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2 TJIE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIEFS. THE MAN WHO MIGHT HAVE BEEN By J. MORTON LEWIS. He was a new member of the club, and a source of much comment and speculation to the confraternity. From his personal appearance, which was of that type which Is so common place as to betray nothing, he might have been a stock broker, a respectable merchant, a money lender, or even a bookmaker. From a close acquaintance, ( should gather, he Imagined himself to »e a humorist. It was on our third or fourth meeting—I forget which—that 1 formulated this opinion. “Yes,** he said to me over a glass of whisky and soda, ”1 could call myself, ( think, the man who might have been. I might have been anything, and am—'* He left the sentence unfinished and shrugged his shoulders. I hastened to express my sympathy, which he ignored. "It commenced with my birth. 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I might easily have been a good player. Why couldn't I? Some fellows are.” He lit a cigar. “But 1 wasn’t. “When I left school and went Into business, the ill-luck dogged my foot steps. I might easily have been a grocer. I should have loved to weigh up pounds of sugar and read the poets during the operation, as Keats did In his early days; but 1 wasn’t. 1 might have been a doctor; my lather wanted me to; but I wasn't” 1 watched him closely thru the smoke of our cigars. The reiteration of his remarks began to perturb me, and DU my mind with grave doubts and misgiv ings. As It was, I became a lawyer. I spent no end of time and money study ing for my exams; and. when 1 hod passed them, sst up for myself. "After all that, I might have been content to stay at it and mage a name for myself; but I wasn't I went and Joined the theatrical profession. There I might have been a great actor; but 1 wasn't; at least I haven’t made a content to stay at it and make a name Fate's against me." “At any rate,” I said, consolingly, “that Is better than a good many men." ‘I know I ought to have been thank ful,'' he responded; “but I wasn't" He pogred out another glass of whisky and water. "You don't know what a failure I feel myself to be," be said with can dor. "You certainly don’t look ono,’*I mur. mured hastily. He brought his hand down upon the table; "Never Judge by looks, dear boy. There, again, I might have been a handsome man, but I wasn’t” "You’re certainly not the opposite,” 1 said, with, I am afraid, a very poor at tempt at politeness. "Quite so,” he returned, "1 might have been a regular Caliban, but I wasn’t" I coughed uneasily. I am by nature a somewhat nervous man. and the sus picions I had formed regarding my companion were beginning to take a very concrete form. "You don't know what It is to feel you might have been everything, any thing nothing, and yet you weren't." For a few minutes there was silence, which I was extremely careful not to break. "When I was twenty,” he said medi tatively. “I fell In love. Not In the stodgy, prosy way that some men do, but head over heels—madly, wildly, !n- toxlcatlngly, passionately In love with a girl a year my Junior. She returned my affection and we had our parents' consent to our engagement 1 could easily have been her husband—had only to make the home—but I wasn't" "Perhaps It Isn't too late," I urged soothingly. -It wasn't” he replied passively. How I hated that word. "But It 1« now. I marrlrd somebody else. From her appearance It might have been the girl’s sister—they were alike as could be—but It wasn't” "Funny thing, too,” he resumed, “she married a few days after a fellow old enough to be her father; exactly like him. too. that's the remarkable part but It wasn't” “I suppose not" 1 replied acridly. Beneath his gaxe I began to Odget in my chair, and cast anxious glances toward the door. "Poor girl,” I said wildly; "perhaps she was broken-heart ed and that Is why she married him.” He shrugged his shoulders. "She might have been,” then he looked at me tie and fling It at his head filled me, and It was only after the utmost effort that I restrained myself. “It has become a habit with you.” I said. In ascalm a voice as possible. "So I thought once,” he answered, de spondently; "but It wasn't. I went to see a doctor about it, and he said It was my liver.” "Was It?" I asked. I was a fool to moke such a silly remark, and I knew It a second later. “No. It wasn't.” "If I bad got Into the state you have —It's all a question of nerves; most probably you’ve been working too hard and want a rest—I should think of all the things I am and have been.” “That's useless.” he replied. "I've tried it; Only the other week I woke up In the middle of the night; you are you, I told myself; you must be you; you can’t be anyone else, and I pinched myself as hard as 1 could to make •■ire. "Well!” I said. - "It wasn’t” he replied, forlornly. "It was my. wife I had pinched, and didn't I catch it for waking her up! Three hours of it without a break.” Feeling I could stand no more. "Must you go?” he asked. "Thanks so much for listening to me. I was a fool.” My anger was aroused. I was begin ning to feel he has been trying to sharpen hiff clumsy wits at my expense. "I'm not surprised," I retorted as I made for the door. 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