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"Tbere can be no confidence or tbis
kind with a wife," said Dorothy, "If
She really Is one. But, Carl, I begin
to see some sort of sincerity in you,
and this is what I will do to reward it:
I will tell my husbnnd that you have
spoken in a way to offend me, but
that I have forgiven you, and I will
beg him not to ask me any questions.
I will not say, unless directly asked,
that you have spoken to me of his business
difficulties, which I believe that
you greatly exaggerate. But I can take
this course only if you promise me to
chango from the heart outward?to be
to me in all your thoughts that which
you may honorably be, and no more.
Will you do this?"
"How can I look at you"? he began,
but sbe Interrupted him crying:
"Carl, this is monstrous! I am- an
old woman. I am the mother of a
grown man. I have lived my life, and
it has been a wondrous and beautiful
life to live. I have hud such lovoauch
perfect love."
"You trifle with me," he said in a sudden
rage. "Your husband Is as cold as
the dead. Ho neglected you openly.
He has no eye for your beauty, for this
living miracle of your unfading youth
.which has been bestowed ?upon you,
in my belief, that you might wait for
a real love."
"I have not had to wait," said Dorothy
in a voice indescribably sweet.
"And now," she added, "this is the end,
absolutely the end. I asked you for a
promise. Give it to me arid think upon
whatever is most sacred to you while
you speak."
"I will think upon that which is most '
sacred to mc," he snid, looking straight
into her face, "and for the sake of it 1
will either conquer my heart or surrender
it with nil my mortal part to
the dust of the onrtli?to the unconscious
dust that cannot suffer." *
This pledge struck me as somewhat
irnt It vtrncj onnlrnn lrltli 1
iuvuii 1^, ?v Uiio D|/Vi\vu n liu
heartbreaking sincerity and seeiupd to
have a considerable effect upon Dorothy.'
"The way to cease to desire something."
said she, "is tc desire something
else. Find a right love, Carl, I
hope you may. There is a woman
somewhere who is really young, who
needs no miracle, who will not fade in
A year or two. Find her."
jibe turned away and walked toward
the front of the boijse. lie remained
standing stock still for fully a minute
and then sank slowly forward upon his
knees and slill lower, lie s?emed to
be kneeling upon the body of an enemy.
I could hear him mutter curses,
and he beat the turf beside the graveled
path with his fists.
It was the n?03t extraordinary spectacle
of the abandonment of self control
flint ever I snw and was made
fven more remarkable by the suddenness
witli which If ceased. The man
arose and wiped his soiled hands with
his handkerchief; then he felt nervously
in his pockets. He found a cigar
and crushed it in his Angers without
realizing what he wos doing. But a
peoond was successfully lighted, and
Carl strolled put Into the moonlight
beyond the shadow of the house with
his accustomed careless and graceful
Stride.
/" CHAPTER XIV.
? TH* nETUBPf O* "A BAD PEIfNY."
THERE was a great weight upon
me as I left the library. My
heart echoed Dorothy's words
precisely. My protest, like
hers, was against any change in the
ways of our livci, which had seemed
so perfectly well ordered; not that I
fancied they could ever be the same
again. Upon tlie contrary, I perceived
Clearly enough that Archer must be
sent away for his own sake and the
peace of all of us.
I blamed him bitterly. There was
t never less excuse for any man's folly.
Ifi, the glxty years that I have Ween In
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the world 1 have never seen n woman
whose heart could be read more easily
than Dorothy's nor a man whose
guilty thought had been hidden behind
a mask so impenetrable as that which
Carl had worn. If he hud been mistaken
In her, lie must be mad, but it
seemed to me that not even the mysterious
power which she had once possessed
could have warned her ugainst
him. Ills manner toward her, as 1
would have sworn from constant observation,
had always been perfect
Yet it is true, of course, that those who
stand nearest to such tragedies of the
home are often most blind to their beginnings.
Mrs. Kelvin's hint about
Donald recurred to me, and I wondered
with a shudder whether ho had
looked Into Archer's heart. If that
were true, it could have been obly to
hate the man, never to fear him.
When I came out upon the veranda,
Dorothy was sittlug in a big chair with
her son upon the arm of it. I saw thorn
against the brightest of the moonlight,
and this made Donald loom dark, like
a great statue of bronze.
"Where is your father, Don?" she
was asking him as I stepped out.
"In his room, writing," he answered.
"Shall I call him?"
She answered "No;" that she would
go up.
"I'll carry you," said he, and in an
Instant he lmd lifted her with ids right
arm alone by a peculiar knack which
I had never seen the like of before. It
was very easy and graceful, and Dorothy
was perched upon his arm like a4|
Dirci on n bough.
"Oh, Donald," she cried, steadying
herself with a hand upon his bare
head, "I'm too heavy! I'll topple you
over."
"I have a pond lily In tny buttonhole
on the other side," said he. "I'm balanced
perfectly."
And he strode away with her Into
the house.
I waited there a long time for Carl,
but he did not appear, and at last 1
made up my mind not to speak to him
of my plan for sending him away until
I had had more time to mature It. No
Immediate action was necessary, for
upon the following day Carl went to
visit a friend of his who lived In a fine
country house about half vtvy between
Tunbridge and the Junction. lie hnd
made such visits before, and if I hnd
not hnd the wretched fortune to play
eavesdropper I should not have felt
(he need of any explanation of his departure.
A day or two later Donaldson laid
the whole case before me in a manner
most delicate and most affecting. He
spoke as if I had been his father.
Archer had come to him, he said, in
such an attitude of mind as to alter
his own feeling materially. lie was
Inclined to believe that the man hnd
been greatly overwrought by the exigencies
of our common business affairs.
"Ho believes," said Donaldson, "that
Kelvin will win in this light and that
it will be the beginning of the end, so
far ns this business Is concerned. lie
has brooded over It and gone sleepless,
ns ho tells me, and I know what
strange things, contrary to his own
real nature, a man may do when subject
to such ft strain. It Is n weak justification,
but ono can't look at him
and feel that there Is nothing in it.
He has been beside himself for weeks.
I think his attitude toward Don has
been the result of pure nervousness.
At auy rate, acting under Dorothy's
advice, I am unwilling to do anything
that may cut Carl off from the benefit
of your Influence. I know how strong
an affection you have for him"?
"That's the central fact, isn't it?" I
interrupted. VYou want to pleaso me.
Well, then, let's wait Let's trust a bit
to him. We will not hastily oondemn
a man who seems to bo struggling to
redeem himself."
Now that my attention .was thus di
rectiy called to it 1 perceived that Carl
had not been himself of late, and I was
weakly anxious to mako the best possible
plea for hlni. He was my dead
sister's son and bad been dear to me.
I thought It might be well to have a
long talk with him, and one day when
I came into my ofllee after luncheon
and found kiin there alone I was upon
the point of burdening him with much
useless advice, but he turned my mind
into another channel.
"Who do you think has been here?"
said he. "The last man you'd expect to
see, upon my word."
"Not Kelvin?" 1 queried, for a call
from him at that juncture would indeed
have been unexpected.
"Severn," answered Carl, "the first
one?the pretender."
I was amazed at the Impudence of
this visit
"lie wouldn't tell mo what he wanted,"
said Carl. "Ho Inquired for you
and promised to come back."
"Ills reception will be more lively
than cordial," I responded.
It was about half an hour Inter when
the man appeared. Ills looks had
greatly changed, but whether he was in
disguise then or had been so before I
could not have decided. He had an
official and solemn air as he entered the
office, and he laid a card upon the leaf
of my desk without having spoken a
word in the meantime. The card conveyed
to my mind the Information that
Air. Frank Gillespie was a special operator
for the Doru Detective ngency of
New York.
"You lost some money awhile ago,"
said Mr. Gillespie. "Well, sir, our
agency keeps its eyes on little matters
of that kind, nnd when they're particularly
interesting we sometimes investigate
011 our own account without offering
our services in the regular way."
"Was that why you came here before?"
I demanded.
Mr. Gillespie gravely inclined his
head. I asked him why he hadn't said
So like nil honest man, and I received
In return tac information that the detective
business sometimes involved an
element of deception.
"Now, Mr. Harrington," said he,
"what is there in it if I And thnt money?'
I was strongly indisposed to deal
with this man, yet I would have been
glad of the money, and I could not suppose
thnt he hnd come to see me a second
time without having some very
promising clew. So I asked him what
he would think right. .
"Ten per cent of what I Qinl," said
ho promptly and added, "I'm suspicious
that the amount may be a triAe short."
I was more than suspicious that It
might be so, supposing that Mr. Gillespie
should And it when no one was
watching him. However, I agreed to
his terms, with the proviso that more
than half the money should be recovered
and the crime fully exposed.
"Well, sir," said he, "I think I'm prepared
to do it, but I warn you that it
will be considerable of a shock to you."
? "It will be n good deal more of a
%l!oek to the thief," said I. "I guess
that I can stand it if lie can."
Witli the crude caution appropriate
to his trade, Gillespie dragged his chair
closer to mine, and with an eye upon
the door and his lips close to my ear
he whispered:
"It's your man Donaldson who turned
tills trick."
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"Wait a bit," said be, laying a band
upon niy arm.
"I won't listen to this charge except
in Mr. Donaldson's presence," said I.
"You don't inspire me with very much
conlldence, to be frank with you. But
If you have the stamina to make this
charge to Mr. Donaldson's face, that
will give you a sort of standing."
"Very well," said he, spreading out
his hands.
I touched a button that rings a bell
in the outer office, nnd when a boy entered
in response to it I said:
"Ask Mr. Donaldson to step this
way."
It happened that Donald had entered
the outer office within a few minutes,
nnd the boy thought that it was the
son nnd not the father whom I wished
to see. To my surprise, therefore, the
door presently opened, and Donnld entered.
He closed the door slowly and stood
with his bnek against it.
"How do you ?"o, Mr. Gillespie?" he
fmiq.
Ifhe d( iectlve was taken by surprise,
but he masked It fairly well.
"You have Just made a serious charge
against my father," said Donald. "Have
you any proof of it?"
"I'll produce my proofs at the proper
time," answered Gillespie.
VTlils Is the proper time," said J.
MPrnd 11PO tllft orlrUnnm ??" ? M
,T? vtiuvuls uuff ut turwvtT
bold your peaoo,"
"I any that bo took the money," protested
Gillespie. "He changed the packages
on your desk. That I knew at tho
start, but it took me a long while to
work down to what he'd done with tho
money."
"Well," said Donald, "have you worked
down to it?"
"I have," responded Gillespie, with
precision. "lie played the same trick
twice. He put the money into another
package and dropped It in his box at
the bnnk."
"Can you describe that package?" demanded
Donald.
"Well enough;' answered.. Glll?snie. ;
Ana bo gave details, adding, "I saw
him take that package to the bank at a
certain day and hour."
And he named the day nnd the hour,
whereby I knew for certain that it was
the St rebel correspondence to which he
referred.
"Your case fails, Mr. Gillespie," said
I. "Mr. Donaldson gave me that package
of papers. It is now in this safe."
Gillespie was staggered. lie darted
a keen glance at ine and read clearly In
my face that the facts were as stated.
"lie gave them to you?" said he.
"IIow did ho happen to do it?"
"I asked him for them," I replied.
"Well, if you asked him for them he
had to give them to you, didn't lie?"
said Gillespie. "lie couldn't refuse.
He had to give them to you and talTc
li's chances of getting tlie money afterward.
Let's see the package."
I was already busy unlocking the
safe. Gillespie had hard work to restrain
himself during this process, and
when the safe was open I expected to
see him dive into it. but he managed
to stick to ins chair. I took the packago
out and opened it upon the leaf of
my desk. The various documents rolled
apart. There was no money whatever
in the package.
"Who had the combination of that
*fe?" demanded Gillespie.
"Myself alone," said I. "I changed
it on the day when I put the package
in there. It is an unquestionable certainty
that nobody lias opened the safe
since then."
Gillespie began to walk the floor,
gnawing his lips.
"Well, sir," said I. "If you at/
ready to make your Charge, I will c{.
Mr. Donaldson."
"I?don't?think?I'm?quite?ready,"
said Mr. Gillespie slowly.
"Can you produce tlie money?"
"Not this afternoon," he replied;
"not this afternoon. I may have something
to say about it tomorrow."
He stood looking at Donald for some
seconds thoughtfully, then turned upon
his heel and strode out of the room.
Donald walked to one of the windows
and stood there, moodily staring out.
Not knowing ^ust what to say, 1 busied
myself in wrapping up tli papers and
returning them to the satV.
"Can this be confidential, uncle,"
said Donald?"everything that happens
between u*Diis afternoon? Why
bother rtfy frrther with it syt? Let's
wait until we got to the bottom of it."
"I'm willing. Donald," said I, "if you
think it important."
"It Is indeed," he replied. "And now
before you lock up the safe I'll give
you tlds."
He drew a great roll of money from
the side pocket of his sack coat.
"Mr. Gillespie was suspicious that
the amount might lie a triile short," ho
said. "It is. There's $~?,000 missing?
almost all the smaller bills."
I was so overpowered by surprise
that I did not at tirst notice this new
instance of the accuracy with which
Donald could quote remarks which
were not made in his presence. He had
repeated Gillespie's suspicion precisely.
"You have found it!" I exclaimed.
"1 had to," replied Donald. "This
man was coining to make this charge
against my father. It was absolutely
necessary that I should find that money.
Put It away, please. Quick! Some
one is coming."
Donaldson and Jim Bunn entered.
iin* lormur waving ms nana, in wnicn
there was a letter.
"The proxy from Silas Harrington!"
he cried. "The branch Is safe. We can
win now by fifty shares even if Thorndyke
votes against us."
"If Mr. Thorndyke votes against
you." said Donald gloomily, "you will
lose by fifty shares."
We all stared at him.
"There's no possible way to figure
that out," said Donaldson.
"I don't figure it out," said Donald;
"I know it. Vet what I know is not
what will happen. It Is what would
happen if I didn't know It. Is that
clear?"
"As clear us mud," suld his father,
laughing.
CHAPTER XV.
TlfE PREDICTION OF DEATH.
ET'S see once more how the
; - thing stands," said I. "PractlJfecjf
cally every share of the whole
10,000 can be placed now."
1 sat down by my desk and made out
a table, which I will present here somewhat
abridged. It is not necessary tt)
include the names of the small stockholders
whose position was perfectly
well known to us, nor of those whose
proxies were held either by Kelvin qr
myself. The event proved that we were
right about this matter to the last
share. Therefore the list may bo given
in this form:
HARRINGTON.
John Harrington 4,150
Donaldson 100
Arciior 100
Dunn 100
Silas Harrington (proxy) 200
Proxies and small holders 375
5,025
KELVIN.
Kelvin 3,900
Thorndyko 225
Proxies and small holders 850
4,975
Harrington's majority, 50.
There was considerable discussion in
regard to tho smaller holders who*
would neraouaUy vote, and In regard
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OUR resources are not fabu
on earth, nor do we do
BUT we are here among the
ample means for all r
enough to take care of
WE COME, backed up by a good re<
made irreproachable lv
WE ARE here to stay and wo sol
accommodation consist
Interest Paid on 1
rierchants and Plant
to the proxies, for. though Donaldson
and 1 were perfectly agreed. Jim Bunn
dllft red from us very widely. lie believed
that of the SaO shares which I
tyul redded to Kelvin in the above I
tiUiie at least one-half would go to us,
thus making the result of the election
sure. ! d.c.dt know hew he could so
far decs *.ve hh'.ist If. hut he was perBelly
sin?: re in his opinion and persisted
in crediting Us with the votes of
men wi:/ a re as sure to vote the Kelvin
ticJ as Ki was himself.
Au.ong'k, cm were inkers of the
pr . at directory rfSic company It
was tin y who had objected to moving
the a dice, as 1 mrut'enod somewhere
i:: '.lie tail;.- part of this narrative.
!l will lie remembered that Donald
made a start ling prediction in reu
r.i to r.unn nml that it had been veri."..d
by '.bran's redemption of his stock
which had stcod in my name. But 1
bud received [tuna's solemn pledge
l:at lliis stock should not pass out of
bis control, cither l y sale <: proxy, and
diet i! should uevt r he voted against
t: < lie was a stockholder of record
it ti:t' date prcscril oil, before the doe
'on. and ! oov.'.lml upon him with tin
me certainty that I counted upon
Donaldson of Archer.
When my table had !;ocn made tip
a:i;l sutlleioutly dismissed. I showed It
Donald.
This may be all right. Uncle John,"
said he, "hut I will hot a million dollars
against a tcnspcoaful of east wind
that it won't come out that way. However,
If you win you don't care what
the vote Is." ^
"I'd like to know \yhat you think it's
going to be." said I.
"I'm ashamed," said Donald. "It's
silly for me to pretend to know anything
about it."
Runn was hitching about in his chair.
"I think it would he very interesting,"
said he. "I'd like tft know whctli
*r you think the same way that I do
about it."
"Your opinion is far tlie worst of the
lot, Mr. Runn," responded Donald jokingly.
"You're not right, even about
r ?* <
"1/ tlou have anything to say npon this
matter, speak now."
the grand total, without regard to the
way the votes fall upon one side or the
other."
"No, no, Donald," said I. "Mr. Bunn
Qgurea as we do, that every share will
be voted."
The hoy looked surprised.
"I thought he estimated them a hundred
short," said he.
Bunn slowly raised himself from his
chair.
"I must get hack to my work," said
he.
Donald meanwhile was writing on a
slip of paper.
"This Is my prediction," he announced,
"and If you won't look at it
till afterward I'll give It to you, uncle."
"All right, my hoy," I replied. And
when he had sealed up the prediction
In n very small envelope I put it Into
my waistcoat pocket.
In the course of the next day or two
I had several opportunities for exerting
mv UOWors of iiorsnnclnn Mi
Isaac Thorndyke. lie was evasive, but
his intent was clear. The man could
be counted absolutely with the Kelvin
pnrty. What Inducements Kelvin offered
hi in I have never learned, but I
have suspected that they consisted in
k promises to invest money in a crazy invention
which Thorndyke controlled
and in whicli he had Just sense enough
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TAY.)
Ions, we haven't the largest bank
all the business of the country,
i g<>o*l people of the county with
easonable demands, with capital
all vour wants.
cord, that began years ago; a record
yr fair business methods,
icit your patronage, offering every
ent with good banking.
Time Deposits.
;ers National Bank.
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not to si tile nil tits own money.
No chnnge occurred In the situation
up to the day before the election. On
tlie afternoon qt that day Donald and I
were waTTtlng Along the business street
of Tunbvidke,--??here most of the stores
are and the-principal hotel, a sorry
place 6t entertainment, I regret to say.
As we approached It I saw Detective
Gillespie come out. He paused upon
the edge of the upper step, and I noticed
that he was a trifle unsteady, as
if under tlnffnfluence of drink.
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i iwu ii(i^ iiu interview wnu tnis mtin
since tlio when he had made his
extraordinary and baseless charge
against Doftnklson. I knew that he
had remained in town, and I had taken
some pains to make sure that he
was not relenting Bis accusation. Had
he done so I should have made trouble
for him. Hut so far as I could judge
his main business was to drive about
the town in a light top buggy and look
mysterious.
The vehicle In question was standing
before the door of the hotel, and the x .
horse was fastened to nn lrqn hitching
post. As we approached the tpot from
one side Kelvin and Thorndyke came
up from the other, So tjrnt it seemed
likely that there would be .a rather interesting
encounter- before the door of
the hotel.
Gillespie remained poised upon the
step, and as we came near Dopatld
bowed to him. ^ ..V.
pie. "What sort of Jollier are-.rare
going to have next Chrlstma^F*.. ... * v
Donald, pa it sing.' - Gillespie
ttlrtied-to me.
"I've got some interesting facts^"or
yon, Mr. Harrington," said he. "They
won't please your young friend there
very much."
"I would suggest that this is hardly
the place to disclose them," said I.
"No," lie answered, "and I'm not quite
ready yet."
"That tvns the trouble with you the
other day," said I injudiciously. "You
fired off the gun before it was loaded."
It is a fault of mine that I am always
impatient with a drunken man.
Nothing else makes me so angry as
foolishness, and at the head of all follies
stands inebriation. On this occasion
Gillesnie was seized with the c,?ri_
ilen and absurd anger which often
marks a certain stage of intoxication.
"If you want ine to talk right here,"
said he, "I'll show the whole business
up. I'm dead on to this boy. I can
tell you the whole game from A to Z."
A crowd was collecting. Kelvin and
Thorndykc had stopped and were Interested
spectators. I caught a glimpse
of Donald out of the corner of my eye
and saw that he wns pale with somo
strong emotion, which I Judged to be
wrath, though it was really mere misery,
us I afterward learned.
"Why don't you go on?" said he to
Gillespie. "Tell what you know here
and now."
"Tomorrow will do," snHl the detective,
beginning to descend the steps.
"Tomorrow I'll come to see you at
your odice, Mr. Harrington."
"I shan't be there," said I,
"Then I'll And you over to the Junction,"
he rejoined, "Ob, I shan't have
any trouble in keeping track of you
tomorrow."
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Ichthyology*
"Never mind," said her deareat
friend. "There are as good flsh in thA
sea as ever were caught out of it.''
"I know It," said the girl that had
set her cap for the foreign count and
failed to get him, "but statistics show
that the lobster catch is getting smaller
fcvery year."?Chicago Tribune.
Ancestors.
"We can't afford to recognize them.
Their ancestors wore in trade."
"Weren't ours?"
"Of course, but our trade ancestors
are two generations farther back tha?
theirs."?Exchange.
WillIiik to Forict.
"Then he doesn't want to be called
the Hon. Mr. Smith?"
"No. It's an unpleasant reminder
that he used to bo in politics, and with
strangers It might hurt his reputaktlon."?ruck.
It is supposed that the average depth
of sand In the deserts of Africa la froai
forty to eighty feet.
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