THE BROTHERS.

 

CHAP. I.—THE CONTRAST.

SOHN and Stephen Wright stood side
| by side, looking at each other.

GE Nobody would have taken them for
brothers ; Valentine and Orson in the fairy
tale were not more unlike, and perhaps that
is what these boys were thinking as they
stood looking into each other’s face. They
felt shy and strange, for they could not re-
member ever having met before; and they
were silent, not knowing how to begin speak-
ing. Their meeting had taken place at a
railway station—not exactly the place for
two people to stand still and think and look
at each other. And so the boys began to
find out, when two trucks, a porter, and half-