The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-10-15
HIS BROTHER SLEEPER.

but the young man sitting at the
breakfast table, from which a red-arm-
ed girl was carrying the dishes, threw
down his paper, and springing up, said,
with Il flushed face
No, Dick, you're not good for any
thing"
Come now" was the angry re-
Spouse. and Mrs. Barnes hurried for
ward nervously, for it seemed as ii the
/ two brothers would fight.
1T : fact. You are living on us;
you are lazy-and YOU re almost twen-
/ ty years Old" said Tom. the eldest.
20 boys. boys" protested the wom-
an, holding out her hands. 'Younev-
er quarreled in your life. Don't be-
gin now"
1T : time he heard the truth" NUT
tered Tom
But. mother haven't I tried?'
asked the boy, turning to her, and his
voice trembled Just Il little.
You know. Tom, that Dick is deli
cate" pleaded the woman.
Yes, and that's been his shield long
enough. | should say. He's not too
delicate to go to all the merry-makings,
and eat his share, and when he gets d
good chance i'll life. he don't know it.
I'll never try for him again, nevern'
and out he went, slaming the door be-
hind him,
Il don't see what's got into Toni
said the widow, distressinlly. II new
/ er knew him to act SO he'cre.'
"Oh, it been in him some time. 1"
/ muttered Dick, hoarsely. Ever since
lie GOT acquainted with the Moses.
! That : what's the matter
boy really mean it, Dick?'
"Of course | do. Hellkes Miss Anne,
/ down I'm i'll the way. wish father
/ had lived, or had died with him.
"Dick, darling, don't talk so!''
Il say do. Everything was going
on lust right. liked my studies, and
meant to make man, though III a
! different way from Tom. He likes
hard work, and can do it. | hate ev-
erything but books. study and law.
don't see al}y Tom should be so
hard on me. FIN trying my best.
, Lawyer Bates said that i'll less than
two years | can make my own way"
My. poor, dear boy. You are do
/ ing your lest know you are.
] Yes. you think so: you feel so; I'm
sure OF your sympathy, but you see,
! Tom wants me to be making money.
! He beerudges me the food | eat, and
! thinks / AM Sinking, and trying to
ret along without work. He never
said so before, but l have seen it OF
late. can read it i'll the wayne looks
/ at me-"
! My dear boy, try not to mind
it," said the widow distressfully.
+ 'Ihave tried; laughed at lis hints, and
swallowed my chagrin. But can't dc
it any longer my self-respect is hurt.
All is, must throw up my place with
! LAWYER Bates, and 90 out to Oregon,
and buckle down to hard work"
Dick, | never will consent to it!''
said his mother, growing pale, "1ou,
with your delicate constitution, to go
away so far from home,-from me-
when YOU have always needed to be
. watched ON CT anu tttlesl lol' tiOl
to mind Toni
Il have done so, mother but can't
pretend to try any longer. Tom wants
to be mar,.ied-to' the siliiest girl in
the family, too. because she has a
pretty face and dresses so stylishly. |
suppose hc'snot to BLANC; he's twenty
five years old. and doing fair busi-
ness. It's only am in the way, He
has to help me to clothes, you know,
and of course my board costs some
thing. ] might as well say yes. The
Journey will do me good, maybe, and
there's Il ciiancs to make money. 1t $
a new place, you know
The conference closed, and DlGk went
to his office, leaving his mother al.
most broken-hearted. 1t was such q
change from the tender care of her
husband, to dependence upon the
begun to be law And it was embar-
raising to feel that before long she
would only be second in his heart and
home. For he called the home his,
though his mother had bought it with
her own money years before, and fur
nished it herself. But now she was
left so Impoverished that she had no
means to paythe taxes, and her health
was poor.
Ii Tom would only wait! But no;
Tom believed that Dick was lazy; that
his studying law was but a farce; that
he should be no more exempt from
hard work than himself. And he had
.sst had such splendid situation Of
{ &C., hof Inn 10
yond measure when Dick declined,
gentleman Dick" as he sneeringly
called him. Besides, he did wish to
marry, but would not while he fancied
Dick an ineumbrance.
That night tue brothers met for q
few moments; the mother was not in
| the room.
"Have you written your friend in
Oregon?" asked Dick, and something
in his handsome, intellectual face re-
buked his elder brother as lac an
swered,-
mo; ] shall write to him tonight. z"
"Tell him Jaccept," said Dick, short.
ly, turned on his heel and left the
room.
"Come to his senses 81 last" said
Tom, refectiveIy, yet with certain I'M
easy twinges, as he remembered the
most unnatural brilliancy of the dark,
pathetic eyes, so like his fathers.
sPshaw! it viii ds the fellow good to
knock round the world p little. He
has been tied quite too long 70 his
mothers apron strings. And--as 10
jaw-there are too many lawyers al
ready. He will thank me before the
year is out, and another, too"
Dick preached the idea to i,is friend
Lawyer Bates, who tried all in his power
to dissuade him.
you've the making OF a11 excellent
lawyer in YOU" he said, "and you Are
getting along wonderfully. lfyou will go
off SO fan, why don'tyou wait till youg get
your diploma? That's thebusiness you
| were raadefor.
But aAl taae talk did no good, and in
waro..,v calling faim q fool, the man
turned to the papers pefore HIM.