Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-10-11

suggestion. ''Let me rub you, James.
Where is the pain In the chest ?'
He flung his arms around in all di-
rections, so that she could not get to his
chest, or to any other part of him.
"Who lighted this ire?" he gasped.
"Phebe lighted it. I ordered her.
The fue in the proper wash-house has
taken to smoking frightfully. The
blankets are to be washed tomorrow
and will be put in soak tonight. But
what is the fire to you. James, that you
should be put out about it 2"
"It's everything to me" he family
answered. Five hundred pounds have
been burned up in it"
Rising from the stool-and Dinah
Ann wondered the creaky old thing had
not come down with his weight-he
FASTENED indoors, sat down by the table
and buried his head upon it. She found
him SO. his face hidden in his hands.
''Now, James you just tell me what
all this means-if you are not quite out
of your senses. Come l intend to
know"
"Yes, you may know it now," he said
lifting his face In his despair. Il had
placed in the fireplace of that old fur
mace, in my old green pocket book $500
in bank notes. And-they are burnt
They are burnt, Dinah Ann !'
Dinah Ann paused. "Where did the
notes come from p
"From your brother-to me. A long
while ago-years before | knew you-I
lent friend over G4Oo. He ran away
with it to Australia, and lost my mon
ey, and set him down as rogue. But
he is not so dishonest as thought him !;
he has made his fortune out there and
is back again, in London now, and last
week he transmitted the debt and in
terest to your brother for me, five hun
dred pounds. ] brought the notes home
the night Harry drove me here"
"And now just tell me, James, how
could think of putting bank notes into
such place as furnace fre-hole %
81 did it for safety. Nobody ever
went in there, and the furnace was nev-
er used"
Safety Was there not your bureau,
up stairs in the bedroom 2"
That's never locked"
"Why, it's always locked"
Anyway, the key is never taken out
of it."
"Ah, | see what it is-you were
afraid | should see the money and want
to spend it,
"And so you would, Dinah Anna
sum like that coming unexpectedly" he
meekly rejoined. "Bonnets and frills,
and fresh chairs and tables-you'd not
have known where to STOP"
"Well, must say, James, you have
been rightly served for your want o
confidence. No husband ever has con
cealment from his wife, if she is good
wife, but he is sure to be paid out. Il
is loss though, five hundred pounds J
He groaned. "My business in Nor
than this afternoon was to consult will
your brother about a good investmen
i. for it,
What's this ?" asked she, pacin,
: before him the identical green case witt
the bank notes inside it. James gasped
; "Dinah Ann My dear Dinah Ann !
, "Ah. it's my dear Dinah Ann now
, and where would you be without me
1 have given you a good fright, how
ever. Don't you conceal thing fror
= me again, james"
! Il don't think | will, he said. "Ho'
, has it ali come about ?''
"Why, | have just been playing
little as well as you. l was at the gat
u last Thursday night. and heard wha
you said to Harry as you got out of tn
gig. 1t excited my suspicious and m
/. curiosity"
/, But what did 1 say?" asked th
t farmer, really not remembering betwee
/ the excitement of the past misery an
the present happiness.
- ".Not a word, mind, to Dinah AM
Not word, for your life, mind.
e Dinah Ann The Argosy.
: DON'T SLANDER.-A woman writes