Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-07-20

lOwl lie mad better capital TO depend
on than most Of the fellows have who
arc Obliged 10 resort 20 that Invisible
means of support And now he has
drifted back 10 the United States and
is living here in Y, fully established
in his profession and actually running
for municipal Office. IL really wasn't
fair for him 30 throw me over In this
unceremonious way. by Joval III
tell him what think Of this us broth
erly conduct when ! see him again.
And l can tell him something else that
will interest him quite as much, per
haps - that there hasn't been a
day in the last six years when
Uncle Dick wouldn't have given
his right hand TO make up his
quarrel with Noll and receive him back
into full favor again, II only Noll would
make the first advances. How should
like TO sea the dear old fellow againl
This Cervantes brings him upso wildly,
20 think that he should still keep II
about him IL must be for the sake Of
old associations That Is so like Nolll"
While these thoughts were passing
through his mind North had taken up
the book again, and he was now slowly
turning the pages, pausing occasionally
70 read some marked passage or mar
ginal note scrawled in pencil.
As he did 50 folded paper futtered
from between the leaves and fell TO the
door. North picked up the paper and
unfolded H. It was "a telegram adj
dressed 10 Ollin North. Before he was
conscious OF what he was doing Allan
North had read these words:
"wnl proves 20 be q forgery. who Is rcspon.
sible for thisi We look 10 yourself and Mrs
Maynard for explanations. Search for Mrs.
DunkirS's niece will be prosecuted. Also an
investigation Of this forgery. Let us hear from
you at once. HOPKINS & SHEPHERD"
1t would he impossible to give any
adequate description Of North's state of
mind as he read this message, while its
startling significance slowly penetrated
through the first dazcd wonder that IL
created. by degrees clear and definite
idea shaped itself in his mind.
"Well" he exclaimed aloud, '1f this
isn't the most remarkable coincidence
| ever heard Of! And II plunges me
deeper than ever into embarrassments
Mrs. Maynard-su surely that Is the name;
why did II not occur to me at once?
Mrs. Maynard, represented in court by
Hopkins and Shepherd, of New York, Is
the claimant In the Dunkirk will case,
in which my partners, Hunter and
Ketchum, appear as executors and so
licitors Of the estate. !, who have pre-
yiously had no connection with the case
come here 10 u us the representa-
tive of Hunter and Kctchum, To investi-
gate clew which they hope may lead
to the discovery OF Annie Dupont, the
sole heir at law; and behold, am mis-
taken by the claimant for her own
lawyerl Could such combination Of
circumstances occur more than once in
q hundred years?"
Once more he took up the telegram
and read H. In his first hasty perusal
he had overlooked one point which a
second and more careful reading now
brought out with startling prominence.
"'We look to yourself and Mrs.
Maynard he read the sentence aloud
In puzzled way" for explanations
What does this mean? Can IL be pos
sible that they suspect Good
heavcnsl II all flashes upon me now
Why was so blind as not to sec II be-
fo-Ao"
ITO BE CoSTINUEp.'