The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-11-13
HARVEY'S ROMANCE.
Z OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

heard Of Greek and love uniting in the
same character.
PHILOSOPHY be bowed" he used
to say. II will win the girl I love; I
will be man Of business; let other
freshmen wreck their bodies, sell their
eyes and lose their souls trying for a
degree. I will marry the woman I
love-"
Harvey spent the major iportion Of
his time in Bessie's company. They
read together, compared notes and
spent their time as all lovers do in
that delicious pleasure Of doing moth
ing.
Harvey came home one night on q
car from Boston. He rushed violently
into my room; his face was flushed; he
was somewhat wrought up; I thou ht
he had been drinking. Congratulate
me, old fellow" lie exclaimed, "Ihave
won her, but keep it still. The we'd
ding is to be in June; I know father
will consent. Well have the affair in
Boston, so all the fellows can be there.
Well go to Europe for the summer,
and will 60 into business with father
when We return. I came to Harvard
to scale Parnassus, but find myself
worshiping at the shrine of Diana"
AS it neared the first of June Harvey
was almost constantly in Boston. He
and his bride to be were ever together.
The fellows all wondered what the
freshman was going to do when exam
ination day came round Harvey,
however, was preparing a surprise for
them, but, alas, for the poor old chap,
there was in store for him the greatest
of all surprises. He came into my
room one night; shall never forget
the look upon his face. I have seen
men die in the throes Of mortal agony,
| but pain was never pictured more
wildly on any face than it was upon
that Of poor Harvey that night.
He held in his trembling hand O
telegram; knew some terrible calam-
ity had happened. His father-his old
and respected father-was bankrupt
and defaulter. tits too painful even
at this time to 60 into details of that
sad night.
How all the fellows looked and act
ed. None could say word. Harvey,
poor Harvey, cried like child. And
when saw him who yesterday was
the man Of all men to be envied; when
thought of his broken home-the
stigma of disgrace the world would
put upon his name; Of how, perhaps,
the prison cell yawned for his father;
and when, above all, I guessed the
thing that CALLED him more than all
else, his love affair, I cried myself.
The news was spread broadcast
throughout the country by the morn.
ing papers. ''Big-headed Harvey,
Railroad Manipulation, a Bankrupt"
Harvey's heart was broken; his spirit
was crushed.
Hastily penning few lines to Bes-
sic, in which he referred to the sud-
den downfall of his family, Of his dis
grace; their present difference in posi-
ton, life, etc., he gathered his belong
ings together and in half an hour was
off on midnight train for New York.
He would not stay over day. He
said on leaving: Fellows, T want you
to remember me as Harvey and not as
a beggar."
He wouldnot and could not go home.
He would only be useless to his par
ents in their hour of woe. He could
not dare to go back to town beggar
where he had once been prince.
Harvey shipped out of New York
on steamship bound for San Fran
cisco. She was to take the place of a
liner that had gone down off the coast
of Lower California. After vain ef-
fort to find something worth doing in
the city Of the Golden Gate, he
shipped out Of Frisco as common
deck hand on the fast boat for Japan.
After few months Of knockabout life
in Yokohama and Toxic he fell in with
party Of pearl fishers and was faring
we'll until heavy sea tossed them all
upon the rocks of Australia. He next
tried sheep herding away back in the
| hills, where he lived for months with
no company but his dog and the sheep.
He was stricken down with deadly
fever while one of party of adven-
turers who were searching for quick
| fortune in the diamond mines Of South
Africa. Three months later, more
dead than alive, he found his way to
johannesburg. He here fell in with
an English captain and made his way
to London and then to Liverpool, and
after four years Of adventure, trial and
sickness he landed once more in New
| York.
Harvey was a changed man 49,
changed this time in earnest. He had
learned most valuable lesson, one
worth going all the way to Africa to
learn, my boy. He had learned to