Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-04-23

mas SHcoklhB liking TOT us, p2rC1cuiorly for you"
 "What makes you think sop repeated Blake.
 'ln the first place she had her boy named Walter, presumably in remem- brance of you"
 ''I don't care if she had twins named after me. She is heartless firt. She took mean, malicious pleasure in rid iculing me who loved her so fondly. Why, she told friend of mine that she might have married me if my nose hadn't been so cold. I might have over- looked all that. but to say she could not l afford even to be sister to me- has made me bitter" 70, there was lots of fun in her then, but she is sober enough now. She has hard time of it," said Dobson, medi- 1 tatively.
 'In what way?" ''She is as poor as church mousse" 'Her father, the editor of the Weekly Bugle, was very wealthy. What is the matter with him?" ''He tried to run ten-horse paper in | one-horse town, and he gently meandered up the Hume. He is a finan- cial wreck"
 But her dude husband was rich; what became of his money?'' 'He didn't have sense enough to keep it, and now poor Jennie is hardly able l to get enough to cat for herself and her boy Walter."
 Serves her just right" said Blake viciously. "If she had married me she could have had a new sealskin sack every day in the week, if she wanted it, | and expect she would; and she could 1 have ridden in her own carriage, and had crests and monograms and all that sort of thing. I'm not sorry for her."
 of you were to see her, don't think you would be so severe. Your heart would soften towards her."
 "I'm not one of tho soft sort. I am glad she is humbled at last. So, she lost avery thing?"
 ''Yes," replied Dobson, ''she has lost every thing except lot of worthless miningstock certificates some sharper sold her fool husband at a high figure. It is stock in wildcat mining company, the Golden Gate Mining Company, I be- lieve."
 "How much of the stuff has she got?" asked Blake, hastily displaying sud- den interest that impressed Dobson.
 ''She has five hundred thousand of the stuff," he replied, 'but it is not worth two cents on tho dollar. The more of that stuff one has tho worse of one Is. A million dollars of it would make Jay Gould double -barrclcd paul per-"
 Blake was accustomed to conceal his emotions, and he gave no outward sign that he was fully aware of the fact that there had been sudden rise in tho heretofore worthless stock. Blake, moreover, had a straight tip that Jay Gould was behind the movement to shove it up to par
 "Poor girl" sighed Blake, "1 supsoso I am little hard on her, Wall street makes man hard. As you say, Dob son, l expect she has suffered enough"
 'I am glad to hear you talk that way. I know that she was compelled by her father to marry Tom Thorpe and jilt you"
 "I didn't know that. It is another mitigating circumstance. We'll, I'll for give her."
 "Her business affairs arc all tangled
 up, and she will have to have somebody v of experience in business matters to straighten them out. There is jay | U
 fered to help her, but don't think he
 is actuated by worthy motives, observed Dobson.
 ' sion of the supposed worthless stock , certificates had the effect of an electric
 shock on Blake. ''It must not be" he said, springing ] to his feet, ''rather than have her made | <ho Of cob To ;v,
 attend to her affairs myself" ''But you remember she tilted you shamefully. A burnt child should dread } the fire," said Dobson. ''I'm not marble or iron, Jim," said 7 Blake; II forgive her now that She needs } my assistance. When do ,ou go back tc
 Slowburg?"
 l "I am going to stay in New York fo, a few weeks and see the sights" said Dobson.
 i train for Slowburg." "Why, what's your hurry?" asked Dob son, very much surprised.
 That poor girl must not be left un- protected. She is liable to robbed and plundered by interruptions sharks" "She can't be robbed of much as long 2 as she has nothing but that worthles.
 mining stock and the debts left her by l her husband," said Dobson, with pug zled expression on his face. "I didn't mean that she was liable tt
 be robbed; only meant that the poo 3 creature needed protector" replied ] Blake.
 3 The next train bore Walter Blake
 swiftly to Slowburg, Conn.,. where he ar rived safely. After donninC new sui l of clothes, which he broug It with hin
 for the purpose, Walter Blake left tht
 hotel and walked slowly toward the cot :. tage of the Widow Thorpe. He smiled 8 peculiar smile as he opened the gatt