Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-08-24
HAD BEEN TAUGHT TO BE A MAN.

k$Sy VIII tue lued that ne was va
the point of having one Of his dreaded
fits" but If any one Of them had stud
led him closely he would have known
better, for the expression Of his face
was childlike in Its gentleness. But his
loouacity was gone. for he was think
ING. He had volunteered and been ac-
cepted as the Intermediary between son
and father, and his interview with
Richard Maxwell had left upon him an
impression which he was endeavoring,
without success. to define. Lisle had.
objected to intermediation, believing
the direct way to be the best. but Craig
convinced him that his own way was
preferable and had dispatched him on
a supposedly important errand to
herdsman who had charge OF an outly-
ing bunch Of cattle.
Richard Maxwell was natural mar
tinet. Clockwork was not more exact
than were the rules Of bis life. from
which he never deviated. His employ
ees liked him. but at the same time
they feared him. The slightest disobe-
dience was regarded as a resignation
from his employ. and Lisle was IN this
respect as subservient to him as they
were. Maxwell was handsome man
too. Although his hair and perfectly
trained mustache were as white as
snow, there was not line upon his
perfect face. His eyes were his most
remarkable features. for there was
within their depths something so SOM
Der, so threatening, so fierce and 80 re.
pellent that strangers instinctively
avoided them and then looked again to
discover the cause. But 1t was undis-
coverable. The more one looked the
more obscure seemed the reason for
avoidance, for the surface glance upon
them. although searching and deep.
had nothing In it Of those qualities
which at first repelled. His eyes were
undeniably large. and they described
perfect oval. If eyes can be intensely
black. his were so. and In. hue the long
lashes which fringed them and the
rather heavy brows that shaded them
were blacker still.
You would not have said that Lisle's
eyes were like his fathers. but you
would have insisted that Richard Max.
wells eyes were like his sons. with the
difference that where the glance Of the
elder man repelled that Of the younger
attracted.
Lisle MaXwelrs training had been all
that the heart Of young man could
desire, and his father had been his tu
tor in everything. Particularly had his
instruction been thorough in every
branch Of knowledge which properly
should belong to young manhood. and
LiSle could not remember when any
body save his father had waited upon
his wishes-at least until he was old
enough to 60 abroad. After that the
cowboys instructed him in riding and
lasso throwing. He could ride like an
Apache Indian. rope the widest steer
that ever trod the ranges Of Nevada.
shoot from the back Of his galloplng
horse with revolver or rifle in6nlteSi-
NAL articles thrown into the air by his
admiring instructors: be could leap
from his horse to the ground and
mount again while the creature was
upon a mad run and could cast his
handkerchief or his hat upon the plain
and then. daShing past at the topmost
speed Of his horse, pick it up again; he
could catch and mount and successful
" ride the widest and most untamed
horse that ever belonged on Crescent
and Cross ranch. There was nothing
along those ranges that man could do
which he had not been taught to do and
to do well. better even than his In
structors. and as proficient In every
manly Sport-in craftsmanship. horse
manShip and courage-he was known
and admired throughout that wide cir
Gle which had its yearly rendezvous In
the Smoky valley.
Richard Maxwell had lived up to the
statement he made to his lawyer II
years ago. LiSle Maxwell was boy In
every generally accepted sense Of the
word. He had grown up as boy and
lived as hoy. He had studied as
boy and thought as hoy. and he had
no conception Of what girls and women
were other than that they were some
thing to be religiously avoided. Re-
garding the question of sex. his father
had kept him as profoundly ignorant
as babe. and the words girl" and
woman" were TO him only terms for
the expression Of thought. and that
thought he had been taught to regard
as repugnant. Indian wOmen-squawS
he had seen frequently. but he had
not observed much difference between
them and the men except that they
were uglier. more brutal and dirtier.
Throughout all his studies. and they
were manifold and thorough. books
calculated to direct his thoughts into
channels which might reveal TO him his
real identity had been vigorously eX-
cluded. and he had no more idea who
and what he really was than he pos
scSScd II years ago when sleeping upon
his fathers arm ne was stolen away
why the masculine pronoun IS used
now In referring to him.
One can understand how such a man
as Richard Maxwell might accomplish
all this without once making mis-
take. Every question asked by the
growing child was answered directly,
concisely and decisively and with
words that bordered so nearly upon the
whole truth that they left that part
which was unrevealed apparently un-