THE THREE DAY BLOW

It was an autumn evening. Nick Wemedge walked past a garden and reached Bill’s house on a hilltop. The rain had already stopped. Bill received his friend, Nick. Both of them stood together on the porch and looked out across the country and down over the orchard. The wind was blowing straight down the lake.

A little later, both Nick and Bill went inside the cottage. They started drinking whisky. Nick began to dry his wet shoes on a fire. Bill brought a pair of socks for Nick. They were drinking and talking on many topics. They talked about the baseball. They discussed that the Giants (The New York Giants always defeated the Cards The Saint Louis Cardinals) because McGrew could buy every good ball player in the league for the Giants. They also talked about the books and the writers like Walpole and Chesterton. They further talked about their own fathers and pointed out the virtues and defects of each. Later, they talked about the relationship Nick had with a girl called Marge (Marjorie). Bill tried to show Nick that marriage was something, which could make a man fall for somebody else. He said that Nick was right to break his relations with Marge. But Nick was still interested in her. He was still hopeful and he might see Marge in the town. Then they came down the hill for shooting but Nick was still thinking of going to town to see Marge.