The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1908-08-13


bers; Il wish to talk with you"
II prefer not TO discuss"
Il prefer to discuss" Interrupted
the father, sternly. Are you trying
20 be bull-headed about the thing, sir?"
"No-I am not" angrily returned
Jerry. His patience was going fast.
"You certainly are displeasing me
greatly. no longer can doubt. that
you find pleasure In your actions. You
must not imagine, sir. that | am 10 be
trifed-" n-D
Father. think am capable Of do
ing some OF my own thinking now"
was the heated retort. Jerry's cheeks
were ahame and his blood was boiling.
"Ungrateful-''
Unreasonable" and Jerry checked
himself as quickly as he had checked
HIS irate father.
Wallace Chambers was so angry
that he brought his teeth together
hard and clenched his hands. For a
moment his tongue burned the words
that came.
You may go TO your room now" he
finally said, forcing calmness. But
shall have something to say later on,
remember"
IF you insist on saying something.
father, say IL now"
"You know we'll enough how I feel
towards Marsylla Bayless."
And you know how l feel"
Again you are unreasonable. You
will not listen. You are fighting
against the best thing that fate has In
store for you. You are more than in
dependent-you are downright bull
headed. sirl" Again the blood surged
in the fathers veins. and again the
ire and resentment fiared up in Jerry.
Il do not love Marsylla Bayless,"
snapped Jerry, and the match you
would have made would be a curse to
both OF u.s."
Again | say you are unreasonable;
you are displeasing me nightly" and
the fathers tone had an ominous ring.
Il am no longer a boy, father"
"You may go to your room!" half
cried the father. Let this stubborn
ness wear OF and you'll come to see
that your father is right-that the
college-bred youngster is wrong"
Jerry went TO his room with brain
afire. and in few minutes, from a re-
clining position on the couch. he was
rushing clouds OF smoke across the
room. There was but one thing to do
to acquiesce to his fathers way of
thinking OF TO take determined stand
against IL. Then thoughts Of the fu-
ture flashed across his brain. II was a
question now of the supremacy of
'colors"-of the old and the new.
Which should triumph?
Il said I'D show father" he angrily
mumbled. as he sprang to his feet,
'and I'll do IT,"
He heard two strokes from the old
clock downstairs before he finally fell
to sleep. The first faint light of morn.
ing aroused his troubled senses. and
he arose and went into the street. He
walked to a small park few blocks
away. where he brought himself as
nearly as possible to a calm, dispas
sionate way of thinking over the mat
ter His father and mother we're at
the breakfast table when he returned
"Sleep well. Jerry?' asked Mr.. Cham
bers.
Not very" answered Jerry.
Bed too new?"
Perhaps"
did you have pleasant dreams In
your old room. Jerry?" asked his
mother.
Really, don't think slept Ions
enough to have a dream"
Wallace Chambers smiled and Jerry
fidgeted in his chair.
The last day of the influence of the
sign of Gemini was but a few days on
Jerry all along had felt that he would
have difficulty In beginning the first
month of his absence, and he deter
mined that he could not act too quick
ly in laying his preliminary strings
Towards three o'clock in the after
noon he went to the foot of South
street, where freighters of all nations
were moored. He walked along the
docks until he reached a place where
the boats were scattered and not
numerous. He stopped at one Of the
piers. where he accosted an old
pleasant-faced tar.
Anybody around here need an extra
man." Jerry asked.
by golly," laughed the sailor
there don't seem to be no end &c
you fellows that want places, You're
the tenth that's been long today
lookin' to ship. There amt a vacancy
anywhere. I'll warrant This is the
time when everything's taken. There's
a heap more men n there's places fol-
EN-. But say" and he cast his eyes
over the young collegian, you dom
look like one that wants TO ship
You're too trim aud tidy"
Don't count too strongly on APP
pearances." smiled Jerry. Il probably
want TO go 10 sea more than any o.
the other fellows that have been along
| here"
Pears like you could buy passage