Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1893 — Page 12

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THE INDIANA. STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY lOHNINGr, J AN U A it Y 23, 183 TWELVE PAGES.

A STORM

BY JAMES H. I. , THTRI THE DEED WAS DONS. Three-quarters of a century aeo, when 5aj Harbor was an important whaling; port, and before railroads were even dreamed of on that remote part of Long Island, thera were dotted along the eastern shore only a few quaint little villages, already old, witu a small population scattered in their vicinity, consisting a mo3t entirely of a har ly rare, who, though professedly cultivators of the soil, in reality drew inoit of their subsistence from arduous and often perilous toil upoa the sea. Among the curiously inscribed tombstones in the graveyard, where even tten six generations were lyifl, were not at all uafrequent those that bore the legend "killed by a whale." Of the younger men in the community, there were few who did not aspire to eo abroad as whalers, and their elders, thou eh BettJed agriculturists nominally, or even petty tradesmen, had cenera ly 'been a-wha.ing," loved to spin yarns abcut their cruises, and were sli 1 more than semi-na-itical in speech, manners and industries. They naturally spoke of "the bow" of a horse, or his "port-quarter," as occasion udpht require; belonged to shore whaliug companies; fished for the New York market to a limited extent, an l perl.apa iid soma muc? insr; as ßhore-living people, in those days, generally seemed to tliink thay had an inherent riht to. In their little "ßittinif-rootW were many curious and interesting things, brought' fro n far distant lands, such a? broad branches of fan coral, stu. Ted birds of brilliant plumfire, strange shells anl pperm tvhuleu teeth adorned with queer rude pictures scratched upon them by sailors whose thoughts of loved ones tt home had prompted them t such artistic endeavor. Between the villages wer long reaches of woodland, or perhaps it would ba more correct to say thick' t-broken here and there, where the sandy soil seemed to give most promise, by ti.led lieldp. Fierce gales, through the Ion bard winter months, dealt cruelly with the scrubby cedars and knotty little oaIcb in those woods, gnar.ing their bough, twisting their trunks, and stunting their growth, bo that not all the genial breath of tprine, nor the ardent summer's 6un could quite rppair the damage wrought thm in the season of ice and storm. Bat the hardr trees stood close together, as if reeking 6upport and cocaoUtion irotn each other in their hours of trial, when they creaked and ground complaint to one another; po dose that their interlactd foli&ge kept always damp the le if strewn ground beneath, where th? fragrant trail. ng arbutus bloonif d in earliest spring, and the tangled whoftflererry hushes later bore th?ir clusters of bluiih-purple fruit. Here an J there thedwarfe foreat sloped gently down to broad expanses of salt meadovr, where niie and plover found their favorite feeding grounds among the rank rushes and long grass, or the soft marshy slime, except when the full noon tidei came rushing through the little inlets between the white round sand dun-s on tha baach and, whelming the lowland, snatched brown-leaf trophies from the very edges of the wood. Uu the knolls between these mead ws were favorite places for the location of the homes of the earlier Bettlers, among whom were the Van Ueuste. The Van Drust homestead was one of tha cldeit dwelling on that portion of the island, and those who at this time inhabited it were the direct descend -inU of other Van Deusia, whose remote existence and remarkable lonevi y were alike attested by the quaintly graven tombstones in the ancient graveyard of the village, a raiie away. It was a rambling one-etory bo me, built of small lo.a covered with boards now warped and rusty from age, but both roomr aud couifortablo as well as picturesque. Thoea by whom it wa9 erected loved better the sea than the land, for they h td not oniy sought out this, the most comma-.cing bile thay could obtain for its location, but had turned its back upon the ioresi and the lane, and reared its broad porch upon the tide facing the ocean. Here, in the ampie shade, the two old bachelor brothers, its present occupants, inheriting as well the feeling as the property of their ancestors, loved to linger. The ceaseless roar of the waves was in their ears a wild, tumultuous music, and their eyts were never weary of the ever-changing beauty and glory of" the wond of billows, blushing with the dawn, lauahing with the noon, and frowning beneath storm and night. Three broad and rugged eim trees shaied the porch, and' one gable of th house waa rasped by the boughs of the nearest tree of a thicUly frown ar..i badly cared for little orchard.' lata and swallows tlittai undisturbed in the summer evenings to an 1 from the low loft of the old homestead, through its various chinks und tstU; native songbirds build their nt-sts and reared their young under the eaves, and in th swinging branches of the veneranl e!m, bees buzzed among the thick honeysuckle, and clematis vines that twine laboat the pi.lar of the porch, and threw their long sprays In flowerv festoons between; and when the busy ha:n of those industrious little toilers ceased at nightfall, the cricksta' theery chirp, from a i ong the rouzh Itones of the old-fashioned fireplace within, took up the refrain of insect melody. Neither insect, oird, nor beast feared tho two kindly old men who inhabited that borne. One of the brothers loved ail livIcg things, and was at peace with all, and lhs other waa like onto bim, with the sole exception that he !iked not women, nor was willinz to be at peace with them. Yet he had never been married 1 1'eter, the elder by a couple of years, was the woman hater, and to s'ich an extent did he carry his antipathy toward the ler that be would tolerate no other female lervant about the ho-e than old black Betsy, who was the daughter of a couple of slaves his grunvifittier had owned, and who thoroughly considered herself one of the family, a indeed her indulgent masters regarded her. 'ih three old people occupied the house alone. Brother Jacob once hinted to Peter that perhaps it miht be a.- well to get a young woman to assist Did Betsy in her work, and his so doing brought on what wa more like a quarrel between him and I'eter than anything that had disturbed the monotony of their uneventful lives up to that time. A con promts wm finally ejected, by virtue of which a neighbor was engaged to come over lor a couple of hours d uly to do such chorea about the house a the brothers felt beyond their strength, and to bring his wife along on Tuesdays to do the week's washing- and scrubbing. But on Tuesdays I'eter always went a hVniug. regardless of the weather, and was gone nil day, so avoiding sight of the neighbor's wife. Whatever tte secret causa fur his bitter and contemptuous aversion to women may have been, be kept it to himpe f. That thr were fair to look upon ho denied not. "Bat," he said, "they are wreckor light, and the truer and better a man is the brighter they ehine to lure him to the breakers. And look atvourelf, Jacob," he would a id, when Iii- brother ventured to mildly expostulate against the vigor of lis denunciations of the sex; whereupon

ASHORE.

CONNELLY. Jacob would turn away with a sigh, and the discussion would be at an end. ' Back of the hou-i a narrow lane, bordered by a neglected garden and a cornfield beyond, led out to the distant highway. The Van Deust brothers were not poor, as the humble style of their home might seem to indicate; indeed they had the reputation, in all the coantry around, of bein wealthy, and were, at least, weil otf. The neglect and in litierenoe of eg in its owners was the sole cause that the surroundings; of the old homeatead. which might easily have been mad cnarmioe. presented such a picture cf disorder and decav. Up the little Line, at a very enrly hour one bright summer morning, two men might have been ssen, driving in a iiht pig. approaching the Van Denet tnansi n. One of them was a stout, ruddy faced gentleman of fifty, or thereabouts, known to everybody in tho county as Njirre iiodley. His companion, who held the reins, was a handeome young fellow of twenty-four or twenty-rive years, rustic in personal appearance and garb, with a gcod, frank open countenance that bore a plea-ing expression of intelligence and good nature. ,-0f courso it's only a form, mv going to be your security," said the. o dar man as they jogirei along, "for the Van De us is know you as well oh I do, and knew your lather, Dave l'awlett, before you, and a i cod man he wa. 1 at Mill, Beta, I don't know any young fellow in ail the country round about that I'd take more pleasure in serving, even in a matter of form, than Ton." . "Thank you, pir," replied the young ntnn warmly, with a grateful Audi upon his sun-burnt cheek-. "Its very kind of you, I'm sura, und I can't tell you how mach 1 feel it to. You kuow I want the lease of that lower farm, but you don't know how almightily much I want it; and nobody does but ma and one other person, perhaps." "Aha!" responded th squire, with a chutklo. "I can muke a pue-s about who the other person is. Ai.d some day yuu end tht other person will be coming to me for a little business in my line, I reckon a eott of mutual life lease, eh?" "Weil, maybe to. squire. 1 bot e eo," answered J.etn, confusedly, and with a little deeper flush. "lut here we are at the gate. Wait a moment, while I jibe a bow wheels and make tho hor.e fast." As he snoke he jumped lightly out of the vtl.'cle, turned the horse a little to one siv'.e t-o as to make the do.-cent cf his companion more convenient, and, after bitching the reins to a fence-pos , accompanied tho squi-e to the door of the bonne. There wu no sound or fijn. as yt-t. of any of the inmates of the old homestead being 8".ir. "Well, they must be late risers here," soliloquized the pquiro, as Lem rapped and called at the door. At tho end of a fw minutes a voice answered indistinctly from within: ' Who's there? What d'ye want?" And almost immediately after the shutters on the window of a little extension of the house, at the end farthest from the orchard, were pushed own and the head ol an aco 1 black woman appeared with the echoing query, "Who dah T Wha' dv'e wan'?" "It's me Squire Bodley," responded that gentleman, answering the first inquirer. Presently the door opened and Peter Van Deust appeared in it; a weazened, thin UUltt man, with a frin of grav hair surrounding a big white bald place on the top of his head, with a we 1 formed none and eyes ttiil hruht enough to suggest that he had been a go-d-looking young: feilow in his day; with lips that quivered, and long, lean fingers that treinhu; 1 with the weakness of o d age; but, withal, a pleasant smile and a cheery ring, even yet, in his cracked old voice. "Why, squire I" he exclaimed, as he threw open the door. "I'm rai glad to see you. And Lem! You, too? Well, this is a pleasant surprise party for ns early in the morning!" "It's not so very early, Peter," answered the squire. "It is almost 7 o'clock." "Istbat so? Well, I dec are! I wonder why Jacob isn't up. He's mostly an ear y riser, and a be' the boy amongst us, why we old folks Betsy and me rely on him to wake us up in the mornings. O.d people, you know, gt back to being like babies again for wanting their good sleep. But Jacob has overslept himself this morning, sure. I'll soon roust him out, though." As he spoke he went to a closed door at one side of the central sitting room, which was ilanked by the separate apaatmenta of the brothers, and pounding upou it with his bour knuckles, called: "Come, Jacob, bounce out, boy! You're lat?! It's breakfast time, and we've got vim tors. Get up!" Tnre was no answering sound within. He waited a moment then knocked again, shouting: "He lo. Jacob! Jäkel I say, get up! What's the matter with you?" iS ti 1 1 there was no response. The three men waiting, held their breath to listen, and a vague sense of uneasiness crept over them. The songs of the b ue-birds, and the chirp of the martens; the humming of the bees, th stamping of the horse hitched to the gig, and the clatter old Bnsy made in opening hr door, wero a 1 sharply distinct in the quiet summer morning air, bur from the closed room there was no pound whatever. I'eter tried the toor, but it did not yield. "He's locked his door!" exclaimed tha old man, with an intonation of surprise in his voice. , "Maybe something has happened to him," 6ugseited Lem. "Whatcoald happen to him ? He waa all right last night; nerer better in hit life. And ho'a vounger than me. But it's queer he bhould have locked his door. He don't mostly." lie continual rapping and ehoutiog"Jacob, wake up!" in a more end more anxious tono. "The key isn't in the keyhole, I guess." he muttered half to hiuideif, fumbling at the lock with a bit of stick he picked up from the tloor, "but," stooping down and trying to peer through. "1 can't nee anything, because it's all dark inside." "Haven't you some other ky about the house that will 111 the lock?"' asked the squire. "Yes. Mine does. I guess. But I didn't think of it at lir.-t. I'd try it." It fitted ; the bolt was thrown back and the door rushed open. The sunshine darted in and fe.l. brual and clear, upon f" ill anJ ghatly thing that lay in the middle of the floor th corpse of an old man, eurronuded by a pooi of biood. Peter gave a wild cry of horro-, and fell back eeniolet?9 Into the arms of Lem Pawlett, who was doe behind him. Thr laid him on the o d hair cloth sofa in the e:tting-room, ca'Ied Betsy to attend to him, and then passed into the chamber he had opsned. Murder had been done. Jarob Van Dtfust'aakuli bad been beaten in br some heavy instrument. One terrible crushing blow had mashed in his left temple, and let out his little weak old life; but, as if for very lust of killing, the assasnin had struck azain and aain, and the skuil was fractured in several places. The old man, it appeared, had risen from his bed to met bis murderer, and had been struck down before he could utter a cry of alarm. The window curtains were down, eo that

the room was as yet only lighted from the door; but when those in front were opened, and a flood of sunlight poured in, there were no evidences apparent that ttiere had been any etruggle between the siayer and his victim, nor were there at once visible any indications that robbery, the on y cause readilv conceivable for the brutal murder of such an inotlensive old man, had been the Durposo instigating the crime. The contents of tho bureau drawers were much tumbled and disordered, but it was presumable that they were so Usually, through the car-less habits of the occupant of the apartment. There were no marks of blool upon anything they contained, but it was evident that the murderer had made some attempt at least to wipe his crirn-onei hands upon the old man's whirt after killing him, and that was probably before he searched the bureau, if iiif'ced he had troubled himself to ransack it at ail. Un one pillow o! the bed they found the mark of a bloody hand. Perhaps the assassin was iu euch hate f jr p under that he groped where the old man's head had lain before thinkind o! his bloody hand. Beyond that nothing appeared to them to show that robbery had been none. B it when Peter Van Deust had euf5cienlly recovered to bo able to speak coherently, he sai 1 that his brother habitually ke; t. somewhere in his rooir . a wallet containing something over 3.(1)0, and a bag of coin; how much he did not know. These were nowhere to be found. Lem Pawlett was hastily dispatched by the squire, soon after the discovery of the cri.i.e, to summon some netr neighbors, and as he drove rapidly along the road, 6hou-iog to every person he saw "Jacob Van Deust has been murJered!" it was but a very little while be ore a dozen or mere men were assemble I at the scene of the crime. They were all innocent, eim-plu-u inded folks, who had never seen a murdered man beforj, had even been a little skeptical that such an awful thing a murder was ever really done, except in the big cities where extreme wickedness was naturally to be ex.ecttd, and were actually stunned by the shock of finding themselves in the presence of the evidences of the perpetration of such a deed. From them, of course, no aid in finding a

c us to the perpetra.or ol the crime, or divining its real motive, could have been expected. Yet every man of then was wie in his own conceit, and among them wre furttvt-ly excuanged whispers of such hideous significance that the squire, wbea they reuched hit ears, fe.t hinieef compelled to t. ke notice of and teply to tn-in. "Th old men have been ah the time quarreling for two months past," said one to another. "Ya," replied he who was addressed, "I've heard 'eui myself, cuadug each other over the fortune'ttiat waslett thüui." "Sam Poldo Ii.'' added a third, "told me that he'd heard that Peter had threatened to knock Jake'e head od more thauonce." "Oh! l'vo heard thht myself," chimed in another. "And I did bear that they'd had a rrgular flht aud Jake gut the best ol it." "It's awful that two old men like them, on the edge of the grave, as you may e.iy, and brothers at that, shou.d quarrel about money." "And one for to eu and ki'l the other." At thin point the fju:re, who had overheard much of the preceding conversation, iuter(sed : "How do you know," he demanded abruptly, turning oa the last speaker, "who killed him?" "Well, I dun no exactly, of course," whined the fehow, hesitatingly, "but it looks mighty like it." "Ah I And tnat pimpled nose of yours. Rufe Elevens, looks mightily like you Were a hard drinker, but you are ready to take your bibld oath its nothing but bad humors in your blood." There were a few suppressed chuck'es at the i aire's retort from thoee in the vicinity tor meu will laugh even at the smalinot thing, and in the very presence of the Kiug of Terror aud Bute moved away, muttering iüiJi.iiinctiy. But the dquire'a intariereuce and wed intended reproof had only a momentary eflWt iu diverting the attention of the neighbors from the evil bent of tiuspicion their minds had taken ; and they coutinued exchang.ng, and pog.siidy augmenting, the rumors they had heard of ui.ierences between the Vau Deust brother, untd the Fentltnent was general among them that Peter Van DeuH should bn at ouce arrested for the murder of his brother. II. 0J INFORMATION AND BELIEF. That the reader may be properly informed of certain antecedent even is which, as will hereafter Lj eeen, were intimately connected with, nnd indeed leadiog directly to the murder of Jacob Van Deuat, it wia be necessary for us to make a brief retrogression in our narrative and to introduce various other menbers of that litt.o eas.de community who bore their several important parts in the eventful drama of real life here in progrebs of recital. Is'ear the close of a day In earliest spring, when theeuu, that had not yet euflicient power to melt the lingsnng patches of snow that sal. laid here and t'iere among ttie thickeU and on northern slopes, was throwing il Lst red rays upon tiie lowering, Ieadeotinted maaes of the western fcky, two young girls wandered, with their arms about each other' waists, in the shadows of the woods not far distant from the vdiage of Easthampion. One of them, Eomewhat above the mediu u hight of women, pressed a e ender and graceful figure, aud a lace that, seen under the largo, rrimsoudiued hood of the cloak with which her head was covered, appeared almost pur Cirecian in its regularity of feature and da.icacy of outline Her co nplexiou was pale, but the c:ear ro.ieato fluh of her che-'Ks. and tue bn iiaucy of youth and health sparkling in her eyes, demonstrated euiiiciently that that pahiditv wa eimply the added charm with which kindly nature at times enhances the loveliuti&j of the most beautiful brunettes. The eenti i.ent expressed by her countenance was serious an 1 earnest, but not sad, for a famt smile, like the blossoming of some sweet hope, rented upon her emi.l red lips. Her companion, who see'iifed to be of about tho eame aga not more than eighteen or nineteen years waa ol a di ierent mould; possibly less beautiful, but hardly less bewitching. She was eomewhat shorter of stature and rounder of form, with a face iu which vivacity and determination were happily blended. Her laughing lies were red and fu 1, a merry miaclnevoua light danced in her blue eyep, aud her hood thrown back upon Iter neck, left bare a round head covered with a wavy wealth of brown hair. ".Now, Mary," said the brown-haired maid, bending forward and looking od archly in the face of her friend, ".et us drop this nonsense of pretending to look for trailing arhutu.. when you know just aa well eg I do that it w ill be a week, if not two, before there will be a eirig of it in bloom; and I know juat as well as you do that you tailed me out for this walk to tell me something about Dorn llackett. and for nothing else. Isn't that so, now?" "Ye.' you sharp little thing. You have gneed rightly, as usual. I have received another letter from Dorn." "A letter from Dorn? The first for over a Year, isn't it?" "Yes." "Well, de ir, it ramt feem almost like getting one from a stranger." Whalers have so few chancas to write home." "He has been gone a great while, hasn't he?" "It seems so to me, I confess. And three years really is a long time, ii-n't it?" "Dear me, yes. I wouldn't lt Lem go

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f cirarm, IDO UTK in Ke JCtniEs will do. They ivediiy cure itching and burr.fDji eczemas, nd other painful aca diffuiini? gkin and ca'p di-tese, cTearne the ca!; of acsly humors, and rextora the hair. Abaolntclr pure, ac-eeble.and uofniüne. thyapfe!l to mother aa the beit akio puriürri and tH-uuU.V- ia tha orl;l. Farcnta, tbink of th', ive jovT children years cf irental aa well at phraIcal anrletln ly reacon of pcronal dirirem-rit dded to bodily" torture. Cureamaleln childhood are (ipee3v,rx,rmnnent,ocd economical. Sold every. Trrit re. I'otter Jt-g ünd Cur.-. Tour., Boetoo. t .fetT" All aboct Skin, fccalp, and ILur" free. U ty CLTicLaa'soAr. Absolutely pare. ACKiMG SIGE3 AKO BAG!, Hi, Ki lner, and Uterine Tains and "akace relinvml In one minute by the t.'nMciir Antl-!nin Tlier, tbs firt tad only pain-aillinj plaster. away from me that way. Who knows but what he mittht marry somebody elto while he was pone? Have you never been afraid that Dorn would?" "Oh. no, Iiutu. 2iever. He loves me too we'd for that, I know." "And you felt just as sure of that when vou did not hear from him for nearly two years?" "Yes." reolied Mary, with a little hesitation, however, "lor I know the girl whosd lover noes a-whaiin must have patience; and I have heard Uncle Thatcher tell a pood deal about the countries to which the whalers go, and I hardly tLinlc " "That he would be likely to meet anybody thre who would be able to cut you out. Wed, there's some comfort in that reflection, anyway. Hut the letter! What does he aay for himself?'' "l'hat hu is coming; home, Ruth; coming homo at last. He is on the way now. A last sailing packet ship brought tho letter on aheal, and ho supposed that he would arrive a coupie of weeks after I received it." "And when he cones you'll get married?" "I hope so," replied Marv, in a little lower tone and with tears iratherinj; in her oris. "Hut vou know we are poor; and bes des. Unci That her " "That, or L"uci Thatcher." exe'nimed littie Kuih. snapping her tinners dfianty. "What has he to eay about whom you shall marry? That is a matter which concerns nbody bat you and Dorn." "My mo;her, when she wa dying in the bi city, leaving mo all aloue, put me in his charge, you ki-ow." "Wei:, what id it? It would be as mui h as I'd do to lot my father and mother interfere with my ui-irrving any nice youn maa I liked, aud I don't believe parents can transfor that riht if it ia a right to anylody. Uncla Th-itcuer, iudeed!"ehe tiacu ated scornfully, with a t8 of h-r little rtso.ute round head. "What does he want you to d , anyway? To live and die an old maid to "please him?" "So, I have bean ashamed to tell anylody heretofore even ycu, Uuth but ho wants me to marry Cousin f?i!a.'' "That U'.y, good-for-nothing cub of his?" "Yes; ilas anked me to one, and when I rrfus-d bim, i-aid that I was only a pauper living on his ft tier's charity, and threatened to t. II stiel stories about me that no c e else would have me. He hurt and frightened me terrib'y, ami Dorn found rue in the woods cry inj; about it. In the fullness of my heart I told him all. I couldn't keen it to myself when he asked me why I cried. And d you know what he did! He went right off and pave Silas Puch an aw ul pounding that he was laid up for two weeks." "Good! I like Dorn llackett better than I t-ver did before. That's just what Iahouhl expect of Le- in euch a ewe." "That was the time Filas was reported to be no sick, just before I'o-n went away, lie never flared to talk about me as he paid he would, I cues, but as soon ns he tot well went right off to New York. L'ncle Thatcher b amed Dorn for hurting Silas, end has hated the thought of hi u ever since. And oh, Ruth! you don't know what I've had to suffer lrom Aunt Thatcher!" "Now you just take my advice and put your back ritcht up at her; and as soon as Dorn comes home you two go right o'd and get married, and if Uncle Thatcher tries to interfere have Dorn pouud him, too worse than he did Silas. Mary amilcd through her tears and replied: "Dorn says be has done well and talks about buying a ehare in a coasting schooner and a house and furniture aud I think he said something about getting married right away." In Bvmpathet c exuberance of joy the two girls embraced and ki?sed each other, Ruth exclaiming: "And we'll get married on tbe sme day, won't we? And in spite of Unc;e Thatcher, or anybody else, Mary Wallace will be Mrs. Dorman llackett, and Kuth Lenox will be Mrs. Lemuel Puwlett. Hut I witdi Lem'a name didn't rhyme with 'pullet' and gullet.'" Tiie two charming young friends were so busy with their theme that not until they wero close before bi n, in the little bridle path through which they wandered did they notice the presence of the third person a smoothly-shaved, litt'e, elderly gentleman, primly dreofldd in black and wearing a band of crape npon bis tall silk hat. Ho waa upon horseback, sitting silent an 1 motionless. He hatfon the girls slowly strolling toward him, waited till they almost col ided with his horse's nosa and had executed a little concerted scream of surprise, and then addressed them in a slow, measured and suppressed manner, saying: "I am endeavoring to find the residence, or residence, of two persona known as I'eter and Jacob Van Deust, supposed to be brothers, who. according to my present information aud belief, reside somewdiera in this vicinity. Can either of you 5'oung ladies direct me definitely upon my way, and if able, will you be kind enough to do so?" "Follow the path you are on," answered Ruth, "until you entr the main road; turn to your riht aoout a quarter of a mile, then go u; a iani that you wili see on your left -the first that has ho elm tree on each ei le of its entrance and it will lead you straight up to the Van Deust hmetead." "I am very much obliged to you for your apparent courtesy and the seeming accuracy of the details of your information," rt-BDon led the little gentleman with grave deliberation, bending almost to the horde's mane at he apote. Then straigtening himself and shaking the reins, he urged hit eteed into a gentle trot and eocn disappeared in the gathering evening shades at trie bend of the oath. "'Supposed to be brottu rs' indeed !" exclaimed Ituth, when ht was out of PUtit. "I'm ku re their faces will afford him sufficient 'information and belief on that score when he sees them. III. A GOLPEM RMS. The Van Deuat brothers sat smoking their pipes in the twilight on the wile porch of the old homestead overlooking the sea. "I met Thatcher today when I was over at the village," sai 1 the younger brother Jacob, "and he wan te I to put the tenacre lot in corn bn aharf-s." "Well," responded Peter, "I inpposa he might as well have it as anybody. Some

body will have to work it. We are catting too old, Jacob, for plowing and such-like bard toil ourselves, and a third will be ali.we'll want. What did ycu tell him!" "I didn't give him any definite answer. I wish somebo ly elee would offer to take the lot. I don't like that Thatcher." "Why?" "He is a hard, severe-looking old fallow, and I'm sure he treats that pretty niere of his badly." "Oh! He does, eli? And now. Jacob, what the mischief is that to you? And what has it to do with DUtttng the t?nacre lot in corn on shares?" "I've seen her crying." "Hah! Girls are" a. ways crying. They like it. They do it for practice." "Peter, you'd kick a bor for tbrowicg stones at ä wild bird, wouldn't you?" "That's another matter. Birds am bird?, and they're God's creatures: but woinsa are the devil's creatures, and you'll never e- Peter Van D?ut trouble himself to lift his foot to a boy who throws stones at the ii. If th girl don't hk the treatment her uncie gives her, I suppose she can find some fe low fool enouith to marry her. 'Most any of 'em can do that." "Peter, you shouldn't talk that way. A poor girl has her fee-inzs about marrying where her liking goes, just as much as a man has." "Yah!" snarled Peter contemptuously, vigorously putf.ng his pipe, and for coma minutes both in n were silent. The younger of the two sank into a reverie, aa l awoke from it with a start, when his brother resumed the conversation, saying: "I tell you what it is, Jacob. You w-re spooney on Mary Wallace's mother fortv years ago, and I'm blessed ii I think you have got over it yet. he threw yo i overboard then, not for a better looking man for you were a fine, trim sailor-built youn fell w in thoe days but for a richer one. She thought" "No, r.o, Peter! No, no! Don't say that! Site didn't want to marry Wallace. I know she didn't. Hut her father and mother comt-eded her to it She loved me best, I know she did. Hut you are right in saying I haven't got over it, l?ter. I nnver 6hall. I'll lov hr just the same tili. If I me?t hr in heaven. And when I see Mary's sweet young face, the love that is in my h-art for her mother's memory cries out like a voice from the grave of a'l my hopes and joyp, and I can hardly keep from taking poor Lottie'n child in my arms tnd weeping over bar." "Which, if you were to do. ehe would hin you were crazy and right ehe would be," commented I'eter, snarlingly. "Ilelo!" Eounded shortly, in a sharp wiry voice, from the little lane at the back of the houe. I'eter, rising from his bench and coins to the i-n 1 of the porch, replied with a eailor-iike "Aye. aye, sir," to the hail of the stronger, who was none other than the little elder. y gentleman alraidy encounterel by Huth and Mary in the woo'ls. Without d amounting, the visitor asked in a low and cau'i ms manner: "Am I justified in presuming that I am tinon the premise of the parties known as IVt-r und Jacob Van Deust?" " "This is where we live," replied Peter, a litt e puzzled by the etranger'a manner. "Pardon me sir, but your r-ply is nut an ai.swer to my question. Am I to understand that you are one of the said parties?" "I'm Peter, and this is Jacob," reFponded the elder brother, po nting with the et em of I is pipe lo the yousg'-r. "Hut come alongside before you get oil any more of that lingo." Methodically and carefully the rider dismounted, fastened his nag to the fence, and uufrhing open the little Bate, stepped upon tl e low porch, where, after an elaborate bow to ear. n of the tiothers eepa ratelv, he continued: "Assuming your affirmation to be correct aud capable of substantiation by doc uienlary evidence, and believing that you are, as you represent yourselves or, rather, as one of vou has represented Peter and Jacob Van Deust, permit me, gentlemen, to have the pleasure of offering you my congratu atiouH." So sayin, tie rai-ed his tall hat with oldtime courtey, repeated his bowa to the broth ti se v raliy. and replaced his beaver with euch exactitude that not a hair of his cicely-brushed wij was dia.tr. ratitred. "Congratulations upon what? Upon being Peter and Jacob Van Deust?" demanded Peter, who began to look upon his vititoras a probably harmless lunatic. "Naturally, th: For reasoi i which you shall present V apprehend. Have you, or have you had, sir, to your knowledge, an uncle named Dietrich ;Van Deuit?" "Yes. It was uncle Dietrich who went awav to the Indies when we were bovs, va3u't it, Peter?" said the youngest brother. "Yes, and settled eomewhere there; I forget where. Hatuvia, I think, was the name of the place; but I ain't sure, for it is an ae fcinca I heard from him." "Your remembrance is correct, nevertheless eir," responded the stranger. "It was in Hatavia that he took up his residence, and in Hatavia that he died, at an advanced age, au eld bachelor, possemod of large wealth, as I have been given to understand ; and I offer my congratulations to you, gentlemen, for the reason that you are his fortunate heirs to the extent of one hundred thousand dollars." The mere mention of that stupendous sum, as iteeemed to them, fairly stunned the two simp e-minded old men who received this intelligence. "Oh, Peter! It can't be there's eo much money," gasped Jacob, "Let me turn over in my mind. Take a seat, sir," said Puter, pushing forward a stool for the vi; tor, reeeatinz himself on his bench and slowly rubbing his forehead. Jacob went out to put away the little gentleman's horse, and while he was cone Poter relighted his pipe and smoked in s tance. When the younger brother returned, the visitor resumed the conversation. "My name." said he, "is Pelatiah Ho den, and mv profession that of coun-etdor-at law. llcro ii ray card," present im one to each of tho Van De tuts, and then continuing: "Four months end fourteen days since, I tecelved from the firm of Van Gulden & Dropp of Amsterdam, Holland, information to the effect that a client of theirs named William Van Deut was j int heir in the estate of Dio'.rich Van Deust, deceased, of Bntavia; and they desired me. in order to facilitate the partition of the eetatc, to discover two other heirs, nephevts of the deceased Dietrich Van Ieut, named respectively Peter and Jacob Van Deuet, sons of Jan Van Deuet. "That was father's name,", interpolated JacoD in an undertone. "As I have been alr-adr Informed, air, and do not doubt your ability to establish by legal proof," replied Mr. Holden, bowing gravely to him and going on with hia narration. "Since that time, until three weeks azo. I have been peeking you, and it has only been during four days past that I have been 6ati?fied that your claim to be the cons of Jan Van Deust and nephews of Dietrich and consequently inheritora under the will of tbe laiUr could be legally cgtab ished. Hence the apparent delay. Hut you will perceive, gentlemen, from my explanation that I have no titied you of the gratifying fact of the bequest at the earliest practicable and proper moment." Peter nodded silently, not having yet completed, seemingly, the serious taik of "turning it over in his mind." Hut Jacoo effusively stammered: "Oh, we were noi in any hurry, sir." 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