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And yet, as is often the case in carefully designed affairs, the one

element that made most powerfully for the success of Farbish's sche between the two men,

the adroitly incited passions of each, would still have brought no

clash, had not Wilfred Horton been affected by the flushing effect of

alcohol Since his college days, he had been invariably absteht marked an exception

He was rather surprised at the cordiality of the welcome accorded him,

for, as chance would have it, except for Samson South, whom he had not

yet seen, all the other sportsmen were men closely allied to the

political and financial ele war

Still, since they seeet for the time that there had

been a breach, he was equally so Just now, he was feeling such

bitterness for the Kentuckian that the foes of a less-personal sort

seemed unimportant

In point of fact, Wilfred Horton had spent a very bad day The final

straw had broken the back of his usually unruffled te the Kenmore a copy of a certain New York

weekly paper, and had read a page, which chanced to be lying face up (a

chance carefully prearranged) It was an item of which Farbish had