The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-20
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X 1909 Daily Story Put. Go
By FREDERICK HALL

Dwight Van Vert was not deformed
In any way, and yet he was fearfully
and wonderfully made-there was no
denying that His luxuriant crop OF
! famehued hair took on quite without
culture. indeed despite all culture, the
contour of a full-blown prize chrysan-
| themum, from an archipelaSo OF
| freckles resembling a sepia map NJ
Oceanica. His nose rose like the
tower of Lebanon that looketh toward
Damascus. To right and left spread
| ing ear Tapped defiance to any threat
ening head wind and this was but the
cupola. so to speak for an assortment
of legs and arms that had apparently
been selected quite at random from
pile of left-overs in some forgotten
corner of the creators workshop All
of which description is grossly exas-
gerated, of course, but in no way mis-
| leading for found out long ago that
| in portraying Van it was absolutely
necessary to exaggerate in order 20
make one realize how far from beau
tifuI he was.
From the day he entered school he
was the legitimate prey of tease ana
bully. | suppose it was hard on van
at first. for at home his mother mad
| not called him Bricktop nor his rather
tainted him with the upward tilt OF
| his nose. but he took it all with
| stoical heroism, thrashed whom &c
could, diverted whom he could. helped
| some with their lessons and brioed
others by judicious outlay OF his spend
| ing money until. at graduation. ne was
as popular as any fellow in the class.
howbeit as far from handsome as when
little tad Of six.
At college he came out at the head
| of his class. He took a year in Eu-
rope after that; then he came home.
went in with his father and fell in
| love with Grace Serene.
OF course, he fell in love with Grace
Grace had nose Phidias could not
have bettered. a complexion like the
| blending Of the wild rose and the lily
of-the-valley, a figure that was the
glory of a tailormade and the apo
theosis Of a ball gown, hair she could
let fall in lustrous pillows to her feet,
eyes so big and brown and deep it
made you dizzy to look into them. IT
was simply heartbreaking to contem-
/ plate, and all the more so when the
victim was a personal friend.
Van never took me into his conf
dence, but l suspect Grace had figured
In his plans ever since his first day at
school, when she had asked to have
her seat changed because it made her
! feel so bad to look at that little Van
Vert boy" Anyway, hi had always
| done things for her; written to her.
sent her presents, and now he went at
it deliberately to pay her every cour-
teous attention affection could suggest
or money furnish means for.
If you have ever done anything in
vivisection. you remember how you
felt the first time you saw live ami
NAL cut 10 pieces. It is not a pleasant
sensation, but with some Of us it came
to be almost chronic while we watched
Vans courtship drag out its sickening
length.
He was such . good fellow and she
such nice girl. To pour his soul out
in her service ano yet never bore her
seemed to have become the purpose of
his life; to let MIN know the truth and
yet spars him All she could seemed to
be hers.
Grace and ner mother spent the sum-
mer az the lakes. and so did Van. In
the latter part of November she went
into tbs city on her auntS invitation,
and immediately Vans business took
| him in AT least as often as once week.
| When she returned early in February.
and Val was as attentive as ever.
knew that that blindness of-love bust
ness tman's love- is true story, for
Van never seemed to realize that she
had been running away from him. and
the whole miserable thing was worse
tangled than ever because We saw that
she haG got to strike hard, which was
not going to be pleasant for her, ami
Van was going to be cut up to beat
| everything.
1t was up in my room one night in