New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-27


sound them they spit ire and contempt at my
fathers memory. 1 suppose / have noe the neces-
sary diplomacy.
Don't blame yourself said the vicar with grave
kindness. You have undertaken a cry delicate
task. / know, because / know the kuu-ers fierce
pride and the gaping wound your father er-con
duct made IN 10.
Adams leaned eagerly toward him That is
where YOU can help me. You can tell an about
it. All about it! The naked story without condone
ment or Concealment.
You know nothing
Nothing tangible Until SIX month ago j was
unaware that Adams was not my real name. Then
my father, IN unusually morbid mt of tendency
told me the proper one. i knew he had -elatves IN
Ribblesands he often talked of the PLACED and that
he left here for America before was born but that
was all. slight family quarrel he sal Ted to his
departure, and II was that quarrel he - sent me %
patch up You see, he has not long gu 1--we, and
since he realized it the estrangemenr las troubled
him aCutely."
He looked at the photo again and noted the many
faces of beauty and culture surrounolr- =. Have
you had that picture long he asked.
Several years. 1t was given o. me by |llss BETTY
one day when ] was at Beachend and She was empty
ing some old drawers
And you gave it place of honor place o.
honor to a disgraced mani" said Adam gratefully
Your father honored me with his c.nndence
the simple reply. " Ii was an honor aecauSe he
voluntarily told me things that / thins other Nv
ing could have dragged from him
For instance, his haunting fear th on me
water?"
He told you, them,
No; / saw it. Ii was unmistaAa. Pa. I'D one Who
loved him as did We sailed toge,ae- my early
youth, on the Grand Banks and ] seen him
shrink very often in times of peril.
He followed his calling in Am5r then-anc
YOU too ust a shade of curiosity .et throug-
the wears innate courtesy as he CLAN ar Adams
white hands and we'll cut tweeds
Until he secured a good berth Three
years after that he struck sudden -l with
patent HfebuOy and sent steam 81. aut with
message tor me 10 give away my SCI. ana coi0
home. Then / spent four wears ar eye. whose
president received liberal extras for cer my trace
he managed 20 rub out of me
I'm glad-sO glad, that he IS free -- The sea.
said the vicar every word COrrOuC-ltet I'D ms Iea
lures. Had he followed his own incl tlonS hs
would have chosen a vocation ashore. r.r beng
Runter, custom deCreed otherwise n. trough I0
he feared his tilidity would some dE .csmrcn INC
family tradition. and when-when
You will keep nothing concealed t.e inter
posed Adams decisively.
The vicar hesitated. The story sood oA'
to hear of ones father.
Il am his son. and therefore entitled . me truth
however ugly. IL YOU don Z give to ue 81 III hauD
the pothOuses and pump the Dubious s-a. 9edus
The vicar yielded and SO Adams ac4t The S'o''
OF hIs fathers shame thirty odd years -e
THERE IS not much to tell To begin with. YOU
grandfather married twice. His wife ns-
one son. William, Bettvs father who sails '-'
Bidduph His second wife, your granc rthef ".
Annie Eastwood. and the Biddulph, Ia nched ".
week OF the marriage. was named after hy She W.
a yeOman'S daughter. the first woman no. conneG0I
with the sea TO marry Runter. lt was rom he..
think that your father inherited his tear the Ws'.
One wild night when the best OF RthhIc-lnds ~.
pencd 10 be away M sea. vessel wrecked on ~,
breakers. She struck ON a dangerous maze OF Sic.
lows and deeps which no man but your la'I ef A ~
sufficiently well 90 venture near orr ,lar -trrH ~.
volunteers manned the hfeboat ami called on hnh ~
coNswaln her, and he refused. The .,sseI 49,
We're drowned and the country rang Wf.l ms Sn'.~f
Naturally. the odium fell ON the who'll Imiy' anu