Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-09-09

We'll, sir" said Reda, Ioftily. "v
VIII hear your fathers message. NJ
brother 10 not strong enough for man,
words, SO you will please address your
For the first time Raymond Saarle fel
All the unRracious and ungraoeful disa
greeableness of the errand on which b,
had come.
He blushed, he hesitated, he sat over
wneimed with confusion. Finally b.
said, desperately:
now had not"
fou said that You had a messap,
Reda.
Il prefer not to deliver it now b,
answered
You do not need. We, my broths,
ana myself, can well imagine that il il
only some new threat to compel us u
aoandsn our homc-our legal and right
Iai nome, In spite OF that decision of an
WISE"
Raymond bit his lip.
| In Justice to my father, then,- said
he, Iuust tell you that his message VA
| no threat. He wished me to ask you
| when it would be convenient 70 give hin
| possession of Wylder's Rook?'
Never!' rang like bugle note from
Reds's quivsring lips. "Go back e
your father and say that 10 him. Cav
that We will die frat. We will die here
resisting. He shall never have Wylder's
hook while we liver'
Raymond Searie rose from his seat
bent his hoad ceremoniously to her
bowed low TO the brother, in Whose
eagle glance the same flame leaped n
In here, and went silently from the
room.
think he meant to be courteous y
said We're Wylder, when he had gone
II hope We we're not rode"
81 hope not" said Reda, swift change
coming over the sweet, spirited face
He is not to blame. His father has NO,
told him all the story, or he would no,
have come. Icould see that. l liked his
look, did not you, Vere?'
Yes, like him." murmured We're.
He would scoru to do suoh baseness
| as his father il guilty of. believe"
think he would" We're answered,
and lay gazing wIstfuliy at his sister in
Il y
he was thinking how uncert,iu his life
was-how poor one at best. He could
but say to himself:
| "Ah, If kind heaven could Lut send
her a protector who was as strong and
true a gentleman AZ he looked who has
| Just gonet"
Raymond went back to his father with
q troubled face.
"Sir," said Raymond, abruptly, yet
with the profound respect he always
used toward his father, "you did not
tell me all the particulars of this Wyl-
| der Case"
Philip Searle reddened. He would
| have preferred not to tell his son more
more than he had already done; but, if
he must, he was ready. What ground
had the Wylders for opposing his claim
Why, simply this:
1t was Raymond's grandfather who
loaned the money to Guy Wylder, and
took mortgage on the Rock. He and
Wyldei were old and close friends.
Wylder claimed that he paid the money
the very day he told Raymond Searle)
was stricken with the mortal illness of
which he died before the following morn
ing. Searle could not at the moment put
his hand on the mortgage; he Was no.
toriously careless man with his papers.
Both men were easy natured, aud they
trusted each other implicitly. Searle
was not feeling we'll, and it was agreed
that Wylder should come the next day
and finish the business.
That day never dawned for old Raw.
inOnd Searie, and the mortgage never
turn 4 mp till years afterward.
This was the truth of the matter, but
this WAS not exactly the way the father
told IL to his son.
The money could not have been paid,
he insisted. 1t was all nonsense about
the mortgage having been mislaid.
The pair were close friends, true. and
% old Raymond never pushed it. But
then It was in black and white, and only
the single word Of Gay Wylder to show
that it had been paid.
Young Raymond listened and grew
graver aud graver. He believed the
Wylders had the right on their side, and
that the money had been paid as Guy
Wylder had said, and died fighting to
prove his word true.
All the young mans chivalrous soul
was moved at the thought of that beau
tiful defiant child and her stricken eagle
eyed brother, resolute to the same pur-
pose for which their father died.
OF his own fathers part in the business
he could not bear to think.
Philip Searle was Watching him. Il
went hard with him to have the son of
whom he WAS 30 proud have one i'll or
suspicious thought Of him.
Father" said Raymond, at length,
there Is one way in which this matter
might be settled honorably. II l can
win Miss Wylder's consent to be my wife,
| will you give yours?'
Philip Searle stood aehast.
"why, she is ohild.'
"She IL sixteen"
g You do not love her-you cannot!
A little, fierce, untamed thing~
IL saw nothing in her fierco or un-
tanned. She is exquisitely lovely and
sweet-hieh-spiritsd, like IL. Ioould
love her very easily-I believe l do
already" said Raymond, u tender
brightness irradiating his whole hand
some faoe.
Philip Searls reflected. II would bs a
very tolerabie way of settling business
of which be was getting rather ashamed
and from which he foresaw still endless
trouble il il were not 50 arranged.
He gave his consent.
| luete refhaineu Tue Ototuet anu SIS
ter's to win.
Raymond went to them, frankly ad'
dressing himself 10 both.
" Il is very soon to speak, know" ht
said, "and Miss Wyldcr 10 young. But
love her, and l am willing to wait fol
her to learn TO care for me. And hav,
secured my fathers approval, and b
nov witharaws entirely all claim TO th'
Rock"
Reda wyldsr was as shy 40 she "a
beautiful. and both We're and she yer,
proud. Bat Raymond was patient aps
devoted, and she liked him already.
Need chronicle the result? He VOL
her.
Il We're, poor fellow, lived long enough
to witness the marriage and be satisfies
that the happiness Of his beloved siste
was secured.
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been communicated from the Advent
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