The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-08-01

Der, so threatening, so fierce and so res
pellent that strangers instinctively
avoided them and then looked again to
discover the cause. But it was unGlis-
coyerable. 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 a
perfect oval. If eyes can be intensely
black. his We're so, and in hue the long
iashes which fringed them and the
rather heavy brows that shaded them
were blacker still. sg-.
! You would not have said that Lisle's
ayes 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elder man repealed that of the younger
attra cted.
Lisle NIaxwell's 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 go 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 galloping
| horse with revolver or rifle infinitesi-
NAL articles thrown into the air by his
admiring instructors; he could leap
from his horse to the ground and
mount again while the creature was
upon mad run and could cast his
handkerchief Or his hat upon the plain
and then, dashirfg 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
sIructors, and as proficient in every
manly sport-in craftsmanship, horse
manship and ourage-he was known
and admired throughout that wide cir
Gle which had it's 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 a boy. He had studied as
boy and thought as boy, and he had
no conception of what girls and women
We're 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 q 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, h2<:
not observed much difference between
them and the men except that they
| were uglier, more brutal and dirtier.
Throughout all his studies, and they
We're 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 10 more idea who
and what he really was than he DOS
sessed II years ago when sleeping upon
his fathers arm he was stolen away
from his mothers loving care. That is
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-
worthy Of mention. There was a code
Of morals on that ranch compared with
which the rigid rules of Shaker set
Element would be travesty, and the
cowboy who once forgot or neglected
them related his forgetfulness there
after in the employ of another man
than Richard Maxwell.
The interior of the house where Lisle
had passed all these years was lavish
~ extravagant. Nothing was left to be
desired. Abyssinia's greatest king
could not have provided happier val
! lev for q new RaSselas with the excen-
ton that there was no Dinarbis with
whom to share it's joys. The entire
place, inside and outside, presented the
spectacle Of the abode of man who
had regulated his whole life to the full
fillment Of one idea and had succeeded.
Seventeen years had not, in a single
particular, witnessed the avoidance of
one of the multitudinous cares render
ed necessary for the fulfllment of a
theory such as his, utterly impractic-
able in it's conception and scientifically
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