The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-02-07

trary 70 his usual practices, which was, as
we have scen to spend it mt certain music
hall lIo read the papers over 'ni over
again.
81 wish" ho Seid nj length, = visa bad
known this only two months ac" ! WISH l
had paid moro attention 10 lrlr. What u
dreadful thing IL is to have a grandfather
who keeps secrets from his crandsonl
What game wo might havc had over this
jobl What game we might have Sill
if
And here no stopped, Cor The frs. germ or
conseption Of a magnificent coup davned
upon him, and fairly dagzled him 30 that
his ewes saw bright light AMI nothing elsa
.If Lofty would he said. "But ] am
afraid sho won't hear Of it," He spraDg TO
his feet and caught sight OF his oan face in
the looking. glass over tho FIREPLACE He
smiled IL will try" he said, ~ think
know, by this time. how to get round most
of 'em. Once they get to feel there are other
women in tho world beside themselves,
they're pretty easily worked, | will try
One has only to add to tia revelations al
ready made that Joe paid n second Writ 10
the shop. this time early IN the morning.
The shutters were only Just taken down.
james was going about with that remarkable
watering.pot only used In shops, which hos
little stream runn & out Of IL, md Mr..
Emblem was up stairs slowly shaving and
dressing in his bedroom. II" walked IN,
nodded 10 his friend the assistant, opened
the safe and rut back the roll.
"Now." he murmurei. "if the Old man
has really boon such n dunder headed pump
as not 10 open the packet all these years,
what the devil can he know The uamo ~
different; ho hasn't got any clue 10 the VIII
he hasn't got ths certificate Of his daugh'
ter's marriage, or of tina chid's baptism
both in the real mama He hasn't got any.
thing. As for the girl here, Iris, having the
same Chri, ian name, that's nothing. sup-
pose there ia more than one woman with
such fool Of nams as that about IN The
world"
Foxy" he said chesrfully. "hsve you
found anything yet about the Investments
Old isn't il Nothing in tho safe as all.
You can have your key back
He tos .ed him the key careiess'v and wen'
AWAY.
The question Of his grandiothsr's 'ayinG.
was growing Insignificant beside this great
and splendid prizp which lay waiting for
MIN W HbL CtNlu kbS NbVlIlG~ ht4 ~ t~NN
n few thousands; tho slowly saved thrift Of
fifty years; nobody knew better than Joe
himself how much his own prcfigacies had
st his grandfather; n few thousands. and
those settled on hIs cousin Iris SO that. tf
get his share, ho would have ~ try every
kind of persuasion unless he could get up .
case for Law. But the other thing why, II
WAS nearly oil personal estate, SO far ss he
could learn by the will. and he had read II
over and over again in the room at tbs
Somerset House, with tho hong table IN il,
and the watchful man who won't iet any
body copy anything. What shame. he
thought, not 10 let wills DO copisi' fsr
sonaliv sworn under hundTed and twenty
thousand all In Three Per Cents, and de-
vised 10 n certain young lady. ths tsssssor',
ward In trust, for tbs tcstator's son, On he
heirs, when he o. they should present them
selves Meantime. the ward was tn receive
for her own us, and benefit, year by year.
the whole income
1T is unfortunate" said Sos, I'VE can
come down upon hoY for arrears. Still
there's an income, q steady income, OF ESQ
q year when the cons heirs present. them
lives. should like 90 call myself so
'icitor, but that kite won't a., I'm afraid.
Lofty mus. hs the sole heir-ss Dressed
quiet. without any powder, and tss fringe
brushed aat, she'd pass for lady any where
Perhaps it'H lucky, after al, that married
her. though if had had the good srnse &c
make no 20 iris. who's q deucsd sight pr~ttier
she'd have kept me going almost az we'll
with her pupifs, and sat me RICH, with the
old man, and hsnlct me over this magnif-
cent haul for a finish n only the old man
ha,nt broken the seals and read the papersr
TIE cd man had not and Joe's fear, were,
therefore, grcundlcsy.