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Uncle Terry ...Bf... CHARLES CLARK NUNN Copyright, 1000, by I*? A 8hep*r6 When the tuenl was over lie handed the box of cigars ho bad brought to his bost with tho remark, "Plenso accept those, Mr. Terry, and when you smoke them think of the forlorn fellow you found by the wayside." "I'vo got to leave ye to tho tender mercies of tho wimmln folks," said Uu clo Terry, after thanking Albert, "for I've got work to do, and tonight we'll hav ^ i visit. I bopo you'll bo wtllln* to st;./ with us a day or two," bo added, "an' tomorrow I'll take ye out flsbln'." "I will stay until tomorrow, thank you," replied Albert. "I should llko to row up to where I was left bontless yesterday," be said to Telly after Uuclo Terry had gone, "and finish the sketch I began and also try to And the cushions I dropped in the woods. May I ask you to go too?" "I should bo glad to If mother can spare ino," she answered. When he rowed cut of the little har bor where ho had left his boat Telly sat In the stern holding the tiller ropes and shading her winsome faco was th* same broad sun hat he had seen on the rock beside her the evening before. It was n long four mile pull, but he was unconscious of It, and when he helped his companion out and secured the boat he said: "Now, I am going to ask a favor of you, Miss Terry. 1 want you to stand In Just the position I first saw you and let ino make a sketch of you. You were leaning on a rock and resting your head on one hand." Tolly looked puzzled. "Ton did not know I saw you out on tho point last evening, did you?" be added, smiling. "I stood and looked nt you for flvo minutes and then walked away. I did not know who you were then or that I should meet you Inter if I had I would not have been so rude." The color came to Telly's face at his evident admiration, but she did not say no to his proposal, and stood pa tiently in tho position he wished while he made the sketch. "There," ho ex claimed when it was tlnished, "I shall transfer that to canvas when I go back, and whenever I look nt it I shall recall this day and?you." "Will you need the picture for that?" ?he replied with a smile. "That sounded like Alice," he said, and added hastily, "Alice Is my only sister, and I think more of her than of any other woman living." Tolly sat on the boat's cushions In a shady nook and watched Albert finish his sketch and then listened to his talk. lie told her all about his homo and sister and Frank as well. In a way they exchanged a good deal of personal history of Interest to each other. Then they gathered flowers, and Telly Insisted on decorating the boat. When it was done she wanted him to make a sketch of It for her. "Draw yourself as holding the oars," she said, ,"and I will try to paint a picture from the sketch to remember you by," she added with a smile. Then, as the sun was getting low, they started for home. The breeze had vanished and tho sen was like glass. Only the long ground swells barely lifted their boat and made the shad ows of the trees along the shore wave in fantastic undulations. Whon they reached tho Cape Telly said: "You had bettor go around to the cove where fa ther keeps his boats. It's nearer to the house, and there Is a float there Where you can pull your boat out." She waited until he had done so, and then stooped and selected a few of tho flowers with which they had decked tho boat. "I am going to paint them," Bho said quietly as sho turned and fol lowed Albert up to the houso. _ CHAPTER XXIII. (iT |nclw TKRHY n,ul Albert had I J Just seated themselves on the IKSBHl l)0'ut that evening when Tel IBaKggil jy cine m,t With a thick gray shawl and wrapped it around her fa ther's shoulders. "It's a little chilly to night," she said, "and I think you need It." Then, turning to Albert, Bho added, "Wouldn't you like one, too, Mr. Page?" "I would, thank you," he nuswered, "If yon have another to spare." He would have answered yes if sho had asked hhn to put on woolen mit tens. She returned to tho house nnd came back, this time bearing a white zephyr wrap. find handed it to Albert, "i will bid you good night now," she said, "for I presume you will sit here long after bedtime." Uncle Terry's eyes followed her back to the house, and then he turned to his guest. "I s'poso ye'd rather be talkln' to Tolly than nie out here in tho moon light," ho said bluntly, "now that ye've got a little acquainted. It's the way o' young folks." "I've had a very pleasant visit with your daughter this afternoon," re sponded Albert. "She was good enough to go with mo to where I got left yes terday. I wanted to .Unlsh the sketch I began there." I'ncle Terry made no answer, but sat putting away at one of tho cigars Albert had given him. "Mr. Pago," said Undo Terry at last, "I've worded a good deal slnco last night 'bout what ye told me, an' I've made up my mind to tell ye the hull story an' trust ye with what no one else knows. To begin with, it's nineteen years ago last March when thar war a vessel got afoul o' a ledge JohI oft'n the p'Jnl here In a snowstorm, nn' all hands went down?that is, nil but a little yearlln' baby that cum ashore tied up 'tween two feather beds. I fished her out o' the surf, nn* Idwsy an' ino has taken care on her ever since, an' today she's worth n thousand times more'n she cost. How much she thinks o' ino I'll let ye Jedgo by the way she thought 'bout my comfort tonight. There was a few trinkets came ashore with her?plcturs o* her father an' mother, we knew, nn' a locUd an' ring an' some other things ?so we k no wed her name an' whnr she cum from. "Since then wo have never hoard a word from no one rcgnrdln' her people, or whether any was llvin', till last win tor I cum across a notice In a paper snyln' Information wns wnnted 'bout nn heir to an estate In Sweden, no'tell In' fnets that made 1110 sure Telly was the one wanted. The notice wns signed by that lawyer. Vryo, that I asked ye 'bout, nn' I went to see hlm. Ho wnnt ed proofs an' all that, an' I gnvo 'em to hlm, an', Wtissoii that, ho wanted money, nn' I gave that to him. ?e/s nn1 1. kep' nskln' fer money over since, an llko n fool, kep' send In' It, in hopes JJ Telly had anything comln' she'd pt her dues. I've sent hlm the locket an* thing* that belonged to her, ah' all I've got bo far Is letters askln' fef more money au' tellln* 'bout expenses an* evidence an* ?witnesses' fees an' bonds to bo Hied. Llssy au' Telly know 'bout the case, but they don't know how much money I've paid out, an' 1 don't want they should. That's tho hull story, an' 'now as ye'ro a law yer, an' I b'llere an honest one, I ask ye what's beat to be done." "I see now, Mr. Terry, why you dis trust lawyers, and I do not wonder at it. To the best of my belief, you have been swlndlod in the most outrageous manner by Fryo. lie no doubt Is act ing for some law Ann who have in structed bliu to And an heir, if there Is one, to this estate, and they would naturally advnnco all ezpeuso mouey. Do you know tho vessel's name, where she sailed from and who hor master was?" "Sho was a square rigger, an' the master's namo whs Peterson. In the newspaper piece the name was Nalla Peterson, who cum from Stockholm," answered Uncle Torry. "I've got it in my wallet now, an' on the lockot was tho letters K. P., an* on a piece o' paper that was pinned to the bahy's dress was the name Etelka Peterson." "And did you send those proofs to Frye?" asked Albert quickly. "I sent 'em six months ngo," was tho reply, "nn* I've Jest 'bout made up ray mind I was a fool to 'a' done It, an' a bigger one to koep sendln' money." "It would have been all right," ou swerod Albert after a pause, "if you had put thciu into nn honest man's hands. As It Is you are lame-in fact, utterly at tho mercy of frye, who Is robbing you." Then, after thinking a moment, be added: "I will gladly do what I can to help you, Mr. Terry, and at no cost to you for iny own serv ices. The first step innst be to got possession of theso material proofs, the next to flud what Arm has employed Frye. Wo are helpless until we get possession of those proofs." "Ain't my word an' Llssy's as to savin' the baby no 'count?" asked Uncle Terry. "Very good, so fnr as it goes, but really no proof that tho child you saved Is the one wanted for this In heritance. In the matter of a legacy the law is very exacting and demands Absolute proof. No, the only way is to use duplicity and trick Fryo or ask hlui to name his price and pay it, and as the estate may be large bis prico will naturally be extortionate.*' Albert thought a momont nntl then added, "Has Frye ever written you admitting ho has received or has those proofs in his possession?" "Not a word," answered Uncle Ter ry. "All ho writes is: 'Your ease is progressing favorably. I need so much more money,' an' I send it an' lay 'wake nights worryln'." "How long since he has sent for money?" asked Albert. " 'Bout a month, I reckon," replied Uncle Terry. "I confess, Mr. Torry, I am stump ed." After a pause Albert asked Uncle Terry: "How does your?I mean, how does Telly feel about this matter, Mr. Ter ry, for I suppose she knows tho story?" "That's suthln' I hato to talk 'bout, but as ye'ro likely to see more o* us au' more o' Telly it's better ye know it all. When sho was 'bout ton we told her tho story an' showed her the things we'd kep' locked up. She didn't seem to mind It then, but as she's grow ed older It sorter shadders her life, ns It wen?. We used to keteh her lookln' at the things once In awhile an* cryln*. When I sent 'ein to Boston she took on a good deal nn' ain't been the same Eencv. Wo try to keep her from think in' 'bout It all we can, but she's curls In her ways, nn' I've thought she was kinder 'shamed, an* mebbc broodln' over It makes It wuss." "You do not mean that you fear sho would make away with herself in a fit of melancholy, do you?" "I dunno what to think," was the an swer, "only 1 hate to have her out o* sight much, an' the more lovln' she is the more 1 worry." "One thing please promise mo," said Albert when they had started for tho house, "do not hint either to her or your wife that you have told me any thing about this matter. I will do all that ran be done and consult only with you in private." CHAPTER XXIV. ^ N tho morning Albert! followed V'nclo Terry around the cir cuit of his lobster traps in the Gypsy's boat, with Telly as a companion, and watched tho old mnn hauling and rebnltlng those elongated coops nnd taking out his prices. Tho day was a perfect one, the sea. Just ruf fled by n light breeze, and as) her first timidity hnd now worn away, he found Telly a most charming companion. It was an entirely new experlr$iec to him, and the four hours' pull in nnd out of the island coves and around Isolated ledges where Undo Terry set''his trnpt passed nil too quickly. "Do you know," said. Albert when they had returned to the little covo whore Uncle Terry kept his bunts and as he sat watching .him pick up his morning's catch and (toss them one by one Into n large car,, that the first man who thought of entjlng n lobster must hnve been almost ^starved? Of nil crea tures that grow in the sea there is none moro hideous, ond only a hungry sovngo could hnve thought them fit for food." "They ain't ovcrhansum," replied Uncle Terry, "but fried In pork fat they go mlddln* sood if ye're hungry." That afternoon Telly Invited Albert to row her up to n cove, at tho head of which wna a narrow valley where blueberries grew in profusion. "1 want to pick a few.'V'she said, "nnd you can mako a sketch)of the cove while 1 do." Helping her -picking berries proved more attractive, and when her pall Was full Albert,made a picture of her sitting In front of a pretty cluster of small spruce trees, \ with the pall be side her and her sun>hat trimmed w**b ferns. "Your city friendslwlll laugh at the country girl you founH down in Matno," she remarked as she looked at tho sketch, "but jy^theyjwlll never aee me, I don't caro.'^^ "My friends will | never see it," he answered quietly,, ("only my sister. And I am going to }hrlug her down hero next summen!" "Tell me about ber.'^aald Telly at once. "Is she prettyi?" "I think so," replied \ Albert. "She has eyes like yours, i only her hair is not so light. She Is si petite little body and has a mouth thar makes'one want to kiss her." "I should like to L see her ever so much," responded Tally, nnd* then she added rather aadly, .Pve neuen had a girl friend in my lifo, .liiere- a*e only a few at the Cape off my ago, land I don't see much of'them. I drpn'Omlnd it in tho summer, for then l) work on my pictures, but luiwlnter itfls/so lone some. For days i/do not seej ?ny one except father and!mother or/ old Mrs. Leacb." j ... 10 mm "And who is Mrs. Leach?" "Oh, she's a poor old soul who lives Alone and works on the fish rn-k?. Sho is worse off than I tun." It was a little gliuipso into the girl's life that interested Albert, nud, in tbs light of what he knew of hor history, ? pathotic one. Truly sho was aiouo in the world, except for the two kindly souls who made a home for her. "You will go away tomorrow, I sup pose," sho said with a faint tone of regret as thoy were rowing home. "Father said your boat was coming after you toduy." He looked at her a moment, while ? slight smile showed beneath his mus tache. "I suppose I shall have to," ha answered, "but I should llko to stay here a month. I've not made a sketch of your house, eveu." '1 wish you would," sho sali) with charming enndor, "it is so lonesome here, and then maybe you would show me a llttlo about painting." "Could you endure my company every day for n mouth?" he asked, looking tier full in the face. "I don't believe you coukt ondure ours," sho replied, dropping her eyes, and then she added quickly; "There is a prayer meeting tonight at the Cape. Would you like to go?" "Most certainly," he answered. Albert had expected to see the Gypsy In the harbor when they returned that afternoon, but wns happily disappoint ed. "I hope they will stay nt liar Har bor a week," he thought. That evening when Telly appeared, ready to be escorted to tho prayer meetlug, lie was certain that no fairer girl was to be found anywhere. Sho was dressed in simple white, her masses of sunny hair half concealed by a thin blue affair of loosoly knitted wool ond hod a cluster of wild roses at her throat. It wns n new nnd pleas urable expcrleucc to be wnlklng beside a well dressed young man whosoxevery look nnd word bespoke enjoyment of her society, nnd Bhe showed it In her simple, unaffected Way, That evening's gathering was a unique one in Albert's experience and the re ligious observances such as he never forgot. The place wns a llttlo equate, unpointed building, nnd when Telly nnd he entered nnd sented themselves on one of tho wooden settees that stood In rows not over a doreu people were there. On a small platform in front was a cottage organ and beside it a small desk. A few more entered after they did, and then a florid faced man arose and, followed by a snort and stout young lady, walked forward to the platform. The girl seated herself at the organ, and the man, after turn ing up tho lamp on tho organ, opened the book of gospel hymns nnd said in a nasal tone, "We will nnow com mence our services by slngin' the Forty third rsnlm, and all arc requested to rise nn' Jlne." In the center of the room hung a large lamp, nnd two wore on brackets nt tho side shed n wenk light on tho gathering, but no one soemed to feel it necessary to look for the Forty-third selection. Albert and Tolly arose with the rest, and the girl at the organ begnn to chase the slow tune up nnd down the keys. Then the red faced man started the singing, a little below the key, and the congregation followed. Telly's voice, clear and distinct, Joined with the rest. A long prayer, full of halting repeti tions, by the man nt the do?k followed, nnd thon another hymn, nnd nfter that enmo a painful pause. To Albert's mind it was becoming serious, and ho began to Wonder how it would end, when there ensued one of the most weird nnd yet pnthetlc prayers he had evor listened to. It was uttered by nn old lady, tall, gaunt nnd white hnlred, who nrose from the end of a settee close to the wall and beneath one of tho smoke dimmed lamps. It could not be classed as a prayer exactly, for when sho begnn her utterance sho look ed around as if to And sympathy In the assembled faces, and her deep set, pierc ing eyes seemed alight with Intense feeling. At Arst she grasped the back of tho settee In front with her long, flcshloss Angers, and thpn later clasped nnd Anally raised them above her up turned face, while her body swayed with the vehemence of her feelings. Her garb, too, lent n pathos, for It was naught but a faded calico dress that hung from her attenuated frame like the raiment of a scarecrow. It mny hnve been the shadowy* room or tho mournful dirge of tho nearby ocean that added nn uncanny touch to hor words and looks, but from the moment she arose until her utterance ceased Al bert wns spellbound. Ro peculiar and yet so pnthetlc wns her prayer It shall be quoted Jn full: "? Lord, I come to thee, knowln' I'm ns n worm thnt crawls on the alrth; like the dust blown by the winds, the empty shell on the shore, or the lenves that fnii on the ground. I come poor nn' humble. ( come hun gry an' thirsty, like even the lowliest 0' the nlith. I come nn' kneel nt thy feet bei lev In' thnt t, a poor worm o' the dust, will still have thy love nn' pertectlon. I'm old nn' weary o' wnlt in\ I'm humble on' bereft o' kin. I'm sad an' none to comfort me. 1 eat tho crust o' poverty nn' drink the cup o' humility. My pertoctor an' my stnff have bin taken from me, an' yet fer nil these burdens thou In thy InAnite wisdom hov seen At to Iny on me I thnnk thee. Thou bust led my feet among thorns nn' stuns, nn' yet I thank thee. Thou hnst Inld the cross o' sorrow on my heart nn' the burden o* many Infirmities fer me to bear, an' yet I bleBS thee, yen, verily shnll my voice be lifted to glorify nn' prnlso thee day nn' night, for hast thou not promised me thnt nil who nre believers in thy word shnll be snved? Hnst thou not sent thy Son to die on the cross for my snke, poor nn' humble ns I nm? An' fer this, nn' fer till thy InAnite mmcy an' goodness to me, I prnlse nn' thank thee tonight, knowln' that not n spar rer falls without thy knowln' it, nn' thnt even the hnirs o' our heads are numbered. "I thank thee, O Lord, fer tho sun shine every day, nn' the comltl* o' tho birds nn' flowers every senson. I thnnk thee thnt my eyes nre still per mitted to see thy beautiful world, an' my ears to hear the songs o' praise. 1 thank thee, too, that With my volco I can glorify nn' bless thee fer all thy goodness, nn' for all thy innre}', An' when the day o' Judgment comes an' thr dead rise up, then I know thon wilt keep thy promise, nil' that even I, poor an' humble, shall live again. Jinln' those that have gone before, to sit at thy feet nn' glorify thee for life ever la:<tln'. For this blessed hope, nn' for nil thy other promises, 1 lift my voice In gratitude an' thankfulness an' praise to thee, my Heavenly Father, an' to thy Hon, my Redeemer, tonight an' toniorrer ft.ll' forever an' forever. Amen." To Albert, a student of Voltaire, of Hume, of Pnlnd, nnd nn admirer of Ingorsoll, a doublet of scriptural au thenticity and almost a materlallst In belief, this weird ami pltCOUS utterance en me with peculiar effect. When tllQ prayer meeting was con cluded with an oddly spoken benedic tion by Deacon Oaks, nnd Albert and Telly were on their way hack to the point, Albert nakeo: "Who was the poor old lady that prayed so fervently? I never heard anything like It since I waa a boy." "Oh, that's the Widow Leach," Telly responded. "Sho always qcts that way and feels so, too, I guees. Sho is an object of pity here and very poor. She has no rotation living that sho knows of, lives alone In a small bouso she owns and works on the fish racks summers, and winters has to bo helped. Her husband and two sops were lost at sea many years ago, and father says religion is all the consolation she has left." "Does sho always pray as fervently as sho did tonight?" "Oh, yes; that's her way. Father says she is a Uttlo cracked about such matters. He pities her, though, and helps her a good deal, and so docs most every ono elso hero who can. She needs It." Then, nftor a pause, sho added, "How did you enjoy the meeting, Mr. Togo?" "Well," replied Albert slowly and mentally contrasting It with innuy Sun day services when he had occupied n pew wtth the Nasous at their fashion able church In Mosten, "It has been nn experience I shall not soon forget. In one way It has been a pleasure, for It has taken me back to my young days." Then he added a little sadly, "It has also been a pain,'for It recalled my mother nnd how she used to pray that I tnlght grow to be a good man." "You are not a bad man, nre you?" responded Telly at once, looking curi ously at him. "Ob, no, I hope not," he answered, smiling. "I try to do as I would be done by, but the good people hero might think I was, maybe, because I am not a professor of religion. For that reason I should be classed as ono of the sinners. I presume." "Weil, so is father, but that doeant make him one. Deacon Oaks calls him a scoffer, but I know be trusts hlio in all money matters, and I think fathor Is the best And kIndent man In the world. He has been so good and kind to mo I would almost He down nnd die for him If necessary." "How do you feel about this matter of belief?" Albert asked after a pause. "Are you what this old lndy would call a believer, Miss Terry?" "Oh, no," she replied slowly, "I fear I am not. I always go to meeting Sun days when there Is one? mother and I ?and once in awhile to the Thursday evening prayer meeting. I think it's becnuse 1 enjoy the singing." When they reached the point Albert could not restrain his desire to enjoy the society of this unaffected, simple and beautiful girl a little longer. The moon that Trank had planned to use was high overhead, nnd away out over the still ocean stretched a broadening path of silvery sheen, while at their feet, where tho ground swells were breaking upon the rocks, every splash of foam looked like snow white wool. "If It's not asking too much, Miss Terry," Bald Albert with utmost polite ness, "won't you walk out to the top of the el lit and sit down a few mo ments while I enjoy n cigar? The night Is too beautiful to turn away from at once." Telly assented, and they took posses sion of the rustle seat where Albert had listened to her history the night before. What a flood of emotions come to him as he watched his fair com panion, all unconscious of his scrutiny, nnd with them a sudden nnd keen In terest to unravel the mystery of her parentage and the hope that some time he might do It. He also felt au unac countable desire to toll her that ho knew her pathetic story and to express his Interest In It and his sympathy for her, but dared not. "It may hurt her to know I know It," he thought, "and I will wait till she knows me better." Instead, he began telling her about himself and his own early life, his home, his loss of parents, his struggle to earn a living and how much success ho bad so far met. When his recital and clgur were both at an end and It was time to go In he said, "I may not have another chance to ask you, Miss Terry, liefere I leave here, hut when I get back to Most Oil may I write to you, and will you an swer my letters If 1 do?" Tin' ()uestlon startled her a little, but she answered: "I shall he pleased to hear from you, Mr. I'nge, nnd will do the best I can In replying, only do not expect too much." When he had bidden her good night and was alone In Iiis room the memory of Mrs. Leach nnd her pitiful prayer, coupled with Telly's pleading eyes and sweet face, banished oil thoughts of sleep, and he watched the moonlit ocean while he smoked nnd meditated. (to be continued) MERCHANTS NEWS Your meals will he cooked quicker and better if you will get a Bucks Cook ine Stove from. S. M. & E. H. 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U-Come U-See U-Buy U-Save Money .48 1.00 Boys' knee pant suits, going red hot, per suit, 3.25 1.25, 98c, 75c, on down to 8 lbs. Coffee best 3 lb. packages good soda for Fine all silk ribbon. bi;c values, worth 15 to 20 cents yard, our low price 10c. Big Tobacco deal, all 15c plugs now going at 10c. Schnapps. Brown's Mule, Sweep stakes, Karly Bird, Hickory, Sil ver, Three Dimes, all now at lOc. See us for smoking tobacco. Duke's, Recruit, Rod Cock, Gold Crumbs, Ply Netting at Flyingprices. U-como U-seo it. Curtain Scrim; bleached, Gc, 7 I-2c, to 12 1 -2c per yard. What U Want is at Red Iron Racket and they sell same Goods for Less Honey. Yea! 15 lo 35 percent Less. Red Iron Racket. $25.00 Dollar Drop Head Sewing Machine, Guaranteed 12 Years for $12.97 at Red Iron Racket