Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-10-28
CHAPTER l.-Continued.

NJ If I 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
1y attached-for whom he had, indeed,
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 u sail, and what
Griswold had said about indecision
ranked in his heart. He was sorry
now hat he had told Of this new Ell
terprise to which he had pledged him
self, but he grew lenient toward Girls
wold's lack Of sympathy as he re-
f1ected hat the quest of a 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 a man of action,
capable Of carrying through a scheme
requiring cleyerness and act.
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 p%rodigiously 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. -
1t 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-
f~essorship Of admiralty in the law de-
epartment Of the University Of Viz
ginia. Marine law had q particular
fascination for Griswold from It's 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
~ accepted retaineFs In admiralty
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 b laws touching the libeling
of schooners and the recovery Of
~iettisoned cargoes. Henry Maine
Griswold was tall, slender and dark,
and he lowered recklessly, as he
might have put it, on the brink Of
thirty. He stroked his thin brown
mustache habitualiy, as though to hide
the smile that played about his hui
morous mouth-a smile that lay even
more obscure1y in his fine brown eyes.
He did violence to the academic tradi-
tons by dressing with metropolitan
care. ray being his prevailing note,
though his scarfs ventured upon bold
color schemes that Interested his stu.
dents almost as much as his lectures,
The darkest fact of his life-and one
ghared with none-was his expert.
ments In verse. From his undergrad
uate days he had written occasionally
a little song. quite for his own pleas
are in versifying, and to a little sheat
OF these thingS&in manuscript he still
added q few verses and then.
Don't worry, Ardy," he was saying
to his friend as "all aboard" wa
called. "and don't be reckless. When
xdds0etsthroush looking for the wink
ing 4eysy come up to Charlottesville
5Smifd We1l plan ""The True Life o.
Capt Kidd" that lis some day goin.
to make MS famous"
s1al wire you later" replied Ard
more, cltnging to his friend's hand
moment after the train began to move
Griswold leaned out Of the vestibule
ito wave q last farewell to Ardmore
and something very kind and gentle
and good to sec shone in the Law
yer's eyes. He went into the cal
smiling, for he called Ardmore hi.
best friend, and he was amused by hi.
eisst 1d5s, which were always ARD
more's last in their partings, and
were followed usually by telegram
about the most preposterous things
Or suggestions o romantic .adven
lures, or some new hypothesis touch
ing Capt. Kidd and his buried treas
ure. .Ardmore never wrote letters
he always telegraphed, and he On
joyed fling long, mysterious and q
pensive messages with telegraph opel
ators In obscure places where
scrupulous e words was the fruGa
limit.
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the Afternoon Atlanta papers in th
smoking compartment. His eye wa
caught At once BY imperative head
tines. II 10 not too much to ray thu
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