The morning call., 1894-09-30

G adys! What a trump the grille is.
Amt half good enough for her. by Jove
Give you up for Uncle Obed's gold. my ILL.,
tie brown eyes? What do you think-en ?'
! With these and such like reflections did
| Jim Trevor begulle his solitary meal. lock-
i ing the while as pleased and happy as il
! he had just inherted plum. A school
! boy out f"r holiday could not have
! showed jollier. more beaming face than
| .Iim's The waiter noted it. and thought
that, in defiance of regulations, 1t would
mean tip, wherein he was not deceived.
Several of the young mems friends also
noted 1t ana came across to rally hin.
HAS the uncle stumped up handsome.
thPn?" asked one.
mo. my boy. Refused to part with a
brass farthing, and kicked me out of the
house, with his special commentator to
| the devil!'
Upon my word" laughed another.
You take the disappointment uDcommonly
well, jim. considering how you stand"
"Life's too short TO worry over such
tries," said Trevor, philosophically. light
ing cigarette.
by Jove! you've changed your tone
since last night You were glum enough
| about your affairs then, and that was while
you still had hopes from Uncle Obed."
YES" said jim. "lm like what's his
name in the what dye call it. AS long as
the life OF my hopes was trembling in the
balance l tasted and wept; but new that
death has supervened l consider it foolish
to fret"
He did not tell them the real reason o f
his hilarity. They would only. have Ito
| use his own eXpression) "rOted" him, for
they could not be expected to understand
phase of feeling which he scarcely
understood himself. What made him fall
so utterly in love with Gladys Boyd She
was not pretty; somewhat the reverse
People. indeed. admitted that her bright.
I o. iva adj a. or a
but then the very word 'redeem" carried
with 1t something uncon plImentary TO the
rest Of her features. Her nose was. cer-
tainly, inclining snub, her complexion
was SallOW, her mouth too large 10 satisfy
aesthetic canons. In addition she was
snort of stature. and, though her hgure
was trim and graceful, as far as 1T went,
1t gave you the impression of not going
far enough by several inches.
Yet here was jim Trevor hopelessly In
| love with her-Jim Trevor, the handsome,
dashing youngster who had turned up his
nose at a hundred prettier girls and had
always chaffed his friends without mercy
when they had developed symptoms of
what he contemptuously styled "SpoOner's
disease" He was going the pace Ike a
regular young Ri. falling into the fastest
| bachelor company ana the widest bachelor
! pursuits earning himself a reputation
! which made dOwagerS shake their heads
and strait-laced duennaS look earnestly
! into shop windows when they met him,
which caused his name 10 be snuffied dubi-
| Ously by Hebrews in dusty offices and his
signature TO be regarded as an old friend
by the secretaries OF assurance companies
then in the middle of it all. while the fun
was still hot and the pleasure still sweet,
he was pulled up short, converted, re-
/ formed, reVolutonized! Aud by what?
BY the brown eyes of a demure lit L.
puss, who had scarcely personal attrac-
tion and absolutely not shilling to bless
herself with. 1t was (as Jim himself had
phrased ~ "the rummiest go alive" He
couldn't explain it; he simL ly accepted it,
conscious that II was by far the most ele-
waiting sensation he had ever experienced,
and that-"'pOu my word il did, by JOve p
it gave his past Pleasures such a sicken.
Ing taste that he chucked them, one and
all, from sheer disgust.
He reached Victoria in plenty of time
and had been standi on the arrival plat
form quite ten minutes when the traiI
steamed in. He soon caught sight o.
Gladys, who thrust her head out of the
window of a third-eliss carriage, and hur
ried for ward to greet her. As he hel her
hand and looked down into her upltfteC
| eyes, he detected traces of tears. "Wha
was the matter?" he wondered. He was
not long in ignorance.
"We must see about my luggage first
Jim." she said. SIT is in the van next tue
engine"
"Your luggage, Gladdie Are you com.
Ing 10 stay In town, then ?"
Nes; I-l-haye left Aunt Louisa,
Jim
Left Aunt Louisaw he calculated.
"H0w is that?"
Il should like to 60 for walk with you