Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-07-13

like huge floating hive, about which a
great number OF strange bees were
working with restless industry.
Squire Condt was not seaman; he
couldn' tell the difference between the
martingale and pennant halyards, but,
as Ralph Denham's adopted father, he
felt that great responsibility had been
imposed on him by that young gentle
mans absence. He rowed out-or,
rather, had himself rowed, for he went
Catching crabs" as falling backward
is called whenever he got an oar In his
hands-several times day; and he
would climb up 20 the deck, and stand
with his feet apart and one eye shut
and his face upturned to the men aloft,
in way that was highly amusing.
Every man on board knew and liked
the squire, and all dolred their caps to
him when they came near; and he, In
charming ignorance Of naval forms,
would shake hands with them, call them
by their Christian names, and present
his snuff box to their paint-stained and
grlmy fingers.
AS the prospective father-ln-law Of
Second Lieutenant Valentine Dayton,
the squire felt it incumbent on him to
encourage that young gentleman to
greater industry.
Valentine, as was his right, made 1t q
point to visit Ellen every evening, and
at such times the squire would eXclaim,
with the surprise he assumed when sa-
luting an old topper, who had been
brought before him for the twentieth
time, for reprimand or fine.
what! you here, Valentlnep"
Here again, squire, would be the
CHEEKY reply.
and you are quite sure everything Is
shipshape and quite snug, sir, aboard
the Sea Hawk"
"Yes, squire, everything right as a
5rivet."
Sure you've forgot nothing that
ought to be attended tor"
Quite sure, squire.
Because If you have, you know, it is
not too late to so aboard, sir, and fix up,
Though Ralph Den-I mean Captain
Denham is off to New York, know he
Is forever thinking about the ship, and
now she's"
"Oh, she's well, squire, and I'll bet
she's thinking about him as hard as she
CAN"
Why, you young rascal, I am speak
ing about the ship"
And I'm speaking about Cousin
4 Lea.
= ooh, indeed" and then the Squire
would 90 off and draw his wife to one
side, and chuckle, as he whispered to
her:
MY dear, I fear our future son-ln-
law is addicted to levlty, and inclined
10 make light of life, which, as the
dominic tells us, is solemn thing, and
not at all to be laughed at.
Squire Condit knew Valentine Day
ton, ever since that young gentleman,
without any volition Of his own, APP
peared in the village church for baptism
He knew Valentine Dayton's father and
mother before they were married, and
he often boosted that he could have cut
the former out if And he would
give many reasons, the principal ones
being that he was warm friend Of the
senior Dayton, and was himself in love
with another girl at the time.
II Doctor Hedges had known Ralph
Denham's father and mother he would
not have dreamt of refusing him his
daughter; on the contrary, he would
have placed their hands together and
repeated something like the thIeadbare
formula, Bless you my children.
If he had known Ralph Denham's
father and mother, even If they were
not so good q stock as his own-and he
battered himself, as every other man Of
good standing in Sag Harbor did, that
his own family was just little" bit
better than any one else s-why, he
would have offered no objections.
AS man who firmly believed the
days Of miracles had passed for some
centuries, and ne knew nothing about
the doctrine of spontaneous genera
ton, and wouldn't have believed it II
he had-he was fully aware that Ralph
Deuham, like every other man of his
acquaintance, had a father and a
mother.
AS the tree is known by its fruit, he
might have reasoned that Ralph was a
= scion Of good stock; but the mischief
about prejudice is that 1t does not rea-
son.
SO the more he thought it over, and
The more he discussed the matter with
5OOu MILD hOuRO6y WIZ Wdo nOI dO ola
iverse to Ralph, the more settled be-
came his conviction that Lea should
not marry the young Captain.
With this determination firmly fixed
n his mind it follows, as night does the
lay, that, from warmly liking Ralph
Denham, Doctor Hedges gradually grew
o dislike him, and with positive natures
dislike is very near to hate.
The Doctor went about with his eyes
open, and during Captain FOx's stay
he attention to, and the evident pref
,rence of that gentleman for his daugh-
;er, did not escape his notice, and in his
leart he favored the suit Of the Wan
lerer's captain.
He did not know Fox's father, but
Fox was a man Of wealth, captain In
he regular navy, and, without doubt,
connected with or a member Of one Of
he great aristocratlc families Of Eng
and, in all Of whose veins-lt was at
his time claimed-the blood of royalty
lowed.
You are my only child, Lea, said
he Doctor one day to his daughter,
when the question uppermost in both
heir minds was being discussed. Il
i've only for you, and it is due that you
should respect my judgment and obey
No."
Have 1 ever disobeyed you, my
| tather?" asked Lea, quietly-so quietly