Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-05-01

self, has also made off with my money
| want your help to bring him to his jus
punishment
Hellen's pallor had given place to .
color rivaling the red upon the reddes
rose.
He has not left me unproyided for
MIR. Crawford! it is unjust to say so
He took care to see that / should hav,
plenty. But what | want is Philip him
self! What matters money whithour
him to share it-with mel
How much did my nephew Ieav,
with you?
Helen named the amount.
That's just the sum my nephew rob
bed me of, ma am. So it was all left
with your
Robbed you Off exclaimed Heller
with grasp. 'Robbed?'
Yes, ma'am, robbed. Didn't | say
he had signed my name to this doc,
ument? and the old man held the check
out SO that Helen could see it.
oh, my poor Philip! did he need
money? Why, | always thought he had
plenty and to spare
No doubt, ma am. Rich mems daueh.
tiers can't be expected to know much
about the difficulties of getting money
/ suppose they think it lies in the street
waiting for some one to come along and
pick it up
But Helen was too much absorbed in
her discovery to heed the satire in the
old mans speech. She went on ex-
citedly:
IF he had told me that he hadn't
plenty of money, do you think / would
have bought this and bought that, and
run bills and-in short, SIR with sud-
den dignity that contrasted pathetically
with the distress pictured on her agit-
ated face. 4 am to blame if Philip has
done this. Punish me-not him. What
money have left will at once return
to you, and | will ask my father for a
check for what | have used in my ignor-
ance of-of Philips circumstances
And without giving Mr.. Crawford
time to answer her, Helen glided from
the room to return again with the mon
ey.
Don't think, sir, that / had any heart
to spend anything since Philip went, ex-
cept to pay the household bills and the
servant. Here is what there is left.
Mr.. Crawford hemmed and hawed to
do away with an obstructive huskiness
which would interfere with his vocal
organs. Then he said:
Poor Phil, it is a pity he wasn't man
enough to make clean breast of it to
you, for-excuse the comparison, but it
is good one-you are trump. Rich
mans daughter or not, you are not
spoiled. To tell the truth, came here
to-day as much to see what stuff was in
you as to accuse Phil.
4 am satisfed-fully satisfied with
you, but am ashamed of myself. I
ought to have helped Phil, for he's my
namesake. But | was SO alfred mad
at the boy for his fne-gentleman ways,
that | thought to turn the cold shout
der to him, and let him suffer for them.
| have been an old fool, and / consider
myself responsible for the boys going
to the bad But we'll put our heads
together and try to make it all right.
No one but ourselves has any knowl-
edge of that piece land I'm bound to
say it's the only one) of Pills rascality.
Here goes
As Mr.. Crawford said this, he drew
forth match from his pocket and
lighted it to set fire in turn to the check.
Then he turned to Helen.
From this time forth, consider me
your uncle and your obedient servant
Now sit down and right an advertise
ment to Phil. Say this /:
'P G.-Uncle p. G. knows all and
forgives ALL Come home Fl. c.
Helen obeyed. To say the truth, she
was so much relieved to find that mon
ely troubles had been the cause of Phil
ip's strange action that she for the mo-
ment almost forgot that he might fail
to see the advertisement Mr. Crawford
thus dictated to her. So her heart felt
quite light as she penciled off several
copies to give him for insertion in the
various papers.
And if hope deferred has power to
make the heart sick, Helen had plenty
of opportunity to test it.
Months passed before trace of Phil
ip was found.
The message came to Mr.. Crawford
that stranger, who had been found in
the street in a demented condition,
some months previous, had been brought
to Home which had been instituted
for such pitiable cases; that his senses
had at last returned, and that he wished
to have an interview with him.
The letter ended by saying that the
bodily health Of the patient continued
discouraging, and that he probably had
not long to live.
Without communicating the contents
of this letter to Helen, Mr. Crawford at
once set out for the distant city from
which it had been sent.
He found that it was indeed his
nephew, but so changed that he hardly
could have believed it to have been
Philip if he had met him on the street.
But Mr. Crawford's hearty forgive
ness, and the news that Helen's affec-
ton had caused her to condone the sin
into which his love for her had led him,
acted like life-giving elixir upon the
now penitent man, and again he felt
that the future held in it chance of
happiness for him.
He returned with his uncle, and he
and Helen commenced life anew under
very different auspices to those which
had characterized their start in married
life.
To-day he is one of our most honored
and respected men, and no young man
to whom he gives this advice, Never
conceal any truth from your wife is
aware of the bitter way in which he
himself learned the lesson which he
thus endeavors to teach.
A German doctor in Philadelphia saws
that nearly all the diseases among the