Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-17

We~~AAoNA a startled fear upon her face, and, fer the first time ever could remember such thing, she clung to me as n l were . comfort to her.
 s.Are you afraid, Aunt Jessie, !" Iwhis- pered, "are you afraid they are here to search for hiDs ["
 |. Hush " she cried, in quick fear. "They are come to see the young horse"
 But knew why her hold upon my arm grew tighter. Yes, they were de- tectives, and they had all the buildings opened and examined before they left the farm. Oh, if they had only come yesterday, how terrible it would have been Strange that I forgot to hide from them myself, until it was too late. I think the sound of grandfather's raised, fierce tones took all sense and power from me.
 "Come here to search for the forger !" he cried, raising his stick in the short lived, savage strength which his wrath gave him. "Do you think harbor criminals here? He would be too cun- the first to give him up-the very first, the very first Come here he reiteF- ated, shrilly, tnot he, the thief l-he knows me too well. should give him up to you with my own hand; l should strike him myself, old and feeble as l am. I would never have had the law changed; would have hanged every forger under heaven Come here !? He daren't
 And then he turned to me, and spoke to me just such savage words as he had spoken of Gerard. Of course the men then knew who was and so am to go and tell in public all I know of Gerard.
 All I knowl Will it be crime in me to hold back any of the truth? Have I, as grandfather said to me tonight --and they were the first words he had uttered to me since my return-been helping him in crime? I shall never come back here after have been to tell of Gerard. It would not do for ne to come; even Aunt Jessie said so and, if she had not, how could have lived upon his bounty after those cruel words he said of me and Gerard to-day before them all?
 answered all the questions they put to me, no more, no less; but it seemed as if nothing csuld serve Gerards cause. He had in his possession the check which having bought it back, poor Gerard to
 
 afterward, cashed that other check for q, 1000. One thousand pounds As if Gerard could ever have had such & sum, and not knowl
 told of Eustace Jeffrey, and appealed to have him examined. But he came from the preliminary inquiry unsuspect- ed-a man exonerated from all shadow of crime. He had been friend of Ge- rard Dymocke's, he said, and had once changed a check for his sister, but that check had been bought back from him by Dymocke the very first time they were alone together afterward. About the other check he knew nothing at all, but, during the three weeks that fol lowed the date upon which it had been cashed, he had noticed that Gerard by mocke was unusually we'll supplied with money, and that he was unusually excit- ed, with moody fits of depression alter hating with this excitement, as his sister could testify. I suppose that could testify it; at least they seemed to take it for granted that had done so.
 And thus, by some means, Eustace Jeffrey left the examination an un- blamed man, and l criminal in my c criminal in the thoughts of all those who had been about me. I wonder whether, if we had one single friend in all the city who would and could have exerted himself in our behalf, things would have been left to look just as they did lookP
 am with Rachel now in the old room which is SO painfully familiar to me with Rachel only, for a few days ago she awoke one morning to find her mother lying dead beside her. The shook to Rachel has left her quite deaf, though still just her own patient, tender self. She would not let me tell her of my sorrows, but she told me of hers as only those can tell of sorrow who know the joys that lie beyond, and, as list ened, grew little braver and little more patient.
 All the hope is over now. Gerard, in spite of his disguise and occupation, has been taken. The words look like other words when they are written; yet to think what they moan Some men in Penzance, who wondered about him during the few minutes he stopped with the cart, suspected and betrayed him, sending the police on his traokamy poor, solitary, hSnted brother But have lived through that time, and I can not dare to recall it yet,
 GuAs A4SNASNAAO SOAA1 "AO AAeso SOAAAO AASA@AS from America in consequence of his fathers sudden death, prosecuted with @ vigor which every one called just, but which called mercfess and cruel. Again Eustace Jeffrey and were ex- amined; but, after it all, there was the verdict uttered, for which the way had been prepared.
 Gerard had changed the forgedcheck; Gerard had had possession of the first, of which the forged one had been an exact copy, except that it had been made payable to MT. Dymocke's order, instead of Miss Dymocke's, and Gerard had been caught attempting to make his escape in disguise. Gerard could deny nothing of this, and we could pay for no one to plead for him so that the trial was soon over, and he was sen- tenced to transportation for eight years.
 An, how soon the words are written that mean an endless parting-an ever- lasting disQrace-a blight upon onr