The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-05-23
ing himself out. era even do that be.
fore I'd give up Gladys Boyd"

STANDARDIZATION OF ms unCl0'6 sleek Dut.
Ter, and hurried away at the rate Of Ave
miles an hour In the attempt to walk
off his disappointment and indignation.
''Never knew him quite like that be-
fore," he muttered to himself as he
went. "What has come over him? He
used to be rather q decent old boy,
though he was always hot tempered and
q trifle stingy. But today he was beyond
everything. Ididn't go the right way to
propitiate him perhaps. Only couldn't t
stand his saying those things about
Gladysl I'm glad gave him beans for
that. should do just the same again.
And as for giving up my darling for his
dirty money, I'd rather spend the rest Of
my natural life filing petitions in bank
ruptcy. It's devil of nuisance all the
same, his cutting up SO Internally rough.
For how I'm ever to appease my credit
ors, Lord only knowsp'
Ten minutes walk brought him to
the lodgings in Bruton street. He there
found telegram awaiting him, which,
his landlady told him, had arrived about
half an hour before. On opening It and
reading its contents, all the i'll humor
vanished from his face. The message
which effected the change was thus:
cam coming to town today. Meet me
Victoria at 2:40. Gladys
He looked at his watch. It was scarce
ly o'clock. So there was still ample
time for light luncheon at his club,
whittier he accordingly repaired.
"By Jovep' he thought to himself as
he discussed this meal. 81 am glad lit.
tie Gladys is coming up todayl By Jove,
I am! She's coming alone evidently,
and that is mercy. I 80 seldom get q
chance of seeing her except in the pres
ence Of that female ogre, Miss Bailey.
Purse proud, exaoting old snobi I won
der how my darling has managed to es-
cape from her this afternoon? She
scarcely ever gives the poor child a holi-
day. Dear little Gladysl What trump
the grille is. amt half good enough
for her, by Jovel Give you up for Uncle
Obed's gold, my little brown eyes?
What do you think, ehp''
With these and such like reflections
did Jim Trevor beguile his solitary
meal, looking the while as pleased and
happy as if he had just inherited
plum. A schoolboy out for holiday
could not have showed a jollier, more
beaming face than Jim's The waiter
noted it and thought that, in defiance
of regulations, it would mean tip,
wherein he was not deceived. Several of
the young mans friends~lso noted it
and came across to rally him.
elias the uncle stumped up hand.
some, them" asked one.
''No, my boy. Refused to part with
a brass farthing and kicked me out Of
the house, with his special oommenda-
tion to the devil"
Upon my word" laughed another.
"You take the disappointment uncom-
monty we'll, Jim, considering how you
stand
"Life's too short to worry over such
trifles," said Trevor philosophically,
lighting 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. "I'm like what's
his name in what dye call it. AS long
as the life Of my hopes was trembling
in the balance tasted and wept, but
now that death has supervened I con.
slider it foolish to fret. "
He did not tell them the reason of his
hilarity. They would only have, to use
MS own expression, "rotted" him, for
they could not be expected to understand
! phase of feeling which he scarcely un-
lerstood himself. What made him fall
10 utterly III love with Gladys Boyd?
She was not pretty-somewha the re.
verse. People, indeed, admitted that her
bright, expressive eyes quite redeemed
ler face, but then the very word IRE
leem" carried with it something un.
to the rest of her fea-
ures. Her nose certainly inclined to a |
nub; her complexion was sallow; her !
mouth too large to satisfy aesthetic can
ms. In addition, she was short of sta.
ure, and though her figure was trim
md graceful as far as 1t went, it gave !
7ou the impression Of not going far |
'nough by several inches.
Yet here was Jim Trevor hopelessly !
n love with her-Jim Trevor, the hand ,
ome, dashing youngster who had turned /
Up his nose at hundred prettier girls I
md had always chaffed his friends with
'ut mercy when they had developed
ymptoms of what he contemptuously
tyled "spooners' disease" He was 10.
ng the pace like regular young rip,
alling into the fastest bachelor pursuits, /
arning himself reputation which
made dowagers shake their heads and
trait laced duenas look earnestly
nto shop windows when they met him,
which caused his name to be snufied
lubiously by Hebrews in dusty offices
nd his signature to be regarded as an
Id friend by the secretaries of assurance
Then in the middle of it all,
While the fun was still hot and the
pleasure still sweet, he was pulled up
hort, converted, reformed, revolution i
zed. And by what?
By the brown eyes of a demure little
'uss, who had scarcely personal attrac- t
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