Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-02-24
fresh your memory as to the writing of

lear CnlCK. ~ y 'Dear Culck. IN tne
friendliness of it-who would have sus-
pectedi" "If, as you say. you are dissat-
isfied with the safety of your mortgage
and have called up your money, am sure
you cannot do better than buy shares, If
yon can get them, in my old Company
Brudene and Company. The shares have
been going up steadily ever since the Com
pany was started, and even at the present
prices | believe you can get trifie over
five per cent. Any stock broker Will find
out for you II there are shares in the mar
ket"
Yours faithfully
"CYRUs BRUDENEL."
"Ths is truly terrible" Mr.. Brudenel
cried, looking at the letter and the date.
Yes it is quite untable-qute. |
wrote this letter. remember it now-and
the letter to Athelstan Kilburn in the at
ternoon before dinner. And GU the same
d ~, the very same day, wrote the letters
which | do not remember for the selling
out of the shares 1t is truly wonderful.
No-Chick, I've no explanation to offer. |
have nothing to say
He sat down, and raped his knuCkles
with his eyeglasses.
That Is have an explanation" he ad
ded, "Uut you would not accept 1t"
II was by some iuscrutable working of
instinct that Mr. Brudenel arrived at this
knowledge. Mr. Emanuel Chick would
ed to Mr.. Kllburn. No one, in fact, Is
more stubbornly incredulous concerning
supernatural forces, OF her than his own
than the ordinary medium of commerce.
\ on might as well look for belief in magic
from "A conjnrOr. He believes nothing he
has no kind of feeling, for Instance, as re-
CARDS ghosts; he would sci up nus tent
calmly in tue most ancient and lonely
churchyard he would wrap himself in a
blanket and got sleep in a charuel house
with lighted candle uck in skull, and
hundreds of skulls grnning at HIM, miles
away from any other human creature,
without the slightest tremor of his nerves.
To tell Emanuel Chick that his old patron
had been made to write that, or any other
letter, by the spirits, would have been an
insult to his understanding.
"Well, sir" said the man roughly,
"what are you going to do for me You
have ruined me. That you can't deny.
You sold out your own shares while you
recommended me to put in my money.
That you can't deny. And me, grown old
III your service, though you've left off EN-
ployng me now, what are you going to do
for me Y''
81 don't know" The justice of the
claim was not to be disputed, nor the &C
curacy of the statements. 81 don't know,
Chick. l can't say. will think. &c
away, now"
The man made no sign of going away.
81 haven't got the money! he said sui
lenly, for the quarters rent, which Is
seven pounds five owe for a ton aud d
half OF coat, which is thirty five shillings
I've got no engagements business Is terri
ply slack. And you've ruined NE"
Mr.. Brudenel sighed and took a Chequt
book from mis- drawer.
Here he sad, take this chcque. II
will serve YOU for the present
"rwo thousand pounds, nj four pei
NJ N.,.. 4 f-; a.,
cheque. lis eighty pounds year. This Is
the first quarter. ! will call again, NJ
3rudenel You aud me have been very
friendly, and lawyer between MS would
break friendship, as one may say. Coco
morning, sir.
On this occasion no one looked at Paul
When the message of the Bank Book re
ery5ody looked at him. Now everyOn,
looked away from him 1t was as if a lOol
would have been construed into re
proach.
"If one man saves his money, anotheI
man must lose it, said Tom. I'VE have
saved thirty-five thousand pounds there
! fore other people have lost exactly tina
same amount. Mr.. Athelatan kilburl
has lost, 1t appears, eight thousand, ant
! Chick two, by our action ana our advice
Ii seems TO me, sir, that reparatiou vii
have to be made 10 Chick, at any rate"
Mr. Brudenel shook his mead sorrowful
| lY Why when the spirits m de him sci
those. did they not also prevent the writ
| ing If those letters Ii was true that hi
feet stood at last upon the Sy.it Rock, bu
/ >tlll there WAS n sense Ot iucJui
/ pletene-e. p,ul offered no explanation
out he look. d unhappy.
At thi, moment card was brought t
MIR Brulrnel
Gentleman says he WON'T tlNe mir
ut, sir. VANS TO zee vow and Here Pau