The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-12-12

"Yes"
! "Where's the girl :'
"You'd better ask me how I got th,
money to get out Of the scrape."
"Pshaw! Mr. Suowden, You know
I never trouble myself about money
matters. It's as much rs ever 1 can DO
20 turn and make over old garments and
stretch every dollar to the capacity OF
half a dozen"
"The girl is i'm the city"
"Where p"
at the hospital"
Concealed ?"
Concealed"
"And her child?r
'Is at the orphanage"
as there any prospect that we shall
have further trouble ."
That's what want to talk with you
about"
90, Mr.. Suowden! Why have you
hidden all this from me ?"
"Because-"
He hesitated. Poor man; it was not
wholly the fault Of Mrs. Snowden that
she had been an uuappreciative wife.
As men sow, so shall they reap. He
had preferred from the beginning 10
manage his own affairs, as be considered
them, and TO keep his own counsel.
His wifeand children were to him a part
aud parcel OF the luxuries with which
rich men are wont to surround them
selves.
my house, my orchard, my dog, my
wife, my children and my store" were
ranked by him in the same catalogue.
They were his effects, and as such were
simply his, 20 have aud hold according
to his own inclination. His business
and his property were alike, including
his family, what he had made them.
His mistake had been in that he had
undertaken too much aud claimed too
much. And when the calamity that
fell upon his son came before him in
the shape Of financial ruin and social
disgrace, il was quite as much his fault
as that Of his wife that he did not dare
I TO counsel with her concerning it. But
now, as he said, he was desperate.
''She should know all II he died
FOR it," was his mental resolve.
"Ive been alone through all the
years, wife; through all the years. You
have never helped me to bear auy Of my
burdens, and you were the very last
person thought Of coming to-the very
last"
Mrs. Snowden felt culpable, she
hardly knew why. According to her
light and opportunities, she had always
done the best she knew, she thought
And really, good reader, she was right.
That she had not been the helpmate to
her husband that she might have been,
was great deal more his fault than
hers. He had chosen his burden, and
had decreed that she should not share
it, and she had done what she could 10
adapt herself 10 the consequences.
"When the old man came to me with
the story about his daughter, went 20
Lon. about it, and he owned np like a
man. But he wouldn't marry her. she's
only a child; barely sixteen, poor thing.
And then her father was going to take
it into the courts and make a public
scandal. SO I had to get out Of il,
somehow. The girls are getting 10 be
narriagcable, aud everything depends
upon keeping up the respectability OF
the family. Old Shaddoa is as ava
ricious as he Is vindictive, aud / had to
buy him Oh. There was but one way 10
get the money. My name hasn't been
worth a cent at bank for five years past,
and I've been obliged TO get money at
ruinous rates, when pressed for il, from
Jared, the jew"
90, husband."
Don't interrupt me. Old Shaddon
gave me neither grace nor quarter. He
pushed me till, in desperation to save
Lon and you and the girls from dis
grace, drew up my note for a sum that
to-day, in principal and interest,
amounts 10 eleven thousan', and to real
ize on that note, forged Banks namei
so there"
"Does Banks know Of this ?"
"Know Of It? Do you suppose I'd
be out Of jail three minutes if he did ?''
Husband, will 90 at once and see
him."
"Nou must not"
"But something must be done"
something has been done"
'What2"
1--WE lifted the note"
Mrs. Snowden heaved a sigh Of relief.
"Ihen why are you 50 troubled -
Because I've escaped Seylla on one
side only to meet Charybdis on the
other"
Have you committed forgery
again" ?"
"Worse than that"
"How, worse -
1--WE handed over the deed TO our new
daughters thousan' acres, as surety for
the eleven thousan' dollars. borrowed
money"
"Well, what OF that?"
"The deed isn't recorded yet, and We
are liable TO lose the whole thing
] "But how do you propose to end this
I trouble ?"
"God only knows