The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-11-29
CHAPTER XIV.

| TdTb VI EuhtU Hlary 3 pTOteSU against tnC
status In which he found himself swell was
to wash his face for dinner in tin basin on
the back porch. like the farm hands When
he was alone at the farm he had the hands eat
| with him; when his mother and sister were
| visiting him he pretended that the table was
| too small for them all at dinner and tea, though
he continued to breakfast with the hands, be-
cause the ladies were never IN at his hour:
the hands know well enough what it meant.
but they liked Matt.
Louise found him at the roller towel. niter
his emblematIc ablutions. "Oh. is 1t SO near
| dinner?" she asked.
Yes Where is MAXWELL
Il lett him UP at the camp" She walked q
little way out into the ground ivy that matted
the back yard under the scattering spruce
trees.
Matt followed. and watched the homing md
departing bees around the hives in tho deep.
| red-clovered grass near the wall
Those fellows will be swnrming before
| ong." he said. with measure OF the good
comradeship he felt for all living things.
Il don't see." said Louise. plucking a ten
der. green shoot from one OF the fir boughs
overhead. why. Mr.. Maxwell is SO hard"
rs he hard?" asked Mutt. well. perhaps
| he is"
He is very sneering and bitter" said the
girl. Il don't like it."
'Ah. he's to blame for that" Matt said
But as for his hardness. that probably comes
from his having had to make such hard fight
| for what he wants to be in life. That hardens
| people. and brutalizes them. but somehow we
| mostly admire them and applaud thom for
their success against odds II we had true
civilization a man wouldn't have to fight for
the chance to do the thing he is flttest for that
is. to be himself But I'm glad you don't like
Maxwells hardness: don't myself"
He seems to look upon tho whole world ns
material. as he calls it he doesn't seem to re-
gard people as fellow beings. as you do. Matt.
or even as servants or interiors: he hasn't 80
much Kindness for them as that"
We'll. that's the odious side OF the artistic
nature" said Matt. smiling toerantly. But
he'll probably get over that: he's very young:
he thinks he has to be relentlessly literary
now"
Hes older than am!' said Louise.
He hasntseen SO much OF the world"
He thinks he's seen n great deal more. I
don't think he's half so nice aswe supposed
should call him dangerous"
"Oh. wouldn't say that exactly" Matt re-
piled. But he certainly hasn't our traditions.
I'll Just step over and call him to dinner"
"Oh. no! Let me try II 1 can blow the horn"
She ran to where the long tin tube hung on the
her lips and evoked some stertorous and
GRUMPY notes from it. DO you suppose he
saw me p she asked. running back with the
horn.
Matt could not say: but Maxwell had seen
her. and had thought Of a poem which he i'm.
agined illustrated with the figure Of tall.
beautiful girl lifting. long tin horn to her
lips with outstretched arms. He did not know
whether to name it simply Tho Dinner Horn.
or grotesquely. Hebe Calling the Gods to Nec-
tar. Hc debated the question as he came lag
ging over the grass with his cushion in one
hand and Pinney's letter open in tho other.
He said to Matt. who came out to get the
cushion Of him. Here's something I'd like
to talk over with you. when you've the time"
well. after dinner" said Matt.
Pinneys letter was a long one. written in
pencil on one sido Of long slips OF paper like
printers copy: the slips were ench carefully
folioed In the upper right-hand corner: but
the language was the language OF Pinney's
life. and not tho decorative diction which lie
usually addressed to tho public on such slips
of paper.
II guess" 1t began. i've got onto the big
gest thing yet. MAXWELL The Erents is going
to send me to do the Social Science Congress
which meets in Quebec this year. and I'm
going to take Mrs Tinney along and have
rate now; and the change will do her and the
baby both good. I shall interview the social
science wiseacres. and do their proceedings
OF course. but the thing that I'm onto is North
wick. Two always felt that Northwck kind of
belonged to yours truly, any way; was the
only man that worked him up in any sort OF
shape at tho time the defalcaton came out.
and I've got littlo idea that think will
simply clean out all competition. That letter
OF his set me to thinking. as soon us read it.
and my wife and l both happened on
the idea at the same time: clear case Of
telcpathy. Our idea is that Northwick didn't
60 to Europe-of course no didn't.-but he's
just holding out for terms with the company.
don't believe he's got of with much money;
but II no was going into business with it in
Canada. he would have laid low till he'd made
his investments So my theory is that he s got
all the money he took with him except his liv-
ing expenses believe can find Northwick.
and am not going to come homo without
trying hard l lam going to have detectives
legal outfit, aud ! fntter myself l can got
Northwick over the frontier somehow. and re-
store him to the arms OF his anxious friends
OF the Ponkwasset Company. I don't know
yet Just how shall do it. but guess shall
do it. shall have Mrs. Pinney's advice and
counsel. and she's team: but ! shall have to
roaming round In R.mouski and the wilder
ness generally. and shall need nctive help.
Now. liked some things In that Abstract
article OF yours. 1t was snappy aad literary.
and all that, and It showed grasp Of tho sub
ject 1t showed humane aud III trciiul spirit
toward our honored friend that could DO made
to toll in my little gamo II could get tho use
Of it,. so I've concluded to let you in on the
ground floor. II yon want to go into the enter
prise with mo. II you don't, don't give it
away. That's ull. My idea IL that Northwlck
can be got at quicker by two than by one; but
We have not only got to get ut him. but we
have got to get him. and get him on this side
OF Jordan. guess We shall have to do that by
moral suason mostly. and that's where your
massive and penetrating intellect will DO right
on deck. You won't have to play n part, either.
II you believe that his only chance VI happi-
ness on earth is to como homo and spend
the rest of his li'o In State prison. you can
conscentiously work him from that point OF