Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-05-25

ing even in repose that latent smile is
ever lurking at the edges of the lips. She
was modern to the soles of her dainty
little high heeled shoes, frankly fond of
dress and Of pleasure. devoted to tennis
and to comic opera, delighted with
dance-which came in her way only too
acknowledging ever for some new ex-
citement. and yet behind all this lighter
side of her character a thoroughly good,
healthy minded English girl, the life and
soul of the house and the idol of her sis
ter and her father. Such was the family
at No.2 A peep into the remaining villa.
and our introductions are complete.
Admiral Hay Denver did not belong to
the fiorid, white haired, hearty school of
sea dogs which is more common in works
Of fiction than in the navy list. On the
contrary, he was the representative Of n
much more common type which is the
antithesis Of the conventional sailor. He
was thin, hard featured man, with an
ascetic, aquiline cast of face, grizzled and
hollow checked, clean shaven, with the
exception of the tiniest curved promon-
tory of ash colored whisker. An observer
dSSuoboAhCh W SidooiiJ bicu htfo
put him down as canon Of the church
with u taste for lay costume and coun-
try life. or as the master of large pub
lie school. who joined his scholars in their
outdoor sports. His lips were firm, his
chin prominent. he had a hard, dry eye,
and his manner was precise and formal.
Forty years of stern discipline had
made him reserved and silent. Yet when
at his ease with an equal he could read
lily assume less quarter deck style, and
he had fund Of little dry stories of the
world and its ways which were of inter
est from one who had seen SO many
phases of life. Dry and spare, as lean as
jockey and as tough as whipcord. he
might be seen any day swinging his sill
yer headed Malacca cane and pacing
along the suburban roads with the same
measured gait with which he had been
wont to tread the poop Of his flagship.
He wore good service stripe upon his
cheek, for on one side it was pitted and
SCARED where squirt of gravel knocked
up by round shot had struck him 80
years before when he served in the Lam
caster gun battery. Yet he was hale and
sound, and though he was 5years senior
to his friend, the doctor, he might have
passed as the younger man.
Mrs. Hay Denver's life had been very
broken one, and her record upon land
represented a greater amount of endur-
ance and self sacrifice than his upon the
sea- They had been together for four
months after their marriage, and then
had come hiatus of four years. during
which he was fitting about between st.
Helena and the Oil rivers in u gunboat.
Then came blessed year of peace and
domesticity, to be followed by nine years,
with only three months break-ive
upon the Pacific station and four on the
East Indian. After that was respite in
the shape of FIVE years in the Channel
squadron. with periodical runs home.
and then again he was off to the Medi-
terrapean for three years and to Halifax,
for four. Now at last, however, this old
married couple, who were still almost
strangers to one another, had come to-
gether in Norwood, where, if their short
day had been checkered and broken, the
evening at least promised to be sweet
and mellow. In person Mrs. Hay Denver
was tall and stout. with bright. round,
ruddy checked face still pretty. with
gracious. matronly comeliness. Her
whole life was round of devotion and
of love. which was divided between her
husband and her only son, Harold.
This son it was who kept them in the
neighborhood of London, for the admi-
raj was as fond of ships and of salt wa
ter as ever and was as happy in the
sheets of 2-ton yacht rs on the bridge
of his 16-knot monitor. Had he been
united the Devonshire or Hampshire
coast would certainly have been his
choice. There was Harold, however, and
Harold's interests were their chief care.
Harold was "a now. Three years before
he had been taken in hand by an ac-
quaintance of his fathers. the head of a
considerable firm of stockholders, and
fairly launched upon change His 300
guinea entrance fee paid, his three sure
ties of $500 pounds each found, his name
approved by the committee and all other
formalities complied with, he found him
self whirling around, an insignificant
unit in the vortex of the money market
| OF the world.
There, under the guidance of his fa-
theirs friend, he was instructed in the
mysteries Of bulling and of bearing, in
the strange usages of change, in the In
tricacies of carrying over and of trans
ferring. He learned to know where to
place his clients money, which of the
jobbers would make price in New zea-
lands and which would touch nothing
but American rails, which might be
trusted and which Stunned. All this and
much moro he mastered, and to such
purpose that he soon began to prosper,
10 retain the clients who had been rec
commended to him and to attract fresh
ones. But the work was never congen-
ial. He had inherited from his father
his love of the air of heaven, his affec-
ton for manly and natural existence.
To act as middleman between the pur
suer of wealth and the wealth which he
pursued, or to stand as human barom-
eter, registering the rise and fall of the