The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-05-24
ment he turned to the fly Leaf. There,

ment he turned to the fly leaf. There,
above a date that carried him back in
memory several years to his college
days at Harvard, he saw written by his
own hand the words, collin, from
Allan" while underneath, in the dog
gerel in which undergraduates delight,
were scrawled few stanzas, the
authorship Of which remorseless mem
ory Immediately fastened upon him.
The book dropped from his hands in
his agitation at this discovery. In tones
of incredulous amazementh he exclaimed:
"At last the mystery Is solvedl By
Jovel So my first suspicion was cor
rect, after all, Ollin, not Allan; the
similarity In sound deceived me; it was
0llin North that he saidn--his thoughts
suddenly reverting to the gentleman
with the eyeglasses Actually Noll,
my own twin-brother! Nowondpr they
can't tell us apartl Well,. am aston
ishedl Ishould as soon have expected
to run against the man in the moon, or
any other person of doubtful existence,
as to find Noll here. Why didn't he let
me know where he VASE hope he
doesn't lay any Of Uncle Dicks sins at
my doorl What If the old gentleman
was always holding me up as a model
for Noll to initiate, ever since we were
in knickerbockers, and calling me his
favorite nephew and all that rubbish;
why, bless his heart, Noll knew well
enough how / felt toward him, and /
don't believe there was ever the faintest
shade of jealousy or even so much as a
passing cloud between us up to the very
day we parted so suddenly Let me see,
now, how long ago was that? We were
just out of college, Noll and |, and were
reading law with Judge Carroll, and
that was six years ago. Six yearsl
What q genius Noll had for spending
money! Now always had enough with
my regular allowance, and managed to
make the ends meet very creditably,
though Uncle Dick wasn't exactly
princely in his generosity in this re-
spect; whereas Noll, without one single
vice, or even an actual extravaganza
that you could lay your finger on, was
always and forever in debt. 1t used to
be perfect mystery to me how he con-
trived to spend so much money; 1t
seemed to melt away like ice as
soon as it got into his hands, and
that made Uncle Dick wrathy,
so that finally he cut off Nolrs
allowance altogether, and swore he
would disinherit the young spendthrift,
and actually did forbid him the house;
and poor Noll, too proud and angry to
bid even me good-by, drifted off to
Europe to live by his wits Dear old fell
low! He had better capital to depend
on than most of the fellows have who
are obliged to resort to that invisible
means of support. And now he has
drifted back to the United States and
is living here in K, fully established
in his profession and actually running
for municipal Office. 1t really wasn't
fair for him TO throw me over in this
unceremonious way. By Jovel I'll
tell him what think OF this unbroth.
erly conduct when I see him again.
And can tell him something else that
win interest him quito as much, per
haps - that there hasn't been o
day In the last six years wher
Uncle Dick wouldn't have giyer
his right hand to make up his
quarrel with Noll and receive him back
into full favor again, II only Noll would
make the first advances How should
like to see the dear old fellow again
This Cervantes brings him upso vividly,
to think that he should still keep II
about himl 1t must be for the sake Of
old associations. That is so like Nolll'
While these thoughts were passing
through his mind North had taken up
the book again, and he was now slowly
turning the pages, pausing occasionally
to read some marked passage or mar
ginal note scrawled in pencil.
AS he did so folded paper fluttcred
from between the leaves and fell to the
floor. North picked up the paper and