Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 26 April 1895 — Page 4

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Mrs. Denver unfolded it and placed it upon Harold's knee. "Five thousand pounds!" he gasped. "All, but mother is not the only rich one. Look at this!" And the admiral unfolded his check and placed it upon the other knee.

Harold gazed from one to the other in bewilderment. "Ten thousand pounds!" he cried. "Good heavens! where did these come from:" "You will not worry any longer, dear," murmured his mother, slipping her arm round him.

But his quick eye had caught the signature upon one of the checks. "Dr. Walker!" he cried, flushing. "This is Clara':', doing. Oh, dad, we cannot take this money. It would not be right nor honorable." "No. boy. I am glad you think so. It is something, however, to have proved one's friend, for a real good friend he is. It was he who brought it in, though Clara- sent him. But this other money will be enough to cover everything, and it is all my own." "Your own? Where did you get it, dad?" "Tut, tut! See what it is to have a city man to deal with. It is my own and fairly earned, and that is enough." "Dear old dad!" Harold squeezed his gnarled hand. "And you, mother! You have lifted the trouble from my heart. I feel another man. You have saved my honor, my good name—everything. I cannot owe you more, for I owe you everything already."

So while the autumn sunset shone ruddily through the broad window these three sat together hand in hand, with hearts which were too full to speak. Suddenly the soft thudding of tennis balls was heard, and Mrs. Wcstmacott bounded into view upon the lawn with brandished racket and short skirts fluttering in the breeze. The sight came as a relief to their strained nerves, and they burst all three into a hearty fit of laughter. "She is playing with her nephew," said Harold at last. "The Walkers have not come out yet. I think that it would bo well if you were to give me that chock, mother, and I were to return it in person." "Certainly, Harold. I think it would be very nice."

Ho went in through the garden. Clara and the doctor were sitting together in the dining room. She sprang to her feet at the si'^ht of hiin.

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"Tlics© men shall have their money,-'' said the admiral. "Dad!" "Yes, my boy, you don't know the resources of the family. One never does know until one tries. What have you yourself now?" "I have about £1,000 invested." "All right. And I have about as much more. There's a good start. Now, mother, it is your turn. What is that little bit of paper of yours?"

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"Oh., Harold, I have been waiting for yon so impatiently," she cried. "1 saw you pass the front windows half an hour ago. would have come in if I dared. Do tell us what has happened." "I have come in to thank you bo'li. How can I repay you for your kindness? Here is your check, doctor. I have not needed if. I find that I can lay my hands on enough to pay my creditors." "Than1* God!" said Clara fervently. S "Tho sum is less than I thought and our resources considerably more. We have been able to do it with ease." "With ease!" Tho doctor's brow grew clouded, and his manner grew cold. "I I think, Harold, that j-ou would do better to tak-.) this money of mine than to use I that which seems to you to be gained I with ease." "Thank .you, sir. If I borrowed from any one, it would bo from you. But my fatherhns this very sum— £r,000—and, an tell him, I owo him so much that I have no compunction about owing him more." "No compunction! Surely there are

Bomo sacrifices which a son should not allow his parents to make." -••^"Sacrifices! What do you mean?" "Is it possible that j'ou do not Irnow how this money has been obtained?" "I give you my word, Dr. Walker, that I have no idea. I asked my father, but he refused to tell me." "1 thought not," said the doctor, the gloom clearing from his brow. "I was sure that you were not a man who. to

ciear yourseir rrom a ntcie money enrficulty, would sacrifice the happiness of your mother and the health of your father. "Good gracious! What do you mean?" "It is only rig]it that you should know. That money represents the commutation of your father's pension. He has reduced himself to poverty and intends to go to sea again to earn a living." "To sea again! Impossible!'' "It is the truth. Charles Westmacott has told Ida. He was with him in the city when he took his poor pension about from dealer to dealer trying to sell it. He succeeded at last, and hence the money." "He has sold his pension," cried Harold with his hands to Iris face. "My dear old dad his sold his pension." He rushed from the room and burst wildly into the presence of his parents once more. "I cannot take it, father," he cried. "Better bankruptcy than that. Oh, if I had only known your plan. We must have back the pension. Oh, mother, mother, how could you think me capable of such selfishness? Give me the check, dad, and I will see this man tonight, for I would sooner die like a dog in the ditch than touch penny of this money."

CHAPTER XVI. A JI1DMCIIT VISITOK.

Now all this time while the tragicomedy of life was being played in these three suburban villas, while on a commonplace stage love and humor and fears and lights and shadows were so swiftly succeeding each other, and while tiiese three families, drifted together by fate, were shaping each other's destinies and working out in their own fasldon the strange, intricate ends of human life, there were human eyes which watched over every stage of the performance, and which were keenly critical of every actor on it. Across the road beyond the green palings and the close cropped lawn, behind the curtains of their creeper framed windows, sat the two old ladies, Miss Bert-lia and Miss Monica Williams, looking out as from a private box at all that was being enacted before them.

The growing friendship of the three families, the engagement of Harold Denver with Cla a Walker, the engagement I of Charles W estmacott with her sister, the dangerous fascination which the widow exercised over the doctor, the I preposterous behavior of the Walker girls and tho unhappiness which they I had caused their father, not one of these incidents escaped the notice of the two maiden ladies. Bertha, the younger, had a smile or a sigh for the lovers Monica, the elder, a frown or a shrug for the I aiders. Every night they talked over what they had seen, and their own dull, uneventful life took a warmth and a coloring from their neighbors, as a blank wall reflects a beacon fire.

And now it was destined that they should experience the one keen sensation of their later years, the one memorable incident from which all future incidents should be dated.

It was on the very night which succeeded the events which have just been narrated when suddenly into Monica Williams' head, as she tossed upon her sleepless bed, there shot a thought which made her :-it up with a thrill and a gasp. "Bertha," said she, plucking at tho shoulder of her sister, "I have left the front window open." "Xo. Monica, surely not." Eertlia sat np also ami thrilled in sympathy.

I am sure of it. You remember I had forgotten to water the pots, and then I opened the window, and Jane called mo about tho jam, and I have never been in the room rinee." "Good gracious, Monica, it is a merev that we have not been murdered in our beds. There was a house broken into at Forest liill last week. Shall we go do\vn and. shut it?" "I dare not go down alone, dear, br.t If you wiil come with nie. Put on yor.r^ •dippers and dressing gown. Wo do n. need a caadie. Now, Bertha, wo will go down together." •v Two litlie white patches moved vaguely through tho darkness, the stairs creaked, the door whined, and they were at the front room window. Monica 1'losed it gently down and fastened tho snib. "What a beautiful moon!" said she,

looking out. "We can see as (dearly as if it were day. liow peaceful and quiet the three houses are over yonder. It seems quite sad to see that 'To Let' card upon No. 1. I wonder how No.

There was alight in the front room, a slight wavering light such as would bo given by a small candle or taper. The blind was down, but the light shone dimly through. Outsido in the garden, with his figure outlined against tho luminous square, there stood a man, his back to tho road, his two hands upon tho window ledge and his body rather bent as though lie were trying to peep in past tho blind. So absolutely still and motionless was ho that in spite of tho moon they might well have overlooked him were it not for that telltale light behind. ...

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liko their going. For my part I could better spare that dreadful woman at No. 8 with her short skirts and her snake, But, oil, Bertha, look! look! look!" ller voice had fallen suddenly to a quivering whisper, and she was pointing to tho I Westmacotts' house. Iier sister gave a gasp of horror and stood with a clutch nt Monica's arms, staring in tho samo direction.

"Good "heaven!" gasped Bertha, "it is a burglar." But her sister set her mouth grimly and shook her head. "We shall see," she whispered. "It may be something worse."

Swiftly and furtively the man stood suddenly erect and b- gan to push the window slowly up. Then lie put one knee upon he sash, glanced round to sco that all was safe and climbed over into the room. As he did so lie had to push the blind aside. Then the wospectators saw where the light came from. Mrs. Westmacott was standing as rigid as a statue in the center of the room, with a lighted tajier in her right- hand. For an instant they caught a glimpse of her stern face and her white collar. Then the blind fell back into position, and the two figures disappeared from their view, "Oh, that dreadful woman!" cried Monica. "That dreadful, dreadful woman! She was waiting for him. You saw it with your own eyes, Sister Bertha!" "Hush, dear, hush and listen!" said her more charitable companion. They 1 pushed their own window up once more and watched from behind the curtains.

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But her soirit was greater than her strength, for as sho staggered to her feet her head swam roum!. and she would have fallen again had her nephew not thrown his arms around her. They carried her up stairs among them and laid her upon tho bed, where the doctor watched beside her, while Charles went off to the police station, and the Delivers mounted guard over tho frightened maids.

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For a long time all was silent within the house. The light still stood motionless as though Mrs.

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rigidly in the one position, while from time to time a shadow passed in front of it to show that her midnight visitor was pacing up and down in front of her. Once they saw his outline clearly, with his hands outstretched as if in appeal or entreaty. Then suddenly there was a dull sound, a cry, the noise of a fall, the taper was extinguished, and a dark figure fled in the moonlight, rushed across the garden and vanished amid the shrubs at the farther side.

Then only did tin1 two old la-dies understand that they had looked on while a tragedy had been enacted. "Help!" they cried, and "help!" in their liigh, thin voices, timidly at finst, but gathering volume {is they went on until The Wilderness rang with their shrieks. Lights shone in all the windows opposite, chains rattled, bars were unshot, doors opened, and out rushed friends to the rescue. Harold, with a stick the admiral, with his sword, his gray head and bare feet protruding from either end of a long, brown ulster finally Dr. Walker, with a poker, all ran to the Westmacotts. The door had been already opened, and they crowded tumultously into the front room.

Charles Westmacott, white to his lips, was kneeling on tin floor supporting his aunt's head upon his knee. She lay outBtretcheil, dressed in her ordinary clothes, the extinguished taper still grasped in her hand, no mark or wound upon her— pale, placid and senseless. "Thank God, you are come, doctor," •said Charles, looking up. "Do tell me how she is, aud what I should do."

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have- heard him and come down, for sho was always perfectly fearless. 1 wish to goodness she had called me.".. "But the was dross-vl." "Sometimes she sits up very late." "I did sit up very lace," said a voire. She had opened her eyes and was blinking a-t them in tho lamplight. "A villain came in through tins window and struck me with a life preserver. You can the police so wlii-n they come. Also that was a little fat man. Now, Charley, give me your arm, and I shall go up stairs."

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DETROIT, April 20.—A special to The News from Niles says the body found at New Buffalo Tuesday had been fully identified as C. H. Stone, one of the members of the Cliicora crew.

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