The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-22

direct and UNCONSCIOUS reverence WHICH
the sacred character Of the structure i'm
pels.
This is because stand in spot which
is a tomb of innumera BILE personages who
have assisted in. making, or who have
game places in. the worlds history; be
cause the upbuilding, preservation, de
struction, reha oilation of what my hand:
may touch or eyes behold, have Otter
changed dynast1es, impoverished treasu
ries. created pilgrimages and sacrificed
countless lives; and, more than all else
because, for century after century, thou
sands upon thousands q great minds have
with matchless fidelity given Of their best
effort, or absolutely their lives devotion
toward the perfection Of this mighty
prayer in stone.
Il mention this personal feeling and
tendency in these matters because they
connected me with a pleasant life ro-
nance growing out of a reverential pill
grimage, during my earlier years, among
the cathedrals of England; and l will re-
late the somewhat curious incidents, as
nearly as can recall them, precisely as
they occurred"
Through the generosity Of my patron
and uncle, Kirby Dorklin, who had re-
turned from his extensive mining opera
tions at Ballarat IN time to witness my
ordination, l had taken orders at Oxford,
had Just entered orders and was as happy,
hopeful and proud young clergyman as
could be found in all the United Kingdom.
AS for Kirby Dorklin, his happiness
knew no bounds.
At times it took on the form of almost
ecstatc imbecility. He would sit by the
ArIf l. 7IFNcy
face, open mouth and a trembling little
shake of his grizzled old head, which
would always terminate in his tightly
closing his eyes and giving vent to some
explosive expression indicative of his
lack of verbal power to fully convey his
enjoyment
F'Bless me! bless mel Robert Dorklin, :"
he would say, ats all like the gold of
Ballarat-twenty-thr and half karats
fine, in every pennyweight o. Jhinkin' OF
it; so it is indeed, Robert Dorklinl"
Then the good, grizZled old fellow
would stamp up and down the apartment,
puff hard at his pipe, mop his red face,
red forehead and the shiny red crown OF
his hard, knotty head with his fiery red
handkerchief and poke his huge walking
stick gayly and vigorously at the furnl-
ture and chandelier, as though merrily
besting some invisible antagonist.
| would of course thank him again and
again for the kindness which had led TO
this mutual delight. This always had
curious results. The old fellow would
stiffen up with;
mot bit of it, Not bit Of it Non.
sense! Tut, tut, tut Thank the 'tother
one; not me. Thank the hussey-mussey-
fussey; not me. Thank the fudge bulge
nudge; not me. Thank the ninny-pinny.
winny; not me. Aha, wouldn't the 'tother
one like to know how the 'tother one was
fooled and what the 'tother one has
missedR Perhaps not, thought Bah ~
Then he would whip his arms around
his body gleefully hug himself as if mex.
pressibly enjoying "'tother ones" i'm
aginary discontinue over his long Gun.
ming and present happiness, and Temporal
rily end his strange antics by embracing
me and pitifully begging me to never be-
come entangled with a "'tother one" in
which case all would be well.
Strange old soul AS grateful to him
as l was, as much as l really loved him,
despite his often offensive eccentrlcities,
there was to me something deeply pa
thetic in these expressions of child like
happiness, thinly disguised victory over
the mysterious '"tother one" and his
plaintive implied pleadings that no love
affair on my part should ever change or
lessen the affection between US.
For Uncle Kirby Dorklin, so the legend
In our family ran, had suffered in a love
affair, which had made him what he was
and all he was.
A quarter of a century before, some
where in England, he had come upon a
mite of maiden, fair as an English rose
He had loved this girl madly. Some fool
ish misunderstanding arose; a week later
he had found himself on board a vessel
bound for Melbourne, shaking his fist in
bitterness back at his native land; and
he had never once returned until. rich and
old in appearance, if not in years, he had
come to gloat over the little success that
!, his protege, had made, and to lavish
upon me an affection which in youth had
been untimely diverted from it's proper
source.
So far as our family could learn he had
never divulged any of the particulars oil
the infatuation or its unfortunate ending
nor had he written to friend or relative
for years. In dim way only we all
knew that he was prospecting
Suddenly brief word came that he haC
decided my career should be a clerica
one and, as an astoundingly large remit
lance had accompanied this announce
ment, as well as word that if l minded
my ways and did him honor, l should bt
his only heir, what had so far happened
was but natural and sequential.
But here ne was. Grabbed, grotesque
AAAoA tCNo dtiNA CNoNoVAN pei obAANEOs CuLlLluH
and frank by turns; parsimonious anC
nlogically generous, as the mood nigh
take him; ogre-like and child-like in the
same moment; in fact, a grand nature
dwindled and gnarled, and in places. dis
torted through his years of brave miser
Gness and effort to be rich, simply as an
abstract victory over disappointment
positively gloating in his pitiful, veal
way at the modification his riches mus
cause some mythical or real human, anC
often gibbering in an almost senile exalta
ton that he had finally purchased out
right, like Ballarat mine, tho right per
force to human affection and gratitude
Study him as / might, lay snares fol
his condolences as continually did, al
that / could know of his inner life, save
from Its odd everyday expression, wa
that the "hussey-m thu
e-budge-mudge' and the "ninny
pinny-winny," to whose discomfortur
rather than Kirby Dorkhn s inherent gen
erosity was ceaselessly commanded L
attribute my fortune, present and per
spective were simply contemptuous terms
for the, to him, omnipresent and intolera
BILE ''tother one"
And the "tother one" saw more ant
more clearly. must have been, a quarter
Of a century before, the real cause of tn,
enlightenment of his life, and had be
come, in his disordered and perverted
mind, an unbearable phantasm, STANDING
n HrnN. H IHI HWsf Ia.