The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-30

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| be inserted and the catch pushed back.
The drawer on the floor was empty.
The police captain was anxious to learn
the details of the burglary Immediate
ly, and as the doctor allowed Caleb to
talk, his story was at once told.
He was reading in his room. So
noiseless was the entry of the burglar
into the library that he heard nothing
OF it; he was alarmed by noise, which
1t now appeared must have been the
fall of the drawer to the floor, as it was
drawn out too far He snatched a
loaded pistol from shelf where he al
ways kept it, and descended the stairs
in his stockings. The burglar was
standing motionless, with the drawer
in his hands, as though waiting to see
If the noise had caused any alarm. He
was masked. He fired a pistol at Caleb
and rushed to the window, and that
was about all the latter could tell about
it. Any thing in the drawer? the cap
tain wanted to know. Yes; a pocket
book, with one hundred and twenty
five dollars, which was gone. Why
didn't Mr.. Maytham shoot, toop
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as though he wished to shut out the
ugly sight. Caleb did not like to talk
about the affair at all, and abruptly
changed the subject when / referred to
it; so it came to be as a sealed book
between us. And for a while longer
our old life went on as usual.
For while longer; but the ten years
that are numbered between these two
parts OF my history wrought many
changes. Mothers sufferings were
over; she had now been sleeping by
fathers side four years. NY governess
and maid had long been discharged;
my school-days were over, and-well,
to make long story short, ! had been
married a few months, and Dick
that's my husband and / kept house
with Bachelor Caleb. No other ar
rangement than this would my brother
consent to; and as it suited both of the
other parties, l may say that it ar
ranged itself.
On a chill evening in October, Dick
and were waiting for Caleb He was
more than an hour late when we heard
his ring. ran to the door and opened
it-and started back. There was Caleb,
and there were two other men support
ing third between them.
"Regy," said my brother, ''call the
housekeeper, and have her bring a
light. You stay in the dining-room. I
will explain presently"
He spoke in the quick, direct way
that | never thought of questioning. I
did as he directed, and heard them all
go upstairs to one of the vacant cham
bers. Soon the men, two of them,
came down and rode away in the car
riage that had brought them; and in
a few minutes Caleb came in and took
his seat with us at the table. He slipped
his tea in an absent kind of way, and
said, abruptly:
s"We put him to bed, and Mrs. Wynn
is with him. I will get nurse in the
morning.
Both Dick and stared at him. Ca
leb smiled-a mournful smile, indeed
and contin led:
No, children, | am not crazy. Get
your supper, and II tell you all about
it."
Our supper did not last long. Caleb
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it was easy to see that he was keeping
down his feelings.
Going to the secretary in the library,
he unlocked large drawer, and, tax
ing quarto volume from it, he laid it
on the table. "Look!' was all he
said. The cover bore, in large gilt
letters, the words: Family Bible
Maytham."
"Caleb!" j cried, reproachfully,
"You never told me of this
"There was reason; here is the
reason"
He opened the volume to the family
record. There was the record of the
births of our father and mother; their
marriage; the births of us two; and be-
tween Caleb's and mine, with date
which showed the person to have been
three years younger than Caleb was the
name: dennis Maytham.
/ looked up in amazement.
"Our brother, Regy," said Caleb.
Then his strength left him; he
dropped into a great chair, covered his
face and sobbed like a woman I was
on the floor at his feet in an instant
with my arm around him.
Tell me all, brother" / said.
'I'll make it short story, Regv-
and Dick; there can be no more secrecy
about it now--but can t bear much
more myself tonight. He was wild,
bad and maynard; he nearly broke
mothers heart, and at last father dis
owned him. This was soon after Won
were born, Regy. l think the sorrow
of it FASTENED fathers death; and it
has been the shadow on my life. This
afternoon, apoor wreck of man, rag
ged and consumptiTe, stopped me on
the street and implored aims. / looked
| into his sunken eyes and saw-my
brother Dennisi | called carriage; I
took him to the hospital, and had him
washed, dressed and shaved. and called
the doctor. If it's anybody you are
interested in, MIR. Maytham, was his
decision, you have only to make him
comfortable for few days. Medicine
can do nothing for him. And then
| brought him home. F"
He could say no more. / pressed
his hand; and after we had sat in
silence for some moments, urged him
10 go to bed, telling him that Mrs.
Wynn should provide for watching
with Dennis, and in the morning we
would see him together.
II do need rest" he said, very
YEARLY. He kissed me and went up
stairs. Neither Dick nor | could find
words in which to say much to each
| other just then about this tremendous
revelation; and as it naturally excluded
every other subject from our minds
we made the evening short one.
For what happened during the night
| am indebted to the account of Mrs.
Wynn. | do not believe that Caleb
had been in bed at all; for about
eleven o'clock he went softly into the
room where his brother-our brother
was lying, and taking no notice at
all of the hogsekeeper, softly called his