The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-10-24
but wouldn't If Won hadn't excited my

but wouldn't If you hadn't excited my
suspicious. You tempted me. 4"
"How-how dill | tempt you?"
"Why, you were SO awful my sterious
when Mrs. Howson called, l couldn't
help noticing it Then you gave your
self dead away. Nuncke.
"Gave myself away"
dead away, Nuncke, the way 20.
showed her II her carriage. III it was
Queen Victoria you couldn't teen NOR"
particular. OF course | noticed it. Then
when you had me tell you oil about the
girl don't you thiHh | wondered. Lord!
How stupid you are, Nunckc."
Am l? Wen see
That's what I'm coming to. Just
what I'm getting at. OF course, | put
on my studying cap. l SAYS to myself,
hello. Something's up SO rcthing un-
common. Nuncke amt wasting no time
on that old woman An this here girl
she's worth money To him someWay or
he wouldn't have me keep her in sight
SO long and no move maGe-only lust
finding out who she lived with and how
Sic was treated such things as that !
says-whats Nulckc's little game? Aud
what happened then Why. l found
maybe it was Providence put EN- right
in my hands
800. groaned jeremiah, "providcnce
providence. I'll providence You, Ike"
u don't think YOU will. Not when
you know it all You'll not say Il word,
Nuncllp. You II just do like Crockctt's
coon-come right down"
go on. 60 ON, you scounGrei."
"ics-I am sCoundr J. leS-that
SO. But | m not half "a big a sCoundre
as you are, Nuncke. What made you
keep Mrs HoWson ignorant of the
whereabouts Of her granddaughter?
En-"
"IIow do you know ! did"
allow? How? Why heard yoG tell
her-I heard you putting her off with
lies, until that morning she said >hc
would put it in another lawyer hands
and thcn--thcn what did you say?n
,jcrem all jerks did not answer He
was dumb with rage
You said, Very wei. Mrs. Howson.
] will gladly retire, and shall take pleas
ure in giving IA the aid in my power to
whomcver you se.cct Then you called
me in, ami asked me 4 lot of no-account
questions, and when | went out held
the door oPeu-I was b luud to get at
the truth that day Why, you dlScoy-
cred all at once the Cir was in the city
was seen in the city Only the day be-
fore Then she got Modified litc-ict
up on you-gaVc you another trial and a
hundred dollars! \ hundred dollars"
"lou lie. :"
"Nou lie. Nunckc."
"IIow do yoH know what She gave
me-"
Il opened tho door. Your backs were
turned, and saw you turn up five
twenty dollar bills -ah. am | lying?
And she said, That makes five hundred
doIa"s I've given You, Mr.. jerks"
Jeremiah groaneI.
40. you may groan. You ought to-
Five hundred dollars for a job many an
other man would have been ad to do
fer five or ten What trouble was there?
Didn't | do all the work? Who found
the Cir? Wasn't it me? And what was
you keeping her living place hid from
the odYomcu for-ch" What was YOU
doing ~or-2h? Tell me that"
Now Jeremiah jerks smiled craftly.
lie looked wickedly at his nephew and
said, very deliberately:
you would like to know. Find out
You'd best do it soon. Because you're
games paved, young man. You've
tdih'd iot III ~ H. VI Turn II ftilillS
Now"-hc rose, and threatened Ike with
look and hand-"go! 60 at once-and
never let me see you again-go."
Ike laughed in his unclc's face.
"Do ,ook frightened. Not much. See
here, Nuncke I've got ready for this
What DO You mean"
"Nhy-! know al about it,"
Wv hat do you know"
q know you've been milking two
cows"
"Yes-ycs, yes. Now You sit down.
Best get yourself a glass of water. be-
cause like as net you'Il faint when I'm
done"
Jeremiah jerks conld only glare at his
nephew. wio very cooi!y tapped hi head.
at amt a great head-no? Never said
it was, did |" Did /. Nunckc? but it's
leycl-pcrfcctly level. Now, I'll just
oiel out Why. tlc girls worth two
millions cash Two millions. Shell
get that from Mrs Iowson, who amt
Mrs How on, by u iong shot. Well,
who, she, then? Why. shes La y How
son or not lIowson-thatS the family
namc-Lady Norford. Aud that's thu
name on the top Of her letters, and it's
the Morford crest Gou don't thiGk I'm
so awful gre | don't know who to 90
to to find out all about the English ariS-
toCracy, even il there wasn't a book in
the next block telling all | wanted TO
know That old woman you re- So atten-
tive to is Lady Morford ?"
"Gou'Vc sa q that twice"
well, III say it again, because it does
me coed to say it Has a sort of rich,
swelling sound And the girl is her
GRANDDAUGHTER
I'm glad you've found cut" said
jeremiah. with Il sncering laugh
You think so-you'rc almost sure of
it All you want to make dead sure
"Wcll, what"
Jeremiah jerks forgot himself He
leaned forward anXiou,iy
"Nhy. the nam of the girls mother
when She went to the poorhOnSe in
Rarnesvilc If the girl isn't found.
tncn the money ami land goes to 4
neThcw-a rich nephew of Lady Mor
ford :. who don't speak to her. They've
not spoken for years: and she hates him.
because she's found out he was the fe!-
low that introduced her laughter to the
man who ran away with her Good
enough, amt it? Amt | right. Nuncke?"
so on, g. on am listening"
They want 10 find the name, and
they want to find the name of the doctor
in New lork-in this very city. mind
yoU-who was with her mother and at
tended her two years, and afterWard
accidentally saw her, and talked w.th
her in GAINESVILLE PoorhouSe
curse you, You've rummaged all my
lettcrS!" shouted jerks
"Of course, Nuncke, of course. You'd
have done the same in my place. | read