The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-07-03

Of her nervousness, her restless &C.
tvity, to perplex and mystify his grave
and digniled father.
All legends which he had ever read
II elHn children and changelings came
1ack to Adelbert Nye's memory during
The confused years which followed
years In which his son was the wonder
q we'll as the despair Of physicians
end nurses; when the period of his
tsething became an epoch, when the
Violence with which he took, one af-
N another, and survived the various
diseases Of b%abyhood furnished the
subject matter for learned papers at
countless medical conventions; when
the tabled nine lives of the domestic
eat became too insignificant for no.
tee by comparison with the falls and
bumps and fractures, the maladies ex-
ternal and internal of Welcome Nye,
which went to prove what could be
endured with the minimum Of vitality
n the frail and emaciated form Of a
boy who was destined to live for the
trial and long-suffering of his kind.
So the child continued to grow, and
10 become the terror as we'll as the de-
spair of nurses and teachers. The
house servants, who had a perfect hor-
Sor of him, referred to him affection
ately among themselves as The
Diyvle." a memory of a night when
one of the maids, in the enjoyment Of
. twilight interview with her favor
Ito policeman, looked up to shrek with
dismay. as the elhn child, astride the
lofty garden wall, laughed in ghoulish
Gee at their tender farewell.
May the divvle be your welcomed"
had growled the disconnected guard
I'm Of the peace, as his eyes followed
hers; and since that time the appro-
o%riateness of the epithet has grown
spon the household.
While his distracted father could
reconcile himself to the boys physical
weakness and defects, 1t was a heavy
cross to bear the knowledge OF the alb
solute lack Of what the world deems
education on the part Of his son. His
con! And he himself was counted a
scholar. an ornament to his profession;
might be elevated to the bench II he
- chose: was a marked nan In his set
- the author Of certain deep and
thoughtful papers upon historic and
scientific topics; had, in fact, all the
points of the cultured gentleman and
modest scholar. Oh, why, why a
sate punished him by making him the
nther Of such a son, who managed to
Nude all obligations to study, because.
sorsooth, the doctors declared that he
must not be urged, or worried, or ex'
Sted!
He was . now, was Welcome. but
epindling and understood and wizened.
~ sharp features and diminutivs
lands and feet causing his unhappy
tstner to sigh whenever he noted them
surely there were Darwinian sugges
0ons about the uncanny and repulsivs
sosm OF the boy, whose defects were
ever 90 apparent as when Adelbert
ny contrasted his offspring with the
eeautiful children of his neighbor. the
fascinating Widow Carleton.
II was strange that they should have
met again. after her long absence In
England.
Adelbert Nye and the beautiful WON
-. who, Is Leila Deland. had been
friends In youth-and mora He
thought Of 1t all as he walked slowly
aomsward In the moonlight, after his
afst call at the villa where she was
established for the season, oh. shades
= love and poesyl with her twin
1aughters!
twins! Adelbert Nye deprecated
- slang Of the day; yet had he put
als thoughts into words, and these
words into the ve~rnacular, he must
esss murmured something about tho
.se OF twins In connection with the
s~.setheart Of ones youth being calcu-
l4so to jar even q dignifed member
q the bari
and. mora horrible still nn0 OF the