The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-08-20

He's of his head, !" was her. pitiabls
suggestion. !" Let me rub you. James.
Where is the pain: In the chest?''. ns
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
"Phebe lighted it. I ordered her.
The fine in the proper wash house has
taken to smoking frightfully. The
blankets are to bo washed tomorrow
and will be put in soak tonight. But
what is the fire to you, James, that you
should be put ont about it?'' 3 = -
It's everything to me-" he family
answered. Five hundred pounds has
been burnt up in IT." s. ~ .ae': 7is.li
Rising from the stool land Dinah
Ann wondered the creaky old thing
had not come down with his weight
he hastened 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! / in
tend to know" 81 81
Yes, you may know it now,'' he
said, lifting his face and its despair.
II had placed in the fireplace of that
old furnace. in my old, green pocket
book, five hundred pounds sterling in
bahk-n0tes. And-and they are burnt!
They are burnt, Dinah Amin
Dinah Ann paused. Where did the
notes come fr0m?' .l. (.
"From your brother-to me. A
long while ago, years before knew
you, lent friend over four hundred
pounds sterling. He ran away with it
to Australia, and / lost my money, and
set him down as a rogue. But he is
not SO dishonest as I 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 hum
dred pounds sterling. I brought the
notes home the night Harry drove me
here.''
And now just tell me, James, how
you could think of putting bank-notes
into such place as a furnace fire.
hole?'' =
81 did it for safety. Nobody ever
went in there. and the furnace was new
er used"
Safety? Was there not your bureau,
up stairs in the bed-room?'
"That's never lOcked.''
''Why, it's always locked"
anyway, the key is never taken out
of it." -. :. ~.
'.Ah, Isee what it is-you were afraid
I 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 of
confidence. No husband ever has con-
cealment from his wife, if she's good
wife, but he is sure to be paid out. 1t
is loss though, E5OOr'
He groaned. my business in North
am this afternoon was to consult with
your brother about a good investment
for it,
whats this?'' asked she. placing
DeIOrc ulm Tie lu6QClCdl green case
with the bank-notes inside it. James
gasped.
''Dinah Ann! My dear Dinah Amir
ssAh, 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 a thing from me
again, James"
81 don't think WILL - he said. elbow
has it all come about?''
"Why, l have just been playing lit
tie as well as you. was at the gate
last Thursday 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 I sayP" asked the
farmer, really not remembering between
the excitement of the past misery and
the present happiness.
"'Not a word, mind. to Dinah Ann.
Not a word, for your life, mind. to Di-
nah Arnr".