Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-06-01

and 10 abhor tho sight OF child. And
yet i discovered. when frequently re-
curing NJ Of sickness had forced job Ia
keep strict lookout, that this unpriDciple;
| old man was in the habit of enticiug The
boy Ia his rooms and there feeding him
upon unlimited quantities of brandy balls.
and making him promise To say nothing
about il Job told him that be ought 10 be
ashamed of himself, al his age too, when
he might have been "A grandfather II he
had done what was right" by which job
understood had got married. and thence
arose the row.
The child grew into the hoy. and the
boy into the young man, and one by one
the remorseless years flew by. and as he
grew and increased. SO did his beauty anG
the beauty Of his mind grow with him
When he was about fifteen, they used Ia
call him Beauty abou, the college, AMI
me they nicknamed the Beast Beauty
ank the Beast WAS what they called us
when we went out walking together, as
we used to every day. Once Leo attacked
great strappiug butchers man. twice his
size, because he sung il out after us, and
thrashed him, too-thrashed him fairly
| walked on and pretended not TO see. I'LL
the combat got too exciting, when turned
round and cheered him on TO victory. II
was the chaff Of the college at the time
but | could not help il. Then when he
was little older the undergraduates got
fresh names for us They called me
Charon. and Leo the Greek god. | Will
pass over my own appellation with the
humble remark that | was never hand
some and did not grow more so as grow
older As for his, there was no doubt
about its fitness. Leo at twenty-one
might have stood for statue of Apollo.
never saw anybody TO touch him in
looks, or anybody so absolutely uncon-
seious of them. AS for his mind. he was
brilliant and keen witted but not scholar
He had not the dizziness necessary for
that result We followed out his fathers
instructions as regards his education strict.
w enough, and on the whole the results,
especially so far rs the Greek aod Arabic
went. were satisfactory | learned the
latter language in order TO help TO teach il
to him, but after five years Of 1t he knew
it as well as | did-almost a. well as the
professor who instructed us both. | al
WAYS Was u great spOrtsman-it is my one
passiln-and every autumn we went away
somewhere shooting or fishing, sometimes
to Scotland. sometimes to Norway, once
even 10 Russia ! am good snot, but
even IN this he learned TO excel me. When
Leo was eighteen | moved back into my
rooms, and entered him at my own col
lege, and at twenty.one he took his degree
"a respectable degree, but not very high
one. Then it was that l. for the first time,
told him something of his own story, aud
of the mystery that loOmed ahead. OF
course he WAS very curious about IT, and
of course, | explained TO him that this
curiosity could not be gratified at present.
After that. TO pass the time away. | sug-
gested that he should get himself called TO
the Bar, and this he did, reading at Cam
bridge, and only going up to London TO
eat his dinners.
And so the time went by, till at last he
reached his twenty fifth birthday, at which
date this strange, and in some ways awful,
history really begins.