The first gun off the Florida Keys sent Selwyn's only brother from his
law office in hot haste to San Antonio--the first _etape_ on his first
and last campaign with Wood's cavalry.
That same gun interrupted Selwyn's connection with Neergard & Co.,
operators in Long Island real estate; and, a year later, the captaincy
offered him in a Western volunteer regiment operating on the Island of
Leyte, completed the rupture.
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And now he was back again, a chance career ended, with option of picking
up the severed threads--his inheritance at the loom--and of retying
them, warp and weft, and continuing the pattern according to the designs
of the tufted, tinted pile-yarn, knotted in by his ancestors before him.
There was nothing else to do; so he did it. Civil and certain social
obligations were mechanically reassumed; he appeared in his sister's pew
for worship, he reenrolled in his clubs as a resident member once more;
the directors of such charities as he meddled with he notified of his
return; he remitted his dues to the various museums and municipal or
private organisations which had always expected support from his
family; he subscribed to the _Sun_.
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