Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-15
The Call to,
 Prayer By EDWARD B. CLARK. 2

TAMES CRIMSON stood at the u doorway of his apartment Un- til that hour he had shared this home
 with his brother Robert. Now he
 was leaving in anger that distorted
 his face. There was hatred in the
 heart of James Grayson for this his brother, whom he had loved.
 Robert Grayson stood within the
 room with an appealing look in his
 eyes. Don't go this way, Jim,' he said. 'I did not know; never saw it, Jim. II may have been blind. but did not know; I did not even suspect.
 Jim. that your feeling for Helen was deep. I never wronged you in my life, and did not mean it now. Stay,
 boy. I can't bear this thing. We
 have always been brothers in much
 more than name"
 "Stay? I hate you. Robert Cray son. You call yourself my brother,
 and yet you undermined me in the
 affections of the only woman I ever loved. I hate you. and I will hate l you and the woman. My hope is that
 shall never see you alive again" "Jim--" But James Grayson had gone.
 James and Robert Grayson, broth. CTS, had been companions from their earliest boyhood. The elder, James: had always been of grave disposi- | tion, grave to sternness. The young CT, Robert, had disposition like the sunshine. He was easy going. be- 1 liever in all men and with a love for
 his grave brother that filled all his 1 big heart. Their father, William | Grayson, had died and left each for tune. Their mother they lost when 1 James was IA and Robert was ten. The brothers had grown to manhood.
 and each had fallen in love with Helen Wright. The girl was an or l plan living with superannnated maiden aunt. Helen taught in | North side public school. The Gray sons had met her through the me- l dium of a business matter which they 1 jointly had transacted for the aunt.
 James Grayson's love for the girl was like his nature, deep. yet undemon- l strative. The girl knew-what wom- an doesn't know when man is in l love with her-but she gave him no encouragement, though James Gray l sons temperament made him think | the lack of demonstration did not mean necessarily lack of love. He had a certain confidence in himself
 that kept him,free from the thought | that his love might not be returned. Helen Wright held her heart for | Robert Grayson. He wooed her and
 won her quickly. He was ignorant of his brother's feeling, and when l he came to tell the brother that l Helen was to be his wife he knew nothing of the blow that he was to | inflict
 James Grayson had taken Helen's
 kindness to him as Roberts brother to mean love. He made himself be-
 1ieve that the girl had led him on. and that his brother had undermined her affections. His nature was one which made him hold to fancied wrong as one that was real, and so he left Robert with anger in his
 heart and with something that was little short of curse on his lips. This was 12 years ago. James l Grayson left Chicago and went to Flu
 rope. He stayed in capital after cap ital. He knew that Robert and Helen were married. After thesmar- riage he had received letters from both, gentle, entreating letters, but James Grayson had closed his heart. He had taken hatred into it, and had shut the door. 1T hate them both," l he said to himself. "and hate them l always will"
 The years went by. James Grayson | still stayed abroad. Letters came l from Robert, but they were unopened
 and unanswered. One day there reached James Grayson in London | letter with the address printed in childish hand. He was puzzled and l opened it. In printed letters inside l the first words which caught his eye were Dear Uncle Jim" A look that l had been 8 stranger to James Gray l sons face for years was there for a second. Then there came sternness l again, and the little letter was ! crumpled and thrown into the fire. l One day James Grayson read an l American newspaper. He looked al l the financial column. It contained news of the loss in mining venture I of every penny of the fortune of 1 Robert Grayson, millionaire, Chicago. 1 Coupled with it was the statement l that Robert Grayson was ill.
 What James Grayson's thoughts
 were after reading that announce ment he alone knows. He paced his
 room in the London hotel for hours, and atfthe end of what must have , been aAstrugg with himself. he.was