The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1891-01-31

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"It's my mast earnest hope that see're tn
mortal after dcath.''
As boys Gerald Ravelovv and Louis
Bond used to play together. They
would perhaps never have sought one
anotler's company had not circumstances
caused them to spend many boyish
summers oA their parents neighbo9ing
estates, not far from the picturesque
shores Of New Rochelle, for Gerald was
. robust. merry, pink checked Lad, and
Louis. with his ssllow face and great,
mystic black eyes, differed from him -
IN ivy leaf differs from tho dandefion.
Having once met and become friends.
however,, . genuine 6oadnsD grew and
throve between their two widely oppo-
site natures. Gerald Ravelow's mother
was . mask faced WIDOW, who adored
her only ebiA, md lived n . perpetual
state d wsak chssted and nsu1aleic 10
gTet that liz laeo father had not left him
. millionaiEs. But 0seald's cheerful
mind could go n.thing really calamitous
IN tie snug HE&le fortune that had sur
vivsd his fa&hsrs eommsrcial collapse.
They spent foas q i've months in New
York each yeAs, and their Wsstchsster
homo was pleasant II not palstial
':Aft@ N" said Gerald one day, II
begin - think, mamma, that money
can't always bay - happinsas." He
looked - 5oeundly isnorsnt Of his own
platitude that his mother forgot how
threadhars . ons Il Wa. There arc the
Bonds, 10 went On: ''Louis Il . nice lit
u ehap whsn you know him, but then
he gets Ats q the blues, - be calls EN-,
and h9 doesn't begin to have half a. good
. time Of IL ~ do. And Just look ut
their great, big house. and their stables,
and their servants, and everything like
that! And then, Louis father! A.
wsys think Of . crow when l go Mr..
Bond; he's % awfully dark and glum."
"He never recovered from his wife's
loss" said MrA Ravelow, q little reprov-
ingl;. II never saw her; they bought
Shadyshore after her death. But I've
heard that little Brenda looks q good
deal like her dead mother, and il that is
the case Mrs. Bond must have been very
beautiful" .r.
DO you think brenda Bond pretty!'
asked Gerald. The idea Of her being 20
had never occurred to him before.
''She's like little angcl!'' declared his
mother. ''Such hair - hers viii always
stay golden; 1t isn't tho kind that changes
to nut brown. a. that Of 90 many chill
dren do. And then her pure little wild
rose q face! Oh, Gerald, should think
you'd be ever 20 fond Of her alreadyr'
That ALREADY" piqued Gerald by its
ambiguity. He did not know exactly
whether it referred to his own youth or
that Of Brenda, who was two good years
younger than himself. But pride kept
him from inquiries a. to his mothers
actual meaning, while at the same time
he reflected that he was privately very
fond indeed of little Brenda, and that in
more THAI one gallant WY he had con-
trived to tell her 20.
Tho thought Of her son marrying
Brenda Bond 1T some future day filed
Mrs. Ravelow with ambitious thrills.
The Bond fortune was well known to be
%, COO, 900 IL a dime, and though Louis
would perhaps receive the great bulk of
the property on his fathers death still
his sisters share would doubtless prove
. handsome one. But Mrs. Ravelow
was Of too hypochondriac q turn to al
low hope the least altitude of fight.
Her semi-invald eyes forever gazed on
the dark sides OF things, and she saw
slight prospect Of = mere boy and girl
preference ever resulting seriously in
after life.
At 1G Gerald went to Harvard, while
Louis, owing to the enfeebled health of
his melancholy father. remained at home
under the care Of tutors. During Ger
aids vacations he saw great deal of
both Louis and his sister. This had
proved one of the few childish friend.
ships not fated to be shattered or dis
PEELED by time. Gerald took no high
stand in his class, and Louis. studying
and reading amid comparative solitude,
would sometimes assail him with gentle
ironies.
II dare say you'd beat us all out of
our boots II you were ut Cambridge"
laughed Gerald one day in his junior
year.
''Oh, how I do wish he had gomez