Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-09-20

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NJ II IN ~ ll4f O1u-BJyl6 AOuS5 III
III SS&E III WasbingtonSquare
III 57Tt IN and listened to the
III IN [5#9 rustling of the APP
TIHlI<7 3 IKi I Ri breeze through
sIIM &~I9 IIEI W. the tree-tops across
PIjM/n f. Zllf1 ", the road It was
HI la Y II tM VIZ past u o'clock and
VA 3&~7-J/ZECS{f the gravel walks
i II E8 A. VI Iva VI leading through
I'LL IN Fz,IIiLH the public garden
#LEFNJL1 u were deserted save
@-zEz for stray gray
coated policeman and some young men
fastening home to their solitary bed
rooms IN the great caraVanseral on the
east side of the square. Paul recognized
with a subtle sense of satisfaction the
odOr exhaled by the budding trees, as
delicate as though he had been sur
rounded by broad fields of spring grass
instead of by acres of smoky hOuse-tOps;
then he turned on his heel, opened the
door with his latch key and went up the
broad staircase on his way to bed. AS
he passed his uncle's room he saw pen
oil of light shining through the key-hole
and piercing the inky blackness Of the
unlt landing Smiling rather sadly he
muttered to himself: 81 suppose he is
working off his temper by pOttering
among the cog-wheels. I'd bid him
good night and tell him to go to bed if I
were not sure he'd take take that as a
sign of surrender on my part" and so
continued his course to the rooms ON the
top of the house These-when he first
came, curly-headed youngster Of 5,
his black dress the livery of double Or
phanage, to cheer his uncle's loneliness
had been cOnsecrated to him as nursery
and play ground. That was now more
e. E,rlE-
Paul still retained the large low garrett
rooms in preference to any of the more
imposing chambers on the lower floor.
Although old Austin Warren was only
a half-brOther of Paul. mother he occu-
pied to the young man, whose only sur
ElV1ng relative he was, the position of a
father, for the affection with which the
two men regarded each other partOOk Of
the paternal on tire one side and the fl
lal on the other, while, at the same time
there was a dash of the freedom and
equality common to the relations be-
tween two brothers of unequal age.
When Paul's presence had first chased
the shadows from the echoing rooms in
the big house the frank independence,
dashed with Obseryant humOr, of the
gOlden-pRted lad, banished in an instant
the fears felt by his uncle before his ar
rival that the cares of guardianship IN
eXpectedly thrust upon him, would in
teIfere with his devotion to the pursuit
of that mechanical ignis-fatuus, the dis
cOvery Of perpetual motion, which at
that time was almost mania with the
Eich, middle-aged bachelor. As years
passed on, and the boy grew to man s
estate, he disappointed his uncle Austin
by displaying no sort of inclination to
apply himself to the pursuit of mechani-
cal science, which, though he had long
since abandoned as fruitless, the search
for perpetual motion was still the hobby
OF the elder mans declining years, but
they were, nevertheless, the best OF
friends and crOnies. Paul, it Is true,
displayed a most reprehensiDle tenden-
Cy to say unkind things about his IN
Cle's knack for lsbOriOusly constructing
ingenious machines, which did every
thing but work, and insisted on being
excessively rude to the shabby long
haired and wild-eyed inventors who were
occasionally entertained at dinner by
his relative; but the old man had come
to consider this as ''Paul's way" and
Ii only occasionally caused him a feeling
Of annoyance. 1t was in fit of sudden
rage eau sed by some unusually exasper-
ating remarks of Paul, that Austin War.
rem had, with that exaggerated emotion pc
culiar to him even in his gentle moods,
denounced the young man in unmeas
ured terms as an migrate. Paul had re
torted sharply, as was his won't, anC
later on when the war of words was a
its height, had rushed out Of the house
However, he soon forgot this incident
and half an hour later was giving al
amusing account Of what he called 18th,
late unpleasantness" to a dark-haireC
and dark-eyed young woman who wa
sitting in a prettily furnished cupboard
called by courtesy a room, In a preten
tious looking fat In one of the street
near Central Park. The fat belonged t.
Harold ProudfOot, city editor Of tn
New York Daily Chronicle, and the pref
ty young woman was his sister Helen
generally called Nell, by her intimates
among whom Paul was certainly inclU
ded. Harold had been his most init
mate friend at college and the intimac.
had been kept up as such intimacia
rarely are SO that when Helen came t