The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-22
THE DARROW ElV/GDNA
Continued from First Page, News Section.

rage, NeWS 'SoCClOu. E.-g i
you will be pretty evenly matched"
If he could spare the time! Laughed
outright at the idea. Why, with. the
prospect of meeting Gwen barrow be-
With wit as snail all $ pace, would have made
good its escape from him. As it is a
trick Of poor humanity to refuse when
offered the very thing one has been
madly scheming to obtain, 1 FASTENED
to accept Darrow's invitation for
my friend, and to assure him
on my own resp ion that tine
%as aSs th hands han #E the es sams
was played, but Maitland was SO I'M
nerved by the, girls presence that he
played eXecrably, 30 poorly, indeed, that
the always polite Darrow remarked:
..You must charge your easy victory,
not to h his G lack Of skill for assure
you he gave me a much harder rub
The young lady cast a quick glance, at
Maitland, which said so plainly that
she preferred a fair field and no favor
that he FASTENED to say: Your father
play. 1 did my best to win, but-but
| was little nervous; [ see, however,
that you would have defeated me tho
l had been in my best FORM Gwen
gave him one of those short, searching
looks, so peculiarly her own, which
seem to read, with mathematical Ger;
tainty, one 8 innermost thoughts,-and
the poor fellow blushed to the tips of
his ears. But he was no boy, this Matt.
land, and betrayed no other signs Of
the tempest that was raging within
him. His utterance remained as usual,
deliberate and incisive, and l thought
leaving, both Maitland and were in
vited to become parties to a six-handed
game to be played the: following week,
after the grounds had been redressed
with gravel.
Maitland looked forward to this Sec
ond meeting with Miss Darrow with an
eagerness which made every hour seem
unfortunately long, and he was in such
a flutter Of expectancy that l was sure
| We live in thoughts, not breathsi
| In feelings, not in figures on dial.
We should count time by heartthrobs,
he must have passed thru a period as
| long as that separating the siege Of
Troy from the "late unpleasantness. -
The afternoon came at last, however.
The party consisted, beside Darrow
and his daughter, Maitland and myself,
! personally 1 had but a slight acquaint-
! ance, altho I knew them somewhat by
reputation. The younger one, Clinton
Browne, is q young artist whose land
scapess were beginning to attract wide
Charles Herne, a western gentleman Of
some literary attainments, but compar-
atively unknown here in the east.
There is nothing about Mr. Herne that
would challenge more than passing at
tention. If you had said of him. "He
IS lwa4deshed WeeigFo99med ana on IN
have voiced the opinion Of most Of his
acquaintances..
This somewhat deliberately uphol-
stored old world has a deal Of mere fill
ing Of one kind and another, and Mr..
Herne is part Of it. To be sure, he
far behind and approaches very nearly
to the best grade Of curled hair, but, in
spite of all this, he is simply a sort
Of social filing.
Mr. Bfewne on the other d hand, Is a
tivity and grace of the cat flowing
thru every movement and even stag
mating in his pose, he is a man that
the first casual gaze instantly returns
to with sharpened focus. You have
seen gymnasts whose normal move
just as rust is a slow combustion and
fire the same thing in less time. Well,
that Sort n of athlete t0 Add to o ths
regularly formed, clearly cut, and all
but beautiful face, with pair of won
derfully piercing, albeit somewhat shift
ty, black eyes, and one need not mar
vel that men as wellas women stared
at him. I have spoken of his gaze, as
"somewhat shifty,' yet am not alto
gether sure that in that term I accu
rately describe it. What first fastened
c9sed, rowing, -, quasi ospectivf
vision flashing with panther-like sud
} denness into a directness that seemed
:, to burn and pierce one like the thrust
Of hot stiletto. His face was, clean
shaven, save for a mere thumb mark
{ and the lamost fierce brilliancy of hi
l concentrated gaze. gave to his counte
l nance at times sinister, Machiavellial
expression that was irresistible ant
8 which to my thinking, seriously marre(
an otherwise fine face; Of course du
T beard. However, ia wager a box O.
/ my best liver-pills against any land
: scape Browne ever painted--I don
Y care if it's as big as a cyclorama--
that if he had known how completed,
r Gwen shared my views.how she dis
a men-that delicately nurtured littl
II imperial would soon have been reduce
h to a tender memory-that is to, say
+ if physician can diagnose a case 0
- love from such symptoms as devou1
. ing chances and an attentiveness s
: marked that it quite disguised. Matt
: land, who repeatedly measured his r
| val with the apparent cold precision o
q a mathematician, albeit there wa
J. warmth enough underneath.
IS This singular self-poise Is one o
( Maitland s most noticeable character
g istics and is, I think, rather II
# markable in a man of such strong enc
II tional tendencies and lightning-like re
% pidity Of thought. No doubt some sma
J. portion of it is the result of acquire
ment, for life can hardly fail to teac
l us all something of this sort; still
y cannot but think that the larger pal
n Of it is native to him. Born of wei
ID to-do parents, he had never had tt
n splendid tuition of early poverty. A
c. soon as he had left college he ha
t., studied law, and had been admitted t
Is the bar. This he had done more t
- crafty the wishes of his father tina
r to further any desires Of his own, br
TX he had soon found the profession
h. distasteful to him that he PRACTICAL
ID abandoned it. in favor of scientific r
IN search. True, he still occasionally too
as a legal case when it turned upon sciel
as tiic points which interested him; bu
a. as he once confessed to me, he swa
fe lowed, at such times, the bitter pill
IN the law for the sugar-coating of SC
IT, ence which enshrouded it. This leg
re training could, therefore, it seemed
n me, have made no deep or. radio
nj change in his character, which lea,
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