The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-19

| Tully, is this day dissolved by mutual con-
sent. All outstanding accounts will be
settled on presentation at the Office As Doane
street, to James Collins, who is authorized to
receipt for the firm.
ANDREW J. SCRTMsoN,
MARCELLUS +. FULLY"
Mr.. Tully senior was indeed in quite as
violent a state of mind as his nephew had
pictured him. The latter, with prudence
most becoming to his years, refrained from
communicating to his uncle the original
source of his information of the breach be-
tween the partners, presenting the news
paper announcement as his excuse for in
quiry as to particulars. These were soon
given in emphatic phrase. A year of fair
" good business, as compared with the de-
preston all about them, had been changed
into year of actual loss by several APP
parently good accounts proving worthless
when collection was attempted. For some
of these losses, which wiped out the years
work, one partner was responsible; for
some, the other. A chance word inspired
by worry provoked recrimination, and the
two somewhat peppery temperaments had
warmed into an an angry separation.
"When it came to that Old dotard's
throwing Fosters mortgage in my face"
said Mr.. Tully, in narratng the final scene,
Il told him I'd buy the confounded claim
for the face of the debt, and he could go to
thunder"
"Who is Foster, and what is his mort
gage" asked Mark
Poster is a customer l picked UP from
Philadelphia, and six months ago | took a
mortgage ON some land of his in Pennsyl-
vauia, as security for what he owed us
and couldn't pay. We had 10 fOreclose on
him: and then, as near as we could find
out, nothing but stones grew on his farm,
and the land was worth about six cents an
acre"
Did Scrimson buy up any of the bad
debts that he took I'M"
"No; he isn't quite such a fool as I a m.
| The business will be wound up square, ex-
cept this one claim that | took. Thank the
Lord! | don't need to work any more
unless | feel like it, and that policy will be
falling in one of these days when ScrmSOn
goes off with apopleXy in one of his
RACES"
"You mean the Monadnock Mutual on
his life?"
YES; that's the only way we can bal
ance accounts. He has cost me more than
ten thousand the past year: and if he goes
on losing for himself as he lost on joint ac-
count, it will be money in his daughters
pocket to get his estate into executors
hands. BY the way, Mark, are you fooling
around there as much as you were:"
81 don't go to the house much now,"
answered Mark, calmly disingenuous.
"Well, | wouldn't if | were you. Nothing
good can come of it, | am done with him
and all his belongings, and you'd better
be-"
What a ludicrous similarity in the turn
and habit of mind of these two men.
thought Mark. After ten years of close
relations, Il quarrel which involves mutual
reflections upon their business capacity
chances their frionesbin intn dateefatin9
drives them apart and sats eacb vyatcbina
for the death of the other, on whose life a
dqsnotism Of tbn Lusinass instinct ossart'
inc, its sunranp ruIa over, ali sentiment and
nassion. and as ba Iisterod 70 H,'oIa
taIlyinr in The yyoy that boJ sonn'od ~
horribly orotesGne tn RAINY When sba
heard il from bor fotba, tbo ,rIi,I,i.,r -
am idao hacaI,,a g, srddon Iij,t ~ - bi, I'd
he saw his wav to an eynaI.in,ent With the
Same oLnorm3IIv da,.aInrad L,,si,ass IN
stinct yvJicb bai sonotbin,," Of r,.at,igo IL,
If. At least notbin@ could rnal,a The eitr,a-
tion worse rs far az il conrarnad bimsaIf
and Fanny. and il miEbt he maJa batta,
To this end ne caIIed ON his own business
focultias
'sHave Won oot that Pannsvlropia mort
oao vim ,,o,5g,j h., osi,oJ
,sNo. Nc Win some ntI,,,,. ,,o,,o,, i, +bo
safe. What do Won want Of ~,
81 am poino to Philodelnbio in 81 daz, mr.
two. and miTIt RIM down and Iooiy nm tho
property. Now that Won own it. Won ought
to know something more about il. II nav
not be such a bad piece as Won have been
told"
60 it's as bad as it can be. We leased
dozen acres of it a month ago for TWENTY
five dollars a year and taxes. with option
of purchase But you NAV look at it if
YOU want to. | put the whole matter in
YOUR hands. Collins will give Won the
papers if you drop in at the Office TO-
morrow. By-the-wav. ask him for that
policy on Scrimson's life, and see if it is
all straight and safe: and if YOU happen
to run across Scrimson, let me know how
he is looking"
Mark did not run across Scrimson, and
consequently could not report upon the
prospect of his sudden demise: but he
mailed a letter to Scrimson's pretty
daughter before starting on his Pennsvi-
vania trip the next day. His business in
Philadelphia was soon finished, and as he
took his seat in the westward bound train
his mind was free to work on the
audacious scheme, which had come to him
like an inspiration, for the simultaneous
punishment and reformation of the two
unreasonable men whose preiudices stood
between him and his FANNY, His conclu-
sion was that while it was desperate ex-
pertinent, it was worth irving: and his
resolution was not shaken bv an incident
which occurred the next daV.
He had stepped off the train to catch
breath of undiluted mountain air at AL
toona, and walking along the station plat
form he had n GLIMPSE of a face Mt the
window of a Pullman car that sent an
electric shock from the ragion of his heart
uD and down his frame to brain and feet