Show BE BEGINNING LIFE I 1 be began beall all life by running 0 away atom homo home belleau we were told was driven into liis his career by the hand offitt of fate and the peck of tin tinkey key attila started in life with no other cause and capital than an all old sword and which lie palmed off for the divine weapon of mars and Robes re owed liis his political career to wetting his stockings and an d heard words which burn 2 which fired his soul and determined liis his course in life my runn running in D away atom home arose flom a minor mino r mortification fi caused by carrying a wirl girl over tile brook donald loan lean and myself acio wei e good friends at foundeen fount foun teen cen years of age age 0 and we both regarded with little moie than friendship pretty helen graham our oldest gill at school 11 we romped and danced together 0 and this lasted for such a length of time that it is with feelings of bewilderment that I 1 look back upon the mystery of two lovers continuing friends but the time was to come when jealousy lit her in my boyish bosom and blow blew it into a consuming flame well do I 1 remember li liow ow and when tile the green eyed 11 perpetrated this in deed it was avas on oil a cold october evening when helen donald and myself wele turning ic i et 0 with our parents from a noigh neighboring boung hamlet As we appi cached a ford where the water i an all some hat bat higher than ankle deep we ave proposed pio posed to cairy helen we ave ocic accustomed to with hands interwoven chair fashion and thus carried our passenger over look just as wo ave were in the middle of the water which was cold enough 0 to have flozell anything 0 like feeling out of boys boya less hardy than ourselves a faint pan pang 0 of jealousy nipped my heart why it was I 1 know knew not for we have carried helen arloss the brook ere now without emotion but this tin s evening even 0 I 1 ahou thought 0 lit or fancied that helen gave ave donald an undue preference by casting her arm around liis his neck welle she steadied herself on my side by li tile the cuff cliff of illy 1113 jacket no flame can burn so quick or with so little fuel as jealousy before we ave had reached the opposite bank I 1 wished donald at the bottom of tile the sea being naturally impetuous I 1 buist out with you need na iia hand sao sac gingerly 0 helen as if ye feared a fa I 1 can carry yo lighter than donald can carry half of yo ye surprised at the vehemence of my tone our queen interposed with an all admission that we ave were both strong 02 and that she had bad no idea of sparing 0 my power powei but donalds fire was kindled and lie he utterly denied that I 1 was at all qualified to compete with avith him in feats of moral coinage on such topics acs ics boys are generally emulous and by the time wo ave i cached the opposite bank it was settled that the point should be determined by our singly bearing helen across the fold in our arms helen was to determine who carried her most easily and I 1 settled with myself privately in advance thit the one who had obtained the preference would really be the person who stood highest in her affections the reflection stimulated me to exert every effort and I 1 verily believe to this tin s day alit I 1 I 1 could have carried donald and helen on either arm like feathers but I 1 must not ilot anticipate we suffered all the rest of the party parly to pass quietly along and then ic turned with helen with the utmost care I 1 carried her like an all infant to the middle of the water jealousy had inspired a wanner love and it was with fooling feeling unknown before that I 1 embraced her beautiful form forin and felt the bercheen ber cheek against 0 mine all went swimmingly or lather for a minute but alas in the deiy deepest part of the ford I 1 trod 0 on n a trea treacherous chelous bit of wood which lost ed I 1 suppose on oil a smooth stone over I 1 rolled bearing helen with roe me nor did we ave rise till dahly soaked from head to foot I 1 need not describe tho taunts of donald or the more accusing silence of helen both believed that I 1 had fallon fallen from mcie weakness and my fival demonstrated his superior ability beai healing ing her in his arms a long along distance on our ho path As we ave approached the house helen feeling dry and better humored attempted to conciliate me but I 1 preserved a moody silence I 1 was mortified beyond ie ledi diess that night 0 I 1 packed up a few thin thins bilings 0 s and ran rail away my illy boyish mind sensitive and irritated exaggerated tile lico negation aaion which it had and plo apted me to better results than gone lally attend such I 1 went to edinburgh I 1 found in an uncle a kindhearted kind hearted childless mth man who employed me in his business wealth flowed upon him I 1 became liis his baitner went abroad resided fa ur beirs on oil the continent and finally ic turned to scotland lich educated in short everything every tiling but married one evening while at a ball in glasgow I 1 was sti tick by a lady of e bendin tending 0 appearance but abo whose e remarkable beauty and high toned exar expression es sion indicated a mind of extraordinary I 1 ry power I 1 was introduced but iho the names had loii long 0 been unfamiliar to my cars and I 1 could not catch licis it was helen something 0 and was ivas something in the face too that seemed familiar something suggestive of pleasure and pain but we became well acquainted that evening I 1 learned without difficulty hor her his toty she was fiam the country had been educated her parents had lost their property pio perty and slie silo was now governess of a family of the city I 1 was wag fascinated with her conversation and was continually ic minded by her grace and refinement of manner that she was capable of moving with distinguished success in a far higher sphere than that which fortune seemed to have allotted her I 1 was naturally not talkative nor prone pron 0 to confidence 2 but there was that in this young lade lady which ins inspired piled both and I 1 convel convulsed sed with her as I 1 had never conversed with any her questions of the various countries with which I 1 was familiar indicated a i emai kable knowledge of lite literature and an incredible aire of information we pio 0 in intimacy and is as our condei conversation bation turned upon the cause which induced so many to leave their native land I 1 laughingly remarked that I 1 owed my own travels to falling failing with a pretty 0 girl into a fold I 1 had bad hardly spoken these words ere the blood mounted to her face and was succeeded by a remark remarkable able palyn I 1 attributed it to the heat beat of the room laughed and at her i bequest proceeded to relate my ford a with helen graham painting in glowing colors the amiability ot my love her ninth dining 0 the recital became at the conclusion silo she remarked ked I 1 mr roberts is it possible that you have forgotten me i I 1 gazed an all instant remen remembered abere d and ayas vas dumbfounded tile the lady with whom I 1 had thus become was helen graham licis elf I 1 hate and so do you reader to need needlessly lesly prolong a story we were soon danied helen and I 1 made our bridal tour to the old place and as we wc approached in our carriage 0 I 1 0 greeted a stout follow fellow Av working in a field who seemed to be a better sort of la laboi boler or or perhaps a small farmer by inquiring r some particulars le i elating relating 1 to the acio neighborhood ile he answered well enough and I 1 was about to give him sixpence when helen stayed my illy hand and cried out in theold style hey Don donald tild mon dibina yojen Y ihben yer auld friends P c the man looked up in astonishment it was donald lean his abasement ama arna at our appearance was hight 0 enod by its style and it was with the greatest difficulty that we could induce him to enter our carli carriage calliape ape 0 and ails answer ver our numerous queries as to our frici frie fid idS diffee ent men stai t in life in different ways I 1 believe that mine however is the only instance on of a gentleman who owes wealth and happiness to lolling over with a pretty ill in a stream ot of water 0 |