Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1897-11-27

thing that CALLED him more than all else,
his love affair, | cried myself. The news
was spread broadcast throughout the coun-
try by the morning papers. big Headed
Harvey, Railroad Manipulation Bank
rupt." Haryeys heart was broken; his
spirit was crushed.
Hastily penning few lines to Bessie,
in which he referred to the sudden down
fall of his family, of his disgrace, their
present difference in position, life, etc, he
gathered his belongings together and in
half an hour was off OH midnight train
for New York. He would not stay over a
day. He said on leaving, Fellows,
want you to remember me as Harvey and
not as a 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 bear to
go back to town beggar where he had
once been prince.
Harvey shipped out of New York on q
steamer bound for San Francisco She
was to take the place of liner that had
gone down off the coast of Lower Cslifor
mia. After a vain effort to find something
worth doing in the city of the Golden
Gate he shipped out of Frisco as a com
After a few months of knockabout life in
Yokohama and Tokyo he fell in with Il
party Of pearl fishers and was faring well
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 adventurers 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 Jo-
hannesburg. He here fell in with an ENG
lish 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 nmn-changcd
this time in earnest. He had learned II
most valuable lesson, one worth going all
the way to Africa to learn, my boy He
had learned to know the value of q dollar.
Being persevering fellow, he desired to
raise himself to a better position in society.
Knowing that an education was neccs-
sary, he looked for a school where his linn
tied means would hold out for the longest
time, and in q few weeks after we find
him enrolled as student of law in that
greatest of all western colleges at Ann
Arbor.
North of University hall today still
stands building that, had it tumblcd
down 20 years ago, would still have been
old. This building is owned by some
church corporation which furnishes stu
dents with rooms in the old shack at mis-
crably low rates.
But more miserable than all else are the
rooms. These are devoid of furniture save
a rickety old table, a chair and IL rusty
stove with a crazy pipe, some dry goods
boxes and broken looking glass. The
decorations We're the work OF spiders and
flies of generations gone The windows
for the most part were minus glass and
stuffed up with copy books and old paper.
Here Harvey was located. Just across the
way was the local chapter of his fraternity.
Little did his wealthy brothers think that
the "Tramp Law" as they called him,
possessed their most sacred of secrets, knew
their grip, had memorized their ritual and
was indeed a brother i'll good standing.
1t was the night of the junior hop.
Across the campus the gay young dancers
assembled from all parts of the country
were whirling enmeshed in the mazes of
the waltz.
1t was just midnight. Harvey had put
in hard night over still harder lesson
in common law pleading. He crossed the
floor to the window. The dingy old build
ing shook in the wind that moaned bitter
iy out of doors He brushed aside the frost
from the pane and looked in silent medi-
,c
grandeur. He reflected on his own posi-
tion, thought of time when he was a
part of similar gay assemblage and how
now he was poor and more miserable than
the coachmen that were knocking their
heels together without.
He sat down before his dim fire. and
thoughts of another junior hop came to
him. He was back again in the good old
days. Bessie was by his side. He saw
her tender eyes looking into his. She
seemed just as she did that night in the
conservatory when, for the first time in
his life, he felt the warm and gentle pres
sure of the hand Of the woman he loved
His heart beat lively and his body thrilled
through and through.
'Strange it is" he said to himself.
"that beggar dares love-. ;" AS the blaze
dimmed and the Goals blackened he thought
of his career of his wealth, his life, his
adventure, and, last Of all, his poverty.
'Such is life, y he said to himself "Why
not write story about it all? 1t seems
more romantic than real anyway. People
would read it and be interested in the
characters they can never know and, be-
sides, / need pair Of shoes and new
coat badly"
A few weeks later in Sunday paper
there appeared a notwithstanding college ro-
nance about the junior hop at Ann Arbor
A pale and sickly newsboy was vainly
trying to sell his wares in crowded parlor
car Travellers fatigucd with long and
hard journey and chilled with the cold
even in the car were not interested in the
paper, and only one was affected by the
pale look upon this face of the poor and
thinly clad boy.
This was a very handsome young lady.
She was tired with her journey and seemed
weary Of the world. She purchased all the
papers because she pitied the boy. She
looked them over. Her eye CHANGED upon
college echo She read the story, for she
used to know college girls and fellows too.
The story finished, the paper at her feet,
this very handsome young lady uncon-
sciously lent charm to her beauty by
the tear in her soft blue eyes.
The next day shortly before noon there
was light step upon the dingy old stair
case that led to Havey's room, and there
was a light rap at the door. Harvey,
thinking it was his washwoman, called
out, Come in, but have no washing for
you today" The visitor came in, and
Harvey looked up. He almost tainted, for
before him he saw his sweetheart of other
days, Bessie Hill.
have just received letter from Har-
vey today in which he says: "In this mail
you will receive printed invitation, etc.