The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20

TO spare them. What have to do with
them? 1 have-not hazarded their good
name, nor am 1 responsible for theil
trouble. If you failed to shield you
wife and child, or neglected to be honest
for their sake; if you have wilfully
hedged them in with shame and grief
if you have not cared enough for their
happiness to keep a misery of this kind
from your home, how can you expect me
TO? And you will leave your wife q
handsome fortune, and your child q
mother. Why, sir, one of those fellows
in Jail, less guilty than you, if he was
the engraver, has a little motheriess
daughter, left to God knows what. And
Pierce has wife as good as yours, per
haps, and as innocent, and three or four
children; and she is left poor Hang it
sir, am to look after all your wives and
children, and refrain from doing my du.
ty for their sake? You periled them, and
fyou and they must suffer the conse-
lquences." aft you have no mercy for
the living, respect the nearness of death
Can't you see that am dying." eyes,
otherwise you would find your quarters
materially changed, and your comforts
Slightly different from what they are
now. But as your career of crime is al
most ended, and the day of your inf1u-
ence wen nigh over, I'll let death have
you without public censure, and the law
does not grapple with half dead men, al
though they sometimes deserve it. Fail.
ing health did not deter you from the
old vice. you kept at it to the last, and
connected your mischief as long as you
were able to walk unsupported, and then
you delegated it to a confederate who had
the will but not your careful shrewdness,
and consequently he speedily came to
grief. really have some sympathy for
your family, and as you will shortly be
beyond disgracing them, give up the
plates ask, and everything else you have
or know of, that can in any way injure
the currency or revenues of the country,
or conduce to the making of counterfeit
coins, bank notes and stamps, and you
may die and be buried like good chris
tian, for all of my interference. These
are the only conditions: Give up the
plates quietly, or compel me to arrest
you and by legal force obtain them.
Take your choice, but the plates will
have" The sick man unused moment,
look of intense joy gradually dawning
on his pinched face. ''The things are
not in the city" 81 did not suppose
they were. How long will it take you
to get them here ?" "By aid of tele-
graph and express, two days, at least"
THAT will do. It is unnecessary to say
that you cannot hope to stir without my
knowledge, and that it would be folly for
you to attempt breaking your word, or
in the smallest manner think to de-
ceive me-" He then arose, implying
that nothing more need be said, and
strobe from the, apartment without
stopping to bid Mr.. ]. good-by.
Three weeks after 1 picked up the
morning paper and read: After long
and painful illness, that he had borne
| with christian meekness, Mr.. Theodore
j. in the 39th year of his age. "He Civ
eth his beloved rest" He had kept the
promise made and as the division was as
square as it could get with him in this
sphere, thought it was no more than
respectful, seeing how great an object of
interest he had been to me in his last
days, to attend his obsequies. The organ
was rolling out funeral dirge when 1
entered the church, and while the music
walled through the holy edifice velvet
covered, silver adorned, flower decked
casket was slowly borne along the aisle
and deposited at the foot of the altar.
A group of crape-robed mourners follow
ed. A little girl, with flaxen hair and
wondering blue eyes, chung to the hand
of her sobbing mother; the Grape gar
ments settled in the front seats reserved
for them, and the long, sombre wells hid
the tear-wet faces, little dreaming how
thankful they ought to be that father,
and husband and son was dead, and not
left to pay the penalty of his crimes.
The church was crowded, and all was
silent as the dead The minister arose
and his text, Blessed are they who die
in the Lord" was uttered in sad, i'm
pressive voice, appropriate to the occa-
sion, but it required considerable stretch
of imagination for me to apply it to Mr..
j. The divine's discourse was touching.
ly eloquent, and ended by advising all
present to follow the upright example of
him who had entered into his rest. He
who had ''kept Gods ordinance on earth
to find his reward in heaven" and COM
forted the mourners by assuring them
that eff earth were poorer by their sad
bereavement, heaven was the richer in
another glorified spirit which / sin
cerely hope may be the case, but am
confident that there was one man present
who would have reversed matters, and
stoutly contended that the man who had
taxed all his sagacity to fathom, was pa
tiently expiating in the other place
as remote as possible from paradise.
The casket and mourners fled out-the
thin, dead face was not exposed to
either the gaze of the loving or the curl
Gus, and the dreary cortege started
towards Greenwood; and Of the fhous-
ands the still inmate of that gorgeous
coffin had wronged, the fact was only
known to three of all living men, and
for the sake of our faith in humanity,
they will forever hold their peace The
rosewood and satin and silver and velvet
hide In softest splendor the counterfeiter
and his evil deeds. Death stepped In
and snatched him from the closing grasp
of the law just In time to save him from
an infamous memory and we viii not be
less charitable than death. The grave
has wrapped him In its mystery, and be-
yond that no mortal has the right to pen
citrate. This Is one of the many strange
incidents that occur in the life Of adetec-
tive; but one instance of fraud and de-
ceit, kept up and concealed to the very
last breath of earthly existence: and
with us truth is often stranger than the
most marvellous fiction.
Il
Mary had 4 little lamb.
i It's oIbs were drSEmF blue
And everywhere that Eary Eeat
i That lamb would goat too.
/ It butsed At her hustle once
And stood her On her ear