The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-19
A 1s STRANGE FRIENDSHIP
AIR. HoLLIWELL's sINGULAh DOOM
 DUAL PERSONALITIES.


 Rev. MT. Holliwell, clean in mind and body ard serene in soul, Was abroad on tae, street the Saturday morning when his singular doom first threw its tenta- cles about him.
 He had been but recently graduated from a theological seminary and given a charge, and thus it happened that whatever of good might have lain deep in, his mature had not as yet. undergone that development, which attrition with his fellowmen might have worked in time. ~ His youthful face shone with the zeal 'imparted by theoretical instruc- ton and an earnest desire to do good according to the rules that he had learned. Experience with the great throbbing, moiling, aching world had not'yet softened his heart by hardening his head. Thus far, being young, fresh and 'uncommonly good-looking and pos sessed of facile tongue, he had eXpe- rienced only, the patronizing praise of his elder male parishioners and the vol uble adulation of the young women to whom he had preached his two ser mons.
 Walking abroad with his mind intent ly concerned about his discourse for the morrow, he saw without observing the crowds that surged about him on that fine Saturday morning. All at once he became aware ofla wrenching interrup- tion to his abstraction. It was so inn mediate and tangible that it caused him to start and then come abruptly to a halt In front of him, likewise stand- ing and evidently surprised, and look ing at him, was man who, under oth- CT circumstances, might have shocked the delicate, fine grained young clergy man The man confronting him was nearly of his own age; but instead of the clean. fine brow, the clear eyes. the head poised in proud consciousness of duty which characterized the minister, he betrayed in every line and look the self-made social outcast, besotted, low vulgar and swinish.
 Nevertheless the two men, seeing each other felt the same thrill of happy re- cognition, and each, his face aglow with delighted surprise, advanced cordially and seized an outstretched hand of friendship and welcome. The spectacle was so strange, the contrast between the men so sharp and rude, that nu- merous passers-by paused a moment tc regard it with wonder-Holliwell SC clean and fine and upright, so perfectly dressed and so manifestly gentleman the other so debased in manner an6 face so decrepid mentally and spiritu, ally, and so wretchedly arrayed in the | frayed, soiled and cast-off clothing o1 his betters
 Why" exclaimed Holliwell joyfully where did you come from? I am in deed glad to see you!"
 T am just as glad to see you" re. | sponded the other with all the genuine warmth at his command, but in a brok, en and shaky voice that ill-accordet with the free round music of the oth CTS.
 Each held the hand of the other, and each looked the other openly and af- | fectionately in the eyes. Didn't you know I was here?" in. l quired HolliWell.
 | Yes, and I have been expecting ant l hoping to see you
 Come round and visit me- | The other smiled T wish I could of fer you the same invitation he re sponded.
 Then their grasp relaxed and eact went his way. with pleasant wave O l the hand.
 l In Holliwell's face there was visible not the least sign of pity for his broker friend. All that could be observed wer that heightened color and increased | brightness and softness of the ey which chance meeting with a. dearl. loved friend could produce. Then {; | strange, puzzled look came into hi face his whole body, yielding to tn effects of his mental perturbation, gay, evidence of disorganized action; hi step faltered, his jaw dropped, his eye stared meaninglessly.
 | Then he came to a full halt and sait aloud: Who is he?"
 Even the asking of the question was shock. His manner was so odd tha several persons stopped to regard hin curiously.
 Upon my life," he resumed, stil aloud, T don't know who he is.' | He looked vacantly round upon tn gathering crowd, and, not knowing what he did, asked anxiously:
 "Who was that man whom 1 met?"
 Some boys laughed at the foolisl question and the equally foolish man ner in which it was asked. but some o the men looked grave One of then had kindly heart which moved hin to ask:
 Aren't you i'll? Is there anythin you want?"
 This quickly recalled the young ma
 10 his senses. NO" he stammerel waking from a dream and lookin
 about with a frightened air. "No,
 thank you; I am very we'll.
 Then he walked rapidly away, hur ried to his lodgings, and flung himsel into an easy chair. It must have bee an extraordinary thing that ha
 brought him to the condition of intens
 nervous strain in which he now foun
 himself His heart beat with unusua
 rapidity, and every mental faculty wa
 abhorma1ly alert. He was a level
 headed young man, we'll schooled i
 logic, and he understood the processe
 and value of self-examination. He wa
 amazed to discover such condition (
 nervous exaltation. He had alread ransacked every corner of his memor,
 without avail for some recollection (
 the outcast whom he had met on tn
 street, and his supreme mental cleai
 ness left no room for oversight or erro
 He reasoned that under no circun
 stances would it have been possible t
 forget such face had he ever seen
 before. But how explain the coinc
 dence of the strangers recognition (