Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-03
CHAPTER xxxYL.-pEposEp.

was ready enough to account for every penny,
and return all the money undiminished which
had come to his share. What troubled him
was the fearful lookout of a return - fur
nished lodgings. He saw himself about TO be
cast forth from the elegancies OF life, and cast
down to its vulgarities and discomforts. He
saw himself about to be transferred from the
cushioned carriage on the smooth road.
to a buggy on a corduroy way. all
jolts and kicks and plunges and break
downs. He was about to descend
from succulent joints and savory entre-mets to
mutton chops, alternating into beefsteaks, from
claret to bitter beer, from place OF authority
to one of submission, from progress to stagna-
ton, from a house of his own over which TO
range at pleasure to confinement within two
rooms, one opening ont of the other. He must
go back to strealy forks, and spoons that at
dinner recalled the eggs Of breakfast to knives
with adhesive handles and tumblers frosted
with inger-marks, to mirror frames encased in
fyproof shipped green paper and beaded flower
mats, horsehair sofa, a cruet-stand and old
crusted mustard and venerable Worcester
sauce In it, to wax fruit under glass shade, as
covered with dust as Peruvian island with
guano, to folding-doors into the adjacent bed
room and to curtains tied back with discarded
bonnet ribbons. But it would have been bad
enough for Philip, now accustomed to better
things, to have had the prospect before him OF
descending alone; but he was no longer alone;
he had a wife, who, however, was absent.
and about whose return he was uncertain. And
he had with him the encumoranee OF oaoy;
and the encumbrance of a baby drew with it a
train of dissatisfied and departing nurses, one
after another. like the procession OF kings re-
vealed to Macbeth in Hecate's cave.
A babe in a lodging house is as out of place
as was tne ancestral o'aniey ioun% ~ an $3.50
nest on sne eop u pine' u "NA0A INC -'N'--'
0iTe1 preserves ieiiilni'oenee. li
on1ie 'e,snian was leosoleI W s.,ens ~,
a. Ss wei 40 ne
tions noors,dsrad Ta ~ dad that
~ IA -, sao5 o,,,.,-,;tt;-,- a., - of oora-
r-;o,. fo1I, and he ,as -o-arad -,o1v 10 ,neet
So. ,.;.,s... - Ta.e.S, so,,so tad
Al +t ,,1ooo ~ ,,or hs-,d a,o +bc TOM
rorarv listnrb.n 90 Ivas nver Forever To every
man comes at some period after he has begun
to decline a oreat horror of old aoe- an aeoniz-
inU clntcb at the Measures and foIies of voutb.
a time of intoxication when he is not responsi-
BILE for his acts. an 1ntoxication produced by
fear lest life with its roses should have passed
and left only thorns behind and decay. Men
whose lives have been spent in business, sub
iected to routine who have no thought of love
and amusement. of laughter and idleness, are
suddenly reused to find themselves old and
standing out of the rush Of merriment and the
sunshine of happiness. Then they make a
frantic effort to seize what hitherto they have
despised, to hug to their hearts what they have
formerly cast away. 1t is the s. Luke's sum
mer, a faint reflex of the departed glory and
warmth, last smile before the arrival OF the
wintry gales. No moment in life is SO fraught
with danger as this-at none is there more risk
of shipwreck to reputation.
Now that Jeremiah had passed through this
period, he could survey its risks with smile
and sense of self-pity and little self-con-
tempt. He who had always esteemed himself
strong had discovered that he could be weak,
and perhaps this lesson had made him more
lenient with the infirmities of others.
He returned to his friend John Dale looking
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oiuer Ny sone years, uuS aso more n@ie' nc 10
nad toucned tne eartn, Dus nao risen from IL
stronger than when he fell.
On reaching Bridlington he learned from
Dale the state of matters at Mereatroyd.
Wbils tbera bastv mote arrived for M DaIe
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from Salome 70 say tnat sne was leaVlng with
her husbands consent, to be with her sister in
Switzerland, and both thought they could read
between the lines that there had been a fresh
s;roxor,oa ,vl,b pbiIin
ulnerehce WIN niP.
Thereupon Jeremiah went 70 Mergatroyd
and came in Unexpectedly and unannounced
nm Philin
Io-ar,iab perrvcomsor,ctr had not dscided
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what course TO pursue with regard 70 ms sister
and nephew. He was conscious that he had
PLAYED them trick, that he had put them to a
test which he was not justified in applying to
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ne Was angry WIN Dosn-"i.n nio n@.i-o,Ss
for the precipitation with which she had ae-
@aH md od Wi
for his treatment of Salome He did not dis
cr;so from bimseIf that his 1nterference in
s.o : s.1;oa.a ,..+.o- a. crorroI ~ az a.
sucn q uencase in@''er 40 qaa-i ~ .'r an
arrangement, between nusDano anu WlIe, mlgnt
make the breach worse.
When he arrived at Mergatroyd, he had not
resolved what course to take. He sat up half
the night with Philip.
''You will find" said the latter with some
pride, shat have maintained the business in
healthy condition; it is not in the condition it
was during the Continental War, which affect
ed linen as well as other things, but that was
of its nature ephemeral: 1t rests on sound
basis. Go through the books and satisfy your
self. My aunt" there was tone of bitterness
when he added this: my aunt watched the
conduct of the factory with Jealous eye, and
did not trust my accounts without a scrutiny.
As for what was In the bank, can give an ac-
count of every penny. and the securities, such
as came to me, are untouched"
Il will look into these matters at my leisure"
said Jeremiah, land II n1d that matters are
as you say will let you down lightly; only, L
forewarn you. let down you will be. And now
word about Salome
my wife, said Philip, snoruy
"Your wife-exactly
"With regard tn my wife, brook no inter-
ference" said Philip. haughtily. "The mill is
your affair." my domestic relations are my own"
"You cry out before you are hurt" retorted
Jeremiah; II am not about to interfere. I
know that you are greatly disconnected at the
discovery as to the parentage of your wife,"
Philip held up his head stlf1y and closed his
lips tightly. He said nothing.
miah, 'but wish you to understand this-that
have some claim to speak word to Salome,