The Red Cloud chief., 1880-09-16

okAer things. Yes. I will go with you. |
James. I won't be i've minutes getting
rsady."
"But-Dinah Ann-not to-day. /
can't take you this afternoon. You shall
90 tomorrow. instead"
Why can't you take e
Business" ne shortly replied. And.
his gig being Just then brought round.
White Bess in the shafts. he got into II
without more ado and drove away. cali
ing out good-by 20 his wife
..Tu be even with you, MIR. James.
nodded she.
The sun was setting when he drove
In again and round 70 the stable gard.
Leaving his horse aud gig with Evan,
he was crossing TO the honse when ms
attention was caught by \ huge volume
Of black smoke putting out OF the chin
new of a narrow building that WAS for
meriy made 10 serve as brew house aud
wash house, until the larger n wa
built As it was out Of use nov, was
not, in fact, used for any purpose what
ever, or entered by anyhow from
months end to months end. MIR. Har-
bury naturally thought OF ire. lie
rushed TO it like a mailman.
In the fireplace under the furnace a
| fire blazed away, upon which more coai
had recently been thrown. Whittier h a
death James Harbury made one frantic
move towards il. while a yell OF what
really seemed like terror broke from
him. Another yell succeeded. and still
another; then he collapsed utterly and
fell upon a low wooden stool In wild
despair.
GOOD h~eayensr' exclaimed Dinah
Ann, who had been STOPPING over on
blankets in the far "What IN
the world is the matter?' Is it spasms.
JamesP Let me run for the cam
phor."
Champion. indeedr' exclaimed the
unhappy man. bring poison, rather.
Poison. You've ruined me-"
Hes off his head" vas her pltiab!e
suggestion. "Let me rub you, m
Where il the pain? In the chest?' -.
He had flung his arms around in all
directions, so that she could not get to
his chest, or to any other part OF him.
"Who lighted this fire?" he gasped.
Phoebe lighted it. l ordered her.
The flue 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,
ats everything to me-" ne family
answered. Five hundred pounds has
been burnt 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 1t. She
found him so, his face hidden in has
hands
Now, James, you just tell me
what all this means-if you are not
quite out of your senses. Come! IN
tend to know"
Eyes, you may know it now" he
said, lifting his face and its despair.
IL had placed in the fireplace of that
old furnace. in my old, green pocket
book. five hundred pounds sterling in
b~ank-notes. And-and they are burnt
They are burnt, Dinah Ann
Dinah Ann paused. Where did the
! notes come frOm?"
From your brother-tO me. A
long while ago, years before L knew
YOU, | lent a friend over four hundred
pounds sterling. He ran away with /,
to Australia, and l lost my money, and
set him down as a rogue. But he i;
not so dishonest as l thought him; he
has made his fortune nj there, n Il
back again i'm London now, and las'
week he transmitted the debt and in
..r,,t 80 ,,n,,. hrAthar for ppn five hnn,
dred pounds sterling. | brought the
notes home the night Harry drove INT
here"
land now just tell me, James, how
, you could think of putting b%ank-note'
into such a place as q furnace fire
4 holeT"
81 did it for safety. Nobody eve
went in there, and the furnace was nev
t er used"
Safety? Was there not your bureau
< up stairs in the bed-room?'
"That's never locked"
s'Whv it's always locked"
Anyway, the key is never taken on
of it"
..Ah, l see what it is-you were afrai'
l should see the money and want L
< spend it."
.And so you would, Dinah Ann
sum like that coming unexpectedly,
he meekiy rejoined. ''BonnetS an
frills, and fresh chairs and tables
you'd not have known where to stop.
well, l must saw, James, you hav
been rightly served for your want G
confidence. No husband ever has a con
n cealment from his wife, if she's Il goo
wife, but he is sure to be paid ont. !
is a loss though, $500"
He groaned. MY business in NORTH
am this afternoon was to consult wit
your brother about a good investmen
for it."
is ..What's this?" asked she. placin
before him the identical green cas-
with the bank-notes inside it. jaime
gasped.
..Dinah Ann! NV dear Dinah Ann.
"Ah, it's my dear Dinah Ann now
l. and where would you be without me?
1t have given you q good fright, howevel
4. Don't you conceal! a thing from n
N again. James"
81 don't think l will" he said. ''Ho
IS has it all come about?"
"Why. 1 have just been playing a Ii
s tie as well as you. l was at the gal
it last Thursday night, and heard VIII;
YOU said to Harry as you got ont of Il
'e gig. 1t excited my suspicious and N
g curiosity"
l. But what did 1 say?' asked Il
farmer, reallynot remembering betwee
5, the excitement of the past misery al
:" the present happiness.
rs ".Not a word. mind. to Dinah An
1t Not a word. for your life, mind. to i
nah Annr".