Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 17, Hammond, Lake County, 8 July 1907 — Page 3

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'continued. I?ut If liis confederate's interests suffered, the total fixed in Grenler's original scheme in nowise became affected. lie meant to have a hundred thousand pounds, and he firmly decided not to go beyond that amount. Ills letter to the bankers named l"A0O0, and he calculated that by stopping short at two-thirds of the available isiim he would not give any grounds for suspicion or personal inquiry. Yet he would shirk nothing. Mr. Abingdon and Miss Atherley must be avoided at all events. Others he would face blithely. lie took care to have ever ou the table in his sitting room a goodly supply of wines and spirits. If any one sought an interview. It might ?.e helpful to sham a slight degree of intoxication. The difference between Philip drunk and Philip sober would then be accounted for readily. But rest that was denied him. It was one thing to hardeu himself against surprise, quite another to forget that disfigured corpse swirling about in the North sea. He wished now that Philip Anson had not been cast forth naked. It was a blunder not to dress him, to provide him with means of identification with some unknown Smith or Jones. AVhen he closed his eyes he could see a shadowy form wavering helplessly in green depths. Never before were his bauds smeared with blood. He had touched every crime save murder. Physically he was a coward. In plotting the attack on Philip he had taxed his ingenuity for weeks to discover some means where he need not become Mason's actual helper. He rejected project after project. The thing might be bungled, so he must attend to each part of the undertaking himself short of using a bludgeon. He slept again and dreamed of long flights through space pursued by demons. How he longed for day! How slowly the hours passed after dawn uutil the newspapers were obtainable, with their columns of emptiness for him. A letter came from Evelyn. It was a trifle reserved, with an impulse to tears concealed in It: I asked mother for 50, so the Blue

Atom incident has ended, but I don't

think I will ever understand the mood in which you wrote your last telegram.

Perhaps your letter now in the post I half expected it at midday will explain

matters somewhat. lie consigned Blue Atom to a sultry clime and began to ask himself why

Mr. Abingdon had not written. The

ex-magistrate's reticence annoyed him

A letter even remonstrating with him

would be grateful, lhis silence was Irritating; it savored of doubt, and doubt was the one phase of thought he

wished to keep out of Mr, mind at that moment.

As for Evelyn, she mistrusted even his telegrams, while a bank had ac

cepted his signature without reserva

tion. He would punish her with zest

Philip Anson's memory would be pois

oned in her heart long before she real

ized that he was dead.

Abingdon's

CHAPTER XX.

niLIP was thrown into the sea on a Tuesday. Jocky Mason reached London on Wednesday and kept his appointment with

Inspector Bradley on Thursday evening. The inspector received him graciously, thus chasing from the ex-convict's mind a lurking suspicion that matters were awry. There is a curious sympathy between the police and well known criminals. They meet with friendliness and exchange pleasantries, as a watch dog might fraternize with a wolf in off hours. But Mason had no responsive smile or ready quip. "What's up?" he demanded morosely, "l'ou sent for me. Here I am. I would have brought my ticket sooner if you hadn't written." "All right. Mason. Keep your wool on. Do you remember Superintendent Kobmson?" "Him that was Inspector in Whitechapel when I was put away? Bather." "Well, some friends of yours have teen inquiring from him as to your

whereabouts. He sent a message round.

and I promised that you should meet them if you showed up. I was half afraid you had bolted to the States." "Friends: I have no friends." "Oh, yes, you have very dear friends, indeed." "Then where are they?" lie glared around the roomy police office, but it was only tenanted by policemen attending to various books or chatting quietly across a huge counter. His surly attitude did not diminish the inspector's kindliness. "Don't be so doubtful on that point Mason. Have you no children?" Something in the police officer's eyes pive the man a clew. His swarthy face flushed and his hands clinched. "Yes." he said huskily, "I left two boys. Their mother died. They were lost. I have looked for them everywhere." Inspector Bradley pointed to a door. "Go into that room," he said quietly, "and you will find them. They are waiting there for you." Mason crossed the sanded floor like

one walking In his sleep. He experienced no emotion. He was a man stunned for the nonce. He opened the door of the waiting room and entered cautiously. He might have expected a hoax, a jest, from his attitude. Two stalwart young men were standing there talking. Their chat ceased as fce appeared. For an appreciable time father and sons looked at each other with the curiosity of strangers. He knew thern first. He saw himself, no less than their unfortunate and suffering mother, in their erect figures.

the contour of their pleasant faces.

To them he was uukuown. The eld

est boy was ten years old, the younger

eight, when they last met. But they read a message in the man's hungering eyes, and they were the first to break

the suspense.

"Father!" cried John. The other boy spraug to him without

a word.

He took them in his arms. He was

choked. From some buried fout came

long forgotten tears. He murmured

their names, but not a coherent sentence could he utter.

They were splendid fellows, he

thought so tall and well knit, so nice mannered, so thoroughly overjoyed to

meet him.

That was the best of it. They had

sought him voluntarily. They knew his

record and were not ashamed to own

him. During the long davs and night

of ceaseless inquiry he Mas ever tor

mented by the dread lest his children, if living, should look ou him as accursed, a blot on their existence.

He half hoped that he might discover

them in some vile slum, where crime was hallowed and convicts were he

roes, lie never pictured them as honest, well meaning youths, sons of

whom any father might be proud, for

in that possibility lurked the guawlug terror of shame and repudiation.

Mason's heart was full. lie could not

thank God for his mercy. That re

source of poor humanity was denied him, and, to his credit be it said, he was no hypocrite. His seared soul awoke to softer feelings, as his eyes, his ears, his very heart, drank in fuller knowledge of them, but he was tormented in his joy by an agonized pang of remorse. Oh,

that he could have met them with hands free from further crime! In some vague way he felt that his punishment for Fhilip Anson' death would be meted out by a sterner justice than the law of the land. He was too hard a man to yield instantly. He crushed back the rising flood of horror that threatened to overwhelm him In this moment of happiness. He forced himself again to answer their anxious inquiries, to note their little airs of manliness and self reliance, to see with growing wonder that they were well dressed and wore spotless linen. A police station was no place for confidences. Indeed both boys were awed by their surroundings. They passed into the outer office, and Mason went to thank Inspector Bradley. "Don't forget your ticket," whispered the pleased officer. The reminder jarred, but It was unavoidable. Mason got his ticket indorsed, the lads looking on shyly the while, and the three regained the freedom of the street. "Let us find some place to sit down and have a drink," suggested Mason. "No, father," said John, with a frank smile. "Neither of us takes drink. Come home with us. We have a room ready for you." "I have lodgings" "You can go there tomorrow and get your belongings."

"Yes. Jump Into this cab," urged

Willie. "We live in Westminster. It

is not very far." Mason was fascinated by the boys'

pleasant assumption of authority. They

spoke like young gentlemen, with the

accent that betokens a good education He yielded without a protest.

They sat three abreast in a hansom.

and the vehicle scurried off toward the Westminster bridge road. Mason was in the center, nis giant form leaned over the closed doors of the cab, but he turned his head with Interested eagerness as one or other of his sons addressed him. "I suppose, father, you are wondering how we came to meet in such a place," said John. "It might puzzle me if I found time to think; "Well, the superintendent arranged everything. Unfortunately, he was away on his holidays when when you were released or we would have met you then, and his deputy was not aware of the circumstances. As soon as the superintendent returned he wrote to the governor and was very much annoyed to find that you had slipped away in the meantime."

"He wouldn't be so annoyed if he was there himself," growled Mason good humoredly. "Oh, John didn't mean that, father," broke in Willie. "The annoyance was his and ours. You see, we had not known very long where you were. We didn't even know you were alive." "Of course, of course. Somebody has been looking after you well. That's clear enough. They wouldn't be always telling a pair of boys that their father was in Portland." "It gave us such a shock when we heard the truth," said downright John. "But we were so glad to hear that our father was living and that we should soon see him," explained the younger. "When did you hear first?" "About four months ago. Just before

we took our present situations. We are saddlers and ornamental leather workers. Between us we earn quite a decent living. Don't we, John?" "In fifteen weeks we have saved

enough to pay for half our furniture

plenty to eat dad. You won't btarve, big as you are." They all laughed. The cab was passing St Thomas' hospital. Across the bridge a noble prospect met their eyes. London had a glamour for Mason that night it never held before. "So Kubinsou wrote to 'Bradley, knowing that I would reiort myself today, and Bradley arranged" "Who is Bobinsou, father:" interrupted John. "The superintendent, to be sure. lie used to be inspector at Whiteehapel." "He is not the man we mean. We pre talking of Mr. Giles, superintendent of the Mary Anson home." The two lvs felt their father's start of dismay, of positive affright. They wondered what had happened to give

him such a shock. Peering at him sideways from the corners of the hansom, they could see the quick pallor of his swarthy face. "You forget, John," put in the adroit William, "that father knows as little about our lives as we knew about his until very recently. When we reach our tlat we must begin at the beginning and tell him everything." "There isn't much to tell." cried John. "When poor mother died we were taken care of by a gentleman whom Mr. Philip asked to look after us. When the Mary Anson home was built we were among the first batch of inmates. If ever a young man has done good in this world, it Is Mr. Philip Anson. See what he did for us. Mother was nunsed and tended with the utmost kindness, but her life could not be saved. We were rescued from the workhouse,

'taught well and fed well and given

such Instruction In a first class trade that even at our age we can earn 5 a week between us. And what he has done for us he does for hundreds of others. God bless Philip Anson, I say!" "Amen!" said his brother. The voices of his sous reached Mason's tortured brain like sounds heard, remote but distinct, through a lpng tunnel. Ills great frame seemed to collapse. In an instant he became an old man. He set his teeth and jammed his elbows against the woodwork of the cab, but, strive as he would with his immense physical strength and his dogged will, he shook with a palsy.

"Father," cried John anxiously, little dreaming how his enthusiastic speech had pierced to the very marrow of his hearer, "are you ill? Shall we stop?"

"Perhaps, John, a little brandy would do him good," murmured Willie. "Father, do tell me what is the matter. Willie, reach up and tell the man to stop." Then Mason forced himself to speak. "No, no," he gasped. "Go on. It is only a passing spasm." He must have time, even a few minutes. In which to drive off the awful specter that hugged him in the embrace of death. He dared not look at his sons. If he were compelled tj face them on the pavement in the flaring gaslight he would run away. His anguish was pitiable. Great drops of sweat stood clammy on his

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"Father, do tell me what is the matter." forehead. He passed a trembling hand across his face and groaned aloud unconsciously: "Oh. God forgive me!" It was the first prayer that had voluntarily left his lips for many a day. The boys heard. They interpreted it as an expression of sorrow that his own career should have been so cut off from their childhood and joyous youth. "Well, cheer up, dad, anyhow," cried the eider, much relieved by this conclusion. "We are all together again, and you can face the world once more with us at your side." No dagger of steel could have hurt so dreadfully as this well meant consolation, but for the sake of his sons the man wrestled with his agony and conquered it to some outward seeming. When the cab stopped outside a big building he was steady on his feet when he alighted, and he managed to summon a ghastly smile to his aid as he said to John: "I am sorry to set you a bad example, but that is nothing new, is it? I must have some spirit, strong spirit or I can't keep up." "Certainly, father. Why not? It Is ftll right as medicine. Willie, you go and get some brandy while I take father upstairs." Their flat was on the second floor. It was neatly furnished, fitted with electric light and contained five Toons. (To be Continued.) -v

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