Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1881-01-12

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The attic was the depository Q
broken or supsranuated furnitur
and old blankets, and among thi
latter store Kitty now proceeded
TO search.
As she pulled aside an old Goa
belonging to her father. her eye
suddenly fell upon large clotl
cape, worry much worn and faded
which hung on a nail beneath it.
Kitty looked at it with a sort o.
loathing. 1t was the garment
which che had picked up on that
to her--fearful night of tho ped
dler's attempted robbery.
Unconsciously she had kept it in
her grasp when she ran to give her
father the alarm, and the next day
Betsy, the kitchen maid, found II
and had slowed II with the rub
bish in the attic, wondering If ii
would ever be called for. II was
this for which the robber had been
anxiously searching when Farmer
Lane seized him. Since then the
cape had remained, unseen and for
gotten, in the gloomy attic, until
now brought again to light by
Kitty's search.
at looks shabby enough out
side," thought Kitty, as she stood
gazing at it, "but the green fam
mel lining Is new and thick. 1t
will make a comfortable wrapping
for old Mrs. Holmes-if she will
wear it." Reluctantly she grssped
it and attempted to reach it down
from its place. But it had hung
30 long that the nail had penetrat-
cd through the flannel lining, a
slip of which was torn off by the
jerk she gave it.
1T can be mended," thought
Kitty. 81 will ask Betty to do it,"
She stopped short and her eyes
grew wider. What was that pro-
just beyond the torn edge
Of green flannel! Something green
llso--a piece Of soiled paper it at
hrst seemed. She looked closer.
It was bank note.
Kitty took from her pocket a
.iny pearl-handled pocket knife,
md carefully cutting away some
stitches, produced a bank-note---s
$50 bank bill.
She could hardly believe her
eyes, but on futher stripping away
he cloths she discovered another
md then another, all carefully
tiched against the thin oiled silk,
which formed lining of the old
10th cape and protected them
rom the wet.
Trembling with excitement and
sort of horror which yet fascin-
ted her, the girl sat down at the
husky attic window, and, stripping
ut the green flannel lining, un-
titohed note after note, until there
ay before her such wealth as she
ever dreamed of--nearly $4,000.
famed honestly, it might be, and
ct, perhaps, stolen.
At this thought sho let the notes
al with sickening horror. How
id she know but that a worse
rime than robbery had been COM
litted for the sake of these notes
But, meanwhile, what could she
o with the moaey! She wonder
d that the peddler had never at
smpted to regain possession of
ne valuable garment; but since ,
le night of the attempted rob-
cry of her fathers's house he had {
ever been seen OF heard Of by ,
ny one in the neighborhood. ,
Some young men had, on the {
day, secured the woods {
nd roads in search of him, but {
ad seen no stranger, save a tall I
AN with short red hair, who spoke /
a broad Scotch accent, and car =
ed bible and some tracts in his {
ocket.
1t was in December that this
bod fortune befel the young
'uple, and when the April GRO
asses put forth their little heads
nong the young grass in the gar
IN of the crossroads cottage, they
'held Kitty tying up the vines
'out her little porch, while Wal
r seemed particularly busy with
a door, over which was inscribed y
big black letters, "Store and Y,
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