[Sidenote: _Smart man, Bruckner--he knew how to handle natives ... but they knew even better how to deal with smart terrestrials!_] Bruckner was a man deeply imbued with a sense of his own worth. Now as he rested his broad beam on the joined arms of Sweets and Majesky, he winked to include them in a "this is necessary, but you and I see the humor of the thing" understanding. Like most thoroughly disliked men, he considered himself quite popular with "the boys."…
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