Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-20
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS

IN Si5sboftom and her son. Captain Penny
oo,,souIrE are unable 90 live in the stYle they
wish on their income o. tbs1 SEO anu speculaTs on
destb Of Mrs. Sidebottomas half-brother. Jere-
Sniab pen unvcomequick. The latter is in love with
M isan Niece Saiome ellsworth, who lives with him
Iarenish Pennycomequick, while walking at
midnignL is overtaken by a food from bursted
reseryoir He and another man, who is half
clad seek refuge in hut and Jeremiah wraps
his coat around his companion. After the flood
subsidies body is found which is Identified by the
card case in the coat pocket as that of jeremiah
Pennycomequick. Philip Pennycomequick is
telegraphed for and arrives. A will Is found
making SalOme ellsworth her uncle's heiress, but
the documentha been invalidated bv tearing of
the signature. Mrs. SidebottOm declares that she
will not respect the wishes Of her dead half
brother, as expressed in his will. In the mean
time Jeremiah Pennycomequick, who was not
Salome thinks she sees the ghost of Jeremiah
Pennycomequick in the house. Philip Penny
comequlck takes charge of his uncle's mill and
insists that Salome and her mother shall remain
with him in his uncle's house. Jeremiah Penny
and determines allow his relatives to remain in
that eenef @ e. while he spends year on the cont 10
carry out a Joint agreement made with Philip to
pay Sslome g., 600 and thereby ofends Phiilp,
self, even If It RUNS the mill business. salome IS
again excited by seeing the figure OF man VINO
loohs ne tne supposeay qSaI i ht pa viii not
accept the money. The latter thinks his aunt mas
influenced Salome, and to checkmate MIS-: sue
bottom he proposes marriage TO Salome, who ae-
cepts him, thinking that he loves her. Jeremiah
Pennycomequick hears of the proposed marTiage
and is much disduieted thcreat, knowing that MS
temperance at his home would force Philip 70
return to his drudgery and penury as a lawEstrss
he hates Earl Schofeld, who is responsible for his
fathers ruin, at which Mrs. Susworth i oeeones ,
confused and uneasy. jeremiah is app1oachea by
Beaple Yeo, fluent fnancter, who Is ABOUT 70
start health resort. Jeremiah thinks ne mas seen
the gentleman. or his clothes at least somewhere
before. Philip and Salome are married very
quietly and happy year slips quickly by. Pnilp
Is blessed with a son, oil whom he is very proud.
Mrs, sidebottom visits the spare chamber and sees
a man lying there, but assures herseit tnaI IL rs
finds the strange visitor to be Beaple Ieo, and at
the same time discovers that Beaple 1eo and Earl
Schoheld are one, and the father OF his wife
CHAPTER XXL-EsTRANGEMENT.
Onel Two! Three!
Hark! on the church bell; then, again
One! Twoi Three!
ut is woman or little girl" said those lis
tening.
Then again
One! Two! Three!
"a woman. Who can she be? Who is i'll?
But-how old?' Then, again, the bell
One! Two! Three!-Up to 46.
aged 46l Who can it be?''
MANY faces appeared in the windows and
doors of the street at Mergatroyd, and when
the sexton emerged from the belfry he was
saluted with inquiries of WHO is dead? Forty
six years old-who can she be?"
complaint"
Now, in Yorkshire, when man dies, then
the bell to-, four, four, four; when boy, four,
four. " hen a woman dies, then as above,
thri,o ;and when girl, three, three, two;
az in each case, the age is tolled.
cks!-you may say what you will, it
ks SAID Mrs. Sidebottom. impa-
was in the study with Philip. 81
Of anything so monstrous, so inhu-
Id not have believed it of you.
er what have seen, can believe
you."
unmoved. "The plunder of that
low," he said, unconcernedly,
laced in the proper hands.
ere is cannot now say, and do
many persons he has defrauded,
extent. Whether all will get
1g is not certain; probably they
part, perhaps large part, but