St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1875-07-02
What Became of HimP
4 Thrilling story
CHAPTER. |.


CHAPTER |.
Forty Years ago, Il little slip of paper
WAS passed to me ;I> ! sat wearing ont Il
three hours examination with the rest
ui my college cla>S at st. Johns college.
| knew 10y the queer twist of the scroll.
that 1t came tlom my cronN Ralph Ives.
and the sentence on it had the same
customary twist of an idea which RaIpI'>
thought alWaA seemed To take. 1t read.
lis near as can remember its phrases
NV hen does Il man begin To hc Il col
lc%c examiner! and what are they
made of! " hat blight comes upon "A
juicy fellow 10y which he is destined for
hat usc in the world! And can Null
look around Non and point out the man
who Il prcdcStiued to sit in one of tlIc>,.
chairs and examine our sons
| must have made some testing reply .
| have forgotten. and should hardly
have remembered his words. had they
not, like some invisible writing which
Il drop of acid brings into di>tinctnc>S.
come INTO IN! memory. one day last
summer. 10y Il circumstance " hich start
ed all the old juices in my dry frame
For, 10y dint of beim" before the public
us Il clergy man :; generation or 81. WAS
looked upon 10y the authorities of my
alma mater us Il fit subject to he set in
an examiners chair, and made to strike
either terror or curiosity into the breast, F.,
of the Young rogueS on the benches.
We settled to our task The prcsi
dent sat in his box. rubbing his hands
softly over his thimiy matched head I;
the professor iii>t in charge. looking
al l. a
his green goggles, took up the catalogue
and began skipping among It's naIiIcS
for victims !: while We. furnished each
with Il catal"gc. studied the Objects of
curiosity before us-thrsc sixty Young
fellows who all had names and al an
swercd tu them. | MAS reading the
names of the class in the catalogue.
when came to one of Ives. Often he
fore in forty Years | had seen that name
and had heard it without Il thought OF
RAJ pin. tol II MAS Il common one in my
section. and belonged. indeed. to sever
al in my own parish: but here. on these
seats, | could not Icad it without my
heart leapIhg and threatening IL break
over all hounds of propIictN. even Ia
sending tears out "i my eyes.
''Candido Ives, San Antonio. Tex.
T.. {. H." WAS the catalogue entry, and
| watched tor the Young man with in
| terest. Just brcalIse of that surname
that was starting so many old memo
lies. joyful. my >teIlous and profoundly
sad aud distressing. The name wa,
called, finally. and IL youth rose from
his seat near me. had moi seen hi,
face before, as he half rcclntd in al
indolent way against Il pillar: but now
;is he rose, and | WAS aware that til,
class WAS slightly magnetiZed by hi.
presence, | SAW Il handsome fellow, viii
olive complexion and dark curly hair
aud Il face that | could Iikcn to nothing
but that of Il soIccrer.
WAS tascihated with his face. and
looking at it with that other face .
Ralph Ives III my memory, WIS pos
Sesscd with the notion that the trien,
"t my boNhood WAS reappearing here
strained through some mesh not know
to me. thrust aside the fancy, for i
WAS painfully interesting. Neverthe
less my eyes returned again and agaiI
To his face.
This friend, the light of my eye. ha,
gone out III utter darkness, made NOR,
wrctched to me by IL thick cloud whicl
could be felt even i'll the night, to reap
pear now for the first time, thirty sever
yeaIs after. in the handsome Yet enig
matical form of this Young man. LA,
he. indeed. answered the impaSsionr,
cry OF Shakespeare. and lived twice.
making him ''aIIothcr self. SD that
His tender heir might bear his memory
We had passed through college to
gethrr. growing into ii firm affection