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

Copyrighted, 1896, by S. r. Crockett
mo. father" said Biilsm, with decl-
sion; q am not half good enough 10
make e. parson Of You must give the
living to Harry. He viii make a hrst-
rater He is all the time housing
about among books"
Biliarn and his father were standing
together in the rectory garden, wnlch
looked over the beautiful vale of St
John. Hellvelyn slept above them
stretched out like a lion with his head
low between his paws. The lake gllfn-
mered beneath all. dreamy in the light
midsummer haze. Bees hummed in the
old garden. and the flowers on whlch
they made themselves drunken reeled
and shook with the press Of the reVel-
The old rector of Applethwaite was
dead. This day Of midsummer mad
been his funeral day. An old man tuI
10 the brin of years and dlgnlues, ne
had lived all his life under the wings
of his brother, the squire, rooted safely
in the family living, dining every sun
day and Thursday at the hall, ana
reading his 100 sermons in rotation
as settled and regular as that OF the
crops. But now the old order was
changed. and, according 10 the SQUIRE 5
providential arrangement the new or
der was to be-Billiam.
His real name was William, with
something very distinguished after It.
Yet nobody thought Of calling hlm
ANYTHING but Billiam-except only the
squire when. as at present, Bllllam
and he differed in opinion Then ne
said. William Reginald Setoun Orm-
tn
father?" And Billiam hung his head,
for he knew that a day was coming
when he would.
At school he had been called Billiam,
for the reason that a Yorker is called
a Yorker" because it was obvious
that he could be called nothing else
The boy whose Latin verses he did said
10 him. "Now 20 on, old Billiam, hurry
upi l want to go out to the playing
fields TO smite that young toad, Scott
miner. for making faces at me and
making me laugh in chapel SO to
save time, Billiam gave him his own
copy Of verses, and saw the plagiarist
pass to the head Of the form next day
on the strength of Billiam's iambics
Yet that boy never even thought Of
thanking the author and origin of his
distinction Why should he? II was
"only old Billiam."
Rilliam failed also in gaining the
love and respect Of his master, to the
extent which, upon his merits, was his
due For one thing, he was forever
bringing ali manner Of broken-down
sparrows, manned rabbits, and three
legged dogs into the school-and. if pos
sible even into the dormitory. Then
smells OF divers kinds arose. and bred
quarrelsome dissensions Of very posi-
tive kind The house master came up
one night 70 find Billiam with an open
-5,~s-~ Gov w n
g throng of boys armed with cricket
bats and wickets. WhereuDon he
promptly dashed at the young despe-
RADIO. and wrested the knife out of his
hands.
DO you wish to murder somebody"
cried the house master, shaking him.
yes" said Billam, stoutly, 'if Low
Their throws my white mice out of the
window"
No further proceedings were taken
because, upon examination, Billiam
proved to be scored black and blue
with the wickets Of his adversaries
He was, however, from this time. forth
given a bedroom upon the ground
floor. with a little court in front which
looked upon the laundry. And here
Billiam still unrepentant. was allowed
to tend his menagerie in peace, pro-
Vided always that il diAnot entirely
destroy the sanitation Of the school.
But when the governing committee
came to inspect the premises, the head
master carefully piloted them past the
entrance Of the court wherein dwelt
Billiam, keeping well to windward of
It.
Anybody else would have been
promptly expelled, but Billiam's father
was a very important person indeed,
and the head master had known him
intimately at college Besides, no one
eth 1.r ,111 ~
The very rufhans who Whacked him
with cricket bats would straightway
have risen in mutiny
By-and-by Billiam's father tried him
az oxford, but, though Blliam staid
his terms. he would have none of it. So
when the rectory fell vacant, it seemed
ali that could be done 10 make arrange
his uncle. The Right Honorable Regi-
maid Setoun Ormithwaite. Billiam's
''pater" saw no difficulty in the mat
ter. He had been at Elton and Christ
church with the Bishop Of Lakeland
and the matter lent itself naturally to
this arrangement. Everyone felt this
TO be the hnal solution of a most diff
cult problem. Everybody even re-
motely connected with the family was
consulted, and all expressed themselves
delighted with relief and alacrity. But
In the meantime nothing was said to
Bllllaln, VINO had setter with a bro
ken leg upon his mind and SO lived
mostly about the kennels, and smelled
of liniment
But when his father told the proxi-
mate rector that he must begin to pre-
pare for the Bishops examination, and
go into residence for some months at
st. Abs famous theological college
(called in clerical circles THE Back
Door') Billiam most Unexpectedly re-
fused point blank to have ANYTHING to
do with the plan. He would be no
parson; he was not good enough. he as
serted. Harry could have it. The Right
Honorable Reginald Setoun Ormith-
waite, ex-cabinet minister ana P. c.
broke into q rage almost as violent as
when his party leader proclaimed a.
new policy without consulting him. He
informed Billiam (under the designa-
ton of William Reginald Setoun) how
many different kinds of fool he was
and told him as an ultimatum that if
ne refused this last chance to estab-
lish himself in life, he need expect no
further help or consideration from
him.
Billiam listened uneasily, and with
a deep-seated regret obvious upon his
downcast face. II was pitiful, he
thought privately, to see SO dignihed
and respectable man as his father thus
losing control Of himself SO Billiam
fdgeted, hoping that the painful scene