The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-02-15

money. For ths past two u9u
oeen trying 10 hive over IN my mind the
whole Of the interval between Josh
jones' visit and now, and l think can
recall every little circumstance, but |
cannot recall ever to have seen the bag
at ALL
Possibly Jones did not pay me the
money! said the colonel, with stern sar-
casln.
81 intimate nothing Of that kind, sir;
all | know IS that never stole your
money, and don't believe / ever saw
the bag that held it."
.'These nice questions had better be
discussed by less interested persons than
you and I" said the colonel sternly.
Every good, sir, responded Carlisle.
Mygrandfather- continued DR.. Curtis.
when he had filed and lighted his Ger
man pipe-returned to his house in much
trouble. He wished to consult his wife
about the missing money. He found
her in the sitting room, waiting to hear
why the visit to Albany had been post
poned. He told her about it, and she,
too, saw that be suspected that John
Carlisle had stolen the money.
"William," she said very gravely, Il
don't for an instant believe that John
Carlisle took that money!"
81 certainly don't like to believe it
myself, but can't help it. How can |
get around behevingit? Why don't you
believe it?"
II don't know why, but feel that he
did not do it; am sure that he could
not do it; / know he did not do it,
s'How do you know itP"
Because he said he did not. and then
no man with an eye like his could be
thief
"Well, Maria, said the colonel, ''youa
intuitions are usually pretty accurate,
and have great weight with me; what
shall | do? ! can't keep John around
here with such suspicion hanging over
him.
81 don't know, l am sure; shall go
and talk to John about it.
And my grandmother, who was a
young woman then, threw a shawl over
her head and shoulders, and went over
to the store. She staid in the counting
room for two hours with Carlisle, and
they came out together and went to the
house. John Carlisle went to his room,
and she Joined her husband in the sitting
room.
'sWell2n asked the colonel.
John did not take that money, Will
lam"
"How do you know"
eHe has told me So"
"Ohl"
William, your suspicious do good
man a great wrong. am perfectly sure
that he is as innocent as a babe nm
born"
tWell. Maria, it may be as you say,
but ! don't see how / can feel the same
toward John and have him about here
when have not the same faith in the
inexplicable as you have
.sNo, | would not have him stay here
either, it would not be just to him; but
he does not like to go away with such
suspicion hanging over him. | have
come to ask you to ratify proposition
have made to John for him to go to Al
bany and finish his law course as best he
can He will only so. however. on con-
dition that he shall be upon parole and
report regularly SO that he may learn if
the money ever be found, or be in reach
if you should ever wish to prosecute
him."
so you wish to make such an ar
rangernent2 asked the colonel, with
suspicion of sarcasm In his tone.
Don't you think well of it?'
81 don't know that it is not my duty
to have TINT young man arrested at once
and prosecuted" said the colonel, ''but l
shall do as you suggest. for, Maria, !
never knew your intuition to be at fault.
just as never knew you to be able to
give the reason for the faith that is in
you" and the colonel smiled on his
comedy young wife, and seemed glad to
dismiss from his mind all RESPONSE bility
for the disagreeable incidents of the
morning.
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