 253 00:15:15.159 --> 00:15:17.919 under the hotel, and the young gentleman fell into the 254 00:15:17.960 --> 00:15:20.960 custom of the country. Not that, said the colonel to 255 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:23.799 the bar keeper, who shoved along the counter a bottle 256 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:26.799 of apparently corn whiskey, as if he had done it before. 257 00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:29.519 On the same order. Not that, With a wave of 258 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:33.200 the hand that uttered, if you please, yes, never take 259 00:15:33.240 --> 00:15:36.960 an inferior liquor, gentlemen, not in the evening, in this climate. 260 00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:42.600 There that's the stuff my respects. The hospitable man, having 261 00:15:42.639 --> 00:15:45.919 disposed of his liquor, remarking that it was not quite 262 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:48.759 the thing. When a man has his own cellar to 263 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:51.279 go to, he is apt to get a little fastidious 264 00:15:51.320 --> 00:15:55.480 about his liquors, called for cigars, but the brand offered 265 00:15:55.480 --> 00:15:58.360 did not suit him. He motioned the box away and 266 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:02.919 asked for some particular hawass those in separate wrappers. I 267 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:06.559 always smoke this sort, gentleman. They are a little more expensive, 268 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:09.360 but you'll learn in this climate that you'd better not 269 00:16:09.480 --> 00:16:15.159 economize on poor cigars. Having imparted this valuable piece of information, 270 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:19.519 the colonel lighted the fragrant cigar with satisfaction, and then 271 00:16:19.559 --> 00:16:23.399 carelessly put his fingers into his right vest pocket, that 272 00:16:23.480 --> 00:16:26.639 movement being without result. With a shade of disappointment on 273 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:30.080 his face, he felt in his left vest pocket. Not 274 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:33.120 finding anything there, he looked up with a serious and 275 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:37.480 annoyed air, anxiously slapped his right pantaloon's pocket and then 276 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:41.759 his left, and exclaimed, by George, that's annoying. By George, 277 00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:45.240 that's mortifying. Never had anything of that kind happen to 278 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:49.600 me before, I've left my pocket book. Hold, here's a 279 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:53.399 bill after all, No thunder, it's a receipt, allow me, 280 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:56.879 said Philip, seeing how seriously the Colonel was annoyed, and 281 00:16:56.919 --> 00:17:00.360 taking out his purse. The colonel protested he could think 282 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:02.720 of it, and muttered something to the bar keeper about 283 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:06.359 hanging it up, But the vendor of exhilaration made no sign, 284 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:10.359 and Philip had the privilege of paying the costly shot. 285 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:14.519 Colonel Sellers profusely, apologizing and claiming the right next time, 286 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:18.000 next time. As soon as Pariah Sellars had bade his 287 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:21.680 friends good night and seen them depart, he did not 288 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:25.039 retire apartments in the planters but took his way to 289 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:28.279 his lodgings with a friend in a distant part of 290 00:17:28.319 --> 00:17:31.079 the city. End of Chapter thirteen.