The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-24


that 30 was in some mysterious way an
/ opening for the eldest son Of the i'm
( poFerisEed house.
"You are going 10 work. Doddy." re-
I peated Doddy's father with sOlemuity
d behtung the occasion. He did not know
/ what on earth % say az this parting scene.
I while 30 seemed 20 him ne ought. as a
I parent, TO say something. Work now,
/ ana you viii play hy and by. Yes by
I JoVe. that's it-that's what you have got
] Go make up your mind to. No running
& after balls and parties II people ask YOU
I so when you can. 60. when 10 does not
I interfere with your work. Go. and enjoy
] yourself. No one could say anything
I against that But I'm told that they keep
/ monstrous late hours in London so il
! YOU could slip away before The rest-a lit
3 te before daylight you know" iocoseIy
/ 'or perhaps you might get leave to put in
I an appeararce at the bank an hour or two
I later-l daresay that could be managed
I II they are civil fellOws-but you will find
out for yourself the best thing to do
/ The great point viii be to stick to your
| work. Duty before pleasure. my boy. and
and that sort of thing London Is the devn
| or place for pleasure-and young fell
| lows VIII be young fellows: but
/ you ne good lad Doddy. and
| though ! don't at all like letting you 20
I or at your age all alone into the world
I he blew his nose Loudly. yet you'll do your
I and your mother"
Dolby turned his face away
/ - God bless you, my bOy-God bless your
I The hands stripped each other. and in the
silence some one was heard breathing
short and fast. ANS for the hest ,-o5
Know, Doddy. You are going to show your
pluck and fgnt your way up. as many an
| other has done before you. It's great
/ matter that you have got this opening
/ and l know you won't throw away such
| a chance. Why wen have you providing
| Tor US all before we know where we aret'
/ lnen, as the old man found himself sud
! dehly alone. his voice changed and his
band fell by his ide. THAT a son Of mine
should nave to earn his bread by sitting
on stool" he muttered
Doddy had listened respectfully to the
above eNordium while not protesting to
hlmsef that as an eXordium he set much
Nalue upon Il. He knew what Il meant
Between him and his father there existed
that perfection Of sympathy which needs
! no words and whilst each experienced
only an awkward sensation beneath the
/ conviction that these were exacted by the
conventional idea of paternal solieitude.
All that was really needed was the break
| IN the speakers voice, and the sudden an
pearance Of the old red silk handkerchief
When the moment came Doddy was glad
to break away
As for London pleasures-well. of course
| ne would not be carried away with ,nem
His dear Old dad had himself said that
that young fellows would be young fell
lows and that London was the devil
OF place Cor pleasure" but he would
keep cool. He would pick and chose among
/ his invitations. He would put on the
brake il he found himself getting let in
for too many. 1t would not do to ask off
at the bank too often.
Poor Doddy!
The season was in full swing when he
| arrived Ia London and he had heard a
great deal about the London season. 1t
was vortex-a whirlpool-a great re-
volving round of dissipation-but he did
not mean to be caught by the extended
arms of the wind mill No, no; that GER
tainly would not do; he would have to
keep his head clear and take things mod
erately. Thus he thought he was pre-
pared
month went by, and so far the prep
aration had hardly been required. Doddy
was trihe surprised, but on the whole
satisfied; he was bucklng to his business.
ana IL took all his wits to get thoroughly
into it. He could wait for the rest. An
other month elapsed, and stiu the wind
mill so far from catching him in it's arms.
had not even extended a little finger. The
season began to wane When the note
struck which once more scattered far
and wide all the temporary denizens Of
NlAN Soy EA BUAllpn III lIt metropolis. ne
had not been hidden to take part in a
single festVity of any Importance This
was Doddy's frst experience of the Lon
don world
Presently he began to shape out life
OF his own; he made some friends; he en-
tered into certain purs uits; and he fell
into not uncongenial routine. But this
routine, while it lasted from week to week,
and from month to month seldom If ever
brought him into contact with gay or
fashionable quarters. and he might have
been living at the Antipodes for all he
saw or heard of the London within a
few miles OF his humble lodgings
Two years had passed, and it was with
strange and altI~ether new sensation
that he fingered at length a real ballroom
/ invitation, and his first thought was that
no power on earth should induce him to
accept it. He go ball Go to a ball at
Mrs. Macaulays house. He had forgotten
how to dance, and almost forgotten
where the Macaulays lived. What
had induced them TO think of him? And
what should he do at their ball? He would
not know what to say to the girls he
danced with; girls would not care to
hear about the things which interested
him, and he, on his part, neither knew nor
cared about the rubbish of which their
silly heads We're full. The whole thing
would be n nuisance-an intolerable nui-
sance. He threw the card down, and
turned away TO eat his dinner; but before
going out in the evening-he was going
to the theater with a friend-he stuck il
in the fraume of the little dingy mirror,
thinking he would write his excuse then
he came home and had time to think of
one.
But when he came homo he forgot TO
go into the sitting-room, and being tired,
turned straight OFF to bed In the morn
ing he was hurried, and had only time to
say, Bother that ballr' before catching
up his hat and stick and boiling for his
omnibus. Then at night there was the
card again, confronting him from the
mirror. and again he had forgotten 1t!
oh, well, 1t was no matter; he could not
be worrying with notes at that hour; he
/ had been writing all day. and had a book
he wanted to read. The next evening, and
( the next it was the same; on the fourth
a friend looked in, and for the first time
| Doddy regarded his gilt-emblazoned dec
Grafton with something like compla-
! cency.
! For the other young man took differ
/ ent view of the matter. Hello! What
/ have we here?" said he. inspecting the
/ card. Il have something on for the 18th
/ too Hyde Park square? That's a Jolly
Z plapp Ouphf RI he "a ynod hal Nts,,