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stranger. who follows her to the auto
climbs In and chioroforms her.
CHAPTER ii.-Continued.
30 no remembered Clara Var
Camps advice. wrote the whole story
"a Aleck. and cast about for the on
successful business chance In the foui
thousand nine hundred and ninety
nine bad ones-as the statistics
have II.
He actually found II In shoes. Foot
ball muscle and grit went into the JOE
OF putting superior shoe on inferior
foot, II necessary-at least on some
foot. He got a chance to try his pow
srs In the home branch OF a manu-
featuring house, and made good
When he came to fill a position where
there was opportunity to try new
Ideas, he tried them. He inspected
t~anneries and stockyards. He got com
posite measurements Of all the fee
In all the women's colleges In the
year ninety-seven, he drilled statesmen
and opened q night school for the
buttonhole-makers. he made
study OF heels, and he invented an
a~ristocratic arch and put 1t on the
market.
The family joked about his doings
az the harmless experiments OF a live
iy boy. but presently they began 70
enjoy his income. Through 1t all they
were affectionate and kind. with the
matter-of-course fondness which Q
family gives to the members tina
takes the part of useful drudge. John
the pet of the parents. married. and
had his own eyes opened. IT Is 70
be supposed. Donald. the genius. had
sust arrived. after a dozen years OF
go, at the stage where he was men
toned now and then in the literary
Journals. But Jim stuck to shoes
and kept the family on a fair tide OF
modest prosperity.
Once, in the years of Jim's appren'
ticeship TO life, there came over him
q fit OF soul-sickness that nearly
proved HIS ruin.
81 can't stand this" he wrote to
Aieck Van Camp; its too hard and
dry and sordid for any man that's
got a soul. II isn't the grind mind,
though that is bar enough; 1t Is the
Commercial Idea that eats into a
mans innards. He forgets there are
things that money can't buy, and In
his heart ne grows contemptuous of
anything 70 be had without money
and without price, He can't help It.
n he is thinking of trade nine-tenths
or the time, his mind gets set that
way. I'm ready any minute to jump
che fence, like fathers old colt up
on the farm. I'm not a snob. but l
recognize now that there was some
reason for all our old Hambleton an
restors being SO flnicky about trade.
DO you remember how we used to
talk. when we were Riddles. about
Keeping our ideals? Well. I believe
bankrupt. Aleck. in my account
with ideals. / don't want to howl, and
these remarks don't go with anybody
else, but I can say to you. I want them
back again.
Aleck did as o kiddie should do.
writing much advice on long sheets Of
paper. and illustrating his points
r.chly, like a good Scotchman. with
scientific instances. A month or two
he contrived to have work to
20 IN Boston, 20 that he could go out
10 Lynn and look up Jimmy's case.
He even devised . cure by creating.
IN his mind, an ONCE In the biological
World which was to be offered to
James on the ground that science
needed just HIS abilities and training.
But when Aleck arrived in Lynn he
Dund that Jim. In some fashion or
vther. had found q cure for himself.
He was deeper than ever in the bust
ness, and yet. in some spiritual sense.
he had found himself. He had cap
tured his ideal again and yoked 1t to
auty-which is a great feat.
After twelve years OF, ferocious la
Dor. with no vacations to speak of,
James mind took a turn for the worse.
Physically he was as sound as Z bell,
though OF lath-like thinness: but an
sffervescing In his blood lured his
mind away fron tne study of lasts cad
accounts and Partisan models and
sent It c~areering. like Satan. up and
6own the earth. Romance. which had
been drugged during the transition
from youth 10 manhood, awoke and
ecaxed Her tts tights, sre whispered
temptingly in an ear not yet dulleA 70
Its voice. Freedom, open spaces