Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-31

| spise him, toog And would his
brother like him?
And presently. the brother ap-
peared, under Flora's escort; and.
standing afar off beside the doorway,
| eyed the hero of this tale.
$50 this is you?" lie said at length.
"Yes. Alick, it's me---it's john
replied the elder brother, feebly.
land how did you get in hereP" in
Quired the younger.
"Oh, l had my pass-key," says
John.
1.-The deuce you hadr' said Alexan-
der. "Ah, you lived in better
world! There are no pass-keys going
now"
"Well, father was always averse to
Them" sighed John. And the con-
versation then broke down, and the
brothers locked askance at one an
other in silence.
"Well, and what the devil are we
to doPn said Alexander. Il suppose
if the authorities got wind of you,
you would be taken up?n
at depends on whether they've
found the body or not" returned
John. "And then there's that cab
man, TO be sure!n
"Oh, bother the body" said Alex
/ ander. al mean about the Other
thing. That's serious
ais that what my father spoke
about?' asked John. Il don't even
know what it is"
about your robbing your bank in
California, Of course" replied Alex
| ander.
1t was plain, from Flora's face. that
this was the first she had heard of it.
it was palmer still, from Johns, that
he was innocent.
"Ir' he exclaimed. II rob my
bank? My God! Flora, this is toe
much; even you must allow that"
Meaning you didnt?' asked Alex.
ander.
IL never robbed a soul in all my
days, cried John; Except my father,
! if you call that robbery; and
brought him back the money in thia
room, and he wouldn't even take 49,
.'Look here, john" said his broth
! err; "let rs have no mi-understand-
| ING upon this. Macewen saw my
father; he told him bank you had
/ worked for in san Francisco was
writing over the habitable globe C
have you collared-that it was sup,
posed you had nailed thousands, and
it was dead certain you had nailed
| /
and ! wish you would be careful how
you answer. | may tell you, also
that your father paid the three hun
dred on the spot"
Three hundred?" repeated John.
Three hundred pounds, you mean:
That's fifteen hundred dollars. Why,
| then, it's kirkman!" he broke out
Thank heaven! | can explain al
that. gave them to Kirkman to pay
! it for me the night before | left-ff-
| teen hundred dollars and q letter tC
the manager. What do they suppose
| would steal fifteen hundred dollars
forP I'm rich; /. struck it rich in
stocks. It's the silliest stuff | ever
heard of. All that's needful is to ca
BILE TO the manager; Kirkman has the
fifteen hundred-find Kirkman, He
was fellow-clerk of mine, and hard
case; but, TO do him justice, | didn't
think he was as hard as this"
And what do you say to that
| Alick?" asked Flora.
Il say the cablegram shall go to-
night" cried Alexander, with energy
ANSWER prepaid. too. If this thing
can be cleared away-and upon my
word | do believe it can-we shall be
able to hold up our heads again,
Here, you John, you stick down the
address of your bank manager. You
Flora, you can pack John into my
bed for which l have no further use
tonight. AS for me, ! am off to the
postoffice, and thence TO the High
street about the dead body. The
police ought to know, you see, and
they ought to know through John
and can tell them some rigamarolt
about my brother being man Of
highly nervous organization, and the
rest Of it. And then, I'll tell you
what, John-did you notice the name
upon the cab?"
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