The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-11-10

not Van Nores.
ana VINO was More Van More? lie
was young man Of twsnty-six years.
whose mental processes had mastered
the rudlments of learning to such an ex-
tent that he could read the newspaper
and could make chance. All attempts
70 lcultiVate those mental processes much
further had failed; if he entered the uni
versity at last, it was Because tutors and
proctors and family influence, fortui-
tous chance, and perhaps money, all
wrought together Entrance was all
however; before the first term closed
Mr.. Van More had private but authorta-
tive information that miles, he wanted
expulsion for stupidity approaching i'm
beelhty, he had better withdraw his son.
In hot and self-ri0hfeous fury Mr..
Van More turned the fahlesand expelled
the university. He withdrew his son
with wild show of anger and scorn for
faculty, curriculum, endowment and
career. ''Ihey have asadnated no man
who comes to ANYTHING in the last
twenty-five yearsr' he said. And that
the matter might be the sooner forgotten
he gave MIR. More Van More purse and
travelling companion and dispatched
him To the far West. At probably
but a ease of retarded development;
perhaps he would do n little exploring
and discovering; whf1 O should return
the affair would have Bite blown over,
and he would marry Ito some maiden
who had been so we} bought up that
she would feel herr aking a proper
place among domf Is. princes and
powers by MARVIN % More OF any
calibre. All the say did not fail to
make his wife's lifa& len to her By
sarcasms on her fec that had been
strong enough to az the strength
of the Van More. .Ecrr sense
! of his sentz il-~--az9 <eedsssf~n
him, was another "a against the
woman who would ~ an imbeclle
for the sake of clint INTO his rank
and position.
1t was not altoget 10 be wondered
at, then. if his wife u bit fully sympa-
thize with him in this tremity, aud if,
being of an affection disposition, so
/ far rs she had anythingto impart, hay-
/ inc impaired that also 10 her son. she
wrote "A little surrepdtious letter-she
who had usually not Q Thought nor a
deed nor an emotion other own.
.sNIY DARLrNG Boy: I seLd you all my love
i ANY wife YOU choose TO merry AsiH be the lear
/ daughter OF your mother
That was the letter written 50 secret
! "; It meant volumes 10 her; it meant
/ volumes to her boy She was frightened
to trembling ghost Of her ghost-like
self when she stopped the carriage and
asked the footman to drop it in q street
box. for she felt thatif herhusband knew
it it would not be impossible for him tc
blow out her fickering flame OF life al
/ together. or stamp its feeble spark into
the earth. lie neverhad struck her, bat
she never knew what he might do yet.
The fathers letter. when it came. wa.
not AZ all unexpected by Hero Van More
nor was the mothers surprise. Sh,
was GIRL of twenty, ''divinely tall anC
most divinely fair. Her superb mould.
/ ings would have fed asculptor' evewitb
rapture. her superb coloring would hav,
driven wild another than Titan; the
! great braids upon herhead seemed mad,
! of strands of spun gold; she wore then
I like a crown. as became a daughter o
| the royal tribe of Judah. she was I'M
doubtedlva Jewess: but as Miriam. a
Deborah, as Susannah may have done
she had the large beauty of that Clyti'
in her suniiower whom some think to b,
Isis in her lotus. She waited in her faith
er's shop. and she sold Mr.. Van More {
pair of gloves there.
He had given his purse some time sine
TO his travelling companion, and he wa
waiting in this little place till he shoul,
received fresh remittance from his father
When he saw Hero he had somethin,
else to wait for. He hung round tin
shop corners. and when she wen. 90
he followed her. Vera iRfsSs
she stepped rs If 3D.
/ he said to himself
| his heart was under her fcs
intuitively that she would not -
second look. What were the Van NSr.s
out here in the Wilderness He was abb,
to see. !for all his deficiency, that She wa
on a higher plane OF being than his own
But if he could not hone he could a
least suffer; he could gaze AZ the star h,
might not win. He bought anotherpai
of gloves. All. heavensi 10 feel The toucl
of those pointed fingers OF hers rs the,
stretched the kid from side 10 side OF hi,
hand The next day he bought another
pair Before he was through he IN,
bought the whole stock of gloves in tn,
shop.
OF course this attracted her attention
and she made some inguiry concernine
him. = You had better 60 away sh,
said, when he came in again. :. You Il,
not need gloves. or ties, OF any Of on
goods. You are making YOURSELF ridicu
lous.
u have nothing to DO with It. he
replied. = was made SO when / WA.
born
And so ore word led to another, and in
the course of time he had told her his stor,
which somehow seemed full of wrongs
the story OF a rather fecble-minded voIitl
who had been snubbed aud brow -beatcf
and ill-used b. a disappointed father
! from his birth. Her heart was stirres
with pity; she let him come to the house
! Hope bounded within him. If the sta
/ should fall from the SKY to his ARMS
! He wrote his father forgot to say tina
/ he could write-that he wanted his in
/ fuen"e to help him marry the mos
! lovely. the most yirtuous the most bril-
| liant of women. who waited behind til,
counter of her fathers little Jew-shop
! The answer to this letter made his hail
stand on end. Cold, sneering, yindie
tive, cruel, threatening what should h,
do but show it to her? yfHer blood woult
have been cold and p stuff had tina
not madeit boil. Il n never 90 bach
to him. said More. is the last blow
he shall strike me-
eWould YOU be Ia Pr here in tn,
shop helping me9' sked.
Beyond measure cried.
So she told him to Der father tina
night She meant fhe situation
he meant about v nd her father
in as good and st ttempt as Mr.
Van More himself2 feel, ordere,
the fellow from the
''The worthless p cried the oil,
man. "Can he esd Salt? What d
care for his name 1M his f;lmily an,
his entailed moneys dog of Chris
tian He can have all; but he can
marry my girl to an IT.
'.He is not an idiot, her," said Hero
There is more in him IN any see, an
she calmly canvassed thesubiect- H
has been made to look up till he doe
not know how to look-sfraight ahead
Some day he win assert himself. 2
ssYou?'' said her fafher. ssYouP