Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-02

TWO BROTHERS ''That Is he now," she at length said, in a quick, low, warning way; and al- most immediately Sylvan entered.
 The doctor stayed for nearly an hour longer, but during this time there was no resumption of the subject on which his wife and Thorndyke had been en- gagged. "He wishes to let it pass un- mentioned from this time forward" the doctor told himself. 'Ahl how heredity speaks herel And what a difference between the brothers! It is so easy to imagine Gerald full of ardor to try the truth of what his father has asserted, instead of being browbeaten at the outset by paltry, superstitious fears"
 As more days went on, the doctor felt piqued by Sylvan's continued reticence. Not to volunteer one syllable regarding n trust faithfully kept for many yearsl Such a course was tinctured with the dis-relish of crude manners, to say noth- ing of it more severe. By this time ThorndylSe's term of sojourn in New nuCt OFdWh OO h SAOSS' AAO had found that his investments and gen. eral business interests as property holder in and near Chicago made it in convenient if not quite impossible to remain much longer in the East. Be- sides, he had become fond of the huge town that has sprung up with so magic n speed if perhaps with an over-great willingness to be a trifle too impressed by itself as a prodigy. He felt actual home-siclx longings to gaze again on some of those very features of it which long ago, as an immigrant Englishman, he had roundly ridiculed.
 He decided that he would make no attempt to break the ice with Sylvan. It was ice of the young mans own freezing; let it stay rigid if he so willed. Pressing letters came from Chicago, and Thorndyke resolved to start at once. Before doing so he said to Sylvan that his brother would soon arrive in New York and that it would of course be better for Gerald to remain there month or so before going into the West. ''As regards your brothers feelings on the question of practising his new pro- fession either here or in Chicago" he continued, 'that is matter which shall want him wholly to decide for himself My friend, Dr. Clyde, in East Thirtieth street, will always be his friend and counsellor. Clyde is young, and a trife too imaginative sometimes think for a physician. But he is inn mensely clever, has won a brilliant repute as a specialist in nervous dis eases, and promises me that he will aid Gerald in every possible way"
 Sylvan seemed to reflect for a brief while on the frank and genial sentences just heard. "ThanlS you very much,p he presently said. "You have been so kind to Gerald that am sure he must appreciate it most gratefully"
 ''Confound the fellow!" Thorndyke said to himself after quitting Sylvan's doorstep. "He couldn't give me any heartier or more graceful answer than that! can understand how his legal ability has already made him lawyer with strong promise of success. Thank fate for the few men in this world who are not born either flint or pulp. I be- gin to think that character is the one thing we crave in our fellow-mortals, whether it be saintly or devilish."
 And then a self-accusing smile gleamed on Dr. Thorndyke's face as he moved onward amid the ugly brown I Fifth avenue. After all" his musings proceeded, "what character have /? If ever there was being without tho vaguest social Individuality, such
 biped is Ross Thorndyke."
 No doubt he was right in just tho social sense of which he had made men, tai note. But when all is said, how often more potent as factor of life is the heart richly brimming with kind ness, the brain full of fraternity, hu- manitarianism, help! Those people who are individual" who have angles of personality on which description can hang it's essays of portraiture, are not by any means always the choicest to } know, feel with and for, make friends of and cherish, in the surety of their standing cogent tests. Thorndyke light ly denounced himself as colorless, but his place in whatever landscape of life this or that observer might have placed him would have resembled some strong and full-boughed tree which never in- trudes itself with the least saliency and yet can not be exiled from the picture withS@ calamity of discord. He left the Maynard household, on taking his
 journey to Chicago, with thoughts ot
 Sylvan that were hurt though not at all
 malevolent. He perceived, from certain
 parting words of Lucia's, delivered in
 aside while her husband was present,
 that affairs weighed onerously on her
 spirit. "He's more stubborn than ever, ' the young wife had found time swiftly to whisper, and her distressed under. t tone echoed itself in his ears like a lznen Il tortured into fantastic cries by the
 train-clamors of his westward trip. n He had indeed left Lucia in a very un happy frame of mind. The idea of the
 so-named elixir had taken hold of heI
 imagination with savage though CO
 vert force. Not loving her husband
 she had thus far secretly exulted in the