Daily Arizona silver belt. (Globe, Gila County, Ariz.) 1906-1929, 1908-10-13

~ smoking. He could see the long
white mari road bending In broad
curve between clover stippled meai-
ows. to skirt the willow green bl,n
above the river. There, miles away.
on the high bank he could distinguish
the railroad bridge. a long black skel-
eton spanning ''the hole" deep fish
haunted pool, the deepest spot Ia the
river for fifty miles.
Since that moonlighted evening OF
the will making Harry had learned
that the long lane had had no true
turning for Hugh. He had sifre1 him
through and through. At college he
had put him down for wea'iling-
UNPUBLISHED, misdemeanant. Now he
knew him for what he really was--a
moral mollusk, scamp in embryo. a
decadent. realizing an ugly propensity
to a deplorable finale. A consistent
career Of loose living had carried
Hugh far since those college days
when he had been dubbed "Satan's
shadow" While to Harry SanGerson
the eccentric and agnostical had then
been. as 1t were. the mask through
which his temperament looked at life,
to Hugh II had spelled shipwreck.
Harry Sanderson had done broadly as
he pleased. He had entertained whom
be listed. had gone stunning" had
once boxed to a finish for wager q
local pugilist whose acquaintance he
affected, known as Gentleman JIM.
He had been both the hardest hitter
and the hardest drinker In his class.
vet withal it's most brilliant student
Native character had enabled him to
persist, as the exasperating function
Of success which dissipation declined
to eliminate. But the same natural
gravitation which In spite of all aber-
ration had given Harry Sanderson
classical honors had brought Hugh
StIres to the imminent brink Of expul-
sion. And since that time, without
the character which belonged to Har-
ry as n possession. Hugh had contin-
ucd to drift aimlessly on down the
broad lax way of proffigacy.
The conditions he found upon his re-
turn. however. had opened Hugh's
| eyes to the perilous strait in which he
stood. He was a materialist and the
taste he had had of deprivation had
sickened him. In the first revulsion,
when the contrast between recent
famine and present plenty was strong
upon him, he had been at anxious
pains to make himself secure with his
| father-and with Jessica Holme. Har-
| rvs mental sight-keen as the hunters
sight on the rifle harrel-was sharpen"
| ed by his knowledge Of the old Hugh,
| IN intultive knowledge gained In q
| significant formative period He saw
| more clearly than the t0wnfolk who
In general way had known Hugh
| Stires all their lives. Week by week
Harry had seen him regain lost
| ground in his fathers esteem. Day
| by day he had seen him making studi-
Gus appeal to all that was romantic in
Jessica, climbing to the favor OF each
on the ladder of the others regard.
Hugh was naturally poseur, with q
keen sense of effect He could be
brilliant Mt will. could play little on
piano. banjo and violin, could sing a
little and had himself well in hand.
And, feeling the unconscious chord OF
romance vibrate to his touch, he had
played upon 1t with no unskillful fin
gers
Jessica was comparatively free from
that coquetry by means of which wo-
mans instinct experiments in emotion
Although she had been artist enough
before the clustered years Of her blind
ness to know that she was comely. she