The St. Johns herald., 1896-09-05

you are reading law. Goodl With the house before you? Good again! Let me look at you. HumphP' He grunted lit tie disappointment. "You don't look quite so-quite so-what? Do you take exercise enough?'
 Plenty of exercise-plenty, replied the young scholar, who looked so curi- 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. 1 could not get word out of him. He kept staring at me without speaking.
 Was he a lumpish log, or was he 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 a word out of you. Your very face looked heavy"
 He changed color. "I have times when I-I-lose myself-thinking- 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 @ 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 change"
 "You are changing, in fact, <" replied the other, with sheer.
 ''I am in love I am going to marry a girl Now hold your tongue, " for tue intellectual half bounded in his chair. "You have left me very little power of speech. Let me try to explain what 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. 1 don't care about anything much But this girl 1 do care about. l have always loved her, and you with your deuced intellect cannot kill that part of me. She loves nc 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 1 am married to her, she will give me more. Let us part absolutely. Take all my in- tellect and go. Nell will marry a stupid man, but he will get something from her-something, I am sure. feel diff ferent already. said something today which made her laugh. What are you glaring at me for?"
 ''I am not glaring. am thinking. Go on.
 "This has got to stop. Now find some way of stopping it, or-or''-
 What can you do?"
 ''I can drink" he said, with awful meaning. ''I can ruin you. And will unless you agree to part.
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