The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-22
4 Stirring Adventure With
q Band of BrigandS Whose
Plot Was Fooled BY Use
of Wireless TeIegTaphy

AZ ANY poor boy playing in the gutter or on
FXE q vacant lot, with broken tops and ragged
clothes, cnyied Harold Sinclair Endlcott
Inc milhouaircs son. No ono could tell now sur
5rscd these boys would be to knew that Harold felt
far greater envy of them in their barefooted JOY
None of them In their careless gambOls, knew
what It meant to him to be free and uBconstralned;
10 run or walk; to wade knee deep in the running
water that poured from the IRE plug, or the oozy
sticky mud that clngs TO bare legs and nils the boy
soul with keen delight; TO sit down ON the cold damp
Trouud without fear of pneumonia dreadful Alarm
to throw aside his hat and run bareheaded IN the
bot sun without being reminded OF brain fever and
other ailments that atiict millionaire children; and
to cat bolivaIs, Washington pie frankfurters and
pretzcls with no danger of dyspepsia, ptomalne
poisoning, the colliwobbles assHlng him, as all
these boys did constantys or, rather whenever they
had the price to buy them
If Harold's mother even imagined that her dear
boy had the least wish for such common and cheap
dantlCs, it Is probable that she would nave called
Nm the family doctor to see If the boy not Of
ficted with some peculiar brain disease and had she
ever caught him I'm company with herd OF street
Arabs eating green apples OF groceTy-stOre pickles,
think she would surely have felt like sending HIM
out i'm the country TO his grandmother.
There was one crowd of boys whose amusements
be could sometimes descry from the car2iag as 1t
rolled along the river road and that set HIM crazy
with envy. These boys had two fuzzy skye terriers
and used to hunt under the wharves and houses
By the river and the yels of gee and shouts of rl
umph that went up from these gatherings made
Harold green and sick to hear
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To wear a sweater and smoke pipe, while ham
ding the oars i'm teu-cents-PcT-hOur hatbottOmcd
r9wboat, was the very height of Harold Sinclair
EudicOtts ambition bat, alas. none knew better
than he how impossible that was.
He never was permitted to run for fear of over
heating his blood skate for fear of njuring his
delicate ankles, TO SWIM for fear of drowning, o.
10 play ball for fear of being bruised by poorly
curved ball or hard bat. He had never made BON
IRE a snoWh0use in all his fifteen years of life,
and for fighting, bless your soul, he had no more
idea of how 10 hold up his fists than pOrcupine has.
Poor soul, he had very little, indeed, except toys
and money, to make his life enjoyable, and these
toys were I'll so magnificent that they made hmm
sick TO look at them. He couldn't have a dog, be-
cause dogs arc liable TO go mad; rabbits, because
they smcled nasty; or goat 'ecause that animal Is
turbulent and pugnacious beast. and his ponies
were all SO small and gentle that none OF them ever
seemed more than half alive.
Medicine, health foods. baths a private tutor,
afternoon maps, some music end q pony ride made
up Harod's dreary day, for, after all, he saw but
little of his parents. as his papa always busy
at the offices of the Trust of which he was president
and his mamma engaged In getting solid with
society people i'm the best streets in town.
His tutor was constantly with him at home and
when abroad q solemn groom accompanied him
close at hand, that it was impossible for him to
sneak off as a poorer boy might have found 1t easy
TO do.
An the tine the sense of being little else than
prisoner weighed ON Haroids mind. What satisfac-
lion can it be to have the things one doesn't want
when the things one desires so kccny denied to
boy!
The tutor, who was young man, and, really
quite sensible fellow, tried more than once TO IN
duce Mrs. Eudicott to allow him to take Harold off
camping lp the summer months, but she would
think of snakes, spiders and malaria instantly and
with a shudder refuse TO listen 20 his statement that
the bow would be a milk and water creature if he
was never allowed to learn something of life out
side of the splendid mansion of the millionaire.
The thought of bug or cenupede running over
Aarold DE slept IN camp sent Gravity chils up and
h0u her spine
But as sumner approached and hc observed damp
looking boys with cliugng hair and joyful grins
pass ON the way home from delicious swim in the
river, Harold became moro and more detected and
also unruv.
Tt was all his tutor could do to keep him from
rebclug and. of course, as he had no authority to
punish the delicate lad all he could do was 10 re-
port his conduct to 1lr. Eudicott.
Tie millionaire was m q very bad humor when
Mr. Skidlev told him that Harold was very ntroct~
able refusing TO learn his lessons and making i'm
Iudcut replies to his chidings
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"Iumr cougbed the millionaire. "send the boy
90 me at ouccH
Whom Harold arrived IN the library he saw that
his father was displeazed, and knew the reason as
we'll
ar Eudicott said with a stern frowu:
"Mr SbidIcy reports that sou have been remiss
in your studies. as well lmpudent / allow no per-
SON ia my employ to be made the object of i'm
prudence, nor win ] allow even my own son 70 in
dul1e in chat sort Of thing IF sou were working for
me / would discharge you at once! Unfortunately,
Al cannot do that