The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-07-01
CHAPTER ".

I'm afraid, sir, said the landlady, !
'that she's in raging fever"
CHAPTER ".
Jack Cameron arrived at his own
rooms, sat down with book before
him. and made dogged pretense OF
reading. His chum lit pipe and re-
garded him with troubled, friendly eyes.
Jacks book was Of small value TO him,
as you may fancy, except as a shield
for his emotion; but he read on steadily,
line after line and page after page, un-
derstanding nothing. he had already
shown more than he cared to show, and
was resolute to keep guard upon him
self for the future, but his heart was
full of rago and wounded love and
pride; and, these passions rushing
through him every now and again like
a very tempest, he had much ado to
keep his limbs still.
To be in love means much to clean
hearted youngster. You have logged
along with the crowd. content to be no
better than your neighbors, satisfied
with an everyday morality and COM
monplace ambitions after money and
worldly ease, and all on sudden some
beautiful new presence dawns upon
your life, and beckons you to level
YOU had done no more than dream OF.
And this sweet presence, which bears
actual airs of heaven with IL, grows
more and more lovely and benelicent,
and beckons you higher and higher,
and smiles kindlier and kindlier until
in some unguessed-of moment 1t turns
with face of hideous crimson and
mocks your folly. This is TO be tlted
for money. Your soul rises in despair
and self-disdain, and the goddess Of
: your worship tells you that the love Of
women is a cheat, and heart OF cank-
cred brass poor lads only safeguard.
All this was true to Jack Cameron,
because he believed it to be true.
He would not have been the honest
lad he was IL many doubts had not
reached his heart. Loyalty finds II
, hard to believe in disloyalty. Cassidy
/ watched his friend almost with terror,
his quiet seemed so unnatural, and in a
while his fears assumed shape Sc
threatening that he stole from the sit
{ tiog-room and locked up his friends
( raSors.
/ "This kiad of thing" he said to
( himself, gloomily, "has ended that
, way before now"
' After an hour or two spent in trying
: quiet, Jack rose and filed his pipe
8 and at this sign Cassidy began t
3 hustle about the room and TO ,se
' glasses and bottle on the table.
I "To their father with the lot o
Q them," said Cassidy, suddenly. "Wha
do ye'want to 60 getting married for
We've got each other that's beel
!, chums now for dozen years ant
more, and we'll just try to be conten
i at that, Jack, me boy, and let the bag
4 cages slide.
" "Bill," said Cameron, breakin
!, silence for the first time since his or
, trance, "make me one promise.
\, Anything in nature" answere
q Cassidy.
Il Never speak about this any more
n Never hint at it."
II 81 won't then, said the Irishmai
a tenderly. Shave glass Of whisk.
Il Jack"
It mo. l won't drink now. Coco
o night"
" Goodnight"
The heart-broken lover went 10 h
a own room and walked gloomily u
" and down all night. His companic
y sat in the chamber beneath and listene
NJ to his footsteps.
he They're all alike" said Cassidy
or himself. when was 1 ever unhapI
" a except when was danglin' after a pc
he ticoatp But I'll have to marry now
az | spend the honeymoon in the wor
"a. house, and that looks likely. Faith, i
s. rather stop and be a companion to Il
ar poor boy there. know what II is, Jac
90 me lad. for I've been through II myse
lv so often may be as most men, and ! CT
IN feel for you"
er The watcher in the lower room dozo
,e. and woke 10 see the first gray CLEAN
nd dawn break through the crevices OF {
h window-shutters The step was st
le. going to and fro, to and fro overhea
to Cassidy began to think his friend to-
N. the matter too much at heart, but t
lst thought Of going TO bed and makil
ne himself comfortable while his cornpa
th ion suffered in solitude never occurr
ri. to him; a fact from which 1t may
v. argued that friendship was sentime
Ier more solid and enduring than love
ce his case. He threw open the shuttle
noiselessly and let the summer morni
ma light into the room, and, filing his piI
nj sat down TO read, with the monotone
no. footsteps still going to and fro, to q
e fro overhead.
nv Rowland street. as everybody know
80 IA at the same time In the middle
Irn Prague and near the middle Of Londt
It II Is not an early street. and only
his ! roll Of cab or mail cart in the gr'