Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-10-30

not understand that Il social triumph
and a love affair were one and the
same thing. and that at best should
last only so long as people talk about
them. Like a foolish freshman that .
he was, he allowed his head 20 be .
turned. He underwent a change. The 4
wine at the midnight revelries grew
insipid; the songs, however spicy. lost
their charm. There would come steal
ing into his mind now and then fancy
that he should study. Bat who ever
heard Of Greek and love uniting in the
same character.
Philosophy Ice bowed" be used
70 say. Il viii win the girl | love.
will be a man OF business: le. other
freshmen wreck their bodies. sell their
eyes and lose their souls trying for
degree. l will marry the woman
love -
Harvey spent the major portion Of
his time in Bessie's company. They
read together. compared notes and
spent their time a. all lovers DO In
that delicious pleasure of doing noth-
ing.
Harvey came home one night on a
car from Boston. He rushed violently
into my room. his face was flushed: he
was somewhat wrought up, / thought
he had been drinking. Congratulate
me. old fellow. he exclaimed. "Ihave
won her. but keep IL still The we'd
ling Is 70 he IN June; / know father
viii consent. Wen have the affair IN
Boston. 50 all the fellows can be there
Wen go 20 Europe for the summer,
and / Will 20 into business with father
when we return. I came % Harvard
20 scale Parnassus. but find myself
wOrshiping AT the shrine of Diana. ="
As II neared the first OF June Harvey
was almost constantly in Boston. lie
and his bride 20 be were ever together.
The fellows all wondered what the
freshman was going 20 DO when exam
nation day came round. Harvey.
however, was preparing "A surprise FOX
them. but. alas, for the poor old chap.
there was in store for him the creates;
of all surprises. He came into my
room one night; l shall never forge;
+ the look upon his face. / have seen
/ men die IN the throes Of mortal agony
, but pain was never pictured more
E wildly on any face than 1t was upon
that Of poor Harvey that night
He held IN his trembling hand
5 telegram; l knew some terrible calam
s ity had happened His father-his oil,
z and respected father-was "A lankrup
81 and defaulter. tits too painful ever
e. a, this time 10 90 into details of tina
- sad night
: How all the fellows looked and act
: ed. None could say word. Harvey
4, + poor Harvey, cried like a child. An,
/ when l saw him who yesterday Wa
d the man Of all men 10 be envied, whel
10 1 thought of his broken bome-th
( stigma OF disgrace the world woul
r put upon his name; of how, perhaps
e the prison cell yawned for his father
}. and when. above all, / guessed tn
y thing that CALLED him more than a
r else. his love affair, / cried myself
: The news was spread broadcas
e throughout the country by the morn
Y ing papers. Big headed Harvey
II Railroad Manipulation, Bankrupt.
% Harvey's heart was broken; his spir
IS was crushed.
d Hastily penning few lines to Be
N sic, In which he referred TO the So,
r. den downfall OF his family, OF his Iii
Is grace; their present difference IN pos
l. ton, life, etc, he gathered his belOn;
lie ings together and in half an hour Wa
" off on a midnight train for New Yorl
Il He would not stay over day. II
lie said on leaving: Fellows. / want yo
IS 10 remember me as Harvey and not
- a beggar."
lie He would not and could not go hom
c. He would only be useless 10 his pa
r. ents in their hour of woe. He coul
ld not dare to 60 back 10 town beggl
Id where he had once been prince.
Sc Harvey shipped out of New Yol
on steamship bound for San Fra
as cisco. She was 70 take the place of
FL liner that had gone down off the Goa
IS of Lower California. After vain {
lis fort to find something worth doing
ly the city of the Golden Gate,
or shipped out of Frisco as a CONNIE
Ell deck hand on the fast boat for Japa
an After few months of knockabout Ii
n In Yokohama and Toxic ne fell in wi
at a party of pearl fishers and was faril
In well until heavy sea tossed them
all upon the rocks of Australia He ne