The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-05-26
Nrn be even with you, Mr. james.

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nodded she.
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
attention was caught by huge volume
of black smoke putting out of the chim-
ney of a narrow building that was for
merly made to serve as brew-house and
wash-house until the large one was built.
AS 1t was out of use now, was not in fact
used for any purpose whatever, or en-
tered by anybody from months end to
months end. Mr.. HarbJry naturally
thought of fire. He rushed 10 it like a
mailman.
In the fireplace under the furnace a
fire blazed away, upon which more coal
had recently been thrown. Whittier than
death, James Harhury made one frantic
move toward 1T, while yell of what
really seemed like terror broke from
him. Another yell succeeded, and still
another then he collapsed utterly, and
fell upon low wooden stool In wild
despair.
Good heavens p exclaimed Dinah
Ann, who had been STOPPING over some
the world Is the matter Is it spasms,
'tCamphor, indeed |" exclaimed the
unhappy man. "Bring poison rather.
Poison. You've ruined me-"
"He's of his head, I" was her pitiable
suggestion. "Let me rub you, James.
Where is the pain ? In the chest ?"
He flung his arms around in all direc-
tons, SO that she could not get to his
chest, or to any other part of him.
"Who lighted this fire ?'' he gasped.
'Phobe lighted it. 1 ordered her.
The hue 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?"
+" It's everything to me, he family an
swered. Five hundred pounds has
been burnt up in it. y
Rising up from the stool-and Dinah
Ann wondered the crealy old thing had
not come down with his weight-he hast
ened indoors, sat down by the table,
and buried his face upon it. She found
him so, his face hidden in his hands,
"Now, James, Just tell me what all
this means-if you are not quite out of
your senses. Come intend to know"
b sfYes, you may know it now,' he said,
lifting his face and its despair 81 had
placed in the fireplace of that old fur
mace, in my old green pocketbool1, e500 in
bank notes. And-and = they are
burned They are burned, Dinah Ami"
Dinah Ann paused.
"Where did the notes come from?"
From your brother-to me. A long
while ago, years before I knew YOU, I /
lent friend over e400. He ran away
~ r, T 1oe% E.
and set him down as a rogue. Buthe 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 inter
est to your brother for me-e500.
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 1t for safety. Nobody ever
went in there, and the furnace was never
used"
"safetyl Was there not your bureau
up stairs In the bedroom p
"That's never locked"
"Why, it's always locked"
"Any way, the key is never taken out
of it."
"Ahl [ 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'd not
have known where to stop" .9-fl5d
"Well, 1 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's sure to be paid out. 1t is
. loss, though, $780,
He groaned.
"My business in Northam this after |
noon was to consult with your brother |
about good investment for it."
"What's this p' asked she, placing |
before him the identical green case. |
with the bank notes inside it. IN tgl
James gasped. .-.
'sDinah Ann Ny dear Dinah Annr
"Ah I 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 q thing from me !
again, James" i.8n .4r
"I don't think I viii, he said Chow
has it all come about7''
"Why, 1 have Just been playing q lit
tie as well 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 eurios-
fly"
"But what did / say 2" 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 word, for your life, mind, to
Dinah Ann T."