Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-02-07

the hard world Wlnle uueerBoihS LIE
seven years Imprisonment. he was
heart broken, and Everard saw him
glide swiftly into the clutches Of con-
sumption and fade before him.
Many stroke of work he did for
the poor weaklng, and many n
thought Of hope and manly cheerful
rcss he gave him. And by the dark.
ness IN the prison the day the poor
fellow was taken to the inflrmaly-
never more as Everard well knew,
to come out agaln-he knew how
much brightness his friendship had
made In that lreary spot. EVerard,
as u special grace, bcsought them to
give him hospital duty, that he might
himself tend his dying friend. ami
thus he was able to soothe his latest
moment receive his plteous message
for his wife, whom Eyerard had little
nope of ever meeting, and close his
eyes when he had no more need OF the
sun
AS the outer world, so was the mar
row prison sphere, Evcrard round
after awhile; men trusted and be-
trayed, loved and hated. schemed and
cnvied, dcridcd misfortune or helped
IT, as In the world, only there was 4
larger percentage of rascals inside the
prison than outside. His friends were
chiefly gentlemen though he sought
the friendship OF the lowest; a man
had but to be miserable to found a
claim upon his heart
But never TIL he dwelt ON equal
terms with the scum of all classes did
he discover how hard and inneXlhc
are the iron bars which divide class
from class. The gentlemen. from the
fraudulent director and forging eX-
guardsman down to the smallest clerk
or shopman who could handle pen,
hailed him as II brother, while those
who belonged to what one mag call
the washing classes, were as his twin
brothers; but the hand.laborers, the
non-rraders and nou-washers, and the
criminal class proper, looked upon
him rs their natural enemy, and, he
You'd mere brutal elementary ncces'
stiles, discovered little on which they
could exchange sympathy and build
friendship.
Evcrard sometimes longed for half
n dozen villianous noblemen, Il misdo-
ing minister or two, and one or two
ubiquitous cmperors, to make the so.
cal world complete. In that case, In
spite OF the prison equality, there
would be Lao fear, he well knew, that
the little society would resolve Itself
into republic; the rascal emperor
would have his rascal court, and the
minor rascals would fall naturally into
their places.
In the process of the long years n
sort of sleep had settled upon Ever
ards nature. lie grew 50 Injured to
the prison routine, with its numbing
drudgcry. that he had ceased to think
of freedom or feel active pain In his
never ceaslng torment. But Lcslie'S
funeral was like the stab OF Il sharp
knife in II numbcd limb; 1t woke him
to full consciousness of his misery and
degradation, He had been at Ports
mouth only for some six months, hay
ing been suddenly transported thithcr,
he knew not why, and he had but re-
Gently discovered that his father was
port-adnHral
Daily, rs he worked on the dock yard
extension, he had passed the admiraPs
great house, with the green In trout
and the scmaphure, waving long arms
to all the subject ships in harhor, upon
It's roof, and had looked at 1t with Il
llstlcsS, incurlouS eye, little dreaming
who was the chief figure In the little
court which gathers round the port
admiral rs tiny social king, till one
sunny noon, when going home to din
nor with his gang he saw the admiral
descending the steps to welcome some
guests, and felt the sting Of his humil-
iatlon rs he had never done before. not
even when one day. IN the midst OF
his muddy work at the extension, he
had seen Keppel In full uniform
rowcd ashore from his ship with all
the pomp and circumstance of Il naval
captain ON blue waters. Some weeks
before the funeral. when he was going
TO the docll-yard works ut early morn
ing, the port-admral's house was still
lighted mp. It's windows shonc sickly
IN the gray daylight, few carriages
were still drawn up in Il leSscning
| line before the principal door, and the
last strains of u military baud were
dying away
The admiral, assisted Ivy his daugh-
tcr-inlaw, the Hon. Mrs. Kcppel Ever
ard, had given n great ball that night,
, and In one of the carriages, into which
I the admiral was leaning. talking. No.
g. saw hlack-Coatcd man, whose
features, dim in the Shldow. suggested
Cyrirs and by his side pale from the
long nights waking, and talking to
the Old man, was surely, surely, his
/ own sister Marion,
Did they know he was there? or had
! Lillian withheld the information "a
/ spare them pain? He could >not tell
I But these circumstances. together with
the funeral. conSpircd to make his life
intolerahlc, and when once more he
found himself lahoring on the old for.