The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-03-29

scarcely the ordinary civilities OF life; and
it was plain to the son that nothing had
vet reached the fathers ears. Indeed,
when he recalled the awful countenance Of
my lord, timid hope sprang up in him
that perhaps there would be found no one
bold enough to carry tales. II this were
so, he asked himself, would he begin
again? and he found no answer. 1t was
at this moment that hand was laid upon
his arm, and voice said in his ear, "My
dear Mr.. Archie, you had better come and
see me-"
| He started, turned round, and found him
self face to face with DR.. Gregory. "And
why should come to see you?" he asked,
with the defiance Of the miserable.
Because you are looking exceeding ILL.,"
said the doctor, "and you very evidently
want looking after, my young friend. Good
folk are scarce. you know; and it is not
everyone that would be quite SO much
missed as yourself. 1t is not everyone that
Hermiston would miss"
And with a nod and a smile, the doctor
tpassed on.
A moment after Archie was in pursuit,
and had in turn, but more roughly, seized
him by the arm
mean by saying that? What makes you
think that Hermis-my father would have
missed me?"
The doctor turned about and looked him
all over with clinical eye. A far more
stupid man than DR.. Gregory might have
guessed the truth; but ninety-nine out OF
a hundred, even if they had been equally
inclined to kindness, would have blundered
80 oh MI IL
The doctor was better inspired. He knew
the father we'll; in that white face of in
, telligence and suffering, he OWNED some
thing of the SON and he told, without apol-
ogy or adornment, the plain truth.
when you had the measles, Mr.. Archi.
bald, you had them gey and ill; and ]
thought you were going to slip between my
fingers" he said. "Well, your father was
; anxious. How did know it? says you
: Simply because am trained observer
I The sign that saw him make, ten thous
and would have missed; and perhaps-per
haps, I say, because he's hard man tt
> judge of-but perhaps he never made an
other. A strange thing to consider,
: was this. One day came to him: 'Hermis
Y ton,' said I, there's a change He neve
: said word, just glowered at me Cf yell
pdIuOu lie puidSeJ llhG d VIII DedSl.
v change for the BETTER said I. And 1 dis
: tinctly heard him take his breath.
e The doctor left no opportunity for anti
! climax; nodding his cooked hat "a piec
of antiquity to which he clung) and re
y peating Distinctly" with raised eyebrows
s he took his departure, and left Archi
e speeches. in the street.
The anecdote might be called infinitel
,, little, and yet its meaning for Archie wa
It immense. Il did not know the old ma
y had so much blood in him." He had neve
dreamed this sire of his, this aborigina
|, antique. this adamantine Adam, had eve
10 so much of a heart as to be moved in tn
least degree for another-and that othe
II himself, who had insulted him! With tn
If generosity of youth Archie was instantl
10 under arms upon the other side: had in
# stantly created new image of Lord He1
n mission, that of a man who was all iro
"a without and all sensibility within. Th
n mind of the vile jester the tongue that ha
1. pursued Duncan Jopp with unmanly insults
e the unbeloved countenance that he ha