The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-08-20

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But it might have been better. | hear
you are reading law. Goodl With the
house before you? Coed againi Let me
look at you HumphP He grunted a lit
tie disappointment "You don't look
quite so-quite so-what? Do yon take
exercise enough"
Plenty of exercise-plenty, replied
the young scholar, who looked SO curl
ously dull and heavy.
well, let us walk together. You are
doing nothing for the moment"
They walked together, Nelly between
them.
Father, " she said when they arrived
at their lodgings in Albemarle street,
what has come over that poor man?
He has gone stupid with his success.
could not get word out Of him. He
kept staring at me without speaking"
Was he lumpish log, or was he a
man all nerves and electricity?
In the morning Will Challice partly
solved the question, because he called
and showed clearly that he was AN in
sensible log and lumpish log. He sat
for an hour gazing at the girl as if he
would devour her, but he said nothing.
In the evening Cousin Tom called,
bringing Will Challice again, but how
changedl Was such change really due
to evening dress? Keen of feature,
bright of eye, full of animation. why,
WILL" said Nelly, "what is the matter
with you sometimes? When you were
here this morning, one could not get q
word out of you Your very face looked
heavy"
He changed color. II have times
when [I-lose myself
thinking of things, you know"
They passed delightful evening.
But when Will went away the girl be-
came meditative, for although he had
talked without stopping on every kind
of subject there was no hungry look in
his eye, such as she had perceived with
natural satisfaction in the morning.
Every maiden likes that look of hunger
outward sign and indication of respect
to her charms.
They were up in town for q month.
Every morning Will called and sat
glum, but hungry eyed, gazing on the
girl and saying nothing. Every evening
he called again and talked scholarship
and politics with her father, his face
changed, his whole manner different,
and without any look of hunger in his
eyes
One day, after fortnight or so of
this, Will the Animal stood up after
breakfast and spoke.
There has got to be a change"
"You are changing, in fact, F" replied
the other, with sneer
IL am in love. am going to marry
girl Now hold your tongue, F" for the
intellectual half bounded in his chair.
"You have left me very little power of
speech. Let me try to explain what l
want to say. He spoke painfully and
slowly. LET me-try-I have lost, bit
by bit, almost everything. don't want
to read-I can't play any more | don't
care about anything much. But this
girl | do care about | have always
loved her, and you with your deuced
Intellect cannot kill that part of me.
She loves me too. She loves me for my
self, and not on account of you and
your success. She is sorry for me- She
has given mel don't know how-the
power of thinking little When | am
married to her, she will give me more.
Let us part absolutely. Take all my in
tellect and go. Nell will marry stupid
man, but he will get something from
her--something, am sure. feel diff
ferent already. said something today
which made her laugh. What are you
glaring at me for?''
II am not glaring. am thinking
Go on.
This has got to stop. Now find some
way Of stopping it, or--or''--
What can You dor"
81 can drink, he said, with awful
meaning. ~ can ruin you And l will
unless you agree to part. :"
Ito Be CoSTIsUEp.)