Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-06-04


cism about Grenville Rose, yet he stuck
soberly and honestly to his trade. If the
work didn't come, he couldn't help it.
lie was always In the way, and an assidu-
GUS attender at the Westminster Courts.
But If you are Coke on Lyttleton,"
strongly impregnated with the departed
affiatus Of Erskine and Ellenborough, you
cannot show it until you get an opening.
The beginning of the legal profession is
doomed to be principally observation. At
torneys are far from being speculative on
the subject of undeveloped talent. 1t is
not given to everyone to have Sir Jonah
Barrington's chance of friendly judge,
who insisted on his continuing the case
he had begun, in consequence of his lead
er being temporarily out Of court. So that
whether Grenvile Rose was coming law
yer, or a pretentious impostor, was still
concealed in the womb of time. In the
meanwhile, the nothing he had to do he,
at all events, did conscientiously-mo
good deal, than can be predicated Of
many of us. He strolls leisurely out of
his bedroom, in dressing gown and slip
pers, the day after Maude's resolution,
anu Ills DItuhldSl
takes little notice of the heap of letters
that lie thereon. His attention, on the
contrary, is arrested by the absence of
some condiment he peculiarly affects AZ
ter indulging in a solo on the bell, which
produces no apparent result, he opens the
window and runs up the vocal scale on
William" terminating, crescendo, in
"Wil-li-am!" which seems to produce
some slight commotion, at length, in
boy with a pewter, and a companion fur
nished with shoe brushes, who are light
ening the hours by pitch and toss. Salts
fed with this result, he first opens the
morning paper.
Grenville Rose is not in the least ad-
dicted to the pursuit or study of racing !;
still, like most men of his age about town,
he very frequently hears it talked Of He
knows the names Of the prominent favor
ties for the coming great three-year-o
events OF the season. Has he not more
than one friend who has asked him to
book himself for a Greenwich dinner in
the event Of some Derby contingency COM
ing off satisfactorily? He throws his
eye lazily over the sporting intelligence,
and under the head of Betting on the
Two Thousand" he perceives Five to
two against Coriander-taken freely"
"S'pose he'll about win. Suit Silky
Dallison down to the ground l presume !;
not that | know much about 1t. But as
he hath hidden me to the consumption of
clicquot and bait, if Corander wins at
EPSON, it is fair to presume he'd like to
see him well through his smalls,' to be-
gin with"
All we go laundering on in our blind
ness and ignorance. Can even the most
far-sighted Of us ever predicate twenty
four hours ahead? What a mess Provi-
dence makes of our intricate calculations !
What shallow fools we seem, after all our
study l wonder what Grenville Rose
would have said. IL anybody had hinted
to him that within ten days his destiny
would be bound up with Coriander's? Can
you not fancy his laughing retort: 81
never race! What's Hecuba to me, or
l to HecubaT" Yet it will be so.
Grenvile tosses the paper on one side.
and in careless way takes up his letters
Two or three are thrown aside; but his
pulse quickens, and his handsome fea-
| lures flush little, as he catches sight of
that firm, delicate hand he knows so well.
Maude's letter had been near the bottom
Of the pile, or he had not glanced over
the paper before reading it. That cousin
Of his had wound her way into his heart
strangely Of late He hardly knew him
self how it had all come to pass. He had
bullied her as a boy; he even, till quite
dately, had snubbed her as a man. He
had liked her, ay, loved her, in cousnly
fashion, all his life. How was he to have
dreamt that the gawky school girl who
accompanied him in his fishing expedi-
tions at Glinn was to grow into the love-
ly girl Maude had of late blossomed into?
He was no fool and had as much COM
mand over his passions as fve-and-twen-
| ty, that sets up for no superlative virtue
and lives in the world, can usually lay
claim to. That anything could be more
injudicious than a love affair between
himself, with mere underlined prospects.
and the daughter Of his ruined, spend
thrift uncle, no one could be more clearly
aware. That if Maude Denison married.
It must be somebody with means and DO
sition, he thoroughly understood That
he should at present marry anybody, he
quite recognized as an impossibility. And
vet. with all these theoretical axioms
distinctly present to his mind, he was
forced to admit to himself that he was
over head and ears in love with his cousin.
That he had never even limited it to her
was fact upon which he gave himself
most extraordinary credit. That she had
| as yet given him no earthly reason to sup
pose he was anything to her but Cousin
Gren was a circumstance that he brooded
over sulkily and despondingly. With these
correct and high-principled views, 1t
should have been made matter of great
graduation; but you see 1t was not l
am afraid it will ever be so. The right
people never do fall In love with each
other; while, from the days Helen left