San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-09
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of Tubal Cain who make that city one of
the richest and lovelicst in the world, that
Edith one day ordered the carriage, drove
down to the Amicable, took out what she
supposed to be her box, and found in il
AHtony's Cattaraugus and Opelousas bonds
and his hundred dollars.
OF course Edith knew she had made a
mistake, and she instantly supposed, as
she usually did, that everything which was
wrong was her own fault This, then, was
the first result of h.. fathers training her
to businessman she had lost all her own
property, and had stolen some other prop
erty of vastly more value, for the girl knew
nothing of the wort hlessneSS of the Catta-
raugus and OpelOuSaS, and it was very
easy for her to see that whereas she had
left in her box only thirty or forty thou
sand dollars worth of bonds, she had I'M
der her hands two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars worth of the second issue OF
that unfortunate road.
She did not do what Antony did, how
ever She took the whole parcel, hundred
dollars and all, and put it into her little
satchel. She put back the box into her
safe, and as quickly as she could escape
the eye of the warders, all of whom she
thought looked on her with suspicion, as
if she We're detected thief already, she
rushed to her little coupe and babe Will
lam drive her directly home.
Her only thought was to tell her father
all that had happened and to confess that
she was u fool
OF course this would have been the true
thing for her to do, but there was unfortu
nately delay. Her father was in Chicago
for two days, and Satan had all that time
to inspire her with other counsels. Now,
although Satan might have done his worst
before he could make Edith Jane do any.
thing wrong, it was easily in his power to
make her do something very foolish. For,
. as Henry Kingsley well says, when the
devil cannot achieve his purposes by send
ing knave he does the same by a much
easier process and sends fool. For the
more she brooded over the matter the
more the poor girl persuaded herself that
she had better not, at first, speak to her
father. Besides the feeling that she was a
fool and had made a horrible mistake
there was a. little side trouble which in
creased and Increased as she thought of il
till it at last became giant Afrite, de
stroying all her peace. It was the recollec-
ton that she had put in her box the six
her cousin Evelyn.
Now this Cousin Evelyn had had hor
rible love passage with Fergus MacIntire
, l have no right to cali it disgraceful,
though am very glad that none of my
readers was ever so compromised. 1t was
very bad business, and Evelyn had been
pulled out of it only with great tact and
difficulty All the compromising letters
have been burned up. Instead of burning
them Evelyn Haddam, when she heard
Edith had a safe of her own, had begged
her to take care of them, and at her second
visit to the safe Edith had put these letters
with her bonds. The reader knows What
had become of them.
Now this was the only secret which our
poor Edith had ever had from her father
She did not want TO have these letters
brought to light by any investigation
which should be made The poor child in
stantly fancied herself before a police
court as a thief; she fanCied the discovery
of her box opened by judge and these let
ters of Evelyn and Fergus read aloud and
printed in all the Sunday newspapers
She cried over it; she wrote note to
Evelyn which she destroyed; she wrote
another note, which she destroyed also,
and finally said to herself that she had
rather lose all her own property which was
in the safe than have any revelation made
as to what was in the box. If she could
only be sure that whoever had the bonds
would burn those hateful letters it seemed
to her that she should be perfectly happy.
In all this of course Edith Lane was
quite wrong; hut as the reader will see
she was in false position, which she had
stumbled into really from no fault of her
own.
Poor Antony Blake is the person who
deserves the most consideration and sym
patty from the reader. Antony Blake
spent two or three days in Pittsburg. He
was most Hospitality received by old friends
whom he had known at the Polytechnic
institute. He saw all the marvels of gas
distribution, of glass making, of irOnfOund-
ing, and by Mr. Westinghouse kindness
he was taken through the wonderful ma
chine works from which that exquisite ap-
paratus is produced which preserves every
year the lives of dare not say how many
thousand people in this world. He saw
some of the Tubal Gains whom he had
gone to see: he showed to them the plans
of his machine, which were cordially com
mended. He had one and another sug-
gestiOn made to him as to the ways for
putting it upon the market. But it was
clear to him, as it had been in Tamworth,
that the destruction of the poor Is their
poverty, and that he was in no way to get
any decent return for the very exquisite
contrivance which everybody admitted he
had in hand unless he himself could invest
$4,000 or $4,000 in the complicated ma
chinery which was necessary for produc-
ing it.
Edith Lane resolved once and again after
her fathers return that she would tell him
that she bad lost her bonds But all daY