San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-03-15

clean -natured mans reverence for 70
nance. 1t gave his companion deeper,
more individual interest for him, and
drew closer the bond between them.
The cherishing of an emotion so tender
and fragrant touched him, from its
sharp contrast to the rest of Anthony's
character; it was like finding pale,
sweet arbutus flower in the clefts of a
granite cliff.
"You must make a lot of money,
Ned, and go home and marry the young
lady," he said, trimming over with en-
thusiasm. "Let me see; it's fifteen
years since you came away-or say four
teen and half, to be strictly accurate.
Why, Ned, she's a grown young woman
long ago! You must hurry up, old fell
low, or somebody will step in and spoil
the romance. couldn't stand that, you
know; it's fat and disconcerting. No;
you must marry little Mary yourself.
| can't possibly play any other way.
The curtain must fall upon this idyl to
the music of the wedding march,"
Anthony had laughed aloud, and pre-,
tended to think this scheme utterly Wis
ionary and his friend wild enthusiast,
but the idea pleased him immensely. He
would recur to it again and again, and
all the purposes and ambitions held in
solution in his mind began to crystalline.
Once he essayed to set before Dan pic
ture of the caste prejudice SO strong
Virrri1,ionS an6 RI ayrnIaIr n
him what barrier it was likely to prove
in such matter as the one under dis
cussion. But Dan would have none of
it-puffed it airily away with the smoke
of his pipe, and relegated it to the limbo
of things obsolete with wave of his
shapely hand. Three letters were as
nothing, mere cipher, he maintained,
which could be used to demonstrate
manly worth as well as to reduce it to
confusion. Narrowmindedness must
expand under the influence of love, and
prejudice must doff its cap to merit. All
this he delivered with fluency and fer
vor, feeling the honest glow of pure de-
mocracy which oftentimes warns the
heart of an aristocrat while arranging
affairs for other people.
at isn't as if you were an ignorant
fellow, Ned" quoth he; "you've edu-
Gated yourself in spite of all sorts of ad-
verse circumstances, and that's a mighty
plucky thing to do-more than | could
have done, know. And you're good
looking fellow, too, Ned, and popular
among men. I've never seen you with
ladies, but I'm sure they'd like you.
Women like great broad shouldered men
with curly boards like brown silk Only
I'd advise you to open your eyes little
more; man has need of all the outlook
nature can afford him when women are
around, and particularly ladies-there's
such lot of things man must notice if
he wants to please them. You must
make fortune, though, Ned. You can't
go back without it. Money is great
leveler, and that face of yours in Il
frame of gold would look attractive even
to an F. f. ""
Such talk as this was frequent between
the men, and it was not without its in
fuence on Ned Anthony. Their init
macy lasted for more than year, and
then the edict of memorable circum-
stances parted them, sending Anthony
away to the south where fortune and
the Prairie Dog mine awaited him, and
Dan Stewart northward to Eureka. And
after while Dan was overtaken by
WEAKNESS of IA rowing life and longing
after the refinements of civilization. He
wanted home and belongings of his
own; therefore he returned to New
York, and finding his place filed up and
himself well nigh, if not utterly. for
gotten. settled himself in an office with
in his means and spread his net, and sat
him down to dream of whales and come
finally to long for minnows.