The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-05-19

chap, with darkish hair and moustache
and broad shoulders. Looks like a
gentleman"
Eyes. yes; I know the man you
mean. I've noticed him. Curious look
of his, as you say. He's not a gentle
man ranker by any chance?'
Lord, no! not a bit of it. Ranker
pure and simple, without the gentle
man: Good blood somewhere, though,
I shouldn't wonder. Should you, sir?''
''Strain of it. Not doubt, I should
say. Odd, in my experience, that dash
makes tn every worst material to han
die. Give me a man either from the
upper class or from the lower, and
you can do what you like with him.
Mix 'em, and you ruin both articles"
Dear me! This seems a very in
teresting person." said Miss Hamilton.
DO know him, by any chance, dad
dy?"
II don't suppose you ever picked him
out from the rank and file, my little
Bear. And you never go to see crick-
ct matches if you can help it. You'd
know him NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. you
once saw him. A handsome, fellow,
we'll set up. You can admire his per-
sonal appearance, if you don't know
any more of him.
The captain of the East Anglia
laughed sympathetically. "You see
too much of him in connection with
punishment sheets, expect, sir"
His host rubbed his head with a
rueful hand, and nodded. $50 much,
that I've sworn the very next time he
does anything outrageous he shall be
made an example Of. He's got tenn
per like powder and matches, and a
lie is his meat and drink-not that
that's exceptional. But it's his clev-
erness that's the worst Of him; it's
that that makes him SO mortal dan
gerous. Crafty as a jacl1al, dangerous
as mad dog, there you have him.
Ursula's face looked serious, as she
played with the flower she had pulled
from her waistband.
"Yet, suppose, the things that are
his very worst might have been his
best, if he had had other chances.
That always seems SO strange in life
so pitiful. 1t makes one wonder ''
She stopped, and her father put out
his big hand and patted her small
white one.
"There, there, don't bother your
dear little head with moralizing. You
and I, and any of us, can't alter life
as it stands, you may be quite certain.
The fellow might have been an orna-
ment to society if he'd been born into
God-fearing family, no doubt-taught
right and wrong; licked for telling a
lie: made to understand what the
world expects of him. Instead, he
was born in a gutter and brought up
there-taught to serve his own inter-
ests at any cost, and nobody else's.
The strain of good blood we ascribe
to him is just enough to make him
idle and disconnected, and too clever
for his position. There's no putting
that kind of thing right in any other
way than by making him over again. -
Il wonder if anyone has tried to in
fuence him." It was Ursula who
spoke again. The men about her ex-
changed secret, slightly amused CLAN
ces. They thought it sweet and wom-
anly and charming of her to be bother
ing herself over the lot and the des-
tiny of Tommy she had never even
seen cover his regiment with cricket
ing glory. But they also thought that
women's ways would somewhat oyer
turn the world if once they got the
upper hand in it.
Influence him?' Her father laughed
again and regarded her fondly. Hes
been Influenced with the cell and with
punishment drill till he must be pretty
sick of them. We shall have to inf1u-
ence him with the cat if we mean to
make any lasting impression
Ursula shook the hand that still held
hers reprovingly.
Don't say horrid, heartless things
that you don't mean, daddy. You
know never allow you to be flippant
II object to it. IT. only wandered if
anyone had ever tried to make him
feel he had a friend in tht world.
where everybody's hand seems against
him.
1--WE talked to him like a father!"
cried young Tasker, "and so has Va
sey." He was eager to commend him
self to her good opinion. ''It isn't as
much use as it would be talking to a
brick wall, for all one can see:''
ooh, come, 'Tasker!" demonstrated
his brother subaltern, a boy named
Quinton, who had not yet spoken.
Don't you remember it was that fel-
low who ran five miles to take your
place for you in regimental match
when you had fever?"
MIR: Taslzer looked somewhat taken
aback at the reminder. \: j:
well, he did that so he did,: But
: don't know that it. showed he had
taken much good from my :wiggings.'''
=. => He wouldn't have done it for any;
one he didn't have a liking for. If
It had been that sergeant Of yours he'd
have let him hang first z Z ; ss%.s
== = Yes, believe he'd knife Herriot if
he@had the chance Pr i, :5.> ,..: 81: N
AT all events, Herriot has scored