HOUSE AND GARDEN 
July, 1913 
summer, a fall and a winter in Willisport, 
however, that he arrived at a clear under¬ 
standing of the man with the motor car, 
and his supposedly big income. The rev¬ 
elation came all at once, too. 
It was one morning when he was late, 
and had an important engagement. The 
sidewalks were slippery and Mr. Spence 
doubted his ability to catch his train. Just 
as he came down the steps with a hurried 
goodbye to his wife, buttoning his coat as 
he ran, he heard that disliked “honk-honk” 
which had come to mean to him the dif¬ 
ference between affluence and worry, and 
to mark the line between the democrat 
and the plutocrat. But today he had to be 
in the office at nine. A moment’s mental 
struggle, and he had swung out into the 
middle of the road, waving his arms. The 
car rolled to a stop and a surprised occu¬ 
pant looked out inquiringly. 
“Take me down? I’m late — important 
—hate to bother - ,” exclaimed Mr. 
Spence hastily and a bit shamefacedly. 
“Sure!” came the hearty answer. “Jump 
in!” 
Mr. Spence jumped in, caught the train 
by a one minute margin, and fell naturally 
into conversation with his Samaritan 
friend. 
“Great thing, the car!” said Mr. Ben¬ 
nett. “Couldn’t get along without it. Lot 
of us chaps who live out some ways — not 
close, like you rich fellows — find we 
couldn’t manage without them.” 
“Not like us rich fellows!” repeated Mr. 
Spence, aghast. “Stop kiddin’ me. Why, 
you are the rich fellows — you people who 
own motor cars and all the rest of the 
earth most all the time — all the time ex¬ 
cept when you are decent to strangers like 
you were to me this morning!” 
“Point of view — funny thing!” laughed 
Mr. Bennett. “You think I’m a plutocrat 
because I drive a car — I think you’re one 
because you live on Maple Avenue and 
have a house within twelve minutes of the 
station! I’ll bet you a hat you make more 
money than I do!” 
There was no time for more conversa¬ 
tion, as friends of both got on at Janey, 
but Spence had begun to think. And it 
did not take him long to find out that 
Walker and Bennett, and Allen and Wil¬ 
liamson, and Garnfordt and several others 
all of whom lived out in the west end, 
and all of whom owned cars, were no 
better off financially than he was. Ben¬ 
nett was a buyer in a department store, 
Allen a patent lawyer, Walker a technical 
engineer with a construction company, 
Garnfordt was an insurance man, and so 
on down the list. 
The light came the next morning after 
these revelations. Walkerand Spence 
took the train and fell into the same seat. 
“Tell me,” said Spence, “if you don’t 
mind—how do you manage to live where 
you do, support your car, and make ends 
meet? I hate to seem inquisitive, but I 
need to know!” 
Walker, who was both fat and good 
natured, laughed as he answered. 
“Why, that’s easy. I bought before 
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