The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-08-05

looked dlscOnSOlate.
"When do you think Of depart
ing"
"This very day."
"Why, that's hasty work."
"Now that my mind is made up, it
is better to break off at once the ties
which bind me here"
The ties! What was the young man
raving about? thought Wrayford.
Was this French sentiment at parting,
or real feeling? Real feeling, prob
ably, for he was sorry himself to lose
this light-hearted, good-tempered,
tolerably clever young fellow.
"At all events, do not leave us till
the evening"" said Wrayford, turning
over his papers again. II may have
something to tell you"
Victor looked at him very eager
ly.
II may, or may not" said .Wray-
ford, 'for I am perplexed with figures
this morning, and there is really
something in them. Do you remem-
Der my notion Of the new color-the
new bright, Heaven-sent violet of
which I have dreamed? Well, I
have come back to that idea for the
want Of something better to do, and
last night I was close upon it up
stairs"
II wish you every success, Sir," :"
said Victor, regarding his senior al
most compassionately.
"Of course; for it is to your inter
est as we'll as mine," he said. "Now
leave me, Victor, to struggle with an
old fancy"
Victor went few PAGES from him,
and then returned.
Ill should like to say a few
| words to Miss Grace before I go
away"
WraYford was absorbed in his stud.
les. He did not look up, or the agi.
tated expression of the assistants face
| might have scared him
'She has gone down to the
town with some lace, which
poor girl, she hopes to sell before she
comes back. You can not fail tc
meet her. She will be sorry-deci
NAL eight, ten, six-to hear of you,
leaving us thus suddenly"
Victor darted away, and Wrayfor6
did not know he was gone. Tht
chemist of Greymoor was really strug
Cling hard with his idea, endeavorin9
to wrest from it a truth or a fac
which might not lie within it, study
how he would, and the minutes stol'
on the summer afternoon without hi
taking heed Of them. At anothe
| time the going away of Victor DufoJ
would have troubled him a grea
deal, for he had "taken" to the for
eigner; but here was an idea, gigan
tic, and teeming with material, ant
it was necessary to work hard befor'
he dismissed it forever-this tim'
positively forever - from hi
thoughts, or clung to it as to a prom
ise of good fortune which shoule
make amends for all the bad by which
he had been beset.
He did not know that hours ha,
passed by, and that Robert Trust
worth had taken the place Of Victo
Dufoy, until his name was called gu
harshly. Then he looked up and sa,
and an unpleasant sight it is to
man back in his rent-his landlor
standing before him.
"Good afternoon, Mr.. Trustwortf
For Heavens sake, man, keep quie
for moment!"
d, "What for? What's the matter
/ asked Trustworth.
Il am half:way-three-quarters {
the way-towards a discovery, if fig
ures stand for anything. Figures d.
: note quantities, and I think I see m
way"
II wish you saw your way to NAL
ing my rent square, Wrayford-ths
would be a mightier pretty pro
pect."
"It shall be all right in time. D
not interrupt me at this minut
. there's good fellow"
Il "But 1 amt a good fellowl" erie
Trustworth-"I amt a-going to be
good fellow no longer"
}, "Eh ?-what has happened now ?
: Abel Wrayford glanced at hil
half carelessly, observed that it was
dark and lowering face which he el
| countered, but he was only half il
: terested. The spell of the figures We
on him, and he could not break ava
2 from it.
J II saw your proud peacock war
this afternoon, and I told her m
il. mind, after she was too high an
, mighty to be common civil to me.
: made her another offer this afternoon
and was treated wus than ever. No
that won't do."
t "How foolish of you to subje'
/ yourself to a second refusal!' sal
}, Wrayford-''to dash head-frst at a
insurmountability, as this is. Yo
should have known-you must hay
: seen that Grace is not a girl
change her mind"
l.. "I've done with her-I'ye guv ht
\ up!" cried Trustworth passionatel.
e II amt lived all these years for notl
J, ing, to be Tilted and down-trodden b
Ia ohaxo;oal ,,o;nxl I'll haua h,