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The Yakima Herald.
CODNTRY LOCK.
By JOHI HABBEETOH, Author d
“Helen's Babies," Eta
dwougk the American Pram Assoclatto?!^
CHAPTKR I
bow rr cams about.
B BURS to look m
op when yon com«
to the city.”
This invltatioc
was extended wltt
I that delightful af
feetation of heart!
f ness that a man cas
assume when be be
Hevea that the per
ton invited will
never avail hlmsell
of th# courtesy
Fortunately for thi
purpose of thii
story .Master PhlUg
Hayn, whom Mr.
Tramlay bad aakbd to call, tu too youn|
and too noaoeustomad to tha uaagea of poliu
easy to regard tha remark la any bat lb
tt would haveeaetnad odd toany one know
lac tha two man aad their reapectl ve eta
tlona la Ufa Tramlay waa a New Tori
merchant, well known and of fair standing
la the iroo trade; Haya waaaooof thatarmei
at wboae home the Tramlay family had
pawed the eummar When the Tramlayi
datarmlnad to exchange tha lata eummar doit
of the country for tha early autumn duet ot
the city, It wae Philip who drove the old
faefa toned carryall that transported than
from the farm to the rail way station. Tin
bead of tha merchant's family waa attired
Ilka a wall to do basinew nun; Philip's coat,
▼eet and trousers were remnant* of three dlf
ferect suite, none of recent out The contrast
was made sharper by the easy ooodesoenaioD
of the older nun and tha rather awkward def
Wenoe of PkiUp, and it moved Mrs Tramlay
to whisper, aa bar bo*band helped bar aboard
tha train:
“Suppose be were to take yon at your
word, Edgar r
The merchant shrugged hie shoulders
slightly, and replied, “Worse men have called
upon be. my dear, without being made tc
feel unwslcoma ”
“1 think twould bo loads of fun," remark
ed Mias Lada Tramlay
Than tha three, followed by emattee mam
bare of the family, occupied as gweinti
near windows, and nodded smiling ameos a*
tha train started.
Philip returned their salutations, except the
smDes; somehow, the departure of all thaai
people made him feel sober. He followed Um
train with his eyes until It was out of eight:
then ha stepped into the old carryall and
drove briskly homeward, declining to rein op
and converse with sararal sidewalk loungers
who mantfsatad a willlngnsm to convent
about the departed guests. Whan be reached
the enter edge of the little Tillage ha allowed
the hones to ralapas Into their normal gait,
which wae a alow walk; ho Ist tha nine hang
loosely, bo leaned forward until hk elbows
rested upon bis knees and hk hat brim seemed
inclined to scrape acquaintance with the daah
board, then ha elowly repeated:
" ‘Be sore to look ns np when you come to
the city.' Ton may be sore that I wilL"
The advent of the Tramlays at Bayn Farm
had ban productive of new sensatlone to all
concerned. The younger member* of the
Tramlay family bad at Oral opposed the plan
of a' animar on a farm: they had tyent on*
aeaaoo at Mount Desert, and part of another
at Saratoga, and, as Lada had ben “oat’* a
year, and bad a deter who expected early ad
mbaton to a metropolitan oolleotloii of roe*-
bade, afalnet a summer in the country-th*
rode, comomn, real country—the protest*
bad been earnest Bat the bead of the fam
ily had said he could not afford anything bet
ter; trade was dull, a man had to are within
his income, eta Besides, their mother 1 *
health wee not eqnel to e summer In society;
they would And that statement a convenient
excuse wfan explaining the family plans to
their friends
Arrived at Bayn Farm, the objections of
the Juvenile Tramlays quickly disappeared
Everything was new and strange, nothing
was repellent, and much was Interesting and
amusing, what more could they here hoped
Cor anywhere—even in Christ The term we*
good and wen managed, the rooms neat and
though old fashioned, and th*
people Intelligent, though Mis* Lode pro
nounoed them “awfully funny.” The head
of the. family was ont of the many farmer*
who “took boarders” to give his own family
an opportunity to esf people somewhat unlike
their own circle of acquaintances—an oppor
tunity which they eecmed unlikely ever to
And In any other way. had he been able to
ehooea The senior Bayn would here put
Into hie opera rooms e Union Tbeologleei
seminary profmeor with his family, but, as
Boench person responded to hie modest ad
rertleeraent, he an iron merchant
end family instead
Strawberries were Just ripening when the
Tramlays appeared at Bayn farm, and the
Uttie Tramlays were allowed to forage at
nQ on the eepeoleoe old strawberry bed.
then earns other berries, in the brambles of
which they torn their elothee and colored
their Ups for hours at a time. Then cherries
reddened on a doaon old tram which the ehO
dren wore oarer reminded had not bean
planted for .their especial benefit Then the
•neceadre yield of an orchard waa theirs, so
Car as they could absorb it Besides, there
wee a boat on a pood, and another on a little
stream that emptied Into the ocean not tar
nantyi mad, although the Bayn hoys always
•seated to bare work to do, they frequently
could be persuaded to accompany the chil
dren to heap them from drowning them
selves
For Mra Trunk;, who really «m aa in
valid, tbar* war* long drivaa la ba taken,
over roads aoma of which wara wall ahadad
and otbara commanding Ana views, aad it
waaaoraatfttl la ba aUa la drive without
apodal preparation In tha waj of draas
without, too. the aacaadty of aornttaiaiM
aaflfc approaching vablola forjaar U might
n AWbTuw bead of tha family, who apart
only Saturday* and Sundays with bla fam
ily. ba aaaaaod to And oooganial aodaty la tha
hand of tha boaaa a fact which al An* gar*
hia wife great oaaaMnam and annoyance.
“■dgar," Mia. Tramlay would aay. “you
knowMr Bayu la only a ooauaoa farmer.”
“Bah aad thoroughly andar
■lands hia own bualnaaa,* tha hoaband replied
—''two raaaoiA either of which la good enough
to make ass Uka a amn, unloaa ha happauale
ha lilaagiuuiNa ‘Common farmer r Why,
I’m only a common iron marohant my dear.*
“That's different, protoefd Mra Tramlay
“Is Itf Wall, don't try la explain how.
Bttle woman, twffl ba aara la gtva yon a
three days’ haadaaha*
Ho Tramlay ooutinuad to devote hours to
ohat with hia boat, praaHag Mgh Brioadolgan
m Mm. aadHmrlng the far mm* plpm and
toioooo In return. He found that Hayn, Ilk*
smj other farmer with brains, had doosoom#
aard thinking in the thousands of day. when
his bands were employed at common work,
and that his Tie** of affairs In general, ont
ddsof the iron trade, wars at least as sound
as TVamlay's own, or tboss of any oos whom
Tramlay knew in the city.
Tbs one Irreconcilable member of the fam-
fly waa the elder daughter, Lada. She was
tbs oldest child, so she bad her own way;
lbs was pretty, so she bad always been pet
ted; she was twenty, so she knew everything
that she thought worth knowing. She bad
long before reconstructed the world dn bar
own mind) Just es it should be, from the
standpoint that it ought to exist solely for
bar benefit Not bad tempered, on the con
trary cheerful and full of high spirits, she
was nevertheless in perpetual protest against
everything that was not exactly as she would
have it, and not all the manners that careful
breeding could Impart could restrain the un
conscious insolence peculiar to young and
salf satisfied natures. Hbe would laugh load
ly at table at lira Hayu's way of serving an
omelet, tell Mrs Hayu’s husband that his
Sunday ooat looked "so fanny,” express her
mind freely before the whole household at
the horrid way In which the half grown
Havn boys wore their hair, and bad no bed
tatlon in telling Philip Hayn, two years her
■solar, that when be came In from the field
in his brown flannel shirt and gray felt hat
be looked Ilk# an otter guy. But the Hay us
were human, and, between pity and admira
tion, humanity long ago resolved to sodare
anything from a girl—lf she la pretty
Slowly the Harm came to like their board
era. more slowly, but Just as surely, the
Tramlay* learned to like their hosts Mutual
respect began at the extremes of both fam
ilies Mrs Tramlay, being a mother and a
housekeeper, became so interested in the fern
nine half of the family’s bead that she ceased
tooriticiae her husband’s interest in the old
former Tbs Tramlay children wondered at
and then admired the wisdom and *Ol of
their country companions in matters not un
derstood by city children. Last of all, Lucia
found herself heartily respecting the farmer’s
son, and forgetting his uncouth dress and his
awkwardnem of manner in her wonder at bis
general courtesy, and bis superior knowledge
m some directions where she supposed she
hod gone as far as possible.
She bad gone through a finishing school of
the most approved New York type, yet Philip
knew more of languages and history and
science than she, when they chanced—never
through her fault—to converse on such dry
subjects, be knew more flowers than she bad
ever seen in a florist** shop in the city, and
once when she had atUjupted to decorate the
rather bare walls of the farmhouse parlor he
corrected her taste with a skill which she was
obliged to admit There was nothing strange
about it, except to Lucia, for city seminaries
and country high schools ose the same text
books, and magasinea and newspapers that
give attention to borne decorations go every
where, nevertheless, it seemed to Lada that
die bad discovered a new order of being, and
by the time she bad been at Hayn Farm a
month she found herself occasionally sur
prised into treating Philip almost aa If be
were a gentleman.
Philip’s interest in Lucia was of much
Quicker development He bad had no preju
dices to overcome; besides, the eye la more
easily approached and satisfied than the in
tellect, and Luda had acceptably filled many
aa aye mom exacting than the young farm
er's. There were pretty girls in homes near
Hayn farm, and more In the village near by,
bat none of them were—well, none were ex
actly Ilka Lucia. Philip studied her face; It
was neither Roman nor Grecian, and be was
obliged to confess that the proportions of bar
features were not so good os those of some
girls In the neighborhood. Her figure sag-
S neither perfect grace nor perfect
i; and yet whatever she did was
Ily done, and her attire, whether plain
or oostiy, seemed part of herself—« peculiar
ity that ha had never observed among girls
born in the vicinity •
Be soon discovered that she did not know
everything, but whatever she did know she
talked of so glibly that be could not help en
joying the position of listener. She did not
often show earnestness about anything that
to him was more than trifling, but when she
did go out of her customary mood for a mo
ment or two she was saintly; he ooold think
of no other word that would do ft Justice.
He bad not liked her manner to bis own
mother, for at first the girl treated that ssti
raable woman as a servant, and did it in the
manner which makes most servants detest
most young ladles, bat had sbe not after
ward, with nor own tiny fingers, made anew
Sunday bonnet for lira Hayn. and had not
Us mother, la genuine gratitude, kissed her!
Should be bear malice for what his mother
bad forgiven!
The young man merely admired and re
spected Lada; of that ha was very sura Re
card more tender be would have blamed
himself for, first, because love implied ma
trimony, which ha did not intend to van tor*
into until he had seen more of the world and
perhaps gone to college; secondly, because he
did not Imagine that any such sentiment
would be reciprocated. Ha came of a family
that through generations of bard experience
had learned to count the cost of everything,
even the afftetione, like meet of the better
country people In the older states He had also
an aversion to marriage between persons of
different elesna Lucia waa to Urn an ac
quaintance—not even a Mend—whom be
highly esteemed; that was all.
His father thought differently, and one
day when the two ware la the woodland be
>oagb| to the farm, loading a wagon with
wood to be stored near the boose for winter
me, the old man said, abruptly:
“I hope you’re not si-owin' too food of that
young woman, Phil r
“No danger, 1 * the youth answered, prompt
ly, though ea be raised hie head his eyas did
not meet his father's
“Too seem to know who 1 mean, anybbw,”
said the old man, after throwing another
•tick of wood npoo the wagon,
“Not much trouble to do that,” Phil re
piled. “There’s only one young woman.”
The father laughed softly; the son blushed
violently Then the father sighed.
“That’s one of the dens.”
“Wbotha sign!—sign of whatf said Phil,
wonder not quite skillfully
“Whsn ‘there’s only one young woman* IF*
a sign ths young man who thinks so Is likely
to eansldsr her the only one worth thinkln’
about,”
“Oh. pshaw I" exclaimed Phil, attackiag
tha woodpile with great industry.
“■my, old boy; tha woodpile that
Mid It Brace ap your head; you've dona
nothing to ba ashamed of. Besides, your old
father ana aaa through tha back of your
baud, anyhow; hob boon practicin' at it ever
■inoa you ware born.*
Phil aaakad tilmaalf on tha woodpile, looked
luthadlraetioo where hia father waeoot,ami
said:
“1 Uka l-ucis vary much. She’s a naw
Caoa; shah different from tha girls about
ham She’s aomsbody new to talk to, and
ahaoaa talk about anmothing hasidaa oropa,
andoowa,aad who is sick, and last Sunday's
■meson, and naut month’s —wing society
That's aU." '
“Yea," said the old man. “It doaan*t
■am much, doaa ill Enough to have made
rtUiosw of bad matches, though, and spoiled
■imnutafgoadawaa-
SUPPLEMENT.
Fhll was silent for a moment, then be
mid, with a laugh:
“Father, I believe you're os had as old
Mrs. Trlpeoy. whom mother's always laugh
lug at because she thinks a man’s in love If
he sees bar daughter home from prayer meet
ing."
“PVaps so, my boy-p’r'aps—and maybe
as bad as yon, for every time there's a bad
thunderstorm you’re afraid the lightning’ll
strike the barn. Do you know why! It's
because yoim floe* colt is there. Do yon seer
Phil did wot reply, so the old man con
tinue.!.
“111 make It clearer to yon. You’re my
finest colt; there's more lightnings In a girl’s
eyes than lever saw in the sky, you don’t
know when it's going to strike, and when It
bite you you’re gone before you know it."
“Much obliged. I’ll see to it that I keep
myself well Insulated," sold Phil
Nevertheless, Phil studied Lucia whenever
be bad opportunity—studied her face when
sbe read, her fingers when Ujey busted them
selves with fancy work, her manner with dif
ferent persona, as It changed according to her
idea of I ho deserving* of those with whom she
talked. At church be regarded her intently
from the In-ginning of the service to Its end,
analysing such portion* of prayer, hymn, or
sermon os did not seem to meet her views
He even allowed his gase to follow her when
she looked more than an Instant at other
young women, in the Ignorance of his mas
culine heart wondering which of the features
of these damsels specially interested her; his
mother oould have told him that Lucia was
tnei-ely looking at bonnets and other articles
of attire, Instead of at their wearers. He
wondered what sbe thought; be told himndf
where her character was at fault and bow it
might be improved. In short, be had ample
mental leisure, and she was the newest and
consequently the least understood of his va
rlous subjects of contemplation.
It Is impoosible to devote a great deal of
thought to any subject without becoming
deeply interested, even If it be unsightly,
tiresome and insignificant. Lucia was non#
of these, for sbe waa a pretty girl It is
equally Impossible to see a familiar subject
of thought in the act of disappearance with
out a personal sense of Impending loneliuoxs,
and a wild desire to snatch It back, or at least
go in search of it Tlterefora, Philip Hayn
needed not to be in love, or even to think
himself so, to be conscious of a great vacancy
in his mind as the train bore the Tramlay
family rapidly toward their city home, and
to determine that be would avail himself of
the invitation which the bead of the family
had extended.
CHAPTER 1L
VAUII.Y COUNCIL#.
tUSBAND.” said
I Mrs Hayn to her
I husband one night
i when the person
addressed was
about to fall asleep,
‘homot blag's th *
matter with Phil."
“A touch of ma
laris, I suppose,
said tbe farmer,
“ns’s been gettin'
out muck earlier
than usual, and
spread In' it on tbs
ridge of the pa*
I riU£D Ul IU»
tore. Tbe sun's been pretty hot though it b
October, and tbe hot sun on that sort of staff
always breeds malaria."
“1 wasn't talkin' of sic-kneas, sold the wife
“The dear boy's health b os good aa ever
lib hb mind that's out o’ sorts.”
“A long, soft sigh was th* farmer's only
reply for a moment It was followed by the
remark;
“That dty gal, 1 s’poeo—confound her I"
“I don’t see what yon wont her confounded
for; she hasn’t don* anythin* They don’t
“I should hope not,” sold Hayn, with con
tiderable vigor. He now was wide awake
“What oould they write about! You don’t
s'poss Phil could writ* anythin’ about our
goin's-on that would Interest her, do you!"
“No, but young people sometimes do find
somethin' to exchange letters about Yon
and 1 didn't when we were boy and girl, be
cause we lived within a stone’s throw of each
other, an* you couldn’t keep assay from our
bouse after dark; but Philip and"
“For goodness sake, old lady,” interrupted
th* huabsuid, don’t you go to aetttn' yourself
down at your time of life by gettin’ ths
match matin’ fever There lm* tb* Might
set chonoe that”—
“1 didn't my there was. bat boy# will br
boys."
“It doesn't follow that they should be fools
does It—-not when they’re our boys!"
“ Tisn't bein’ a fool to be interested In a
rich monk daughter I’ve often thought how
different your life might has# barn If Pd had
anything besides myself to give yon when
yon married ma”
“I got all 1 expected, and a thousand timet
more than I deserved.” Thb amsrtlon was
followed by a kiss, which, though delivered
In tbe dark, was of absolutely accurst* aim.
“Don’t put It into Phil's bead that he cos
get more than a wife when be marries
twill do him a great deal more harm than
good.”
“I'd like to am th* dear boy so fixed that
hft won’t have to work so hard m you’ve had
to da”
“Then you’ll am him lass of a man than hit
father, when be ought to be better Iml
that rather poor business for a mother in I*
rati to be in, old lady r
“Well, anyhow 1 belbv# Phil’s heart b set
on makin’ a trip clown to York.”
“Oh, b that all • Well, he’s been promised
it, for some day thb leng while. Some
thing’s always ; routed it, but 1 s’pose now
would be as good a time as any He deserves
it; he's as good a son aa man ever had.”
Mrs Hayn probably agreed with her has
band as to the goodness of their son, but that
wm not tb* view of him In which she wm In
terested fust then. Said she:
“If be goes, of course bell see her.”
Again th* farmer sighed, thro he mid.
quite earnestly:
“Let him aaa bar, than, tha aoooor ha doat
it tpa aoooar ball atop thin kin' about bar.
Blew tout dear foolish old heart, bar ways
and bU are aa far apart aa Uayntou and
heaven when there's a spiritual drought la
this portion of the Lord's vineyard."
“1 don't think tha Tramlays are so ranch
batter than w» If they have got money,*
■aid Mix Hayn. with soma indignation. “1
always did say that yon didn't sat enough
■tore by yourself. Mra Tram lay la a nice
enough woman, but 1 never could aaa bow
aha wan any wnartar than 1; and «» Cb bar
husband. I always noticed that you gw ter ally
bald your own whan the two of you ware
talking about anything. *
“Bieaa you I" exclaimed the farmer, “you
are rather proud of your old husband, aran’t
you! But Phil will aoou asa, with half an
aye, that It would ba the atlliast thing in the
world for him to fall in love with a girl Uka
that,"
“1 can't for tha Ufa of me aaa why,” said
tha mother. “Hah Just aa good as aha. and
a good deal smarter, or I’m no Judge. ”
“Baa bare. Loo Ann."said the farmer, with
more than a hint of impatience in his voice,
“you know twon't do either of 'em any good
to fall In love If they cent marry each other
An’ what would Phil bare to support kb «in
rtf WouM aha come oat bora an* laud ton.
the bouse work of the farm, like you do, Jm(
for the sake of havin’ Phil for a husband! Not
unless she’s a fool, even if PhQ is our boy an’
about aa good aa they make ton. An’ you
know well enough that ha couldn’t afford to
live in New York: he’s got nothin’ to do it
on.”
“Not now, but be might go In businea
there, and make enough to live la style,
Other young fellows have done it I"
“Tee—ln atortaa,” said ths old man. ’Lou
Ann, don’t you kind o' think that for a
church member of thirty years’ stand in'
you’re gettin' mighty worldly minded f"
"No, I don’t," lira Hayn answered. “If
not to want my boy to drudge away his
Ufs like bis tether's done Is bein’ worldly,
then I’m goto' to be a backslider and stay
ona I don’t think t would be a bit bad to
have a married son down to York, so*s bis
old mother oould have some place to go onee
in a while whan she’s tired to death of work
an* worry."
“OhoI" said the old man, “that’s the point
of It, ebl Well, 1 don't mind backslldln'
enough to say the boy may marry eos of
Baton's daughters, if it’ll mass life any eotiar
for you, old lady.”
“Much obliged,'' the mother replied, “but
1 don’t knuyr as I ear* to do vltitfn' down
there,"
The conversation soon subsided, husband
and wife dropping into is very from which
they dropped Into slumber In one way or
other, however, tbe subject came up again.
Bald Mrs, Hayn one day. Just aa her husband
was leaving the dinner table (or the field in
which be was cutting and storking corn.
“I do believe Phil's best ooat b finer stuff
than anything Mr. Tramby wore when they
were up here, 1 don't believe what he wore
Sundays could hold a caudle to Phil’s."
“Like enough,” mid tbe farmer, “and yet
the old man always looked better dresmd. I
think hb clothe* made him look a iittU
younger than Phil, too.”
“Now, husband, you know it but fair to
make fun of tbe dear boy’s cloths* in that
way You know well enough that th* stuff
for hb ooat waa cut from th* same bolt of
broadcloth as th* minister's bask”
“Yes,” drawled th* farmer through half a
dozen Inflections, any on* of which would
have driven frantic any woman but hb own
wife,
“It's real mean in you to my ’Yes’ la that
wav. Reuben f
Aw, tbe tb,t iiatotk.au.
old lady; it’s the tailor."
"I’m an re Sarah Twasg* out an' mod*
Phil’s ooat. on' if there’s a batter sewin’ sro
man in thb part of the county I’d Uketo
know where yon find her.”
“Oh. Borah Tweeg* can sew. Lon Ann,"
the old man admitted. “Goodness 1 I wish
she’d mode my new boniest, instead of what
ever fellow did it Mebbe, too, if she'd mad*
tbe sacks for the last oats I bought 1 wouldn’t
have lost about half a bushel on the wav
home Yearn’, Borah Tweag* can sew a bad
quilt up as square os an boneet man's eon
science, But sewin' ain’t tailorin’.”
“Don't she always make tb* minister’s
clothes r* demanded Mrs. Hayn.
“I never thought of it before, but of
count she does I don’t believe anybody elm
oould do It in that way Vet th*
ain’t got so bad a figure, when you see him
workin’ in hb garden in hb shirt sleeves.”
“It'S time for you to go back to the corn
Bald.” suggested Mrs. Hayn.
“Yes, 1 reckon tb," said tb* former, oanm
a what might have been nap had not hb
hat been of felt “ Taint safe for an old
farmer to be glvln* hb time an’ thooxht to
pomps an* vanities—like tbe minister’s broad
cloth coat”
“Get oat!" exclaimed Mrs Hayn, with a
threatening gesture. The old man kissed her,
laughed and began to obey b#r command;
but aa, ilka countrymen in general, be made
hb exit by th* longest possible route, waa
dering through tbs sitting room, tb* hall, ths
dining room and tbe kitchen, hb wife had
time to waylay him at th* door step and re
mark;
“I was only goto to my that if Phil does
make that trip to York ( don't aee that he’ll
need to buy new clothoa Hah never won
that Sunday coal on other days, except tc
two or three funerals an* parties 1 was goto'
it over this very moniln', an* It’s about at
good as new.*
“1 wonder bow this family would over
have got along if 1 hadn’t got ante a ear*
takto'wifer said the old man. “It's the beet
coat In the United States if you've been goto'
Phil was already to the corn-be bad Ml
the table aomo mtootea before his fatber
and as tba old man approached Phil said:
“Father, don’t yon think that wind break
for the teeap needs patching this foUP
“It generally dose, my son. before cold
weather aate In.*
“I gueas I’D got at U. then, aa soon aa wo
get tba corn stacked."
“What's the hurry Tha middle of No
vember Is early enough for that.”
“Oh, when it's done It’ll be off oar mlnda*
“See hero, old boy,” mid the father, drop
ptog the old teipk cutlaaa with which be bod
begun to out tha corn stalks, “you're doin’all
your work a month ahead this falL What
are yoa goto'to do with all yoor time when
there’s no more work to be doner
“1 can’t my, Pm sure,” said Phil, piling an
armful of stalks against a state with mote
* Thsn PU have to, I s’poaa,
seeto’ Pm your (ether I ruses PU ha veto send
you down to ICsw Tote for a month, to look
aroun* an’ see somethin* of the world.”
Phil turned so quickly that ha rnlnad all
hla elaborate work of tha momant before, al
moat burying bis father under the toppling
stack.
“That went to the spot, didn’t Itr said tha
old man. “I mean tha proposition-not the
fodder." be continued, as be extricated him
self from the mam of cornstalks.
“It’s exactly what Pve baaa wanting tc
do," said Phil, “hot"
“But yon didn't tike to say ao, tel Well,
twasn't necessary to mention it; ee 1 told
yon t'other day, loan am through the bate
of your head any time, old boy.”
“ T wouldn't cost much money,’ said Phil
“1 could go down on Sol Manning's sloop for
nothing, some time when hot abort handed.”
“Onms I can afford to pay my oldest sank
travelln’ expenses when I send him ont to see
the world. Ton’ll go down to Tarh by mil
road, an’to tha bate ear. too: If there's any
difference."
“1 wont have to bay clothes, anyhow,"
aald the younger man.
“Tea, yon wlli-luts of km. York ain't
Bayutoo, old boy: aa’ as tha Yorkers don’t
know enough to take their style from yon,
you’ll have to taka yonrs foam them. I was
there once, when 1 was long about your ago.
I didn't have to bay no more mastin’dothee
after that until I got married—nigh on to ten
“If itk as axpmdve as that. Pm not going,"
said Phil. looking very aolama and beginning
“Tea, yon ere, air. IH have you under
stand you’re not much over age vat, an' have
got to mind your old father Now. let that
oora alone. U It wool stay down, alt on It
—this way—sea” And, autting the action to
tha word, the old man sprawled at earn on
the fallen fodder, dragged Us son down altar
him and mid:
“Ton teall hare a bnodred dollars to start
u .tb, and more afterward. If younesd it, as
I know yon wttL Tha Ant thing to do whan
you gat to the dty Is to go to the best looking
clothing More you can find, and buy a suit
mob a# you me well dressed men wearing to
hntinsm Keep your eyee open on men as
iharply as If they were bosses and clothes
srsrs their only points, and then see that yon
pft os good elothsa Many of theaL It don’t
siaftsr so much about the stuff, but have
your clothes fit you. an' cut like other pen
pleto”
“I don want to pat aa city airs,” said PhQ.
“That’s right—that's right, but city clothes
and city airs aren’t any more alike than
country airs an* good manners Yon may
be the smartest, brightest young fellow that
ever went to York—as of course you art,
bein’ my son—hut folks st Yorkll never find
(tout If you don't dress properly—that means,
dress os they do. I’ll trade watches with
you, to trade bock after the trip, mine la
gold, you know You’ll have to buy a decent
chain, though."
“1 won’t take your watch, father I cant,
that’s all about It"
“Nonsense! of coarse yon can If you try
It isn’t good manners to wear silver watches
la the dty "
“But your watch"— Phil oould get no
further, to. bb father’s gold watch was ven
erated by the family aa if it were a May
flower chair or the musket of a soldier of the
Revolution. One* whll* old farmer Hayn
was young Capt Hayn, of the whaling ship
Lou Ann, be wived the crew of a sinking
British bark Unlike modern ship captain#
(who do not own their vases Is), be we went in
the boat with the rescuing party instead of
marq}y sending it out and be suffered so
much through exposure, strain and the fear
of the death which seemed impending that he
abandoned the soa as soon thereafter os poe
Bible, Nevertheless he thought only of tbe
work before him until be bed rescued tbe
imperiled crew and stowed them safely in bb
own ship
Tbe circumstances of the rescue were eo un
usual that they formed the subject of long
columns in foreign newspapers, and in a few
months Capt Ha yn received through the
state department at Washington a gold
watch, with sundry complimentary papers
from th* British admiralty The young son
man never talked of either, hip neighbors
first teamed of th* presentation by conning
their favorite weekly newspapers, neverlhe
baa th* papers were framed and Lung In th*
young captain’s bedchamber, and, however
earebmly nedremsd afterward, nobody ever
saw him whsn be had not the watch in hb
“Father," said Phil, after soma moments
spent in silence and facial contortion, “1
can’t taka your watoh, oven for a little while.
You’ve always worn It; It’s your—the faml
lyI*—patent 1 *—patent of nobility."
“Wall,* said the old farmer, after contem
plating th* torn of hb boot* a few seconds,
“1 don’t mind ownin' up to my oldest son
that I look at th* old watch In about th* same
light; but a patent of nobility b a disgrace to
a family if the owner’s heir Isn’t fit to inherit
it Bee! Guess you'd better make up your
mind to break yourself Into your cornin’ re
sponsibilities by oarryin’ that watch in New
York. Wonder what time ’tier
Tb* question was a good pretext on which
to take tb* “patent of nobility" from hb fob
pocket and look at it Ha did it In a way
which caused Phil quickly to avert hb face
and devote himself with great Industry to
stacking corn. Half a minute later tbe old
man, on Uem in hand, waa cutting corn as if
hb life depended upon it
CHAPTER HI
“now* to roax.”
BSPITE hb fa
i titer's expressed de-
I sire, Phil went to
I New York on 80l
I Mantrlug’s sloop.
I Th* difference in
I time promised to
f be a day or two
days, but th* dif
ference In cash out
lay was more than
five dollars—a sum
which no one In th*
vicinity of Hayn
Farm had ever
been known to
•P«d needlessly without oomtng to grief.
Between cash In hand and its nominal aqnlv
slant In time, PhQ, like most other prudent
knew how small waa ths amount of ready
money that hb father, in spit* of oar* and
skin at hb business, was able to show for
mart than a quarter of a century of hard
work.
The young man* departure ni tbaooca
tem for quite a demonstration bj tba neigh
bora Other young mm of the vicinage had
baas to New Turk, but generally tbay ware
tboaa whom thalr neighbors did not hope to
aaa again, Phil, on tba contrary, <ru a gen
aral favorite. His family intend that no
one should know of tba Journey on til Phil
waa fairly off, for tbay knaw by experience,
ta> which sometimes tbay had been tha off sod
art, bow Inaatiabla la rural enrioutity about
any doing* out of tba ordinary But when Sol
Mantring told his wtfa that Phil waa to go
down with hla> aa a “band,” Mra Mantling
straightway pot on bar bate things and want
out to tall all bar neighbors that Phil Bayn
waa going down to York, and, being a woman
who oarer did anything by halvas, aba after
ward plodded the datey road that lad to tba
littla village at tba railway station, wbara
Mm eonanmad several hours In doing patty
topping at tba aararal stores, varying this
raoraation by Induatiioua goaatp wltb every
aoqoalntanoa who droppad In Aa aaeb per
son who baard tba naws woodarsd what Phil
waa going for, and aa Mra Mantling waa
anra aba didn't know any batter than daad
and gone Adam, tbara was developed a wealth
of an raise and theory that should bare for
aver dispelled tba general Impraadoo that
Americana are not Imaginative people
Por tba remainder of Phil'S time at borne
tha family and Its eldest son bad scarcely
enough time to tbamaslras to attend to thalr
dally devotiooa People cams to borrow
something, to bring news, to aafc advloe
anytblng that would baaa excuse to see what
might be going on, and to learn why Phil waa
going to tha city Phil’s parents bad prw
pared what they supposed would be snflkisnt
aaplanationi tha (arm and tha boom needed
some things that ooold batter be selected from
large stocks and variety than bought nearer
borne But they bad underrated the persist
aocy of local cariosity: number leas pointed
qnmtions were ashed, and if la tha course of
a wash there had been any vWtor who did
not ate. In one way ar other, whether Phil
would go team the Tram lays, tha family did
not know who It had bean, tbay ware sore
they would bava gratefally acted snob a eon
Mdarato parson at tba Urns, and remembered
him ■ crW—forever after.
That* mn worn, 100, who wanted Phil to
do than mall aaTflon In tba city Farmer
Blawitt had hoard that tha oaroorapaaln
often aold for almoat nothing tha harm that
broka down at their bard work aad naadad
only piaoty of root and paotnraga to make
than aa good aa now; wouldn’t Phil look
about aad on if ha oonldnl gat him a bar
gate! aad bring It back on tha aloop. If ha
wouldn't mind loading and waterfan lion tha
koantrip! Old Mra Whollay hadbaaa Bad
lag bar apacteelnw young *at aba didn't
know hot dte aaodadotroagar giaaaaa. or
may b# a Bible with larger pelnt; if Phil
would price both and write her, she would
try to make up her mind what she ought to
da Samantha Rootles bad been tolling bar
husband James for the lost five years that
their beat room carpet was too shabby for
people who might have a funeral in the fam
ily at any time, James’ stepntotber being very
old and sickly, but James wouldn't do any
thing but put off, and as for her, sbe wasn’t
going to be cheated out of her eye teeth at
tha stores at the depot, when year before last
sbe saw In a York newspaper, that the wind
blew out of the band of somebody leaning out
of a train window, that good Ingrains were
selling in New York at thirty-five cents a
yard; sbe wished Phil would pick her outona
Besides many requests like these, Phil had
to make promisee to downs of young men
and women whose wants were smaller, but
none the easier to attend to. so the prospec
tive traveler and bis parents bad the pains of
parting alleviated by the thought that not
until Phil departed would any of them have
peace, The day of sailing brought a great
throng of vltitora-eo many that the minister,
who was of the number, extemporised a
“neighborhood prayer meeting," at which
Providence was implored to “save our dear
young brother from the perils of the deep,"
and Informed of so many of Phil’s guod qua!
(ties that only an Inborn respect for religious
forms restrained the modest youth from
sneaking out of the lark door and hiding in
the bull of the sloop until there was a brand
expanse of water between biro and the shore
Then the entire throng, excepting two or
three old ladles who remained with Mrs
Hayn “to help tier bear up. poor tool,"
escorted Phil to tbe sloop Among them was
a predominance of young men who looked as
If in case Phil should want a substitute they
were ready, and of young women whose face*
Indicated that if Phil should care to say any
thing tendec to anybody. Just to have some
thing to think about while away, be should
have no excuse to leave it uuxald.
80l Mantring cut the parting short by re
marking that prayer was all very well In ib
place, but be didn't believe in it keeping a
■loop in a shallow river while the title was
falling and no wind to beip her out. So Phil
hurried aboard, though not before bb father
had almost crushed hb baud with a grasp
that hail twvn developed by many years of
trabiing with bridle ruins, ax helves and pa
wmal affect i»a
Some one cost off tbe sloop's hawser, the
mainsail was already up. and tbe craft began
to drift out with the tide, Thb was the sig
nal for a flutter of handkerchiefs and a
chorus of cheers, during which Former Hayn
plodded along tbe river bank betid* tbe sloop,
regardless of mud, stoues, marsh gram and
cattails. He seemed to have no last In Juno
tions for bbboy; indeed, hb occasional shouts
wore bestowed principally upon 80l Mant
ring, who stood at tbe wheel, and they bad
no more relation to Phil than to the khan of
Khiva. In like manner Phil seemed lam in
toreeted In hb father than in ths mam of
cordage at the foot of the most Never!be
bos, when tb* river bank ended at tbe shore
of the bay, and could be followed no longer,
tb* old man stood there, aa Sot Mantring
said afterward, “lookin’ as if he’d lost bb last
friend, never expected to git another, an*
he'd got ten year older all of a sudden,” and
Phil, when he saw thb, straightened in front
of the friendly mast which bid him from the
.remainder of the crew, and threw klmmle
hb father, with th* profusion of early child
hood, as long as be oould distinguish the dmgj
old ooat and hat from tbe stoues of timllai
ho* that marked the little point
“Tbe peril* of th* deep” were happily
averted. Indeed, Phil would willingly have
endured more could th* wind have blown
harder. The sloop finally made her pier la
New York about dusk of th* second day
Phil hastily donned hb best suit, and os tin
part of tbe dty in which tb* Iron merchant!
duster was not far away, and Sol Mantring
knew ths streets of that portion of tb* dty,
Phil started, with minute directions from th<
skipper, to oall on Mr. Tramlay. Hb single
nem of purpose mad* him unconscious that
be was acting In a manner not common tc
him, bat as be climbed tb* side of tb* plet
and harried toward tb* mom of light before
him 80l Mantring remarked to th* remain
der of th* crew, consisting of two men:
“I knowed it"
“Knowed whatf"
“He’s gal struck. Got it bad.”
Phil mad* bb way op tbs principal
thoroughfare from New York to Brooklyn,
wondering at tb* thronged sidewalks and
brilliantly lighted shops, but be did not
neglect to eye the street names on cornet
lamps Boon b« turned into a street which
wm part of bbouurse as laid down by Sol; at
tbe same timo bo turned from light to dork
noss, th* change being almost appalling In ito
suddenness Btill be hurried on, and aftw
another turn began to look for numbers or
tbe front* of buildings Hb heart bounded
within him aa be suddenly saw, by ths light
of a street lamp, tbe sign, “Edgar Tramlay."
In’an instant hb hand waaoa tb* door knob
bat th* door did not open Through th* glow
door he saw two or throe dim lights within.
Probably the proprietor was at hb deak; per
haps, too. be should have knocked: so knock
be did.
“What d’ye want there, young feller!"
shouted a policeman across the street
“1 want to see Mr. Tramlay."
“Guess your watoh b slow, ain't ftf
growled the officer
“I don’t know; maybe so,” PhQ replied.
“Don’t yon know betterti to oome hnnUn
down hers for a bixoess man after 9 o’clock
at night!" asked tbe officer.
Phil admitted to himself that be did not
still, be hod corns ashore to find Mr. Tram
lay, and the (dm of giving up tb* search did
not occur to him. He finally oakad:
“Where do you suppose I can find him!"
“At home, I guess. If he's one of tim kind
“1 reckon be b,” said PhQ. “Will yn#
please tall me where he lives!"
“Oh, oome off I" mattered th* pnlinssnen,
“D’ye s’poee I ain’t rot nothin’ to do bat
know where folks five! Where was yn#
brought up!—’way back!"
“I’m wry I bothered you, sir," mid PhO,
who now mw the officer's uniform and ran
ogniasd It by memory of pictures he had
seen in illustrated newspapers, “lent than
any way to find out where a man Uvea la
New York!"
“Certainly, look In the directory. Goof
lo Broadway—ith up at the head at thh
street an’go along till you And a drug atom
Like enough you'll find a directory there.*
Phil followed instructions, end burned the
street and numuarof the Tramlay domicile,
la front of him street oars -«re continually
coming and going, and by the conductors oi
these he was referred from one to another
until he found a which went to the street
he wanted to reach. Although Phil knew
the city woo large, the Journey eseraed very
long, It wee made an boor longer than it
should have been, for a fire had broken out
somewhere along the route, and engine hoes
blockaded the railway track. When finally
the desired street was reached Phil found
himself several hundred numbers away from
that be wee looking lor. and It was then
nearly 0 o’clock.
“Pee half a mind to give It up.” said Phil,
as be walked rapidly along. "Perhaps they
Lie bed early, there’s no telling. Still, If
yVe abed. I’ll know It hy the lights being
out. 1 don't seem to walk down these own
bars very fast ”
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