The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-02

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would soon be over so that he might
get back again to the lame setter al
the kennels.
When Billiam's father had at once
conciSely and completely expressed MS
opinions at TO Biiliam's sanity BIZ
liam's ingratitude, Billiam's dlsgrace
full present conduct and unparalleled
future career, and when ne haa con
cluded with a vivid picture OF Bllllam
ultimate fate (Which was obviously not
to be drowned) he paused, partly IN
order to recover his breath and partly
TO invite suggestions from the culprlt.
Not that he expected Biiliam to answer.
Indeed he held it almost an insult for
one of his children to attempt 10 an
swer one of the questions at such
moment.
"What have you to say to that, sir?
What excuse have you to make? An
swer me that, sir. Silence, sir, l will
not listen to a single word. You may
well stand abashed and silent. Have
/ brought a son into the world for TINS
kept you, given you an expensive
education only for this?''
So Billiam kept silence and thought
hard of the setter down at the kennel
Those bandages ought to be wet again
1t was an hour past the time
He kept changing from one foot to the
other upon the gravel walk
Don't insult me by jumping about
like q hen on a hot griddle," cried ms
father, tell me what you think of DO
ing with yourself. for I will no longer
support you in idleness and debauch-
cry"
Il should like to be veterinary
surgeon. sir" said Billiam, scraping
with his toe.
Let that gravel alone, will you-a
veterinary devil-an Orthwaite a
damned cow doctor Get out of my
sight. sir, before 1 strike you with my
cane"
And accordingly BilHam went-down
to the kennels to visit the setter, Won
dertng all the way whether, as the
skin was not broken, he ought to use
an embrocation or stick to the cold
water bandages.
And this is briefly why Billiam found
himself in Edinburgh, and established
in a nest of unGurnished garnet rooms
which he had discovered by chance at
the end of Montgomery street in the
Latin quarter of the city. Billiam had
t130-a hundred Of which had been
given him by his father with the in
formation that it must bear him
through a year, and $50 which his elder
brother Herbert Captain Of the 10th
Hussars) had sent him.
~ Dung fool, Billiam-always vast
said Captain Herbert, "guess he's pref
ty tightly off" And with that he stuff
fed into the envelop the $50 which
he had set apart for a sedative for his
tailor
The young blackguard will need the
money more than old MoSesr said the
Hussar.
BflHam had, to save appearances,
compromised on the question of the
veterinary surgeon. He was to study
hard in order to become an ordinary
surgeon and physician Of humans. He
was only to be allowed TO come home
once a year He had agreed not to
poster his father with requests for more
money. In every way Billiam was made
to feel that he was the prodigal son
and a disgrace to the stock of the
Ormithwaites Of Ormithwaite. "One of
the families. sir" said his father,
which have constituted for 300 years
the governing classes Of these islands"
So it was in this manner that Billiam
took the very modest portion Of goods
which pertained to him, and departed
to the far country Of Montgomery
street, south side, just where that
iAOl0UlG iLdIE gives upon The
greasy gloom Of the Pleasance. How
Billiam spent his living and upon
whom, this history is intended to tell.
Day by day the student of medicine
scorned delights. Day and night were
to him alike laborioUs. For Billiam,
all unknown to his father, was also
taking classes at the veterinary col
lege upon a most ingenious system of
alternative truantry. He attended his
medical professors upon such days as
it was likely that cards would be called
for And in addition to this he pro-
cured a certain interim continually in
his studies by getting a look at an
other fellows notes.
Billiams ''piggery' in Montgomery
street, as it was called by the few of
his comrades who had ever seen it's
secrets. was something to wonder at
Instead Of taking q comfortable sitting
room and bedroom in a we'll freuuented
and sanitary neighborhood, Billiam en-
tered into the tenancy Of an entire
suite Of rooms upon the garnet floor of
one Of the high lands" which are a
distinctive feature of the old quarter
of st. Leonards.
Within this tumbledown dwelling,
BiIliam found himself in possession of
five large rooms, with wide windows
and in some instances with skylfghts
also He was to pay at the modest
rate Of eight pounds in the half year
for the lot. Billiam counted down his
first quarters rent, and went out TO
order a brass plate. This cost him 30
shillings, and he had to pay separately
for the lettering, which said, some
what vaguely: