Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-03-27

mortgage being there, but I hadn't tho
heart to mention it. and it wasn't any
of my business anyway. and I really
hoped 1t had been paid and would nevee
give him any trouble. But about q
week ago a fellow was here from Frisco
you remember m. Jo?'' he said,
interrupting h mself and addressing the
land ord OF the hotel. who was ono of
the crowd that fellow with stove
pipe hat and suit Of brown velvet
clo hes. He stopped with you?'
Eyes, replied the landlord. II 70
member HIM. He was there to nre1
and supper and left on the down boat"
"Weil.' continued the Recorder,
''that was Blake's brother-in-law. 1
don't know whether he is as big ras-
cal as Blake was or not, but anyway it
seems that Blake got hard I'D and Dor
rowed fifteen hundred dollars of this
brother-in-law and gave mortgage On
that place up there for security.
at was more than the ranch was worth
at the time. but reckon Blake was in
a fix where he had to have t. at amount,
and as that was all the security he had
to give. his brother-in-law let i'm have
1t. May be he never went to look at
the place at all. but just took Blake's
say-so for what the prop rty was worth
'Wcll after a bit. Blake. who was
always looking over the records to see
if he couldn't strike lead of some
kind, ha ened to stumble onto the fac:
that old Puterbaugh hadn't indexed
that mortgage, and he made up his
mind to sell the pla . to somebody else
and leave the country.
''He knew no one would be likely to
see the mortgage in making an abstract,
and + they did discover it. why he
would say it had been paid and de-
stroyed. but the party had neglected to
cancel it on the records. Then he would
buster around. pretending to be ! ok
ing for the party W o had held it in Or
der to have the matter fixed up, but
would never be able to find him, and
pretty soon the man who was going to
buy the place would get sick of waiting
and go off somewhere else, or buy an
other place, and the whole thing would
be forgotten.
it al out, and reckon amt very far
from right"
But how does it come that this
brother in law hasn't put in a claim for
his ntere-t m ney all this timer" asked
one of the bystan, lers. ''If his claim
on the place is good, he has been losing
a pile Of dust by not collectin' his in
terest from year to year"
"Well. may be SO, and then again
may be not" returned the Recorder.
You see, the improvements Parsons
has put on the place is worth a good
d al more than the interest. Besides,
this brother-in-law may not have known
that Blake had sold the place. and was
ust making it easy on Blake, as he
| supposed.
Anyway, the mortgage is there, and
| if you'll step over to Tom Anderson s
| O., &C guess you'll find that he has the
OBJ of fore, 10 ing it in the next term of
court, which begins the second Monday
| of next month, and that he has already
sent notice to the NeWs for publication,
as required Ivy law
''It's an outrage on the old man with
the Grip led boy remarked one, az
the crowd dispersed. land Blake ought
to sw NJ for it. Ii he was back again,
| I'd be on, to help do t.
'.And l." land l." land l." echoed
dozen voices.
But Blake was not there, and will
doubtless take good care never to go
back. If living still. he is probably to
be found n New York, or some other
great ity, running some swindling in
s,itut on by means of which he obtains
a living. He may even have amassed
a fortune, and if so. should be looked
for, if wanted. among the presidents OF
saw ngs banks, or managers of some
corporate monopoly. robbing the people
under the shelter of the lew.
CHAPTER XIV.
| OVER THE RANGE.
It was three o'clock on a short o.
tober day when John Parsons left
Phippsburg on his return to the cottage
where his wife and crippled boy awaited
him.
He did not call it home-did not think
of it as such now.
Another hell claim against it fol
all it was worth in money, and his pas1
experience led him to expect no mercy.
He had not stopped to ascertain who
held the mortgage, or anything about it.
further than that it existed and was fol
sum greater than he could, by any
possib lity. raise.
He had no hope that it might prove
q m stake in any way; that it nigh
have been pad and not Cancelled. HI
accepted it as what he ought really tt
have expected would happen sooner OF
later, for he had come to believe tha
the poor, those who labored in any way
for living, were looked upon as legit
innate prey by Il set of men who had by
sone means obtained control OF thu
courts and Of State and National Legis
latures, and who in one way or anothe
- but always under the guise of law
would rob the people Just as men rol
tho honey bees, t:.king the honey. blu
letting the bees I've in order that the.
might store up more honey for the rob
rs when their turn comes for teins
robbed again. And so from the frs
mention of q mort age he gave up al
hope. regarding it as but another of tn
. ways--of whic', perience had laugh
; h m that there We're many-of takin:
from him and h their ] tile accumula
tons and but one thought, one i'm
pulse remained to get back to wher
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