Show 00 V Y ja STOR ISY doyla I 1 8 PRE association CHAPTER CHAITER pvn well maam since you know no n 0 much you probably know also that I 1 have sold fold my pension how am I 1 to live if I 1 do not turn my hand band to work mrs produced a large registered envelope from beneath the sheets beeta and tossed it over to the old seaman eaman that excuse wont do there are your pension papers just see it if they tre are right he broke the seal and out tumbled the very papers which he had made over to AlcA mcadam darn two days before but what am I 1 to do with these now he cried in bewilderment you tou will put them in a sate safe place or get bet a friend to do so go and it if you do your duty you will go to your wife and beg bec her pardon for having even tor for an instant thought of leaving her his hand over hit bit 1 i the admiral passed rugged forehead this Is very good of you maam said he very good and kind and I 1 know that you are a staunch friend but for all that these mean money and though wo we may have hav been in broken water lately we are not quite in such straits as to have to signal to our friends when we do maam theres no one we would look to sooner than to you dont be ridiculous said the widow you know nothing whatever about it and yet you stand there laying down the law ill have my way in this matter malter matro malro and you shall take the pipe paper ro tor for it Is no favor that I 1 am doing you but limply a restoration of stolen property how that maam 1 I am just going to explain though you might take a ladys word for it without asking any questions now what I 1 am going to say lip Is lust just between you four and must go no farther I 1 have my own reasons tor for wishing it kept from the police who do you think it waa who struck me last night admiral some villain maam I 1 dont know tits bis name but I 1 do it was the same roan who or tried to ruin your son it was pay my only brother jeremiah ali ah i 1 I will tell you about himor him or n little about him tor for he has done much which jl would not care to talk of nor you to alsten isten to he was always a villain smooth smooth spoken and plausible but a dani dan berous subtle villain all the same it I 1 have a v e some hard thoughts about man ta kind n bican I 1 can trace them back to the childhood hood which I 1 spent with my brother ile he Is my only living relative tor for my other brothe rCharles father was killed in the indian mutiny our father was rich and when he h died lie he made a good provision both tor for Per deremiah emiah lah and tor for me he knew jeremiah and he mistrusted him however so BO instead of giving him all that he meant him to have he handed me over a part of it telling me with what was almost his dying breath to hold bold it in trust tor for my brother and to use it in his behalf when he should have squandered or lost all that he had this ar ran gement was meant to be a secret between my father and myself but unfortunately his words were overheard by the nurse and she repeated them afterwards to my brother so that he came to know that I 1 held some money in trust tor for him I 1 suppose tobacco will not harm my head doctor thank you then I 1 shall trouble you tor for the matches ida she lit a cigarette and leaned back upon the pillow with the blue wreaths curling from her lips 1 I cannot tell you how often he has attempted to get that money from me ile he has bullied cajoled threatened coaxed done all that a man could do I 1 still held it with the presentiment that a need of it would come when I 1 heard aeed 0 of this villainous business his flight and his leaving his partner to face the storm above all that my old friend had been driven to surrender hla his income in order to make up tor for my brothers de I 1 felt that now indeed I 1 hid had a need tor for it I 1 sent in charles yesterday to mr mcadam and his client upon hearing the facts ot of the case very graciously consented to give back the papers and to take the money which he had advanced not a word of 0 thanks thank to me admiral I 1 tell you that it was very cheap benevolence tor for it was waa all done with his own money and how could I 1 use it better 1 I thought that I 1 should probably har bear from him soon and I 1 did last evening there was handed banded in a note ol of the usual whining cringing tone he had come back from abroad at the risk 0 f his life 11 and liberty just in order that be i might say ay goodbye good bye to the only sister that he ever had bad and to entreat my forgiveness for any pala pain which he had caused me he would never trouble me again and he begged only that I 1 would hand over to him the sum which I 1 held lo in trust for him that thai with what he had already would be enough to start him as an honest man in the new world when he would ever remember and pray tor for the dear sister who had been his savior that was the style of the letter and it ended by imploring me to leave the window latch open and to he be in the front room at three in the morning I 1 ing when he would come to receive my last A st kiss and to bid me farewell bad as he be was I 1 could not when he trusted me betray him I 1 said nothing but bul I 1 was there at the hour he entered through the window and implored me to give him the money he was ter rubly changed gaunt wolfish and spoke 1 ake a madman I 1 told him that I 1 had 1 pint the mony cna ard Ms h s teeth v re t me and swore it WB war his money I 1 uld mid him trat I 1 had it on him he asked me how I 1 said in trying to make him on nn honest man and in repairing the results of his lie he shrieked out ft 4 curse and pulling something out ou ot of the breast of hla his coat a loaded artick I 1 think he struck we me with it and I 1 remembered nothing more the blackguard cried the doctor b but ut the police must be hot upon his hl track 1 I fancy not t mrs airs an calmly As my brother Is a particularly tall thin man and as the police are looking for or a short fat at one 1 I do not think that it Is very probable that they will catch him it Is best I 1 think that these little family matters matter should be adjusted in private my dear maam said the admiral if 1 it la in indeed this mans money that has brought back my pension then I 1 i can have no scruples about taking it you have brought sunshine upon us maam when the clouds were at their dr darkest ket for or here Is my boy who insists upon returning the money which I 1 pot got he can keep keel it now to pay his debts i for what you have done I 1 can only asu abw god to bless bleas you maam and as to thanking you I 1 cant even 0 then pray dont try said bald the widow now run away admiral and aa make ke your peace with mrs denver 1 I 1 lam sure if I 1 were she it would be a I 1 long ong time before I 1 should forgive you As for me I 1 am groins going to america ches wb icharles charles toes take me so fare tar 1 I 1 ilont ont you ida there la Is a college i i built in denver which Is to equia I 1 the he woman of the future for the strut ire or tie me and especially for her bittl battle against vian plan some months ago aco the committee offered me a responsible position upon the staff and I 1 have de sided to accept it for charles marriage marri ag removes the last tie which binds me to t england you will write to me some som times my friends and you will address your letters to professor F emancipation college denver from there I 1 shall watch how the glorious el orlou struggle goes on in conservative old england and I 1 I 1 am needed you will find me here an n ligh fighting lIng in the toe lore front of the fra fr goodbye good bye but noo noil you girls I 1 have still a word I 1 wish td gay ay to you give me your hand band ida and yours clara said she when they we wera r a alone alon oh you naughty little pu busses pusses ase are arent bacel n you ashamed to look me in the facet did you think did you really think that thai I 1 was so very blind and could not see se your little plot you did it very welli I 1 must say that and really I 1 think thal thai biad t like you better as you are but you iad all your pains tor for nothing you little conspirators for I 1 give you my word that I 1 had quite made up my mind not nol to have him and so within a few weeks our little ladles front from their observatory saw a mighty bustle in the wilderness when two horse carriages came and coach men with favors to bear away the twos who were destined to come back one and they themselves an fn their crackling illk ilk dresses went across its as invited to ahe ne big double wedding breakfast which was held in the house of doctor walker then there was health drinking and laughter and changing of dresses and rice throwing when the carriages droel drove up again and two more couples started on that journey which ends only with life itself charles Is now a flourish ing ranchman in the western part of 0 te texas teas as abere he ha and his sweet little wife are the two most popular persons person in all that county of their aunt they see gee little but from time to time they see notices in the papers that there Is focus of light in denver where mighty thunderbolts are being forged which will one day bring the dominant sei se upon their knees the admiral and his bis wife still live at number one while harold and clara have taken number two where doctor walker continues to t reside As to the business it had been reconstructed and the energy and ability of the junior partner had soon made up tor for all the III that had bad been done by his senior yet with his sweet and refined home atmosphere he Is able to realize his wish and to keep himself free from the sordid alms and base ambitions which drag down the man whose business lies iles too exclusively in the money market of the vast babylon As he goes back every evening from the crowds of street to the tree lined peaceful avenues of norwood so he has found it possible in spirit also to do ones duties amidst the babel of the city and yet to live beyond it THE END |