The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-07-28
of'APTeR I.-continued.

Not if endow all the cboir. T. >,
university You've not only got +,
. .ulne' out you're going to be Their,
the day they arrive" '
Thomas Ardmore of New yor,, . -,
Arusiey struck his heavy stick-b,
a."ays carried heavy stick-smartl,
vi the cement platform in the stres,
vi MS feeling. He was much sborto,
.han Grlswold, to whom he was deem
~ attached-for whom he had indeed
.he frank admiration of a small bo,
LOT big brother. He sometime,
wondered how fully Griswold entered
ihto the projects of adventure which
me- In his supreme idleness. planned
ana proposed; but he himself HAD
never been quite ready to noun,
morse or shake out sail, and what
Grlswold had said about indecision
ranked in his heart. He was sorry
now that he had told of this new en-.
terprise to which he had pledged him.
SELL but he grew lenient toward Girls.
wolds lack of sympathy as he re.
nected that the quest of a winkins
girl was rather beneath the dignity
OF gentleman welded not merely IN
the law, but to the austere teaching
profession as well. In his heart he
lorgave 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.
woids 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 huge library
that he had assembled with special
reference to works on piracy, 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
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
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 sery.
ing the university, he still occasional
ly accepted retainers in admiralty
cases of unusual Importance. His lee
lures were constantly attended by
students in other departments of the
for sheer pleasure in Girls
wold's racy and entertaining EXPOSE
ton of the laws touching the libeling
Of schooners and the recovery of
jettisoned cargoes. Henry Maine
Irswold was tall, slender and dark,
and he lowered recklessly, as he
might have put 1t, on the brink of
thirty. He stroked his thin brown |
habitually, as though to hide |
he smile that played about his hui /
norous mouth-a smile that lay even |
more obscurely in his fine brown eyes.
lie did violence to the academic tradl-
ions by dressing with metropolitan
are, gray being his prevailing note
hough his scarfs ventured upon bold
olor schemes that interested his stu
Ients almost as much as his lectures
The darkest fact of his life-and one
hared with none-was his eXpe,f
,ents in verse. From his undergrad
ate DAYS he had written occasionaSu
little song, quite for his own ple@u
re in versifyng, and to little she
T these things in manuscript ne ST
dded a few verses now and then.
Don't worry, Ardy," he was saylI
, his friend as "all aboard wni-
allied, "and don't be reckless. Whi'
on get through looking for the WINS
,g eye. come up to Charlottesyled
nd Wen plan THE True Life lie
ant Kidd" that is some day gole
, make us famous.
"Iu wire you later, replied Ard
ore, clinging to his friends hand a
oment after the train began to move
leaned out of the vestibule
wave a last farewell to Ardmore'
NJ something very kind and gentle
I'd good to see shone in the law
,r,s ewes He went into the car
ming for he called Ardmore his
,st friend, and he was amused by ms