Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-14


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
Gil of light shining through the key.hole
and piercing the inky blackness of the
unlit 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, a 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 rs nursery
and play ground. That was now more
than q quarter of a century before, but
Paul still retained the large low garnet
rooms in preference to any of the more
imposing chambers on the lower floor.
Although old Austin Warren was only
half-brother of Pauls mother he occu-
pied to the young man, whose only sur
viving relative he was, the position OF q
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two men regarded each other partook OF
the paternal on the one side and the FL
ial 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 observant humor, of the
golden-pated lad, banished in an instant
the fears felt by his uncle before his ar
rival that the cares of guardianship I'M
expectedly thrust upon him, would in
terfere 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
rich, middle aged bachelor. As years
passed on, and the boy grew to mans
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 q most reprehensible tenden.
cy to say unkind things about his I'M
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 stPaul's way, and
it only occasionally caused him feeling
of annoyance. It 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 wont, and
later on when the war of words was at
its height, had rushed out of the house.
However, he soon forgot this incident,
and half an hour later was giving an
amusing account of what he called ''the
late unpleasantness" to dark-haired
and dark-eyed young woman who was
sitting in prettily furnished cupboard,
called by courtesy room, in preten-
tious looking fat in one of the streets
near Central Park. The fiat belonged to
Harold Proudfoot, city editor of the
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 intimacy
had been kept up as such intimacies
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