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He was visibly affected in a way that forbade me to entertain a doubt of his sincerity. "'It seems incredible, he said, after a period of reflection. 'I suppose I must have mistaken another man for Barting, and that man's cold greeting was merely a stranger's civil acknowledgment of my own. I remember, indeed, that he lacked Barting's mustache.
Foley, that I have any longer a claim to your friendship, since Mr. Barting appears to have withdrawn his own from me for what reason, I protest I do not know. If he has not already informed you he probably will do so. "'But, I replied, 'I have not heard from Mr. Barting. "'Heard from him! he repeated, with apparent surprise. 'Why, he is here.
"All this seemed to me singularly considerate and delicate behavior on the part of Mr. Conway. "As dramatic situations and literary effects are foreign to my purpose I will explain at once that Mr. Barting was dead. He had died in Nashville four days before this conversation. Calling on Mr. Conway, I apprised him of our friend's death, showing him the letters announcing it.
He was visiting San Francisco for his health, deluded man, and brought me a note of introduction from Mr. Lawrence Barting. I had known Barting as a captain in the Federal army during the civil war. At its close he had settled in Franklin, and in time became, I had reason to think, somewhat prominent as a lawyer.
"'Doubtless it was another man, I assented; and the subject was never afterward mentioned between us. But I had in my pocket a photograph of Barting, which had been inclosed in the letter from his widow. It had been taken a week before his death, and was without a mustache." In the summer of 1896 Mr.
Barting had always seemed to me an honorable and truthful man, and the warm friendship which he expressed in his note for Mr. Conway was to me sufficient evidence that the latter was in every way worthy of my confidence and esteem. "A few weeks after the conversation in which Mr.
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