The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-07-30
CHAPTER i.-continued.

Not III | 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
always carried a 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, indeed,
the frank admiration of a small boy
for 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
Grswold had said about INDIGESTION
ranked in his heart. He was sorry
now that he had told of this new en-.
terprise to which he had pledged him
self, but he grew lenient toward Girls.
woid's lack of sympathy as he re-
| fected that the quest of winking
| girl was rather beneath 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 Griswold, but he was all the
more resolved to address himself stub.
bornly 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,
capable of carrying through a scheme
requiring cleverness and tact.
Ardmore was almost painfully rich,
but the usual diversions of the wealthy
did not appeal to him. and, having ex-
hausted foreign travel, he spent much
time on his estate in the North Caro-
lima 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. a sub.
ject that had attracted him from early
youth
It was this hobby that had sealed
his friendship with Griswold who had
relinquished the practice of law, after
a 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 Vir.
ginia Marine law had a particular
fascination for Griswold from its es
sentially romantic character. AS a
law student he had read all the de-
cisions in admiralty that the libraries
afforded, and, though faithfully serv
ing the university. he still occasional
| L., L., IA, D.,
cases of unusual Importance. His lee
lures were constantly attended by
students in other departments of the
university for sheer pleasure in Girls
wold's racy and entertaining exposi
ton of the laws touching the libeline
of schooners and the recovery o.
| jettisoned cargoes. Henry Maine
Griswold was tall, slender and dark
/ and he lowered recklessly, as hi
: might have put 1t. on the brink o
thirty. He stroked his thin brown
mustache habitually, as though to hid,
the smile that played about his hu
morous mouth-a smile that lay ever
Y more obscurely in his fine brown eyes
He did violence to the academic tradi
lions by dressing with metropolitan
a care. gray being his prevailing note
v though his scarfs ventured upon Dol,
!, color schemes that interested his stu
. dents almost as much as his lectures
. The darkest fact of his life-and on
shared with none-was his expert
s ments In verse. From his undergrad
uate days he had written OCCASIONAL
;. a little song, quite for his own pleas
ure in versifying, and to little shea
I. of these things in manuscript he sti
added few verses now and then.
Don't worry, Ardy," he was sayin
to his friend as "all aboard" wa
e called, land don't be reckless. Whe
d you get through looking for the winl
a ing eye, come up to Charlottesville
l. and we'll plan "The True Life {
$ Capt Kidd" that is some day goin
to make us f9mous."
8 TN wire you later" replied Ar,
/. more, clinging to his friends hand
moment after the train began to NOV
Griswold leaned out of the vestbu
to wave a last farewell to Ardmor
2, and something very kind and gent
and sood to see shone In the lay
IL yer eyes. He went into the CT
{ smiling. for he called AIdmore II
hest friend and he was amused by h