The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-30

1 kissed her and went upstairs; was thankful
that she had not spoken of her fathers old heart
1 wanted time to think over breaking the truth
about it to her
For some days she busy with the sacks OF
congratuatory letters and kilograms brought to the
house by the postal wagons, and cutting and
pasting into large volumes the eulogiums of the
Press on Beilamy Grst and myself O'Driscoll
smuggled Moko away he could be moved:
and she not that the chimpanzee
alive ODriscon had hidden goodbye and
taken few steps toward the depot when he turn
ed and said Suppose the heart is the seat of the
emotions after all, Hickman me boy?'
Not on your life,I said.
Belamy Grist made a wonderful recovery. The
powerful heart of Moko the blood in full food
through his veins. and every other organ took a
lease of life. The years seemed to fall off
him; and had the satisfaction of having given to
my country probably score years of her
noblest sons activity. The Press took the closest
warmest interest in his and his first egg,
and more, his first steak received an extraor-
binary need of recognition.
His recovery helped considerably by his
cellent spirits; he frequently the prey of fits
of childlike glee. At first this startled u.s. since.
as every knows before the operation, great
seriousness had been the quality in him she cher
been the keynotes of Bellamy Crisis character no
less than of his work. I grew used to it, but
Editha did not. She found it hard to adjust her.
sef to this change in her father. since his intense
seriousness had been the quality in him she cher
ished most. One day, indeed, after he had play
in tears and said Il have always known, of
course, that my father has wide humanity; but
these manifestations of its humorous side coming
late in life, jar upon undgnified after his
strenuous past. Tell me, Hickman, do you-do
you think they are preliminary symptoms of his
second childLood?"
I assured her that had never known old
man less senile than her father.
In other ways, too, he showed this change TO
youth. His favorite reading had been our serious
monthly and quarterly reviews; he would not
look at them himself, let Edtha read them to
him. His taste was all for light literature of the
humorous kind, or for records of tropical travel.
came in one evening towards the end of his
convalescence to find that of brightest pub
fishers, Richard P Blick, had been down to see
him about his next volume of poems. I
what vexed, for my father-in-law had always been
somewhat Intellectual in money matters, and had
always made poor bargains with his publishers. 1t
not likely that he had made better one on a
sick bed. I went upstairs to him, and when made
that the visit had not tired him. I said, so
Blck has been down to you about your next
book"
prjp VIII faro
should have called mischievous, he drew check
for fifty thousand dollars!
"Blick talked of fifteen thousand" said Bellamy
Grist, and-could believe my eyes?-he winked
Yes; Beamy Grist wnked!
few days later he was about again, and we be-
came fully alive to the changes in him. The re-
newal of his youth, 1t indeed almost a renewal
of his boyishness, was neutrality-suspicious. it was
very trying. He had been of distinctly sedentary
habit before the operation, spending nearly the
whole day in his study. Now he was full of a boy
ish restlessness, wandering continually from room
to room. and spending hours roaming about the
woods. Before he had always been of a grave Sc
robustness; now, he vivacious; he would even
sometimes josh Editha. He began to show a dis
tressing fondness for practical jokes. 1 observed
other changes, too in his tastes. Before, he had
been passionately partial to pie; indeed, had al
ways believed that pie chiefly to blame for the
failure of his heart; now, he preferred fruit and
salads and sweets. In the matter of sweets he
voracious. He seemed to grow more boyish
every day.
We were not the only people to notice the
changes in him, or indeed. to md them trying.
observed that his admirers who came by scores to
listen to his glorious words no longer came from
their interviews with uplifted. TRANSPORTED faces
they looked puzzled and glum. The neighbors, too
before proud of his dwelling In their midst
now that they sometimes suffered from his practi