7 - Left a note of apology for Dan this morning. This noon when I saw him, I asked, "Well, Dan is it a truce?" to which the dear youth, who has constantly demonstrated his ability to out-Chesterfield Chesterfield, replied with all his arless candor & simplicity, "No." You'd really think Dan didn't have a long life before him which he can, and doubtless will, devote to the perfecting of his really astounding talent, nay, genius for boorishness, from the way he seizes each and every opportunity to parade same. It seems really ludicrous now I think it over, but I really almost expected
Dan to be
polite; and I've known him for about a year now, too.
Saw Yep after supper. He refused to play cards with the other men and talked to Mae and me until 9.15. He's awfully interesting. I like him better than Yap because he does not show his contempt for me, as aroused by my insufficient age, as plainly as Yap does, though both are as polite as ___ well, as polite as Dan isn't, and that's a good lot.
Have skewered my golden (?) locks up on top of my dome now, and wear a ribbon around, pirate style. See illustration on opposite page for a rival of "Solomon in all his glory."
I think from something Mae said, that Chesterfield II told her about the incident of the note. If she comes right out about it, I'll see if I can't do a little high class stringing on my own account. He has no proof, as I recaptured the note from the parlor mantel, where he'd flung it, torn in four pieces. Dan's sense of the melodramatic values is second only to his overwhelming courtesy. Cheer up, he doesn't get the chance of insulting me twice, by Jinks.
The note was stuck inside the diary. It reads:
Dear Nut:
Am sorry I slapped you, so please be sociable once more, again.
Yours, as ever,
The Goat
P.S. Why don't you ever take
your turn patching up our numerous scraps?
M.
On the reverse:
D. H. Mahoney
Exhibit A
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