The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

trait / should certainly disown a son
who showed 1t. Your river bend flame,
Miss Swan Hinton, would do credit 10
man of twice your experience. Don't
think l mean 10 lecture you about her,
neither about your going with her to
river bend parties. or cumming with
her worthless father old Nat He is an
entertaining old vagrant-and Lord! how
he can fish! Beside, he is a sort of king
among the poor whites, You must get
to know them-you must. indeed know
all sorts and conditions of the people
you may one day aspire 10 represent.
The proper study of a politician is man
he had better be careful, though, how he
mixes IL with a study of woman. He
cannot, of course, leave the ruling sex
wholly out Of 1.-THE thing is to study
that sex al Just the proper angle"
Thank you for nothing, governor.
You've been setting me the example that
Is so much better than precept. ever
since / was in short frocks," Morris said.
gulping his wine. Then he walked TO
the fireplace and began kicking the hick-
DRY logs which smoldered and sputtered
there. though the windows were wide
open, and the world outside, warm and
sunlit with the warmth of late May. Maj.
Hilliard, who loved his land, and his son.
with almost equal passion, let his eye
range the broad acres of his estate. then
brought them back TO Morris and said in
a voice of pity:
ION my soul, I'm sorry for those Hin
ton girls. Handsome enough for duchess
es, every one, and then their giftl They
truly have music in their souls. yet they
would be better eff without IT,"
II don't know-they love 1t so. ] believe
they love. too. the distinction 1t gives
them" Morris said, looking carefully
away from his father They are proud of
being the only woman band ever seen
hereabout Then when they play. at the
balls and barbecues and fairs, of course.
they are brought in contact with-with
better people than their own sort"
There's the rutland the pity of it"
Mai. billiard said thoughtfully: This
contact with the better sort will make
their own sort distasteful to them. They
are big, splendid animals, as soft-hearted
as they are underbred, as innocent as
they are ignorant. l wonder, indeed. that
they can be old Mats daughters7-he is
certainly tough citizen. II must be they
take after the mother, who is of decent
farming stock. If only her girls were kept
quietly at home. II is likely they would
marry farmers themselves, and be happy
ever after. But hawked about as they
are, they learn to fiout the decent young
sters who would make them such excel
lent husbands; even that, however, is not
the worst They will end by loving where
love may mean ruin
"old Nat will not listen to any talk of
MOIIlS SUN lOOhinS
away. you know he lives easy, since the
girls bring In so much money"
II fancy whoever married one of them
would marry the whole family" Maj Hill.
Hard said. And that brings me to my
grievance. OF course. it is ridculous-l
dare say you thought it was only piece
OF innocent Wanting on the girls part
but you should have checked her Dick
DAILY tells me, at the last party you stood
quiet when Swan called herself Mrs. Nor
ris Hilliard. For ourselves 1t does not
matter-but have feeling about 1t. You
ought to have remembered that that was
Your mothers name"
The Major was dark, with square Jaws
black beetling blows, a firm chin, a thin
tipped, almost cruel mouth. His son was
fair and blue-eyed with pure Greek pro.
file. He had indeed the face OF the mother
who had died when he was born. But some
subtle inner stirring brought uppermosI
the race likeness. indehnable yet beyond
mistake. 1t was a Hilliard of billiards
who answered, slightly dropping his head
ns he spoke;
Il didn't forget, sir Swan spoke-the
truth"
"The truthv' Mai. Hilliard .reeled az
from blow covering his eyes with his
hands. Morris face had reaffirmed hi,
words. After a long minute the father
held out his hand. saying steadily:
AT least you show yourself my son
You had the courage not 10 lie to me. You
knew ! would believe you against the
whole world-even against myself"
That was why couldn't do IT," Morris
said. Maj. Hilliard reeled again. but Nor.
ris did not offer to steady him. The two
were comrades, much more like close-lenil
brothers than father and son. The Ma.
jor's very life was bound up in his boy
whom almost from the cradle he hid
treated as a man, aud an equal He hai
aimed 10 teach him beyond eYsgyshlDE.