Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-11-27

The sun was setting when he drove in
again and round to the stable yard
Leaving his horse and gig with Evan, he
was crossing to the house, when his at
tentiOn was caught by huge volume of
black smoke, putting out of the chimney
OF narrow building that was formerly
made to serve as brew and wash house
until the larger one was built. AS it
was of no use now, was not in fact used
for any purpose whatever, or entered by
anybody from months end to mOnth'send,
Mr.. Harbury naturally thought of fire.
He rushed to it like mailman.
In the fireplace under the furnace a
| fire blaZed away, upon which more coal
had recently been thrown. Whittier than
death, James Harbury made one
frantic move toward it, while a yell of
what really seemed like terror broke
from him. And yell succeeded, and still
another; then he collapsed utterly and
| fell upon a low wooden stool in wild deS-
pair.
"GOOd heavensw exclaimed Dinah Ann
who had been STOPPING over some blank
cts i'm the far corner, "What in the
world is the matter? Is it spasms, James
Let me run for the camphOr."
"CamphOr, indeedp' exclaimed the I'M
happy man. Bring poison, rather
poison! You've ruined mew
Hes off his headr' was the pitiable
suggestion. LET me rub you, James.
Where is the pain? In the chest?"
He flung his arms around in all direc-
tions, so that she could not get at his
chest nor to any part of him. "WhO
lighted this fire?" he gasped.
"PhOebe lighted it. | ordered her. The
flue i'm the proper wash house has taken
to smoking frightfully. The blankets
are to be washed tomorrow, and will be
put i'm soak tonight. But what is the
fire to you, James, that you should be
put out about it?'
Its everything to me-" he answered
family. "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 hasten
ed i'm doors, sat down by the table and
buried his head upon it. She found him
with his face hidden i'm his hands.
Now, James, you just feline 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 i'm its despair. IL had
placed i'm the Fireplace of that old fur
mace, i'm my old green pocket book $500
i'm bank 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 knew you. l lent
friend over e4OO. He ran away with it
to Australia, and lost the money and
set him down as rogue. But he was
not so dishonest as | thought him; ne
has made his fortune out there and is
back again i'm London now, and last
week transmitted the debt and interest
to your brother for me, $500. took the
notes home the night Harry drove me
here"
"And now just tell me. james, how
Won could think of putting bank notes
into such place as furnace fire hOler'
81 did it for safety. Nobody ever went
i'm there. and the furnace was never |
used"
Safety Was there not your bureau
in your bedrOOm?"
"That's never locked"
"Why, it's always locked
anyway the key was not to be 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
have known when to stop"
swell, must say, James, you have
nave been rightly served for your want I
IF confidence. No husband ever has a
from his wife, if she is
good wife, but he is sure to be paid for
it. 1t is loss, though, $500.
He grOaned. "My business is Northam
this afternoon was to consult with your
brother about good investment for it"
whats thisw asked she, placing be-
fore him the indentical green case-with |
the bank notes inside of it. James gasp
ed.
"Dinah Ann. My dear Dinah Amir
"Ah. it's my dear Dinah Ann now
and where would you be without me? l
have given you good fright, however.
Don't you conceal thing from me again,
James,"
don't think will" he said. "How
did it all come abOut?"
"Why 1 have just been playing little |
as we'll as you. was at the gate last |
night and heard what you said |
to Harry as you got out of the gig. 1t |
excited my suspicious and my curiosity"
But what did / say?" sked thefarm-
er, really not remembering, between the
excitement of the past misery and the
present happiness.
"NOt word, mind you, to Dinah Ann.
Not word, for your life, mind, to Dinah |
Ann"