King at the Century 



I FIRST met King in the old club- 

 house of the Century Association 

 in Fifteenth Street and rarely saw 

 him outside of our club surround- 

 ings — save on occasions that were 

 for the most part but a projection 

 of Century comradery. It is there- 

 fore only as a fellow habitue — not 

 quite the same thing as a member, 

 merely — of the Century, that I may 

 venture to speak of him in the 

 companionship of his older and 

 closer friends. We had, indeed, in 

 familiarity with Newport, a common 

 tie of which it would be difficult 

 for any one without these associa- 

 tions to appreciate the force. But 

 in every other respect — which is to 

 say in a great many other respects 

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