The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-07-08

Admiral Hay Denver ala not DelONS
to the florid, white-haired, hearty
school Of sea dogs which is more COM
mon in works of fiction than in the
navy list. On the contrary, he was the
representative Of a much more common
type which is the antithesis of the con-
ventional sailor. He was a thin, hard
featured man, with an ascetic, acqul-
line cast of face, grizzled and hollow
checked, clean-shaven with the excep-
ton of the tiniest curved ~promontory
of ash-colored whisker. An observer,
accustomed to classify men, might have
put him down as a canon OF the church
with a taste for lay costume and a
country life, or as the master of. a large
public school, who Joined his scholars
In their outdoor sports. His lips were
firm, his chin prominent, he had a hard,
dry eye and his manner was precise
and formal. Forty years Of stern disci-
pline had made him reserved and
silent. Yet, when at his ease with an
equal he could readily assume a less
quarter-deCk style, and he had a fun
of little, dry stories of the world n
its ways which were of interest from
one Who had seen so many phases of
life. Dry and spare. as lean as a jockey
and as tough as w%hipcOrd, he might be
seen any day swinging his si~lVer-head-
ed Malacca cane and pacing along he
suburban roads with the same meas
ured gait with which he had been wont
to tread the poop Of his flagship. He
wore a good service stripe. upon his
cheek. for on one side it was pitted and
SCARED where a squirt of gravel knocked
! IN hyy a rnIn1 shot a nd GtrIlrk him thir-
ty years before, when he served in the
Lancaster gun battery. Yet he was hale
and sound, and though he was fifteen
years senior to his friend the doctor,
ne might have passed as the younger
man.
Mrs. Hay Denver's life had been a
very broken one, and her record upon
land represented a greater amount OF
endurance and self-sacrifice than his
upon the sea. They had been together
for tour months after their marriage,
and then had come a hiatus of four
years, during which he was fitting
about between st. Helena and the Oil
Rivers in a %gunboat. Then came a
blessed year of peace and domesticity,
to be followed by nine years, with only
a three months break, five upon the
Pacific station and four on the East In
dian. After that was a respite in the
shape Of five years in the Channel
squadron, with periodical runs home,
and then again he was off to the Med
i]terranean for three years and to Hall
fax for four. Now, at last, however.
this old married couple, who were still
almost strangers to n another, had
come together in Norwood, where, if
their short day had been ~chequered and
broken, the evening at least promised
to be sweet and mellow. In person Mrs.
Hay Denver was tall n stout, with
a bright. round, rud~dy-cheeked face,
still pretty, with a gracious, matronly
comeliness. Her whole life was a round
Of devotion and of love, which was di-
vided between her husband and her
only son, Harold.
This son it was who kept them in
the neighborhOod of London, for the
| admiral was as fond of ships and of
salt water as ever, and was as happy
in the sheets of a two-ton yacht as on
| the bridge Of his sixteen knot monitor.
| Had he been united the Devonshire or
| Hampshire coast would certainly have
| been his choice. There was Harold, how
| ever, and Harold's interests were their
| chief care. Harold was four-and-twenty
now. Three years before he had been
taken in hand by an acquaintance of his
fathers. the head Of a considerable firm
| OF stock brokers', and fairly launched
upon Change. His three hundred guinea
entrance fee paid, his three sureties Of
| Ave hundred pounds each found, his
name approved by the committee, and
| all other formalities compiled with, he
found himself whirling round, an in
significant unit in the vortex Of the
| money market OF the world. There, I'M
| der the guidance of his father friend,
! he was instructed i'm the mysteries of
/ bulling and Of bearing, in the strange
usages of Change in the i~ntricacies Of
! carrying over and Of transferring. He
learned to know where to place his
clients money, which of the jobbers
would make a price in New Iealands,
| and which would touch nothing but
| American rails, which might be trusted
and which stunned. All this, and much
! more, he mastered, and to sue purpose
| that he Dol began to prosper, to retain
the clients who had been recommended
| TO him, and to attract fresh ones. But
| the work was never c~ongenial. He had
inherited from his father his love of the
air of heaven, his affection for a manly
and natural existence. To act as middle
man between the pursuer of wealth
and the wealth which he pursued. or to
stand as a human barometer, register
ing the rise and fall Of the great NAM
mon pressure in the markets, was not
: the work for which Providence had