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Show ; ate azine section f4 irate; was "Well, I'd come pretty near selling my then The precise, definite minded Car- ment? asked someone. That eventGoreI cannot tell the story cf j hs seemed to favor his back ..when he maks ms notice thereafter the wave of ninth green for, like ell th rest of ua, coming off a fortnight hence at Jock was perfectly right soul to ths devil to get that kind of rington was not that kind of man. Moore without tailing also the story of walked. For the rest, he dreesed rather Mr. Moore L ham. It always brings out a largs entry id been filled with Inordinate ambiThere ain't no auch acore," eald The next dsy I lost s bsll on our third our golf dub, . for one la complemen- Is youthfully m rough Englishwastweeds, hole I when he said. or tion by the rise of Mr. Moor and felt of two mind, are today "Why for machine. s there a man The high Moors and quality, to go through. golf voted regular In politics, and signaled given tary to the other. The Seagull links In my heart that if th old dodo could " concourses to our Hires north famous I hero. and to mvself to turned I I said ancient dr.ve to started the was around between Moore of silence to become Edgerley long has playing old. spells socially yet it only five years "I've already entered him. said John do It I could. I had already reduced my to start a chair scraped on gratulated him. expecting He had st least the deliberation promptly Billy Mean long monologue on books he bad Just alone after a fashion famous, as has also and in tha atate tourna. card to ninety. I looked up across the imread, wherein he nr.ads s dull aubject which marks the perfect golfer. It eeemed the floor. The 'doctor remembered that flood of conversation slther ths detailad B Gillespie, Edgerley Moore, and their sporting to me that he fiddled for fifteen minutes hs was late to dinner; I followed with- account of the match or s dissertation ment, too Maybe the national can wait fairway end saw that Mrs Bavin wa , mortalities go together. Times and fash- duller. wHalf like Mr this on excuse the gallery laughed at approaching in w.th her quick, striding soms anv year out Mra. Bavin building and rebuldtng tees and taking whatever, leaving when thrilling bitof knowledge Edgerley Moere, ions change, but the royal and ancient on him concerning the golf club, practice swings before he gave a long ad- Moore still standing st the bar droning. ths history of the Byzantine emperors that, and half, lika me, d dn't. game has reached a point. I suppose, called I flaccid When warm me but corner in a b Ha merely gave ths emerged from the clubhouse, announced flatly that hed never seen dress to the bail and sent it low, and Mr. Gillespie still sitting id, "dont really where it change not. wonder think this thing haa gone far you tried straight into the bunker As he plodded twirling his glass and seeming to make hand and continued to smile foolishly. after talking over this nine-da- y I met A hundred years from now people will anything In the game and had never Mra Her wave of th hand seemed toenough? different from B of listen John up Then not look GIHetlple me ng. did forty angles. to he his a spoke imbut He started same dissertation polite it. indicate prove up. pretense with past the doubtless be playing it Octomust have hla rub Bavin standing by the corner of the park- th Seagull links but I knew what ah "The champion It was evening of a same pro- that a similar game had been played in back register ed utter discouragement plements, the same rules, ths currents meant. Mr. Bavin Is so splendidly oan-d- ld He descended into the bunker, spent ber day when, for the last ttms that sea- down." said he. and both started for the ing place. of ancient Egypt, which Mra Bavin had to alternating fanity, the came Look" she said, and gave a wide, imus that eh often pulls the truth gaping after them. And a hundred interrupt to remind him that other people tAo minutes decldpg on a niblick, and son, I observed Edgerley Moors golfing clubhouse, leav.ng triumph and self-pitarms one and of of her I recover out of you. What had been a over Onlv the I did long gesture to then As sliced ball. my whacked Ha case weary and at straight ths egotism patient flnallv that plodded in Case Harbor wanted to play, begin some resident of years from now house mere toward the door of the pro's quartera distaste in me became suddenly a that I had Just qualified. Moved It terribly. It was bounding across ths search for a lost bsll on ths third hole. community. guest over to the he owed it to the Mr. Harbor, tooling a writnewssurrounded definite obwere was The Thera Two golf by . entirely I glanced up That Sunday Joined and strip of fairway, whan It struck soms aversion, and I answered: Saturday. players Putting Inks in his molecular power monoplane by that argument, look Moore I euppoee it has. I suppose w must Case Harbor at about I ers and news photographers, stood John In on ths links stacle, gave another bound almost st on the tee, silhouetted against the pink papers reach her even promised to runabout, win remark as he drops with have a cleanup after he B Gilleepl and o clock: If you want them for breakfaet effect of on An and dribbled and ashen to genially talking and the has some light behind sky. edge angles right day. played to place that landing vertically the state championship," I said, tempo-lamatter with John of the putting green. He ran up the atmosphere msde them eeera for the mo- you drive over to the drug store and theatrical gestures. the clubhouse where we now park our B- It was, s different see can "You the I As entered tomorrow, of a born them that clouds. visions like ths ment oommun-ttrising. papers more a after like a In made, yourself. get boy. great choosy slope Gillespie. gasoline power automobiles: Ths sa'd Mr. Bavin. "Jimmie Langford, announced Madge can't you doubt whether he would have been deal more fiddling, a fair approach putt, Ours is the old witch land, and I thought Sunday morning I met Mra Bavin comnatural hazards. "Sporty little linke allMoore of and links the her of between moment smart In m sudden Bavin, definitely, were going to have a Then of became beauty Her out. four. he this them. face, holed had Seagull all. blown into and quaint develHe asked at to Join ing Heres where Edgerleyof him. was as children of the sir stirring sailor hat and her trim summer cape, ths Harbor st the head of every Item cleanup today;! The golfer that town about a year before, built a aware for the ft rat time It seemed of oped. You've heard I opened the newspaper next meaning I looked her square in the eye: They emitted a senile some devil broth on that summit of a was serious, but here eves were snapping house, bright and varnished, over on my presence, and But I withhold the end of that new hills who oalted Bavin to had a realize ths that I could ahe I shoved showed that eh meant It. Now, hill And Mr. of before Then fair Cowan and speak the sight caught lonely the place, her ton beyond crowing. quotation lest I betray my story. coast of the ths ection of the Sunday Bulletin into my turn, Somehow, It became eertous almost awed. Ths witch semblance vanished. beauty "One above par! he cackled, waving them. known started immediately to get himself solid . Hitherto only four people have ahe Jimmie, caIto have said,'1 Ive the whole truth about Mr. Moore's someone to stand by me thisgotafternoon. t thought reer, however much the publlo Atid Bob can t com on he held la It knew Dr. Carrington. Mrs. Bavin, Cleveland by a really important matter John B. Gillespie, and L And last week It 'ould be down the firm if throwing the in sporting item an inooBspicuous he did. And Jtmmle, Im coming to you B. page announced the death of Johnhers that aounda like a deaf, but asking but Gtueeple ths trainer who It's realty a compliment. great I know I can la I must atop again. Edgerley Moore U on If depend you you help. and Dr. already dead. And Mrs.'noBavin "Of course 1 11 help! I said rather tm- - . reason they Carrington say there's pulalvely. Mr. Bavm gave me no chance know of why I should not make public to take that back. ths inside of this remarkable episode In I knew you would, she said. "Begin amateur sport. by believtng me I've got something Ths Seagull link really owes its existto tell you. Dont make objecstrange too were ence to the fact that w getting tions until Iv finished. Well, Ive had old for ten"4r We all reached that stage B. John Gillespie looked up hed already within a year or so of each other. None been looked up by the information de- -' of us admitted it publicly, but the Seagull partment of Bob a firm. He applied for links was our private admission. Mrs a loan he when addistarted Gillespie Bavin first had the idea; she generates tion. And they turned him down. t most of the bright thought in our town. hit loan later from the Spech outof on the benevolently is Bavin Madge fit know you them bankabout has regular restless of her sex. Her husband, ing bucket shop interest pawnbroker soms job in the management of a string and long chances. But Bobs people re- - , Most of the summer he is of banka fused him because he a wasnt mainly Harbor only traveling; be gets to Cass good moral risk. now and then. Bringing for a week-en- d was "What matter th with him? a I up her three children doesnt employ i tsked. third of her splendid energies; sh( works Well, his Gillespie isnt name, to begin off ths rest in public service. with. That a almost enough. Before Mrs Bavin found that the old Cowan that he wa known as Professor Hanembraced sale. tor was It ninety place sen and that probably wasn't hla real acres of hardscrabble hill land, a large name, either. Its simply irritating the and decaying farmhouse, some disinteway those bank reports leave out th fenoes and a patch of pear grating stone most interesting and important thing. and apples orchard so long neglected that All they had to say about his past was the trees had flattened out like Japanese that he'd left vaudeville because of the . shrub and bore mainly thorns. I first curious death of aa assistant on th she when heard of Mrs. Bavin's idea stage. me mysteriously on a drive, comvaudeville! said I. manded ms to dismount beside the Cowan Walt. she said. Bob saw th firm's the me view landscape. house, and bade detectives for me. and they did some very pretty, said I, rolling my Its more wee work. He Mrs Bavin s beach eye over the Japanesque effects of voice grew now almost choked "he was plum bushea sumac, and gnarled apple a stag hypnotist! Half (aka and half trees. Its very pretty, I 'repeated. real!" , Is there such a thing?' X asked, But dont you sea said Mra Bavin lightly. in her quick, nervous way, what It was "Thera Is, indeed! replied Mra Bavin, msde for?" She dtdn t wait for my reply; still serous 'I've looked that up, too. wrong. the seemed too afraid lest I guessnine-holHe used to show in the west. One e A perfect A golf links! down in Texas hs picked some hicknight out course. look a short hole over there of the audience and put him through all on the knoll wonderfully sporty there s kind of The stunts it fancy gymnastic our fairway the pasture there isn't poor fellow never cam out of the trance perfect? And the brook for a water he had a weak heart and the performhazard." ance finished him. Thats th beat conof I. said "But to "Looks good me," struction of the story. But there are course If a real golf course architect of a worse construction at any hints looked It over rate, Professor Hansen was tried for He has, said Mrs. Bavin, "and he's 44 He crawled out of it manslaughter. a young follow But dont you too,44 oaid Mrs. Bavin, " what it wag mada fort just wild shout It. He's somehow but he quit the stage. It apjust from Scotland. He saye golf was pears that etage hypnotism has gone out placed originally on this kind of ground of fashion, anyway. Than ha showed up hill country beside the sea. He says this in Minneaota under this name boom real Is just like St. Andrews St. Andrews' estate business, always with a crooked Mrs. Bavin repeated Impressively. "He slant. And now he's among us Do you single artificial says he'll need scarcely amore begin to see, Jimmie? hazard It will be much interesting A little breath of the truth blew across that way and we can swing the whole my mind; for & second I felt a drawing from and th view on a and links the his and Seagull photograph thing the purchase livable forestimateHere with the townspeople and with us He his putter, "and from the bunker at and I realized that Mr Moore was play- face Mr eyes centered of Edgerley Moore, two columns front story of how the course had been made sensation in ths roots of my hair. Mrs. was a bachelor at least, I nevsr heard that'' H.s ruddy face above hi white ing around with John B O.llesple making the house Bavin was studying my expression; It Mrs Bavin came down with a figure of any Mra. Gillespie and there arose mustache was glowing like the sun on By the time we opened the summer page, sporting section, before I took In from a rough farm in e year, figured in seemed to satisfy her. for she went on: every account. So, in two of them, did which made me gasp and whistle. me season had then greens next become the headthe pair scandalous whispers about some obnts winter .snows. It occurred to the amaiing friendship Jimmie, it isnt ladylik to listen to between Mr. said Mrs. Bavin, "we dont house part.esl "'Weil, that a belated ambition is a terrible a fixture on our links. I remembered servants! manMoore well-fewe? and his coach d and ELDERLY GOLFER gossip, but it isn't ladylike t caddv, have to pay for it all at once, do afterward that I never say Moore playSix months later his purpose was re- thing Through all his calm, SHOOTS rN PAR. ager, John B. Gillespie. get Into a fight, either. And when . Bond and loans and assessment and vealed. He had 'bought three old and life he had entirely escaped the excit- ing with anyone except Gillespie, who I must hurry through the next etage woman's in a fight up to her ears she's things well scarcely notice them. nearly useless farm on the hilts sur- ing but perturbing desire to excel. It was apparently tak ng the game as serino lady. Mose, the colored boy who I wasnt really enthusiaetio then. But rounding his new house and was mar- had struck him at last, and all the ously aa his senile partner Edgerley Moore. Aged 60, Who Took Up of this extraordinary career. Mr. Moore en up to Goreham and won quite hana harder because so long delayed. ukes cart of Mr. Moore he's In lov Game a Year Ago, Performs Amaz.ng , John B Gillespie attracted attention I'd found by experience that it was no keting Tots In Gillespie's addition th tradiwith creamy Cordelia. Of course, he teila her By dily One afternoon early in October he toduse opposing Madge Mavtn in her county championship. Feat on Seagull Links high-clathat spring in another way. Suddenly his residence district. as his adI've pumped Cordell. Do tion, that is a handcap affair. This Gore-ha- everything. tive and executive mood. Too often I'd vertising expressed It. We even heard dled into tha clubhouae bowed with deep add tlon to Case Harbor began to boom. committee, like ours, couldn't really you know thst since those two men went "Do vou see excalmed Mrs Bavin.tried that and seen the measure which rumors that he Intended to put up a melancho.y a score of 70 or so for the A great signboard advertising the addiMr. Moore to live be.leve and and has a him I It, fourat more ever lain on than read together handicapped I had discouragd in the beginning turn modern country hotel. This proceeding n ne holes written on his countenance. tion went up across from the station,- "Did you eone mncBing there,. was, a half page ad- Inch Item about any of our tournaments 4. At these figures he raced through the the sofajor hours eemlng.tdha asleep. -T -i n in g room had clced,-thoughdid not tend- - i Mauand that Mr. Gillespie haa sat by bis The city papers ueuatty JU6I tournament, oefeatlhg on the wgy are willing to plunge, I am, I said at had always feared the day when Case steward remained to sell tobacco and vertisement In all the city papers. In befdre to him? the end of the chapter. Mrs. Bavin, I Harbor would become eemifashionable soft drinks; and most of our summer th a. as in the sign which now blotched telephone to the steward for the score rice InNaylor, who ha twirfb beet! runner-u- p side talking the national amateur chemp.on-shiI managed to falter. 'But how learned afterward, got a dozen others and youd no longer feel like going over crowd had scattered. Only a few per- the clean greenerv of the forest patch But now and I passed John B Gilles1 I thought of Yes," said Mrs. Bavin. out to the Cowan place in the course of to the postoffice In your s.weater. Gil- manent residents and two or three loaf- across the railroad track, "sporty, pic- pie's when we driving down from the He In is a I'v came that. been going to Dr? All this end to about last Hi Its ten golf, picturesque figure why me were and set ers bet still links next like it and convenient golf the days. city night. turesque. just plavmg. lespie, I suppose, knew that, His defeat lp the semifinals by King in the city you know the great We had assembled in the gr.ll room, biased out In large letters. I didnt k here Mrs Bavin resumed her tumbling Naylor. the earn terms with her efficiency as I him to work all the harder at ths job of 60- - ear-ol- d unknown brought Mr. authority on hypnotism. H said at first had done they would If the rest would. gathering popularity. getting from soft drinks what convivi- 't at all; it seemed to me the name the of the newspapers. "Here it is the real this We held a meeting and it was all done just possible now he admits He was a tall man in his late forties, ality one may In these days when the most definite objection scarcely clubbv. estate section he hasn t been advert.a-In- g Moore to the attention Iof the New York thst it was understood, the it must be so. Listen. Jimmie Fra full newspapers. It was has killed the talked ft over freely round the clubbut the assessments. Another week, and with something theatrically lately and yes Look at that. eighteenth amendment of of dull season and when autumn adverthe was the work. B a an Across half at Bll v was not silly subject. Hypnotism Is only getyear His black hair rineteenth hole house when Gillespie By In his general makeup. page splashed the architect present, Means, John we were playing on a rough fairway, with was turning gray at-- the temples His G Uespie, Dr. Carrington, and I The and found opinion divided and mixed. tisement for Gillespies additon to Case lournallsm it looking for a sensation. ting hold of the subconscious mind, makall Newspapers, magazines, syndicates ing it tak control. Ita miraculous th Harbor, with special mention of th pretground rules about lifting from holes firm and slightly Jowly cheeks seemed approach of Mr Moore, the certainty that The proceed ng was rather loud and It frightens you But and although tiest, sportiest golf links on the Atlantic turned toward Case Harbor. Every tram subconscious mind. and hoof marks; by the middle of the always, even when he was newly shaved, If we gave him half an opering we should agreed seemed to bring spruce young men with to think you ar next season that fairway had begun to to be peppered with the powder marks have to listen to the detailed storv oh no one went further, I could supplement coast carrying auch a eves over canes our i carried on And around who third When exclaimed Mrs. Bavin roving look really Ilka a lawn. "Were done your Inside. slung thing Most of us owned of his stiff, black beard. Yet, after all. his solitary round, set us all to chat- that "but We might as well move their forearms, and less spruce xoung a real aubject is hypnotised th third While none had anv idea of morosely hole, since famous, was attracting at- the first thing you noticed about hla tering. Dr. Carrington, apparently grab- houses. O. why did I ever start that men with big black camera. Dally Mr. degree or whatever you call it he does tention. countenance was a pair of searching, di- bing at the first idea which came into selling. It was etill pleasant to realize awav Moore wSa Interviewed, photographed, things h couldn't dream of doing when Then Mra Bavin seemed to feel that rect, brown eyes, with lighter his heed, remarked as he had often re- that your bit of lznd had doubled in Club filmed. he was awake It Isn't exactly that Mr. her chicken was grown up and needed edges light "Well, it's apparently hatched a cham marked before' value. Which was probably what would round the rims of the iris One us to struggle no more brooding; she left thing about this Interviewing Gillespie ts playing Mr. Moores game of Golf s at least mental, happen If Gillespies additioa became a plon, anvway, I sa d. If you looked h!s clothes over In detail, success on for ourselvoa, while she plunged Into you realized they were as quiet as any- and less than a quarter physical "l'ea. I suppose so. replied Mrs Bavin. process struck me as curious. Evidently golf for him. It that Mr. Moor is a a Community circus. But not before she ones, yet he always gsv somehow the Don t believe It. That s theory," said But Madge Bavin, whom I found Just I had a sense that she was leaving vol- he refused to talk about golf. True, he remarkable aubject you ought to know had conducted a membership drive of effect of loud dressing. The women B.l.y Mean grouchlly "I've heard that mounting the seat of her roadster, ren- umes unsaid. Then, a though only th was quotedon extarsively by one yellowa that, he s such an old dope and hit subthe method bjs which conscious mind with nothing in the way her own. She, and Case Harbor in gen- called him, In their confidential mo- stuff and tried It out It doesn't work dered a short and emphatic minority backfln of her thought was coming to syndicate " middle-age- d man could improve his game, Is playing th game the surface, she added' eral, went at this matter of membership ments, a little vulgar why, they could I say, to myself, 'Now I will hit that report. ' and I but bore of and this the earmarks horMr. "Did know in characteristic faehion. Local tradi- never explain It was an effect as subtle ball It that It and roll My heavens! J put in suddenly. about fake; you It a horr.d. she said, "perfectly My Gillespie has top heavens! For a picture suddenly sprang tions are curiously persistent. Kow our and Indefinable as that apparent loudness three feet or slice it Into the next lot." rid! We couldn t be really fashionable closed his bouse for the summer and Dr. Carrington recognized it aa a rewrittown away back in the seventeenth cen- of hie clothe With the men he was ing of some articles by a famous Scotch out of my memory that autumn even ng Jock would tell you thst It's because here even if we wanted to. But to be gone to live with Mr Moore? log amusing enough, but the best things he you were gritting vour teeth and presa-ing,- " semifashionable Well, I must say thst this Damon and professional which hed been printed ten in the clubhouse when Dr. Carrington a lot of profiteers and tury. when it was just a row of was dissertation on the cabins in a howling wilderness, it I prefer to their stall-fe- d wives and their silly, exsaid Dr. Carrington Pythias act Is the beat thing I know veara before. But apparently he chat- had delivered hi said gave always the impression of set It still .tolerance. it Is; pieces, as though he had them card put It In another Nwav. It's aa .though pensive, famous for remark of Mra. about Gillespie. I replied. "Anvone who tered genially, diffusely and quite in his mental factor m golf th flapper daughters neither the permanent inhabitants nor catalogued In hla mind to spring on the you were trying to drive with your putBavin had been adjusting levers and keys haa the patience to endure that ghastly old manner of things in general. When Edgerley Moore. own their proper occasion. the second wave of interviewers came old bore I'd come pretty near selling my soul You've taken the wrong club out preparatory to starting. Her blue eyes yet ths summer people who ter, said Mrs Bavin, drawing out over the top, Mr. Moore had been read- to the devil to get that kind of mind ' 'Yes. villas, havs been Coming here all their have been expected, Mr. Gil- of your intellectual bag that's all. It determined without hardness, firm withA 'ovee, and consider themselves as citi- lespie might the proposal .for a coun- isnt the mere conscious mind the kind out coldness looked directly Into my the word in a manner which registered ing a book on th cav dwelling of tha and ye, we had left Moore and Gllles-l- e at leaped themselves 1 ever troubled a try dub. Everyone understood his mo- ws're overworking just now In this little eyes This newly acquired knowlzens have Dordogn again a world of thought in reserve. together In th clubhouse. All this distinctions. told In broken phrases to Mrs Bavin. s the old for Gi- argument. subconscious do you like him? she asked. When, at the end of that week, we edge he droned out while the reporters a was "How It great deal abouta social it point tive selling great dozen miles or so up to him make talk Moore At Goreham, off When I had finished we two middle-age- d every '" matches. I at the and employed dodge took the O. He master plaved addition. mind the Edgerley up replied golf mystery. On th way back to the station, the coast, its done differently. The olde llespies Is that the mind one uses. In golf" people eat there on th warm, green Jimmy Langford, you know you dont proved that tie was no accident He ran golf. once; was playing a moderately good dufsome haa had an eighteen-hole them conceived crowd "our set someall were like among water me much B. the genius crawl He like John asked through him' through opposition fa.rway with the August sunlight streamGillespie suddenly. gives fers game before the links links for ths last thirty years. Most better began the doctor. And how, and he always has." said Mrs. a filter. I was struck by my one and brilliant Idea to dress up hit Interview, ing about ua. and shivered like children than rough hill and meadow. Certainly he which of the to of ths members were born before golf real wav a who have been telling ghoat atorie in at imparted golf, end stayed to spasm at this moment he Interrupted by Bavin. She dropped her foot onto the only I was privileged to be present was known in America, but they were much and as the roadster slid the semifinals, when I blew up. So I rest. And next Sunday's papers had a the winter darkness. more important event on our links, the entrance of Jock Ransome. the pro, Golf Disclub new born to the Goreham Whats the end of this game? X just the one of those little, unconsidered mo- who had come In to get some tobaoco tag for Edgerley Moore "The away Into the distance I reflected that didn't see him at work until th flna's. same. Some of the more antique fossils ments which one recognizes as the bewas the finish of John where I helped police the course for we tinguished Anthropologist Who Became a asked finally. isn't said Dr Carrington, golf here, eventually Jock, , of Goreham never attended the county ginning of history, I saw Edgerley more mental than phys'eal? "The end, ' Mrs Bavin said, "will come B. Gillespie. Mrs Bavin had a wav of had drawn a crowd. Not only had our Champion Golfer.' Next Saturday. Tommie Crowder, twice when he's sold off Gillespie's addition tournament when it is played on their Moore make his first attempt. It was Also I wondered Inks for the first time been invaded by said Jock That's what getting dore. came over and cleaned up with hla gamblers That's course, because that might involve meet Billy Means, one of our golf fiends, who Ive been telling you all summer, but Just howthings much of her motive was peal-ou- the press, but enthusiasts motored from national amateur champion, match. John where he went too far dragging in th awav to sea If it for a special eighteen-hol- e links Ing persons whom ons doesnt know lured him awsy from hi garden, tempted you wouldnt listen" Jock was leaving for her own leadership among us. crooks always do go too far. into hi hands. us; he had been engaged for next seasocially. On mv way back to the clubhouse I met could be true end found that It was. B. Gillespie arranged it he eeemed by gambler driver a and him. put be now for our to But evsrv one in Case Harbor with the I was waiting at the first tee for a son with a far richer and more fashionMoore wee Mr. hanthe of But how can hs get rid of Mr. Moore notice Babson, arranging everything up ng Means, Harry carry against Billy warf our for arr.ved not without giving th whole thing away? I elig.ble pries and the desire when, after a few minutes of in- able club so that he could afford to be dicaps for the club tournament to poet cur best golfer, who Is handicapped at club. theWith the club. That Is how our membership came partner gentlemen of the press, but cer- persisted Most anybody haa the py qua on the bulletin board. I was down for six in match play. Babson was In form only about not trying to hit it too frank. g In loud, to Include persons so diverse In origin struction tain other hie and head name off on a Mrs. Bavin grew serious again, came the he birdie That the strangers hla that below ain't Just plaved ball, to my day eye and hard golf point. good keeping piav as Edgerley Moore and i end circumstance I whistled. He on the aeeond hole, mostly par on all clothes and with hard Jowls. All during "Well, suicide could be suggested to his first swirg. Of course, he sent Colonel Riordan up at Hollymount he s Moore. Edgerlgv and " element this John B. Gillespie. Edgerley Moore would made ths match round but on could a some couldn t tt? Suicide when Mr. Gilsquirmed he do means without which the what did for through down was cards the 'first down In the artillery him, fairway, figuring it straight evenstandI under the enormous gallery. did not classifly lespie was a hundred miles have been eligible with a muzzle wrfll, whatever you call running about 90. against a handicap of twelve and me- th traj suggeation of slice or hook, for a good Tlaah saw a I of them ths ards of Goreham. The money behind him hundred Moore Mr. I. greenJsitil You won. don't chanically perfect golf? What's this" said and fifty yards. Something like It perfect al bl th man is capable of any- had ripened for. three generations, which that always happens back, heard a whispered phrase about thing don t you see that I m probably when you first try mean to say that venerable goof Is doing two up, one to play. mean trajectory and muzzle "You In this democratic The general result was a foregone con- odds, lhcn I saw that we were drawing saving th life of poor, foolish, old Mr. Implies aristocracy of Satan. I think, said the doctor. the eighteen holes lower than I? It Is a device In his twenties he had inherited golf. land same thing a ihU toward profanity and committee operate In clusion to me before they hed finished th professional gamblers. How they laid Moor" the an It' it. The lead handicap Thats to you some two or three hundred thoueand dol- Sabbath-breakinMoore simply their money I had no Idea; it they were holes But I'm the first nine What are you going to do? I naked, does. He told me hed proved that a dark secrecy, replied Billv lars from his father and invested most on the button started eight telling you that we gave ourselves the cou'dn't be beaten I felt that In my back ng Tommie Crowder, they lost. He believing her. I met him in the clubhouae afterward; ball hit ad one of It conservatively In a business with la more exetted than I had ever seen him times asright course with I was men said It had a The day (hat one golf head policeman for th play If we'd doubt. perfect as bones htt breadth a. of hair's the "Youre fast benefit bellqved The suddenly His driving was astonish- slip. On both founds at the dogs leg this afternoon, arent you? I want you to the side. Thats d stance. A child his cards, he d have gone lower " golf machine over boomed through r.o merit of Edgerley before. to tried drive fourth he aa th Babthe of as In who me that of Harry I asked. rough to front ing fully Who scored for h.m long gallery close got that trick "Theres something in the game, he or sn o'd man of going around a -- dangerous up. keep Moora In a few years he doubled hjs said have to take a whole lot from "Billv Means says plaver instead fob wouldnt Gillespie, of course They always play son. who Is a stalwart Is monev and more. After which he piit too the carry in hie early thirties. An (rid phrase kept thing, e long for any for the nine holes that s Aba Mitchell. How could you get It? torether." easy. I can give you a badge drive. He succeeded andThats the whole thing into an annuity and re- all' Eighty-ftvwith accuracy. make you my assistant. Same thing in Billv. "I ask you If .that Mind That's the answer, I said "I sup- glancing In and out of mv mind he was thing but a freak the tired. planted himself, and went to eetd isnt put but second he time the on first ever like And time; The near wait wait until I'm he Mr. voure time is when somewhere the first davs "Floe' possessed. playing gallery for There's Say going good Gillespie pose He didn t work at anvthmg except a touchedgood d grew toward the last a little disorderly, got into difficult es and had to pick up. ready. I won't act until I know whichX vouve got a a golf club approach scratch." and useless reading; he dull was of was the he degl Babson up That so vou vour twice mind Harrv wav Moore point; that Mr. some turning tells he Just hypocritiplaying his money today. We congratulated way Well, food "NO, replied Billy, ignoring mv sar- up as he was addressing a ballstraightened and glared age.nst a golf machine, running perfectpiay at anything except pottering cally we'd all been through that stage where to hit and how hard to hit, and casm, want to f nish turn there too. X think. entered. He savs he s isn't "he Mr. Moore hole one with his gardener about the roses on his of On went that silence. But th never And be crowd to up round and ly. untli the pin. ha added musingly, "that he's playing got 'the triumphant Initial you run her up dead to caddy for the old sea lion. And bothered Moore. Mr. His blue eyes and stayed there to the end. His card Mr. Moore to win. The time for th place. Of winters he and tothe perfectly dodged away to escape a dissertation then, Jock added morosely, "there s going chamthat hints hit boy he dropping to Floricolorless Mrs. Moor used go seemed to pop from his head with concen- was seventy, breaking the record for the double cross hasn't come yet. He 11 do which he was beginning on the game of Other days." is a wonder. or some da, or California, or Europe, where 'the golf among the. early kings of Scotland. tration: as he walked forward to the next course, held by himself. I suppose, then, that if you had a pion that et the state championship we on the thrill. flourished next day first alien got hen b vegetating process shot they fairly transfixed the ball. Once I noted hint; a few days later, going long thinking session with yourself Just I The big afialr. But you cantovercome " i even for was me, that fa.r over soil. were day. only a every pleasant word at round w.th Jock Ransome, our pro. That before you hit the hail you'd make a par end from the last hole I rushed over to I spoke to him, By now. curiosity hed 1 never knew s man who brought less But public other pers about those gamblers. Jock was wrapping my driver and stroke every time Inquired the doctor. the bulletin board to see whether I had impulse In me and again I asked back from foreign travel than Edgerlev night 1 never talk while I am playing. he opinion had not quite crystallized as yet. squarely: answered In shop talk, and he touched Jock, "None. stepping right Indulging Its center said shortly. Ten minutes liter I heard Most felt, I suppose, a I did that the Moore. When, about five years before wo on Mr. Moore. tain t that kind or qualified. I found a crowd. In . Bavin, what is It you are going into tha trap, stood Mr. Moore and John B. Gll!ep'e. some stranger In the crowd address him state champ.onahlp was only a fortnight to Madge started the Seagull links, his wlfs died, wasnt caught young, said mind do? "Pity heCourse wera and mar we and I suspect that he experienced the first Jock. to that didn't want chattering and gesticulating the same answer. He did not away he cant do "Jimmie, she said. Tve worked hard At these words such a perfect, uncon- They it I caught the on sen- even get emotion which had gone deeper than hla much now started too old. But anything our chances However, on top of that lash.ng myself up to what Tm going to throw e word to John B. he s got scious repetition of the doctors, ws And through whadda his caddy. Gillespie himself spokeOilleeple, tence "Moore in seventy-tw- o came an announcement sjtln a quarter of a century. But hy a natural form I can't teach him anything which nearly do. If anyone interposed a single ob' little laughed. resumed his rou- about swinging. And hes a nut on the to learn something you think of Just now and then a brief, quiet word of brought ection. Willi Carr, th famous jection Id get scared, probably, and beck fortnight later heandhadroot If you would 'Seventy-tw- o I asked. then touring the out at the laet moment I'm Just that tine of reading gardening. If game." From hie tone, Jock was men- instead of mak.ngtry advice as he handed out the proper club British professional, golf a Joke. snapped as ha he hadnt vegetated physically, or country, was matched with our man or much of a poor, weak woman. Keep me not In the spirit of Jock as he pocketed hla tobacco and "Net nothing snapped back the like. "Drop her over that bunker, tioning this lastof fact o had mentaUv, it was because of that criticism, a kind of fina to run the down. B answer her of warm"seventy-tw"Now Saturday John following front of th crowd Wp close- - to But withdrew. Gillespie, but approval. ' same work in he garden. He still "He'e the greatest thing ever uncov tuning up for the state championship me ghe Mr. Moore had not laughed gross Just par for the course! If and stand by even If It means a you, Mr. Langford, with that natural eys B be would in admitted profits real fight said John He ered golf, He was now 69 years old. and looked of yours-- l Gillespie The pub,ic stood, aa he had st the beginning of the you dont believe it, look et that! and above Will e Carr' fee. to go tc I am sfreid slacked mv duty a head drifted out of my conversation, leaning morosely against waved the card under my nose - I in- when the match wa over. "The ama- - jover older. His hair and h'S sea Hon musEdgerley Moore I the town hospital fund, Gilwas. at bv It There it. teur line his face of flatin I bathed sixty every 'champion denatured while our tache were as glistening white as granuJocks spected s.gned bar, standing right policeman that afternoon, but nearly ev- thoughts ' On In before match the It shoes. these that deDr. here was wasn't and his white lespie rather tall, but morning Carrington. lated eugar; he tery. drooping to match the droop of Coatiaued sa Tags Xw d one of Gillespies Jokea, "Going to enter In the county tourna- - was practicing approach shots on th However, this cbnversatlon "did serve to sea lion mustache. cidedly 'spare: his shoulders dronned and wind-swe- pt ds-ov- - He-go- but" uviK' es m - hs-d- -lh p. 1 or three-quarte- so-o- self-start- "Su-sure- !" w twentv-fivejntl- ' tight-fittin- 12-- 1, aay g. seventy-five-yar- -- sure" that' net' v rV'i t i U heavy-hande- 'It |