The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1862-05-14
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CHAPTER, VII.


ct what they called their just remuneration for
all the, had endured through him.
Joe knew the times when Mr.. Creep took mo.
ney to and from his house.
Sometimes larg, sums were paid in too late to
lc taken Ia the bank and then Mr. Creep, who
was great coward generally invited Joe to
walk home with him
Little a. the master liked the man he thought
his sturdy presence n protection to him.
But often Joe would decline to 20 his master =
way saving he had urgen, business in some other
direction.
The night Of Fries talk with Jessie, Nj. Green
had las Joe Bunker was aware when he told
Eric 10 I've ready NJ n certain time, in his un, L. =
front yard, u sum OF money larger than usual to
take home with him. As usual he requested Joe 5
company to the house. Joe could not ohlige
him. II was awiully dark. Mr.. Creep wished
he hal one Of the other men, hut they were all
oh-noi II policeman was in sight or hearing
There was nothing for IT but 10 30 alone. So,
calling mp all the courage he possessed, "a tea
spoonful. perhaps he hurried along the pcrspi-
ration starting ever, time he heard u step DO
hind him. Fears are sometimes, Omiuous.
Morning d,wncti jim the garret Of the Creep
mansion. Jessie lifted her head, which ached
and felt l.;hi and stupid, and looked about her.
" Erie is not awake, Thought she, no, seeing
cross the garrrt very clearly "I'll dress as 81
lently can and make the fires before he gets
, down.
While She was busy kinilng fires. Mr.. Creep,
in night array, popped her head IN at the door
| and said, " Have YOU seen any thing Of father
nm, where p
| Jessie thought tu herself ' Much Of a father
h. !. To- nm, Of II. :" bu, she only answered. No,
| maam.'
3" don, see where he can bc, said Mr.. crcep'
! in nm anxious tone, " lie hasn't been in bed all
night. went to -le;;r "a.." rna o,a no, near
'.nn come N. You ann ''@>'cn bim out, did
You -
No ma'on"
Perhaps he got asleep IN the Office. lie
does sometimes when hc writes late Where is
fric-ho must run round and see il he can find
hi uncle. thought hc might lee on the sofa
~ tie sitting room. lie slept there twice last
week but b" isn't there.
Jessie going uu with her work dill not feel
any interest In what madame Creep was saving
" Eric Eric ~ she hear her calling in the
upper hail.
Presently she entered the room where Jessie
was, looking rather wild.
g thought YOU said Eric was not We, up :"
she said, sharply; be is W and his bed j. made
What did you mcanl"
"Esd m0b 80 repeated Jessie in surprise, and
she fast to the garnet thoughts Of last nights
conversation taking the color from her lips
1t twas true. The child ran TO Fries trunk
Eric too, was gon"--she could no, doubt it,
With her heart wildly heating she descended the
stairs.
" iic has not been in hi, bed all night ma'am."
she said :. think he has gone to sea. lie told
me he should go sometime soon"
She was too much excited now to cry What
could the absence Of MIR. Creep mean Had it
any thing TO do with the flight of Ericl She
was terrified.
Mrs. Creep was all IN futter. I" Rob Joe"
she cried, shaking her great, lazy sons awake,
- get up my d'ars, do, aud try and find father.
Tie is lost somewhere. II he is not in the office
perhaps he il murdered
This reused the lads, up they spranr. and in
few moments were ready Tor sally from the
house.
II did not take them long to reach the shop-
there was no father there. In disnlay they has
tened home with the word. Their mother was
frantic now.
- Eric has murdered lin !" she screamed.
always knew h- would do some gallows deed
~ last, she did not stop to consider the extreme
prOJdb,iity that icoll. child Of Fifteen half
staryod aud 50 slender that be might have been
tied into double bow-knot could kill a bower
full man weighing $50 liz.
Eric never touched him :" spoke I'M Jessie.
fire shing from her beautiful eyes and her
Checks hot with crimson blood.
81" took slap on one of thosc cheeks as ans.
on the instant 10 stand up for Eric ii it cost her
life. II She had doubted for n moment what the !
,lmullaucuu. absence OF the boy aud lis uncle |
might mean the douht was gone for ever.
In the confusion no alyaurc toward, breakfast
had vet been made hut lcssir now entered III,
cellar IN quest Oi potatoes 10 bake.
dull sort Z" pounding or rather Luupius
about Of some soft, but heavy body over head, |
arrested her attention. II appeared to he in the
front arl"r-''l'om used or opruel-wLat could I
it be.
There ,on"th.ue in the front pnrlor. .aI |
the girl a, she frturne'l to the kitchen Mr..
I rep had been ON the point OF sending the Lnv.
Ia the police station to give information oi her
loss.
30 Wait, said she, till We see what is in the
larlor." '"'
Ihcl all mountedthc slars in company. Deb-
N, III her bar" feet over the cold carpets and oil
10th, hanging by her mothers night gown.
Rather scene, take 1t all together.
Cautiously opening the plrlor door, Mrs Green
stepped IN bun She strppr. out much more MIN
Vs. The parlor blind woodcn shutter.
were, as usual, tightly closed, making the room
very dark, 80 that Mrs. Creep had not s,e,. any
hing, while she had very distinctly m The
sudden assault OF an unweildly object that seem
u rolling aud Hopping, like a clumsy fish of
mammoth proportions, about the paror floor.
With most unmuSical screech madam
'ounced back 10 the hall and shut to the mar.
or door, -
What Is II maam :" asked the childr.,
)ebhv bepining to cry, Bob making dan,cro,s
"pLinS face, and Jessie and Joe droppiup ON the
tsua cSp'odias With Laughter.