The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-28

of life, but still straight and vigorous.
| His lean face was leather-brown in
! contrast to a long mustache and heavy
eyebrows bleached nearly white, his
| eyes were a clear steady blue, and his
frame was slender, but wiry. He wore
the regulation mackinaw blanket coat,
a peaked cap with an extraordinary
l.high crown, and .buckskin moccasins
| over long stockings.
! The other was younger, not more
! than 20 perhaps, with the clean-cut,
regular features we have come to con-
slider typically American. Eyebrows
that curved far down along the tenn
| pies, and eyelashes of a darkness in
contrast to the prevailing note of his
! complexion combined to lend him
rather brooding, soft, and melancholy
air which very cursory second eX-
animation showed to be fictitious. His
eyes. like the woodman's were steady,
but inquiring. His jaw was square
and settled, his mouth straight. I'm
like the other inmates of the car, he
wore an ordinary business suit, some
what worn, but of good cut, and
style that showed even over the soft
| flannel shirt. The trousers were, how
ever. bound inside the usual socks and
rubbers.
The two seat mates had occupied
/ THEIR time edCH III Ills OMU ldSiIIOlls l. hC
! elder stared straight before him, AMI
spat with certain periodicity into the
center of the aisle. The younger
! stretched back lazily in an attitude of
| ease. Sometimes he smoked pipe.
| Thrice he read over a letter. 1t vas
from his sister, and announced her
arrival at the little rural village in
which he had made arrangements for
| her to stay. ut is intereSting-noV
/ 70 ftfhnnerh "a do
not look as though they would wear
| well. I am learning under Mrs. Rem
| wick to sweep and dust and bake and
| sew and do a multitude of other
| things which 1 always vaguely sup
posed came ready-made. l like it; but
after / have learned it all, 1 do not
| believe the practice will appeal to me
much. However, 1 can stand it we'll
| enough for a year or two or three, for
L am young; and then you will have
made your everlasting fortune, of
course
"She's a trump" said Thorpe to him
self, land she shall have her everlast-
ing fortune, if there's such a thing in
| the country"
He jingled the three dollars and sixty
cents in his pocket, and smiled. That
was the extent of his everlasting for
tune at present.
The letter had been answered from
Detroit.
Il am glad you are settled" he
wrote. "At least I know you have
enough to eat and a roof over you.
hope sincerely that you will do your
best to fit yourself to your new con-
ditions. l know it is hard but with
my lack of experience and my ignor
ance as to where to take hold it may
be good many years before we can
do any better"
When Helen Thorpe read this, she
cried. Things had gone wrong
that morning, and an en-
couraging word would have help
brothers communication threw her into
a fit of the blues from which, for the
first time, she saw her surroundings i'll
a depressing and distasteful light. And
yet he had written as he did with the
kndest possible motives.
Thorpe had the misfortune to be one
of those individuals who though care
less of what people in general may
think of them, are in a CORES pondng
degree sensitive to the opinion of the
few they love. This feeling was fur
Their exaggerated by constitutional
shrinking from any outward manifesto
tions of the emotions. Perhaps for this
reason he was never entirely sincere
with those he loved.
After the disgrace of his father Har-
ry Thorpe had done a great deal of
thinking and planning which he kept
carefully to himself He considered in
turn the different occupations to which
he could turn his hand, and negatived
them one by one. Few business firms
would care to employ the son of as
shrewd an embezzler as Henry Thorpe.
Finally he came to a decision. He
communicated this decision to his sis
ter 1t would have commended itself
more logically to her had she been q BILE
to follow step by step the consideration
that had led her brother to it. AS the
event turned, she was forced to accept
it blindly. She knew that her brother
intended going West, but as to his
hopes and plans she was in ignorance.
A little sympathy, little mutual I'M
Outstanding would have meant great
deal to her, for a girl whose mother
she but dimly remembers, turns natur-
ally to her next of kin. Helen Thorpe
had always admired her brother, but
had never before needed him. She had
looked upon him as strong, self-con-
tanned, o little moody.
At the beginning of the row in the
smoking car, Thorpe laid aside his let.
ter and watched with keen appreciation
the direct practicality of the train
mems method When the bearded man
turned to the individual at his side
He knows how to hit doesn't hep
he observed. THAT fellow was knock
ed we'll off his feet"
He does" agreed the other, dryly.
They fell into a desultory conversa-
ton of fits and starts. Woodsmen of
the genuine sort are never tllkative:
and Thorpe, as has been explained,
was constitutionally reticent. In the
of their 0iSilintpd rom he
Thorpe explained that he was looking
for work in the woods, and intended,
first of ALL to try the Morrison & Daily
camps at Beeson Lake
know anything about logging?" in
quired the stranger.
Nothing" Thorpe confessed.
"Ain't much show for anything but
lumber jacks. What did you think of
doing?"
II don't know" said Thorpe, doubt
fully. II have driven horses a good
deal; 1 thought I might drive a team