Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1881-08-18

enough residence when the family wero
in IL, soon began % look gogglc-eyed I
and high-shouldered and mysterious,
aud Aunt Sa5riuas "ghostN was re-
ported to be frequently seen looking
out the tall. narrow windows.
When the heir WIS twent y-one. he came |
back 10 claim his own, bringing with
him an article which hIe guardians and !
other discreet persons deemed super I
iluous; namely, n vile.
But-Anson was free now-free in law |
and Ia fact; he had done with books I
and teachers. guardians and advisers I;
he shook them OF rs Samson did the
bands Of the Phiistines
His course now w as plain before hinr |
70 find TO lost treasure and live ike a I
gentleman.
His wife, Mary Flaxbafn had bean her !
name, was n blooming, merry-hearted
young creature, who fitted about tho !
old house ike a butterfly, and who
seemingly took rs little thought for the
morrow.
why should she take thought when
she had husband to think for herP a
husband whom she revered and trusted
as every good wife should. unless she
can show reason TO the contrary.
Meanwhile, the place was running
I down, and Arson did nothing TO re-
( claim it, He neither sowed nor reaped.
So several years went by; then enc
| day, as Mary was sitting In her cham
/ Der holding the little Anson third in her
/ lap, her husband came in and sat down
beside her with the air Of one who has
/ something TO disclose, as, indeed, he
. 4. NJ Nftf "a
rs usual, but struck into the midst of
things at once,
MARY" said he, 81 can't stand IL
any longer. I've been thinking of il
good while, and now I've made up my
miad. ~
80 whatp'' asked Mary.
"'Io find Aunt Sabrina's 5 money"
There's nothing very new in that, "
said Mary, laughing gaiiy; lat least. in
trying to find it,"
mo. but there is in theway of doing
It," said he.
"Is there? What can it be?' asked
she. "a.
ITO pull the house down said he.
go Ansonr' cried Mary, "but you're
joking of course you're Joking
Not bit of it--never was more in
earnest in Wife You see chat cabi-
net is somewhere in the house; there is
no doubt about that Aunt Sabrina was
seen to have it the day before she hnd
her stroke, and she never LETT the house
afterwards, till she was carried ont,
$50 Ihave always heard y said Mary.
% ''Then the cabinet must be here -tlil-
less she took II into the next world with
her--as no doubt she would il she
could - said Anson.
Butt is it certain that 1t contained q
treasurer" asked Mary.
"CeltainP As certain as anything
is. You're the first person that ever
questioned it. My father believed it,
everybody believed it;rif there Yas
proof enough TO satisfy her contempora-
ries, there's proof enough 20 satisfy us.
, But what's the use of arguing a ques;
ton that was settled before you and
were bornp' FTt R
"Not much, 20 be sure, said Mary
~ should say so. There's nothing
so very strange, either in miserly old
woman hiding her money they're al
ways doing it--and nothing 50 strange
! IN my looSing for il, that you shoulr
, make such an ado about ii. Think o.
the folks that have been hunting afteI
: Captain Kids treasure eversince ht
= tucked il away somewhere hundred
years ago or more.
, HAS ANYBODY ever found itP' asked
y Mary.
/. "No; but they would if there wa
o. nothing but one old house in the way,
r "Oh, Arson, spare the old house
a your father meant it to stand in thI
! Henderson name --ho meant it as ;
Il home for You and for Mother Hender
! son, and for this dear child though h
never saw him. n-and she kissed tn
a hoy on her knee. He thought yoI
). would love it for his sake, Ms | do
q Anson. And / love il for Itself, too
q There isn't nook nor corner I'm
= that / don't love, These quaint oil
. window,seats, these great chimneys
! this oak wainscotting, how charming
| \ they all seemed tome when i came her
~ as YOUR wife, andhOw charming they ar
~ still Aud such stories as they tell q
a the Colonel, your grandiather and tn
:. old Revolutionary days, and OF all tn
~ people who have lived aud died 4herel
y would no moro disturb one brick. O
4 one olapboard, than j would disiur
II their grayesv'
r Never in all his married life had Al
son heard his wife make SO long. .aspeeo
1, before. Never had he heard her !
Or any way question OF oppose his jude
r, ment, aud now it seemed to him muc
o, as IL would If Mary's canary had undel
q. taken to advise the barn-yard fowl
about their domestic atfairs.
IN He looked at her a moment IN aStol
A. ishment, aud then said;
D. '.All very fine and romantic, bu
:. nevertheless, the old house must CON
o 10 an end. y
And so much else With itf' sal
w Mary