Evening journal., 1892-08-12

where 50 soon after the funeral. But
he might call on me about business.
feel so lonely and solemn! And donot
seem to have any friends. Everybody
courts me for my money, and yet they
look down upon me, too, because my
father made his own fortune"
Colonel Billop had taken much pains
to teach his daughter business habits
and instruct her in all the details of
management Of property.
She sat down at her desk, and in a
bold round hand indited the following
note:
Mr.. skaats, Miss Billop's agent, begs
that Mr.. Brothertoft will do him the fa-
vor to call at the louise in Wall street
tomorrow at eleven. Mr.. Skaats is in
formed that there is a picture at the
manor house which Mr.. Brothertoft
values, and he would be pleased to make
arrangement for the late owners retain
ing it,"
Skillful Janet to whom q VandyclI
was less worth than its length and
breadth in brocade. She sealed this note
with Colonel Billop's frank motto, "Per
omnia al opes," and dispatched it.
Edwin was delighted at the prospect
of recovering his ancestor. 1t is mighty
Influence when the portrait of noble
forefather puts its eye on one who wears
his name, and says, by the language Of
an unchanging look: Il was a Radical
in my day; be thou the same in thinel I
turned my back upon the old tyrannies
and heresies, and struck for the new lib
critics and beliefs; my liberty and belief
are doubtless already tyranny and heresy
to thine age; strike thou for the newt
worshiped the purest God Of my genera
tion-it may be that purer God is re-
vealed to thine; worship him with thy
whole heart"
Such monitor is priceless. Edwin
was in a very grateful mood when he
knocked at the door in Wall street.
A bank now rests upon the site Of the
Billop mansion. Ponderous, grim, gran
tie, stand the two columns of its propy-
Ion. a swinging door squeaks "Hail!"
to the prosperous lender, and "Avauntg'
to the borrower unindorsed. Within,
paying tellers, old and crusty, or young
and jaunty, stand up TO their elbows in
gold and smile at the offended dignity
Of personages not identified presenting
checks and in vain requiring payment.
I Farther back depositors are feeding
money, soft and hard, into the NAV of
the receiving teller. Behind him book
keepers WELD prodigious ledgers and
run up and down their columns, agile
as the lizards of Postum. And in the
innermost penetralia Of that temple Of
Plutus the high priests, old dons Of di.
rectors, worth billions, sit and fancy
that they brew crisis or credit.
SO stand things now where Edwin
Brothertoft once stood contemplating a
brass lnocker.
The door opened, and he was present
ly introduced into a parlQr, upholstered
to the uppernost ofits er3.
But where is MI slleFgey Slfaats?
Instead of that nneali aBd meager
agent here is the principals singularly
handsome, bold, resolute young woman,
her exuberant beauty depressed and
her carnations toned down by mourning.
Both the young people were embar-
raised for a moment.
He was embarrassed at this unlocked
for substitution of a beautiful girl foI
an ugly reptile of a Skaats; and she tc
find how fair a spirit she had conjured
up. He with a sudden conjunction fol-
the prejudice he had had against the un.
known heir, his disinheriter; and she
with her instant conviction that here
was the person to pick up her handker
chief, if he would
Shall the talk Of these children be here
repeated? 1t might fill pleasant page
but this history cannot deal with the de-
tails Of their immature lives. 1t only
makes ready in this first act for the
I rapid business Of a ripper period.
When Edwin Brothertoft left the
heiress's parlor, after sixty minutes Of
delight she seated herself at the desl
whence she. under the alias Skaats, had
indited his invitation, took a fresh sheef
of paper and a virgin quill and wrote:
Jane Brothortoft
Then the same in backhand, with -four
ishes and without. Then she printed il
big text:
LADY JANE BROTHERTOFT, OF BROTH
ERTOFT HALL.
Then, with a conscious, defiant look, sh,
carried her prophetic autograph to the
fire and watched it burn.
Over the fireplace was a mirror, dis
tricted into three parts by gilded mul
lions. Above was perched gilt eagle
very rampant highflier indeed. TIVE
wreaths Of onions, in the disguise o
pomegranates, were festooned from hi
beak and hung in alluring masses Oh
either side Of the frame. Quite a regi
ment of plump little cherubs, clad il
gliding tight as it could fit, chung in tn
),reaths and shifted at their fragrance
Jane looked up and saw herself in tn
mirror. A blush deepened her some
what carnal carnations Every cherul
seemed to be laughing significantly
She made a face at the merry imps. A
she did so she caught sight Of the refec
ton Of her fathers portrait, also regard
E ing her He was such father as
child would have been quite justified il
= disowning and utterly cutting if
= stranger had asked, WHO is that horri,
e person with the red face, the coars