Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-03-18
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E19oaa afl3 eas PART II.
-l.-l Later IN the afternoon the Major stoot
leaning against pile Of bales in from
4 of the warehouse, loftily apping his CHI
with his pinehbeck-headed- cane ant
listening to Mr. McMurray,. That gen
I tleman, IN, bis. anxiety lest the chgrcl
should actually. lose Proctor, had resortec
10 the desperate remedy of an appeal Il
ISfandishs The old man kept his ma
i.IicioWs eyes fixed upon him, and grinneC
llsith enjoyment Of his embarrassment
but under the grin heg looked haggarC
4,and anxious laats 9fE .a.s1fl HsEa <fl Gtc
$50 the boy has a mind TO take th,
part of his old friend 2 He'd stick by
i the. hulk because its going down ? Tat
.futs There's stupidity, for yoGi.H 4sa1tl
as tiIdo not talk in metaphor about hull<s
{aE aor1Iyz tlEetlght il Iizelt. from my lonoWL
ledge Of gea5 syollz might presume on youi
acquaintance with the lad. and his gen
erous nature to draw him into Trouble
rand E'WHaria you what the result will be tC
kli9Tlg 'tuA zFsftIasz rs 1a - tHs4 Hati lflA
~ 9 It will ruin him to be known as ever
ffny friend. understand ''il 2 % 4 eft- e
I'M Murray fesitated After all, why
not give StandIs1l a hint of the detective
on. his track If he would escape. all
difficu1tY would be over, inquiries pi
/ a significant kind have. been made fol
YOU this week, Major Standish, said
so have been told.
I.oiss.I ID. not know to what part Of youi
past career they refer
f.74.'' And you d better not ask too closely,
Mac. Dan .Standish has led, hot life,
Il tell YOU, with a vicious wink that made
i the deacon shudder from hat TO. boots4
Well have discharged my duty
he said, after an lrresolute. pause &. ~
| is most probable thai young Proctor will
come to seek you this afternoon aes
ksss And # he GENES. i ana not to see
| him 4? with an attempt at a. JoCttlaE tone
that had more terEiblefarceainsit even to
/ the cold-blooded heaTer. than any pain
| ful outcFys M hys. man. Is am pushed
nearer to the wall to-day than anybody
knows. As for this hoy-Nell, no matter
what he is t0. nlesrzsI gave Efp something
sfaE lhim oneea AItseems as if had a
sEighr to- ask his shelps now sNhen@wllen
IIsCeath has me by the throat 'ssa He look
! ed vacantly, quickly about him, at the
boxes the cars rafting by, at the head
Of ahisscane. RIcdtIrfay thought he had
been drinking 81 am sorry troubled
myself about it, he said, with dignity
| Good day, Major Standish. . ~
Good day, effecting Hourishing
bow with his unsteady hand. Take old
/ Dan-t6 point your next Sermon, will
you? I've lived by my wits. I've made
myself the companion of poets Of no
bles, Sir! And now when the end comes,
| d-m it, man, haven't friend e.
q Mr. McNfurray hurried nervously
away, picking his steps among the boxes
/ and bales Standish stood a moment
/ looking at the ground. and then turned
| and stumped up the narrow rickety stairs
that led to the top of the building. He
did. not know what especial sin of old
times was coming back to give him 4 the
last blow. nor did he care. That was
an fair enough. It seemed TO him some
/ times, comparing his life with that of
other men, that he had lived Just like a
| beast from hour to hour, out of what
ever impulse was in him. He was ready
to n1eetahy Old abominati0n of his past
life and take the PuRishments 81 We had
the dance, and I'll pay the piper" he
said kicking BpSnthe adoorsof his. room
and going IN g.gs > essss saasz aBe.B
''But-the boy 2
/ s. sRto4vy the ia or S c0e1doft was iIlFeal-
| ity a garnet room covering the whole
sixth story of the warehouse. The beams
overhead, the Plastered walls, the half
dozen squat dorTner windows, the pine
/ floor, were as clean as lime and scrub
-bing7 could make them. 1t looked, in
fact, like a big white PLAIN with a little
camping ground at one end, in which
i was a CRATE with a good FIRE, tent-bed
neatly made, table with pens and pa
per laid in exact order, the Men of our
Day, out Of which the Major furnished
! obituaries at ten minutes notice for the
Camera, and an odd volume Of APP
/ pleton's S CyclopRdia, out of which he
drew its supplies of science. Great de-
4 cency of cleanliness everywhere, but
nothing to eat. If there had beeng per
haps the Majors acts in the next hour
would have been less guilty in the eyes
| of religious people. But when it comes
to looking out in the world from a stary-
| ing body, a man is apt to4slip the ortho-
dox leashes and follow his own notions
of right and wrong. s., f.E .se3sae
| s He took OFF his black coat carefully,
hung it up, thew his braces loose down
his back, and sat down in his shirt sleeves
before the fire, his hands on his fat
/ knees Hewished, duly, Madeline was
here to puzzle it out for him; remarking
half aloud, thar if that girl undertook to
write a}leader, it would Be bosh, bat in
any thing else she never failed to hit the
nail plump on the head, There was a
round roly=poly brown crock in the win
dow, in which bloomed a buttony little
rose, one of the Burgundy sort, red
fresh and pungent Madeline had elef
it. It was like. her somehow, the Major
thought. Do what he would, his thought:
would 90 back to the girl and to- the
years she had lived with him, instead o.
this question Of life and death which
must be settled to-day. fs - .sss5. .rss Is
There was the door to her little room
| Eaiar. He always had c0ntriNed to pay
the trife of rent for the room. after she
bleft him, liking to think of it as hers. He
remembered The day he brought hel
There first He had had a tough siege
nursing old Durbrow, her father Ton the
E"Camera" like himself J. When he was
dead, the Major settled up the estate
there were four hundred dollars of debts
and for assets, one trunk, empty; one
suit of clothes, patched one watch
4 Flgqld ia pretty Lot ot neerschaunas aI1c
the little girl aOf 6Veg just ever tbs
measles. s The watch went q to pay tn,
; debts. and the little girl, of course, mus
2 go to an asylum. But the Major brough
u her home for a week, to cheer her up
bit. /. He took her, to the theatre and cir
cuses, every afteTnooni he bought her |
5 gay little plaid silk suit (it was A. husl
time with him just them he stuffed he
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