Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-09


pursue alone, should forsake my pro
fessorship and buckle on my artnor
and follow your standard
With the winking eye
For my battle-cry."
And Griswold hummed the words,
beating time with his stick, much to
Ardmore's annoyance.
In my ignorance" Griswold con.
tinued, II recall but one allusion to
the wink in immortal song If my
memory serves me, 1t Is no less soul
than Browning who sings:
All heaven, meanwhile, condensed
into one eye
Which fears to lose the wonder,
should it wink.
You seem worried, Ardy. Does the
wink press so heavily, or what's the
! matter?"
"The fact is, I'm in trouble. My
sister says I've got to marry"
Which sister,"
MRS Atchison. You know Nellie?
She's nice girl and she's good
sister to me, but she's running me too
hard on this marrying business. She's
going to bring a bunch of girls down
to Ardsley in few days, and she says
she'll stay until make CHOICE
Griswold whistled.
Then, as we say in literary circles,
you're up against it. No wonder you're
beginning to take notice of the frolic-
some hoarding-s girl who winks
at the world l believe I'd rather take
chances myself with that amiable sort
than marry into your Newport trans
atlantic set"
We'll, one things certain, Grissy.
help me out while those people are
there. Nellie likes you; she thinks
you're terribly intellectual. and all
that, and If you'll throw in a word
now and then, why
why, may be able to protect you
from the crafts and assaults of your
sister. You seem to forget Ardy, that
| I'm not one of your American leisure
| class. I'm always delighted to meet
Mrs. Atchison, but I'm a person of
| occupations l have consultation in
Richmond tomorrow, then me for
| Charlottesville. We have examina-
| tons coming on, and, while like to
| play with you, I've positively got to
| work.
mot if / endow all the chairs in
the university! You've not only got
| to come, but you're going to be there
the day they arrive"
Thomas Ardmore, of New York and
| Ardsley, struck his heavy stick-he al
ways carried heavy stick-smartly
on the cement platform in the stress
Of his feeling. He was much shorter
than Griswold, to whom he was deep
ly attached-for whom he had, in
| deed, the frank admiration of a small
boy for a big brother. He sometimes
wondered how fully Griswold entered
into the projects of adventure which
| he, in his supreme idleness, planned
and proposed; but he himself had
never been quite ready to mount horse
! or shake out sail, and what GrisWold
| had said about indecision ranked in
his heart He was sorry now that he
had told of this new enterprise to
which he had pledged himself, but he
grew lenient toward Griswold's lack
of sympathy as he reflected that the
quest of winking girl was rather be-
meath the dignity of a gentleman
welded not merely to the law, but to
the austere teaching profession as
we'll In his heart he forgave Girls
void, but he was all the more re-
solved to address himself stubbornly
to his pursuit of the deity of the car
Alexandra, for only by finding her
could he establish himself in Girls
wold's eyes as man of action, cap
able of carrying through scheme re-
quiring cleverness and tact.
Ardmore was almost painfully rich
but the usual diversions of the
wealthy did not appeal to him, and,
having exhausted foreign travel, he
spent much time On his estate in the
North Carolina hills, where he could
ride all day on his own land, and
where he read prodigiously in a huge
library that he had assembled with
special reference to works on piracy,
subject that had attracted him from
early youth.
1t was this hobby that had sealed
his friendship with Griswold, who had
relinquished the practice of law, after
brilliant start in his native city OF
Richmond, to accept the associate pro-
fesSorship of admiralty in the law de-
partment of the University of Virginia.
Marine law had particular fasclna-
ton for Griswold from its essentially
romantic character. AS law student
he had read all the decisions in adj
miralty that the libraries afforded, and
though faithfully serving the uni
versity, he still occasionally accepted
retainers in admiralty cases Of I'M
usual Importance. His lectures were
constantly attended by students in
other departments of the university
for sheer pleasure in Griswold's racy
and entertaining exposition of the
laws touching the libeling of schooners
and the recovery of jettisoned cargoes.
Henry Maine Griswold was tall, slen-
der and dark, and he lowered reck-
lessly, as he might have put it, on the
brink of thirty. He stroked his thin
brown mustache habitually, as though
to hide the smile that played about
his humorous mouth-a smile that lay
even more obscurely in his fine brown
eyes, He did violence to the academic
tranditions by dressing with metro
politan care, gray being his prevailing
note, though his scarfs ventured upon
bold color schemes that interested his