The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-10-18


Admiral Hay Denver did not belong
10 the fiorid, white-haired, hearty
school Of sea dogs which is more COM
mon in works of fiction than in the
navy list. On the contrary, he was the
representative OF a much more common
type which is the antithesis OF the con-
Ventional sailor. He was thin, h2rd-
featured man, with an ascetic, acFul-
line cast of face, griZZled and hollow
checked, clean-shaven with the excep-
ton of the tiniest curved promontory
OF ash-colored whisker. An observer
accustomed to classify men, might nave
put him down as a canon or the church
with a taste for lay costume ana
country life, or as the master or large
public school, who joined his scholars
In their outdoor sports. His lips were
firm, his chin prominent, he had a hard
dry eye and his manner was precise
and formal. Forty years OF stern dlscl-
pline had made him reserved and
silent. Yet, when at his ease with an
equal he could readily assume less
quarterback style, and he had fund
OF little, dry stories of the world ana
its ways which were OF interest from
one who had seen so many phases or
life Dry and spare, as lean as Jockey
and as tough as whipcord, he might De
seen any day swinging his silver-head-
ed Malacca cane and pacing along the
suburban roads with the same meas
ured gait with which he had been wont
TO tread the poop of his flagship. He
wore a good service stripe upon his
cheek, for on one side 1t was pitted and
SCARED where a spurc Of gravel knocked
up by a round shot and struck him thir-
ty years before, when he served in the
Lancaster gun battery. Yet he was male
and sound. and though he was tfteen
wears senior to his friend the DOCTOR
ne might have passed as the younger
man.
Mrs. HAY Denvers life had been
very broken one and her record upon
land represented a greater amount OF
endurance and self-sacrifice than hi5
upon the sea. They had been together
for four months after their marriage
and then had come hiatus OF TOUT
years. during which he was hitting
about between St Helena and the OIL
Rivers in a gunboat Then came
blessed year OF peace and domesticity,
10 be followed by nine years, with only
n three months break, five upon the
Pacific station and four on the East IN
dian. After that was respite In the
shape of FIVE years In the Channel
squadron, with periodical runs home.
and then again he was of to the Med
iterranean for three years and 10 HAN
fax for four. Now, at last, however,
this old married couple. who were stlll
almost strangers to one another' hau
come together in Norwood, where, IL
their short day had been chequered ana
broken. the evening at least promised
all In
Hav Denver was tall and stout, with
a bright round. ruddy-cheekedN face,
stin pretty, with a gracious. matronly
comeliness. Her whole life was round
OF devotion and of love, which was dl-
vided between her husband and her
only son. Harold.
This son II was who kept them in
the neighborhood of London, for the
admiral was as fond of ships and OF
salt water as ever, and was as happy
in the sheets of two-ton yacht as on
the bridge OF his sixteen knot monitor.
I+al ne been united the Devonshire or
HaTnpshire coast would certainly have
been his choice. There was Harold, now
ever, and Harolds interests were their
chief care. Harold was four-and-twenty
now. Three years before he had been
taken In hand by an acquaintance OF his
fathers the head of a considerable firm
of stock brokers, and fairly launched
upon Change. His three hundred guinea
entrance fee paid. his three sureties Of
five hundred pounds each found, his
name approved by the committee, and
all other formalities compiled with, he
found himself whfrling round, an in
significant unit in the vortex or the
money market of the world. There, I'M
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he was instructed in the mysteries OF
bulling and of bearing, In the strange
usages of Change in the intricacies of
carrying over and Of transferring. He
learned TO know where to place his
clients money, which of the jobbers
would make a price in New Zealands
and which would touch nothing but
American rails, which might be trusted
and which Stunned. All this, and much
more. ne mastered, and TO such purpose
that he soon began to prosper, to retain
the clients who had been recommended
10 him, and to attract fresh ones. But
the work was never congenial. He had
inherited from his father his love of the
air of heaven, his affection for a manly
and natural existence. To act as middle
man between the pursuer of wealth
and the wealth which he pursued, or to
stand as a human barometer. register
ing the rise and fall OF the great mann
mon pressure in the markets, was not
the work for which Providence had
placed those broad shoulders and strong
limbs upon his well knit frame. His
dark. open face, too. with his straight
Grecian nose, we'll opened brown eyes
and round, black curled head, were al
those OF a man who was fashioned FOL
active physical work. Meanwhile h'
was popular with his fellow brokers, re
spected by his clients and beloved a.
home, but his spirit was restless Within
him and his mind chafed increasingly
against his surroundings.
do you know. Willy" said Mrs. Ha,
Denver one evening as she food be
hind her husbands chair, with her hanC
upon his shoulder, IT think sometimes
that Harold is not quite happy"
He looks happy. the young rascal.
answered the admiral pointing with hi