Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-11-13
Their meeting at the ball had

take.
But Harvey was o beginner. He
could not understand that social
triumph and a love affair we're enc
and the same thing, and that at best
should last only SO long as people
talk about them.
Like the foolish freshman he was,
be allowed his head to be turned.
He underwent change. The wine
at the midnight revelries grew insip-
id the songs, however spicy, lost
their charm. Their would come
stealing into his mind now and then
fancy that he should study. But
who ever heard of Greek and love
uniting in the same character.
PHILOSOPHY be bowed" he used
to say. II will win the girl I love !;
| will be a man Of business; let 9TH
er freshmen wreck their bodies, sell
their eyes and lose their souls try
ing for degree. I will marry the
woman I love-
Harvey spent the major portion
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
nothing.
Harvey came home one night on .
car from Boston. He rushed vio-
lently into my room his face was
flushed he was somewhat wrought
up; I thought he had been drink
ing.
Congratulate me, old fellow" he
exclaimed, 81 have won her, but keep
it still. The wedding is to be in
June; | know father will consent.
Wen have the affair in Boston, so
all the fellows can be there. Well
60 to Europe for the summer, and l
will go into business with father
when we return. I came to Har.
ward to scale Parnassus, but find
myself worshipping at the shrine of
DIANA"
As it neared the first Of June Har-
vey was almost constantly in Bos-
ton. He and his bride to be we're
ever together. The fellows all won
dered what the freshman was going
to do when examination 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;
1 shall never forget the look upon
his face. / 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.
lie held in his trembling hand a
telegram | knew some terrible
calamity had happened His father
his old and respected father-was
bankrupt and a defaulter. It is
too painful even at this time to go
into details Of that sad night.
How all the fellows looked and
acted. None could say a word.
Harvey, poor Harvey, cried like a
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 dis
grace the world would put upon his
name Of how, perhaps, the prison
cell yawned for bis father; and
when, above all, I guessed the thing
that CALLED him more than all else,
his love affair, / cried myself.
The news was spread broadcast
throughout the country by the morn
ing papers. "Big-Headed Harvey,
Railroad Manipulation, a Bankrupt
Haryeys heart was broken his
spirit crushed.
Hastily penning few lines to
Bessie, in which he referred to the
sudden downfall ofhis family, of his
disgrace their present difference in
position, life, etc., he gathered his
belongings 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 ] want you to remember
me as Harvey and not as beggar."
He would not and could not go
home. He would only be useless to
his parents 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 10 take the place of
Q liner that had gone down Of the
coast of Lower California.
After vain effort to find some
thing worth doing in the city Of the
Golden Gate, he shipped out of
Frisco as q common sailor on a
fast beat tor Japan.
After few months of knockabout
life in Yokohoma and Toxic, be fell
in with party of pearl fishers and
was faring well until a heavy sea
tossed them all upon the rocks of
Australia.
He nayt tried shean hard;pn rav