Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1893 — Page 12

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THE INDUNi STATE SBVTINTfiL WEDNSSDVY MOTIVEN, APRIL 5, VW3-TWELVE PAGES.

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fAU the Year CHAPTER I. 'A sk Mr. Dadley to coma in, Jane," raid Miss 1'ettifer. The neat little tnaitl-pervant tripped oat into the neat little hall and ushered the yisitor in. Mr. Dad'er was a clergyman. Anyone could see that by the cut of his Ion black coat and the little white bow at hit throat. Ha was a large, heavy man; an ample and a aombre man, with loose, baczy cheeks and a very bald head. "I recfcired jour letter. Miss Pettifer, and I am here to counsel you, to the beat of my humble abilities. Tothe best of roy humble abilities." lie spoke slowly, reflectively, and had a habit of even wore slowly repeating the last few words of his sentences, aa if he were carefully poising and weighing them and trying to make them ba!auc3. "It is very kind of you to come. I am In groat trouble. Hut won't y i tit down, air?" sail Mis Pettifer, with a quaint mingling of reverence and apologetic courtesy, but with no s;;n of trouble on her hard features, no Bound of trouble in her clft.tr, cold voice. The llev. Sir. Dadley turned ponderously about, deposited his hat on the table, dropped his black kid gloves into it. and sank down in the cosey, oia-laehionel arm-chair with a prolonged sih. He w as such a large man that ho ma Je everything ia the parlorlook smaller tliao it wa. For it was a very small, neat little ro.mi, and the furniture harmonised with the emallness of the rooiri, aud the io of Miss Ptittifer wm in harmony with the furniture. J "Duty," aaid Mr. Dadley presently, sigh- i ing and iookinar at the ceiling "duty, my dear friend, is always t.leasnnt. ft is rot nearly always unj,.annt; bat, beiu.: duty, it must bedono. Mt;t-be done." "A want yon to ted ro," said .Misj Pettifer ralroiy, "what mv duty ih." "To be sure. To tip sure," responded Mr. Dadley. "Nov.-, I have thought earnestly over it all, and hnvinar known end watched iur ubaudoripd nephew, (ieoro l'ascoe, from his boyhood upward, I tru-t that I em right I leel that I am ri-ht in eaying;: .No; you raunt not do it. Certainly not. No certainly not.' Miis Pettifer looked at him f-teadly, without speaking, aad he contiuue 1, with a studied intonation and a grave earnestneM which was na.ly imprcMive: "I know all I Lave considered all. I know how yon Jored your yr.ung-T iatsr, how true you were to her. Who but vourfcelf said a word iu her behalf when, forgetful of her duty to her widowed mother, sue ran away from home end married a rcan unworthy of her? Mi wuit her wil.ful way; her mother died without forgiving; her; and when sorrow and death overtake her, to whom docs she turn for help but to you? Your love is tili hers; you go to her, find her in abject poverty, deserted by the scoundrel who married her, and you miniter to her dyine need. Her one child, a boy of heveii, she leaves ti your care. And how have yoa fuifilled your truit? You hare kept hira, nothed hijo, schooled him; you have stinted him in nothing. Your Into for your sister moves you to do all thin an 1 more. You do it all for her sake for love of nor. Not for tho hoy's sake. Hiia you never loved." Mie3 Pettifer made a movement as if to Interrupt him, but checked her.-elf. drooped her heod in mute acquiescence, j ana tie went on : "Vou did your duty, but you could not love him. How could you? Tru, he is your sister's child, but he is aid? the child of the man who darkened your old home and ma Jo your liotnr's younj h'e minerbie. tier death is at hi door. You con d not love that nan's chil i, but you did r.U elso but love him. With the wiifulno-H of his mother the boy hiw the utterly bad I eart of h.s father. How hai he repaid you? One ma foreivs much lun-nief in a boy, but not such heartleis, Mialicious mischief aa was brought home to him so edlen that hi name Lectins a by-word in the town. Ho did net love you, r.nd did cot care what sorrow and sliarro ho brought upon you. On my advice, you sunt him away to school. There, young aa 1:9 was for be was still only eighteen ho was soon found to be indulging in secret gambling, drinking, an 1 riotou3 living. Ha contaminates bis school-: lows, terrible reports come to you here, unci over and over a fain you pay heavy tu ma to relieve him from tL-lt nnd degradation ; but at last he falls into such disgrace that he it expelled. lie sneaks back to you tho ipiritesj hound! with promises of amendment. Promises of amend ment. "What are they worth.' In the weeks that followed, how many time did ho pet money from you wheed in;; it out of you, or even robbing you of it it ho could not get it otherwise? How many timr-3 did he come to your door after miduight senaelegsly intoxicated? I low many timee did you foreive hiru, for vour sister's sake? Ah! And cow " Ha pained, anl spread hia handj out expressively. "Now," sai 1 Miss Pettifer quietly, "it Is worse than ever." "Worse than ever," repeated Mr. Dadley. "When you pereuadod Mr. Grellin, your father'a old friwn.l, to give the graceless scoundrel a chance, thinking that if the boy could get fret of his old companions here, he might settle down to work in London, under .Mr. (Jrtllin'a care, snd go right yet what was your resolve? Yoa remember what you told the boy here, tn my presence, ou the day he left you I told him," eaii Mia Pettifer, "that if he did wrong again ho ahouid bear whatever punishment he had earned, that I would not shield him any more, because I felt that it only encouraged him in wrong-doing. I told him that, so long as li lived honorably and weil, I would help him in every way I could, but that if he fell into his old tad ways again I would help him no more I would utterly disown him." "Utterly disown him." repeated Mr. Dadley; "yes. And now ha has gone from bad to worse. Uetrayed hia master's trust. Got into difficulty through gambling and loose living, and forged his master's name to a che-ck for L'OU. TtvL.es adtantaga of his master's absence to do it, and hides his crime by falsifying his accounts. Now he is found out, arrested and remanded, and Mr. Grebin rightly ceiornuoicat with you You a.k me what you should do. Yoa say that for yoc- siater's sake ycu feel that yoa ought t) lav the money and beg that tho thief x&ay be pardoned." If it were possible for such hard, unsympathetic features a? Miss Pottifer'e to soften; if it were possible for such co.d, kaen, steely eyes ever to be dim with tears; ii it were poeeible for such thin, firm lips to become tremulous, her whole look softened, her eye grew misty, and her lips quivered at that moment, for a moment oily; then she spoke with no trace of weakness or emotion, as calmly as one at a judicial examination who merely desired that every fact chould bo laid impartially before the court. "Yt," ehe said, "he is my sister's only Child." "The more reason," intoned Mr. Dadley, "war yoa should be stern toward him

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Roan J. 1 when it ia for bis good. Again and ajain he has done wrong, and yoa have saved him from the punishment he merited. He might not have gone so far as he has if he bad felt the penalty of hia earlier sins. Now. for his sake, for the sake of vour dead eiter, you must not interfere. You can put your money to bettsr uses. Punishment may do for him what forgiveness has failed to do." "You are right," was Miss Pettifer'a answer, after a pause ; "I feel you are right." "It may be hard,'' he said, "but the things that are right are always the hardpet to do. Aud nothing is harder, sometimes, than to do nothing. Your duty in thi case ia to do nothing. To do nothing." He had risen and taken his hat. As he repeated his doeinc woids, he shook Miss Pettifer ponderously by the hand, aud sho thanked him aa unconcernedly as if they had been diecu'smg some question that affected her no more nearly than it af fected him. .vhe followed him into the hall, and opened the front door and let him out herself. Then she went back to the dull, quiet, neat iittie parlor, and sat down and went thoughtiully over all he had fiiid. One thing he had said which haunted her tike a reproach, and kept repeating it.'-eif in her thought- and would not be silenced: "You never loved him. You cou.u not love him." If fhe had loved him, and he had knowu she loved him, ho might have grown to love her, and that lovi would have had a rectrrnnkig and b.-nrjicent influence upon him. As it was he must hav felt awl I along that nobody loved him. or hid any kind y thought of him. or care 1 xnuru whe ther tie went right or wrong, and to, having no anchorage for the Letter feelings that were ia him, how was it likely he should bo other than recklea and careless of everything? "You never loved him. You could not love him." Put the great bitterness of it all was that nhe had loved him; she loved him even yet, with all the still, deep, unselfish election bhe had felt for her dead e nter. He was the one thing left for htr to love, hui ehe loved him; but Lt had nuver l:ncTii it. h'he had no knowledge of children, and from the lirtd. believing it to U the first thing needful for hi good, h hud always treated him with strict (severity, ordering Ids life by lino nnd rule, exacting mont prompt and absolute obedience, and visiting his natural boyish errors nur rigid puriiphmrut, till lie grow to tear and uvoi 1 her, and practice i deceits to save himself from petting into trouble, she could not remember ever to have suoken any word or f-hown nnv sign of her love to him. It was not in her nature to do so. sho hud done everything as if she did it from a sence of duty. She wad naturally autdcre aud unemotional, having an exagge rated rhynes or 6nse of shame that kpt her from revealing in any way any gentler sentiment aho might feel. She wu in a 1 things conscientious, exact, inatter-of.fact, wholly undemonstrative; and could no more express or reveal the softer site of her naturo than a warmhearted, Jmpuleivo woman, unfettered by long habit ot restraint, could conceal any bj m pathetic fueling that took ponueesiou oi her. "You never loved him. You could not love him." Others thought so; and the boy thought so himself. Had bho dune wronjr in letting him think so? if H'i. even if it were her dutv not to pay tho money, it would only conlirm the bov in h:s desperate conren; for he wouUl think that under similar circumstances she would do tho same iigam, to pre.-erve him from di'gmco thnt, in a manner, would refluct noon herself. M:e had no right to ask Mr tire lin to forfeit the money; but her father had grcatiy befriended him, and if he would io it and forgivo the boy who knows, feeing how severer di cipline had failed, wh.it el!ect such mtiguauiuiity might have? Put was it her duty to do this? Mr. Dadley said it was no' ; it would be standing hi'twot-n tho criminal and his just punishment. After all, though, Mr. Dadley might b wrong. Put no; she thruut tho thought from her ad something sinful, and not to be outertaiued without puril. Mr. Dadlev knew b'-st; what he said was wrong could not be right. Her duty. She stilled all the relenting tondrtrnesj that was striving to lind voice witnin her, and tixed all her thoughts upon her dutv; she must do her dutv. Sne sunk into darker, irloomier reveries, brood. ngacd arguing with herself. The day had gone, and twilight darkened about her, and eti 1 aho was thinking. thinking distracted and bewildered thoughts that mado her head ache and her heart ache more and more. Cf I APT KU II. Mr. Grellin sat waiting in hU private room. He had been waiting now some littio time, and was getting impatient. Ho rose from his chair presently aud walked re-tUssly about, muttering tohiinelf, and every now and thn taking a letter from his pocket and rereading certain passages. as if to impress them upon his mind. At last there was a knock at the door, and two men entered. One, a brisk, mi idle aged man, the head clerk of a depart meut in Mr. Grebin' establishment ; the ether, a sul.en, pallid, unprepossessing young fellow, who hesitated awkwardly just inside the room, and looked downcast and ill at ease. "Here is Mr. Faecoo, sir," cried the head clerk. "1 have jui brought him straight from court. He did not want to come, but " "Certainly. That will do. Ward." said Mr. (iredin short v. "Thank vou." Whereupon the head clerk withdrew and closed the door. ?it down, Pascoe," Mr. Grellin contin ued, sitting down himself. l'acoe moved Bulleoly to the nearest chair, and sat down. "1 did not come to the court this morn ing," pursued Mr. Gre lin, "but you heard what my solicitor sa;d for me? I'sscoo acquiesced by an inclination of his head. "That etatement will be repeated in the house here. I shall give it out that there has been o mistake, ami that you are in nocent. Some wil have doubts, but you must live them down. I shall not men tion the subject after today ; I vant it to bo forgotten, iou shall go bacic to your old placo and start afresh, end I don't think that vou will make me regret my decision. I ?ha 1 give vou another trial. You have bad your stumble, ami I'm go ing to give you a chance of picking your self up again. I believe vou'ii do it. Come, let us shake hand on it." Pascoo eat listening with a strange ex presion of wonderment kindling in every feature ot hie unattractive fare. As Mr, Grellin concluded, and rose and frankly offered him bis bund, the poor scamp made an involuntary movement aa if he would have risen, but dropped back ag:dn and sank with hts elbows on his knees, and his face buried in his hands, and burst into tears which perhaps were not altogether maudlin or unmanly. Next morning he went back to his work in the connting-hous. fail of gratitude toward the employer who had so forgiven him. and a fervent intention to do his utmost to prove that he was grateful. Such

generous kindness, when he had least expected it. and from one upon whom he had no claim, touched and aroused into activity all that was best ii his neglected nature; but at the same time it accentuated the exceeding bitterness he felt toward the hard, unrelenting old auut who had kept br word and put out no hand to gave him in his last extremity. What mere human nature and the ties of natural aifection shou d have led her to do she had left undone, and it had now been done for him out of pity by a comparative stranger. She had no heart; Bhe had never loved him, and always been severe, exacting, unsympathetic, almost cruel to him. and he hated her now more than ever. He gave no thought to his own unworthiness, or blamed himself for the crime that had brought him into trouble, but brooded angrily, bitterly, over his old aunt's stubborn, systematic coldness and neglect; and his own mini fastened all the blame upon her. Whether nis gratitude to Mr. Grellin would of itslf have been sufficient to enstain his resolution to reform is perhaps doubtful. Fortunately it was not put to the test. It was Btronz enough to sustain

him for three or four months, and then he found a more poweiful incentive and 1 support. For the first time in hia life he found himself really in love, and with one who was worthv of the love of a better man. It is eotnething in ids favor to eav that ho felt this, and despaired. It is something even more In his favor that instead of yielding to despair he earnestly determined to fling from him all his old degraded life like a worn-out garment and work and strivo with all his sou to make himself as worthy of her as such a man as he might hope to become. He had never before been so tuimb.e or so earnest. lie worked conscientiously, industrious ly, ruing higher and higier iu Mr. Grel lin 8 estimation and receiving substantial proofd that his etibrts were appreciated. Put he whs most anxious that some one elite should appreciate them; and wheu at lust, afier nearly two yenrs of toiling and waiting, ho ventured to tea her of his love, he found that ho had won all ho bad hoped for, all he ha l worked for. As soon a he was eure of htr love he told her ah the ?torv of his wretchrd lite lie told it with such an excels of solf-pitv that there were timea when the tears welied up into his eyes snd his voico failed him. He found Ida gentli hearer full of sv:npathy and companion, and exeme lor him. He had been the nuilerer. His very crimes were only had his own. He had been wronged and neg ected. Thatharidi, henrtleps, selfish old Aunt Pettifer was to blame for it ail! Yet he must try now to pity her and forgive her, though it was not to be expected that be tdiould ever wish to see her again. Now, he had some one who oved him, ho had conquered his own weaknesses and rien above them. and would build a sfieudid future on his ruined past. Ad this they haid to each other over and over ho mativ times until. to tho innocent, trusting, loving heart and imagination of his listener, George was exalted into a very hero. Hut somehow he never offered to pay back the value of the forged check to his ernploM-r. It never seemed to occur to him that he ought to do so. That unhappy business presented itself to his mind, when he thought of it at all, as something for which he haJ been partly to blame, lor which he had borne all the shame and eullsring, while tho one who was reallv moat at fault bad borne no shame or suffering at all. lie kept rloatdy at work, lived econom ics, ly, saved money, aad at length told Mr. ( i renin one day that he intended to marrv in the following month, and avked f.r a fortnight's leave of absence. Mr Grelitn. having no children of liw own. had taken a gr at liking for him when he found he had reformed in earnest, and was at ot.ce interested in the chacgo ha was about making tn liu life. "Have you told vour aunt?" he asked, when they bad talk o 1 it nit over tognther. "No, sir," replied George. "Doa't you think vou should do so?" "No, I do not, sir." said George. "She took no interest in my a Hairs when 1 wanted her to. Now I do not want her to do so." 'I think you are too hard on her, Pas coe. iou cio not know ull. I am Furo that she would be glad to make friends with vou again." "I riave no wish to se her, or to have anyth ng more to do with her. I am sorry her name has been mentioned." "I am sorry to hear you say that. Some day you may bi sorry you Haid it," remarked Mr. Grallu: quietly. "I'tider the circumstances, I think lint I shall lake it upon myself to write to her." Georgo made no reply, and nothing further was said on the subjret, either then or afterward. On the day before tho wedding Mr. Grellin took George inro Iiis room and hauded him a check for 100 as his wedding prc!ent; then shook hands with him warmly, '.vi-hed him all happiness, and hurried him avr.y, seeming quite shamefaro J and uneasy at the thanks he received for his generosity. There, there!" he cried. "Don't say anything about it. It's it's ad right. When vci come back I have an important proposal to make. Good-by, goodbv." When George returned, a fortnight later. he took him again to his room, and, after a long preamble about age aud increasing infirmities, o lie red him a partnership, George was too astonished for a moment to realize his own good fortune, and Mr. Grelitn coustrned his silence into accept ance ot the offer. "My solicitor will arrange al! formalities and prepare the deed, he said. All you wil have to do is to invest a couple of thousand in the business "A couple of thousand!" interrupted George, suddenly aghast. "Yes." laughed Mr. Gre'lin. "But I won t half do lt. I h nd the money for vou a mere formality leave that to me. He would accept no thanks; and grew quite curt and irritable when George in sisted upon thanking him. .So the whole business was tacitly arranged, and in a very few weks George was duly installed as junior partner in the firm of Grellin &. Pascoe. Of coarse tho news traveled down into the country, and one day George had a letter from a near neighbor of tm mint's, a man who m former days had been a great crony of his, and who wrote to congratulate him. "I don't suppose," continued the writer, referring to Mise Pettifer, "you hear much of the old lady now. She is as bitter as ever; never mentions your name. My wife called to see her the other day, and casually to d her of your last good luck, but she showed no interest in it, wouldn't talk, about it at all. She evidently hates you like poison, but that won't matter to you now. She gts meaner as she gets oTd-r. Sold her houee a few months ago, aaid that she could not alfbrd the expense of keeping it up, and lives now in one little furnished room, where they hoard aod I od if e her for next to nothing." She uiut have got a good inn bit put by, though I'll be bound the Pev. Mr. Dadley you remember him has had a big share of it, and means having the rest if he can get it. He stands a good chance, too. She isn't the woman she used to be; she's breaking up, and more under his thumb than ever.,r George showed this letter to his wife, and thev magnanimously pitied the lonely, miserable, miserly little old lady, and said that it seemed really as if her unnatural harshness to her nephew were coming home to her, and in ber old age she was neglected and alone. Xo many months after this George was

surprised to receive a letter from the Rev. Mr. Dadley himself. It told him, with that gent eman's habitual prolixity, that his old aunt was very ill, and dying, and wanted to see him. "No," said George stubbornly. "If she wants to see me at all, it's only because she feels now how bad.y she treated me. She doesn't care forme, aud I don't care for her, and I'm not going to go down there and play the hypocrite and pretend I do." There was a lofty hlgh-mindedness about this that made liim feel proud of himself. But his wife, gentle and womanlike, was inclined to be more forgiving. "If the poor, unhappy old lady feels now," she said, "how much she wronged and neglected you, her remorse must be dreadful I knoT she must be naturally selfish and cold-hearted, or I don't see how she could have helped loving you, dear. But try to forgive her now. At least, go and eee her and trv to forgive her." There was something in all this that soothed and flattered him, and he allowed himself to be so far persuaded that he promised to speak to Mr. Grellin tomor

row and see whet he could do about it. He mentioned it next morning to Mr. Grellin, and was saying how unwilling he was to go when his partner interrupted him. "Go." he said earnestly. "Go at once. If vou uro too late you will never forgive youraolf. Every word you say against her now will rid up and haunt vou afterward. i . .i f i' . 1 1 l ou no not Kn jW kii. .wy ups are eeaieu whilo she lives, unless she gives me leave to speak. Go, I tell vou; to at once." George was startled bv his pattner 8 ve hemence, and did not know how to reply. He went away, and hurriedly made some few needful preparations, and had started within an hour; and as the du-k of evening wus beginning to fall, he pushed a ong th quaint, quiet, wu.l-reuiembored streets of the little town, pat the t rim little house where he had once lived wilu his aunt, to thu humbler house where she was now dying in her one little room; nav, where ehe was hing dead. 'V-he died an hour at-o, said the Pev. Mr. Dadley, who met him at the door. "I was witli her at the lu-t. Her last words wero to ak if you had come." He felt a momentary pang of self reproa b. He might have coir.o earlier; ho always wished he hud. Yet underlying his regret was a vague relied of which he was ashamed; for he hud lost faith in liima'dl on the wnv down ; things had oc curred to him Unit he had lost eiht of before, and he had bowun to doubt whether it wan for him to forgive or to ask forL'iveueos. So strongly l'd this fueling grow upon biui that it snatchbd asiio the mask of self-deceit which had ko long hid den his cwn follv aud inoatiiuss trom himself, and his hchsm of shame und humiliation almotjt belli hin back from go ing to her at all. It held him back now, and he had not the heart to go into the darkened room and look upon her dead face. During the next few days, whilo lie was staying in th town, he somewhat recovered his self satisfaction. Ho made a compromise with himself and owned that there had been faults ou both aides, but told himself that if his aunt had only treated him dilb rently there would havo been no faults at all on his side, or on hers either. He had no cauao to love or regret tier, and in the courso ot a couple of days ha l got over the shock of her death, and was able to think of other matters. One thing he must arrange before he went back homo, and that w. e ha to Aunt Pettifer's motiey. lie was her only relative, and uuless tdie had left a will leaving it to some one else, it would ad come to him. She might have ett it nil to Mr. Dadley; probably she hal; he had been scheming for it, and had great control over her. Anyway, he would see about thut before be went back. It was a bright, sunshiny afternoon when ho followed poor old Aunt Pettifer to her grave; a lonely grave, standing quite apart against tho low wall of the i hurchyard. As he was going away, after tho lat sad rites were over, Mr. Da lloy came after him and with him back toward the town. "I nm sorry to spt'ak of bnsinuM matters at such a time," ho said, "but I expect you will be returning to London, and no doubt you would like to dispose of any questions concerning your aunt's estate beforo vou go." "Well, yes," eafd George, "I think it wnutd bo butter. Did the leave any will?" "Yes." Tn whooe favor?" "Well." hesitated Mr. Padlev. "so far as it goes I suppose it is in mine." "1 thought an much," sneered George. Mr. Dadley llubhed up hotly, but retjtrair.ed himself. "If yoa wi 1 call at my house this evening, I will show vou everything. It will be more satisfactory," lie said, nnd turned away without waiting for u rvply. Georgo went back to his hotel In no happy frame of mind. He felt that he had been" tricked. Mr. Dad ey had tricked him. He had taken advantage of Miss Pettifer'a weak, dependent po-iition to dafraud her only relative of his rights. The more ho thought of it tho more id-ued he felt, the more indignant he became; and at last, when he set out just after dark for Mr. Dudley's house, he had fully made up his mmd to let that gontleman understand what he thought of him. He waa Ubhered into the coafortab'.e, well-lighted pttidy, where Mr. Dadley waa waiting for him "Perhaps, sir," he said, as he seated himself, "you will tell n e shortly how my aunt has left her affairs." 'There is her will," said Mr. Dadley; "you will eeo bv that she appoints me sole executor aud leaves everything to me, with a requeet that I will pay her debts nnd funeral expenses " George took the document, which wss very brief, aud read it and found it was to theeilect Mr. Dadley had stated. He flung it back across the table. "Yerv good, sir!" ho cried angrily. "I shall contest that document She would never have signed that except under undue inlluence. I am her only telative; you kuow that?" "Yes," said Mr. Dadley quietly; "but when I teli you that she has not even left enough to pay her few debts and funeral expenses " "Then, sir," George hotly interrupted, "I should like to know where it has gone, and who has got it? I have my suspicions, and I will have this matter inquired into and exposed." "Sir," said Mr. Dadley, rising to his feet and epeaking with grave dignity, "that book will tell you all you want to know. She wished me to look at it and tatisly mveelf about h-r ailairs and destroy it. Hut I think it ia right that you should see iL What she did was done without my knowledge and against my counsel." George took tho book from his hand; it waa a bank pass book ; and openinir the leavr he glanced over them at random. "You will rind." continu ed Mr. Dadley, that that book covers a period Of ten years or so. Her bau king transactions w re not numerous. She was u careful, methodical woman, and yoa will find she has entered against each item to whom it was paid, and for what purpose. And for what purpose." But George was hardly listening. Looking do n one side of the ptges. he traced the regular entry of the dividends she received from some investment, and the final entry of rather more than 2,000 dated a few months ago. and representing, as a pencil note showed, the purchase money she had received on the sale of her investments and her little house in the town. How had all that money

gone in so short a time? He had turned

back to the beginning of the book, and began to glance down the pages on the other side. Thero were many entries of email Bums with the pencil note "household" against them. Among the early entries was one rather large amount marked 'Tor George's trouble al school, aud close after it the last payment of his school expenses. Ha turned over and there was a payment of X20d entered. The date against it was one he had reason to remember, for be was at that time in prison under a charge of forgery. The pencil note against this was Bimply: "For George." He could not look up, he dared not trut-t himself to speak, bo knew what it meant: it was she who bad forgiven him, not Mr. Grellin. He bent his had lower and turned over the pages till another entry caught his attention; it was for payment of '200, and the pencil note against it whs: ".My wedding present to George." There was a mist before his eyes, a great, choking seusstion rising in his throat, and his heart was throbbing painfully; but he could not trust himself to glance up even for a moaient at the man who was watching hiui across the table. He turned the next page and glanced down at the last payment entered in the book. It was for '2,(kK), and he knew instinctively what was the pencil note ngsinat it, though he could hardly Fee to read it: "For George's partnership." He eat there, utterly broken down, bewildered, stupefied, blinded by the truth which had phone so suddenly in upon him. Through all his basne-9 and ingratitude, through a 1 hii degradation, ail the, black miry and shame he hid brought upon her and upon himself, she had never for a mom-nt deserted him; she had loved him through it all and uplifted and supported hbr, and made him all that he wss; and he had never known it or suspected it till now. To think how he bad hated her. and spoken evil things and thought worse of her, a nd to think how she had loved him! Oh, blind! blind ! not to havo seen it long ago. Not to have fcen through the unconquerable self-restraint, and the curao of undi'inonp:rativenea which nature had laid upon her! How altered everything might havo beou! He had never understood her, never known her until now, when h-r pained nnd lonely heart had carried its deep, inarticulate love with it to the grave. Tho book had fallen from his hand, the tt-ars wero cour-ung down his cheeks unheeded ; be w as utterly broken down and ovc whelmed. Mr. Dadley eat and watched him without si e.ik in ir. Ho saw how deepl) he was moved and knew that Iiis own sorrow and remorse would purify and ennoble him and waken the trur Rolf within him more than any word of warniug or reproach could possibly do. He sat looking on in silence, and when at last the vouug man roso w ith a diuod and shamefaced air and turned and nalo his way out of the room witho.it uttering a word or onco looking up at him he neither spoke nor followed him, feeiiug that his humiliation and rei entsreo were bitter enough al ready. He heard the etreet door close and c.ave a sigh of relief, (or in one ene the interview had been aspniuful to him self ns it had been to his vieitor. The striking of the little clock on his manllepiece roused him from his reverie. Ho glanced at hn wa'rh and rose hur riedly, for he had to visit a sick friend who lived some little distance outside tho town. It was a eluar. ruoonlip-ht night, with fcarcoly a breath of wiud Mirring. He walked briskly along, and had soou left the town behind aud was out on the broad, white highway. The dust was so thick on tho ground that his footsteps scarcely made any sound ; he could hour the occasional rustie of a bird in tho hedgerows, the quick creak of a bat flit ting ovorhean, and as he pnseed tho lo wall of the churchyard, ho wns startled by the faint sound of a stilled sob. He had hesitated, and, glancing aside, saw In the moonlight a dim llgurn kneel ing over a solitary gravo;and there was something like a sob in his own heart as he bowed his head and past-ed ou ia silence. IGNORANCE ABOUT VAMPIRES. Cmiriint-d Stnrle ASoitt tlio Illood-Siirklnc Hut or Soutli Aturrleit. P.vcr since the South American continent was discovered, especially that part of it lying between the Aiuazon and Orinoco rivers, travelers have come from there with wonderful tales of the vampires, or, as they call them, blood-sucking bats. As a fact, little is known about these pests, says the New York Tribune. That thoro ore blood-sucking bats which feed not only on the blood of man, but also animals, is an undoubted fact, and though the writer himself has nuver bai-n bitten by one, he ha, whilo traveling iu the interior of British Guiana, seen Indi ina and ponies that had undoubtedly been billon by those bats. In the case of a man attacked thn to or nose was tho point punctured, while animate are liable to be bitten anywhere. How the bat does its work lias not been ma le clear, for no man has yet awakened while being operated on by one of theso bats, despite the fact that considerable blood is extracted and more or lets losa of blood takes place after tho operation. It is probablo that the bat hovers during the operation rather than rests on the body. Tho rapid vibration of the soft winss probably aIso has n Boothing effect on the skin of the part operated on. The blood suckers belong to only two or three species, and wherever these aro found then are a'so many others whose food is only frnit or insects, or both. The most natural mistake about the bats which are innocent of preying on man or bensts is tho common supposition that vampyrus spectrum is a blood-sucker. The stretch of wings of this bat frequently roaches three feet, and it has a moat ferocious aspect, with enormously larg-j and poiuted canine teeth. It is perfectly certain that ia most parts of British Guiana this bat is only a fruit eater and is a serious p?st to fruit growers. Bates and Edwards, who traveled much in that country, vouch for its hurmlosHnejs, and the writer could never hear of a case where one of these giant bat was ever suspected of being a blood-sucker. Wallace, however, gives a different account. "The vampires are especially plentiful in the Amizon valley. Their carnivorous propensities worn once discredited, but are too well authenticated. Horses and cattle are often bitten, aud we found them in the morning covered with blood, and repeated attacks weaken and ultimately dcbtroy" them. Some persons are especially subject to the attacks of these bats, aud as native huts are never S'lt'iciently close to keep them out. those unfortunate persons are obliged to sleep completely mufiled up in order to avoid being made seriou-ly ill or even losing their lives." Wallace, in Baying that "tho huU are never sutlicientiy close lo keep them out," evidently u-es the word vampire as a generic term, and does not mean thevampytua spectrum, for that bat would find no space lar.'e enough to let him into even the loosely built huts of the natives. It is the slipshod way of using the terra vampire that bring troubl e to many a useful but. The writer has been in a house where every precaution was taken to keep out bats which wou d have been a perfect blessing in the rooms, as thev would have caught hundreds ot mosquitoes. Visible Evideuce. Troth.l She (looking at the Ptatnary) "And here ia little Cupid ; how cold he looks I" He "Yea; get onto hia Quiver."

MY LORD ON HIS TRAVELS.

AN ENGLISHMAN TOURING IN THE UNITED STATES. He Gets Flecd Because II Is Shep Gouged bjr Il.ick Drivers But He Likes Some Things Thnt Increase the Convenience of Traveling Hotel lo Xot sce-tu to Suit His Lordship Ills Experiences on the Railway. An Englishman's first instinct on arriv ing at the conclusion of a iournev is to call a cab, eaysT. W. Kuj.-ell. M. P., in the London Graphic. He hal better not in dulge this fancv in New York. A passenger arriving by any of the lines at Liverpool w-uld at once secure his luggage, have it conveyed to a cab, tip the porter, and on being set down at hia hotel woald puv the cahuiao, sav, half-a-crown. They manage things otherwisa in New lork. Heavy luggage must, iq the first place, be "expressed" at a charge of 1 shilling and Ü pence each package. If there are ladies in the t arty this item may mount up to something considerable. But having disposed of the heavy trunks, what about the smaller impedimenta? '"Oh," you say, "that may go on the cab." Very good. And oil you go on a ramshac kle equipage with an Irish driver, poe-es.-ing none ot the fun of the old country. On arriving at the hotel you ak what the fnro amounts to. And then the Kug ishman's gorge ries. lie is accustomed to stepping into a London bansome und driving a long distance for a florin. But the liiberniau charioteer gravely calls for SI or S3, juft according to the humor he may be in. And it has to be paid. There appear to be no cab regulations in New York. And if there were, nobody imagines that any authority could or would enforce ti em. The rcMiii is that when the traveler finds himself iu his room it has probably taken '' shillings to convey himself and his lug;ag4 from the landing placo to the hotel. This, of course, is simply a gorgeous twiddle. And the way to avoid it is, fortunately, equally eiinplo. Tho Americans travel with a single big trunk. Lverythinggo s into it ns in to a handing. This Nouh's ark can be "expressed" at tho namo charge aa a drersiug-Caso. And this done. Unee Sam makes for the stret-t car and reaches his hotel for 5 cents. This is thu way to do it, but it is little short of a scandal that the law should not protect utrangera. They are unmercifully fleeced. A drive of two hours around Boston cost our party iS, or shillings. Tho only safe plan is never to enter a cab in the 1'nited States As to the hotels, something p easant and unpleasant may be said. In all the cities these establishments are of the most palatial character and are conducted on both the American nnd Kuropoan plans. No one should enter a bouse conducted on both plans. We had written ahead to secure rooms on the American plan at ono of the lit tri avenue hotels. The charge was !?.", or 1 per day. Arriving la'e at night, we were "skied" in a garret. The electric bolls vere out of ' order. The pressure was not sullicicnt to send hot water r; to the tap and in the morning the supply of cold water a'so gave out. A bath wns out of the question. The smell from the tap lis. It suugested that it had direct connection with the main sewer. But all i lis mijbt have been loleratsd for a night. Judge of our surprise, however, when o. entering the dining-room wo were calmly informed that no food was euj plied on the American plan after 8 p. in , and that if one dtr.ired supper it should be served tn the Kuropoan plan. In other words, we were exp etc 1 to pay : a oay for board an 1 lodging oa tho American plan and pav for our supper in cash, because the Boston train happened to be late. At another of these gorgeous establishments wo experienced an other piece of sharp practice The terms were 7.00 per day or 'Ma each person. But on our. arrival we stepped into the wrong room for luncheon, i e., into the room for visitors on the Kurop-au plan. The bill had to bo paid in cash, and we had the extreme satisfaction of paying lis (id for two lucheons in addition to a charge of 30s per day. These ro tamples of the impudent swindles that uwait the traveler who is not prepared for them. I have said that the American hotels aro gorgeous palaces, hut they sadly lack the homely feeling of the Knglisn home. They seem" to be huge rabbit warrens. The sohnJid public apartment are all hut empty during the day. And morning, noon and night, for breakfast, luncheou and dinner, people stream out of thdr bed-rooms, where they live, into the huge dining hall and bark again. They aro the naddost and dullest places in the world. But, as a rule, tho accommodations and fooa are excellent. As regards railway traveling, some things are better than at home, and others are wore. The rate of traveling ia mostly slower and the cost less than in England. But the cars are infinitely better and traveling ia, on the whole, pleasanter but for the heat. This is largely caused by the fact that the Btoker is generally a negro, and he heats the train up to his own ideas of comfort; but it ia not pleasant for an ordinary Kngbshman to swelter in a car with tue thermometer at 75a to 80 and then go out into an atmosphere below freezing point, or even be ow zero. The night traveling a so ehocka a stranger. In England there are ladi'V eleepine-cars. No such thing ever occurred to the American mind. Men and women shake down "promiscuous." and are curtained ol!' iu a kind of pealed compartment. Butthe Americans give us points in regard to dealing with luggage. It is something to hand your luggage to the hotel porter, to receive from him at the railway station brass cherks for it, to give these checks to a collector on arrival, and to find, for a small charge, your luggage at the hotel almost as quickly as vourself. Whv English railwav com panies do not adopt this plau of dealing with luggage passes comprehension. There is hardlv such a thing as a rail way porter in the Mates. Then the dining car is a real work of art. It is a luxury to be able to get a comfortable meal excel-h-ntlv served without ruehiug to refresh tnent rooms and eating at a rate ruinous to digestiou and to health. ÜES SUFFER UT.eri t!ie'r tordor Sktns are litorstly Ox Frns with Itcliiü! t:nd llurtiir.if Lczcmaa anil other Itch, lag, Scaly, hud LloU'iiy tkin aud Scalp Jjiacases, wiui ixjta or il.ilr, Don bat mother realize. To know that a single applicatlou of liie CUTICURA Remedies will afford Immediate r;l!rf, p.Tuiit rest nnd loop, and poet to a poedy and economical cure, aud cut In lira tliiin i tn f:iil In vnnv d'lty. farents, savo your children year of need-k-M suffertnti from torturing and diMigurlsg ernp. Hont. t'L'TKTr.A Rexedies tis the jrreateot Iis cures, blood puririfra, and burner re-uedtt-a of taoJcra timca. hold everywhere. Potte I'RL AND CHEKICAL Cosr-ORATION, Uontpa. 3- " How t3 Cur bkta Diae;.' " mailed free. nirjY'P tSklnand Sea'P purified aad beautified UnJI O by CCTicf ha Soap. AboolufJy pur. FAIN3 AND WEAKNESSES Kel'.pTrd In nn tnimitn that new. fi i elegant, and Infallible Antidote to Tain, i -Inflvumatlon. nr.d Wrnkneif . the Cntl. cura Anti-ralu Plaster. Si ccüla. .

R. R. R.

RADWAY'S liEMII The Cheapest nnd TCet Medicine for T'umily Le in tho World. Porn Throat. Colda, Coub. Paeiraonia. Dronrhitit, In'Jinnnaton. Connnt od. In line ma, Ii"lcult hreaibiog cured aaJ preveatsJ by RADWAY'S READY RELIEF If flamm atlnn nf th Cllney. Inla-n-aill a I ti e M a Jdr, Io!l'nuiti n Ol tli9 i' o! U otloa of the F tut o f in II art. tiM;-r-lr. t.'ri:r, Ditu.h'ia. Cuarrti. I.i1'iica, Cll, ( hill. Am doli, CSUblal.n, Froit-Mlot, Narr oii'iei, A. li'MO a. Tlioap .ieat 'n ot tön F.SDT ßELItF Ijfit fart or .rH nrhers th dilLculljr or jia.a eiiill Iii a nr.! r -e n I mfort B ID WAY'S B.':aif rtSLIC? I thaoar raaJ.al aurnt :n touo thai wili .mljally atop palo. II Inttantir rflieret and sooa cum. Rheuimtim. Neuralgia. ft'l'.itlca. llt-A.lnt lie, TootlliK'lu, li'.Himmnt ion, A Hi It in. i. Ililliirn .1, UiClt ult Urer(liin(T, I.nmta;o, Swelling or the Joint, Patna li Hack, lliett or Limb. llmlvrnj'n Herly Itellff I r turf Tor Krer 144111, hiraiu, llnii---.. It Wna tli 1 trat nuil la Hie Only PAIN REMEDY Tl.at Inetnnttr Ho, Ih- ex -rucialm pola. atlayi lutlaminatiuu and crti l,n,, '.; ,n, tn luor ol tat Luukj, Stomach, lxwel or otuar gU iJ or or.-aat, A a iw tr . III. Pr. R1".t: 1 ha ncl your H:aty U i.tt Pllla aud xrKpRrt:lan Mo-oiTrut, an i tum l itt tnf arr ihr mi.lr t ri.mudie o( Lit world. Ttwr on Wl't-U ad otl;' IaIL Au,. U. l-.l. rRF.D M. M CHKKUX. N I 4 i I, 111. Pr. Radwaf. I Ii ut yaur lujjiom fort! yoait. aud ba cur-4 all tl ioiki l um ar Irvatnd. I bar e.ne.l ohm hn ottiar dcl r hal (I v n u T a h .pe lei. I bar lh4 best auoataa will ioflatniiiil'-ry rhaumaUiu. March f, IH.'I. ."IlH. 3. S. S.IIC.UU IM'Lll.N Ai.LY, a !'! t a i4.oaf il la U:f i tuuiMrr ot ai r wil!. Ii a f inuiuiea, our Atrip, h.m, hur 3u n.jh. Nana. Voiuiti (. ilearlt'iirit, r nana. S.'il nvii-, Siek It a ! a. u , ln.rrliea, Cooc, 1 lalui.ucj-. and all lateraai 1 'a ilia. MnlurlA tn 1 1 Vnrioni Forma Cured and I'rovoute.t. Tliera U not a rami IUI agent in lUe worM that will cur fecr aud ag ie and all otl.r mO tiih, hitluunan.l otur fo r-. allot HA nft'AY 8 PILL ioiuckiy aa H.U'WAY's HSauY II -UtK. A euro iif lr l'-r l A, UIWAY'S UiCADY llfcLI lie ia a nur oar at weil aa a uretniilif ut t i-r au 1 Aj.it. litre It rwmajy ir 1joiU that rill e iritan dliatt i9ii liTrly, aad on a 1)1 part a it ne ia 101 " duinct, tea Iroia aiu kt. T..it it b ii r man rit Union ol au eure, quinine, c.i t 04 -, e-a, it baaeurad IttKUttn la, rutf .Iripi 0 HiO)1 tut, la a lata t water, laata Ut Qrtt tul.ig 1 (tttiago lot b-d la tli iartitcii. wi.l prlul Itntftirni iron ettanka. Oua &oniit btil will a ir aa Mir lanitlf, and ha euourfh loft to ttp all klalt I ram tbat may Wouol yoa, ailüar Irjin aoalltal or Ottta. LOc per Bottle. Pold hy Pruzglats. SZ2 I ADV ÄY'S 'agwsanaa Sarsapsrillian Es-KCTsa Resolvent. Tli Otttt Htd Ponfl-r, 1 .1 a o e a Cbronlo Klanmat tin, Sorofula, Uekl.i Dry C vib, Can.ruu. AUaoklon. Ü eaJIntf of IbtLiuiii, WluW wlllM. Tum r. 11. 1' l. llroncii.l.v Hotouir due ib :ar.;arilla Wwlfnt etl aU r.ninlial aenln to tl.cr. of Cur .nie. bera'nlous lonlllutl..ral aud Bala iHtoates but 1 inaoal fioail e euro t r KIDNKY AND BLAÜPEH COMPLAINTS, Oravat, l alet , Droi.tr, Sto of W'aUr, la cmliuaKWO. triue, lir. Wut'! l.i..is Alb mioarla, and in a I etwa wu.rj t!ir are brio-1 it; dtj.ot.it, ar tua water it thick, el..udy, mid 11 tubtia ioet l.ka tb while 0: nu ait, or ttiraadt l.t whtUtllc, rll ri a lu-.'bid, darn, bilmut ap,.'noa. ail white bora dntl de,o,lt. anl hn tu-n It a prlkl. Iii, barnli f i utriion whn patting t!i waler, aal pain la Iii tiuall ol tbe back an I alou tbi laknt. Kidney Trouble. Anitas, O. pi-nrPIr; I thought I would write o i and ttll to. i wbnt wonderiui work your 4artaarr.llan HaOl, lit h Jona lor Iii.'. Kl w et au 1 could not n...e without tlw Kraust (mm with d e ot the k..lnT. I liaT UleJ eT.-ry kind of lluuu.nl ami diflercut medicine, and bad my doctor to pre-onbaj but Bothnia1 did any g-od utilil I iri d onr It-iolr. nt. I t'ok thr bottle (and V ee:il tor tliree moreV Y..ur IMU ara a (in l-a-u.l. IhiTarec .ra. nend. d thi'iii lo over a huiidr. d irri., who a.) taf ther laund thorn to be the t.e-t IMiia tht tbey er I'ok. Mit. TOM H Mil 'IN. ,00, TOM KAUD.N. Yrd Matter. Athen, M. A C. Papula. kidney UetiirniuK Healthy Mate. Rtdway A Co. lier.tl.-nien: I tm t.ow taking tha film botile of your Ke. ent aud I am receiiuf rt benefit trom li whe-i all oilmr uieileine laib d. aud tnr Kldneyt are returning to a bealthf eondtUou, and would recommend It t . alt auU.rluf, trom any ditrate whatever Iroiu their kiduay. Uo.iectlully to. l UJr r;.UlBOulh Neb. AJiubclee. InstAJ, Mi Pr r.vlwar P-ar Bir: I have ul a I your remedut with great ucc In r otic-j ani the way I found ia-r w;ih your U-oUeni, It cured m ot I) ab-t after tnre .by.i;lan had aiven me up. I oructed aruai.k' ia my urine Iu two h.v.rt a.t-r the firtt dote, and tbn boltWt ''.'j "."pAGt Dr. IU '.why's 4S.irswl.h11 ltesc'.veSt. 4 A rarae ly eompoteJ of Inttrelleutt of eitraij-Jla. aryandioal pro . nie, at'eaiially t p :r.!f. mal. rei..ranllniKorael . brok.n dwa aal waatil body, viuies. leatanl. .ate and p r.n.-,at In .M treatment a.! enre. Stld by aU Jrai.U. 0S1. Am )LL A It A OTTLK. J . k. u The Orrat I.-er er.1 Stttmarh Uenidy. An Excellent ami Mild Cathartic. rrfect rurzatlvra, Sootliinsr Aperient, Act Without I'nin. Alwnyt ltfliable ma Natural In lUeir Operatlous. lVrtectly tMt'l', el (tntlr ootd with gum purgn, rsuit, purify, ol aae and tlreojlUt 4. RADWAY'S PILLS For the cure of all lUonler of the Stomach, l.iyer, lloels Kl-liiey, ltlml-ler, Merroua liHi':iHCH, U.tsof Appetit-, ilf i.tacli, Con. alipati", Costivi-iie, I niik;f t i", Uilioii. neos, l ever, In!ln:muation of t lie K.iwel. I'iloa, ami All ternnRementa ot the Intfrnut Viacern, l'urrly Vesc-titltle, coutalnlu ue merrury, minerct. or t.flft eritiu drii;, PLUrr.cT J.ICF.sTlON will be aoeouip4iaUed by taking Kadtray a Vi-', ir-j d.n DYSPEPSIA. Sick Hadach , Foul Sftonifh, M'.lounesj, will b avoided, aa the foo-l tust 1 eateu contribuiet lta b.iurialiiiig proi.rriie for tu auppurt of the natural watu. of too body. 4UbarT the fol o n tymntomt remit. nr from dii'at el Hi -d.otvlre ornni: Ooatiipaliou, Inward pile, fallu.it of rtto'id in lb Cnxi, ae.dity cf the tloraaob, nxwt, hoarlbaro, dit(-j:tof 100 A, fallnn-i or wai :i.; of the t.o o-.a , t.mr eructti)ot, ttuklaw nr fl utterlni; of tbe hnart, euota oraa.lo. cailug a-atttationt wnea in a lym? pouart, dtouti el ruion. data or webt bafore iht a.wt, fattr anl dull 1'kl.. in the h-n I, Je .eieuey of purttratioa, y lownott of th tktn and eje. pin in tn til, elieet, I nltttil itildto fiatuea of beat, buralala thAtiw' lotet of RADWAY'3 PIL13 wiil free lbs yttetu of a.'l tbs ahovs oaiard duordtrv Trice 20c per Box. Sold by ail DruKgiata. DR EADWAY & CO . X. 82 Warren t, 27s V York, will oiail Book of Adt.oe oa applieaiion. lie bure to Get "ltaawai'a."

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