Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-02-02

He pointed at George and sighed.
"He krOws."
George seemed startled, confused,
and onscieuce-strichen all at once, but
he told true tale.
yet father, 1 love her." concluded
the young man. II can not help it,
and know she loves me-
Gasden remained silent, and II
seemed to Tim as though his face slowly
grew stern. The old man overcome
his sufferings in determined effort to
talk.
''Hit wuz all wrong. 1 know" he
said, END when seed Toad liked him,
l tho't she nd me had orter go. But
now, ez we're still hyur, I'll tell ye all
sump'n erbout myself. Yurs nd yurs
ago l went to Californy, nd lef wife
md daughter in ole Kantuck. / stayed
on thar a diggin' gold md tradin'
eroun', 'twell saved up long erbout
$1,000. Then l started home in my ole
cloze, d had all my money in 81, 00o
bills in my pocket. thot, We see, I'd
surprise the folks at home, a lettin' on
at fust like l hadn't nuthin'. Wal,
got ercrost the plains all right, nd WOE
on the train 'twix St. Louis nd Kansas
City, when l dozed off fer leetle willis.
Min you! I'd got my pile right thar
safe md sound-ez / tho't."
Old Tim paused for breath and
strength. One of the servants gave
him some wine. Gasden was standing
motionIess, his eyes fixed on Tins face,
his owrvery pale, IL At
"After spell I.waked up" resumed
Tim, feebly, end then-wal, i wuz
robbed-robbed = my hull pile wu2
clean gone. l up. md raised rukus,
md tole the kainducter, nd thar wuz 8
greet stir up in the kyar, md they all
greed ter be searched, fer nobody heG
coined in er gone out But hit wern't
a bit uset. The money was gone, md
comb nigh goin' plum crazy over it.
hadn't the nerve to go home then, nc
face my wife md gal, so went back ter
Californy, md there knocked eroun
fer awhile, but it didn't do no good
somehow. Then my wife, she died
md my girl nd her man, they died, q
leavin' of thish yer pore child; md
went back md TUX 'er away. I'd hed
sech bad luck, every one thar seemed
ter be down on me. md after that.
we'uns took ter trampin' 'twell we mel
up long O. Mr.. Gasden hyur What
we'd a done if we hadn't pulled yCr
outer that shaft, nd you TUX us home,
don't know. You've seemlike =
the only real frien' we've he'd -haip'l
he, AnuisP- nd fer her to be marry:n
of your only son, in this yer way, WIZ
jest more'n IcOuld stan'."
"Tim," asked Gasden in awhispar
startling from its intensity, "wheil-
did this-robbery you speak of-wlleI
did it take placer
oval, femme see," Tim spoke a.
though half asleep. "Hit mus ne,
ben OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, sir; hi
wur jest twenty-three yur ago come mex
April"
Gasden fell back with such a deel
sigh, that Tim seemed surprised. Thel
he recovered, and hung over the injured
man solicitously, until the latter slept
after which he retired to his own room
, seemingly very much depressed. Ate
that, watchers were stationed at tn
bedside, and the great house was quie
once more.
The next morning Mr.. Gasden dit
not come down as usual, and q servant
/ going to his room, found him seated a
his desk, stone dead, with bullet hol
| in one temple and an empty derringe
, upon the floor. He had shot himself
though no one else heard the report, a
his room was distant and the wall
were thick.
: Two freshly written papers lay befor
) him, one labeled; "My confession" tn
other: "My will" In the first he state
that he himself had robbed old Til
t when asleep in the cars, and had sc
I GREETED the money in the lining of hi
S valise. He had then come to Alabam
and grown rich with Tins money
4 George, he wrote, was not his own sol
but waif whom he had adopted t
cheer his loneliness A tormentin
Q conscience which had never slept
was, in the new light of Tins story
4 now too burdensome to be borne AS
? kind of reparation, however, he ha
t made will, which he adjured h
t adopted son to see fully executed.
Q In the will itself every thing Gasde
= owned was left to Tim, absolutely an
Internationally. AS all his wealth ha
r been derived from the stolen money, h
g did not think even George was entitle
8 to dollar.
# There was fine state of confusiC
o for awhile, after the true state Of affail
came out Old Tim refused to touC
d the property, while George, thong
/ much cast down, was equally firm
IS determining to abide by the terms
'e his putative fathers will. Annis
IN last came to the rescue.
in George" she stammered, Ill
IL marry you Tiff you'll have me; the
g we can all enjoy the money"
II am the same as the son of thief
t, he said, mournfully.
lie IAN / not the grandchild Of
Id tramp" she returned. 1--WE CT
neither OF us afford to be too punct
W ious"
ef OF course, it was all settled in t
d, way love desired it to be settled.
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