The advocate., 1894-05-23

LAST scene OF all
That ends this strange eventful history"
--SHAKEsPEARE.
"The WHISPERED tale,
That, like the fabling Nile, no fountain knows"
THOMSON.
There seems to be a disposition on
the part of contemporary noVelists to
close their fictitious histories with the
death or the marriage of the hero and
heroine, and to leave all the other char
aCters to shift for themselves. This
conduct strikes me as unfair. These
people Of his do not thrust themselves
upon the authorize drsgs them into
his story, and he is morally bound to
see that they are properly taken care
of: he has no right to abandon them.
However, let the novelist answer his
conscience as he can. | am not a novel
ist, but an historian, and my readers, at
least, have a right to demand of me
some information as to what has be-
come of the people with whom. we have
iourneyed thus far, and though it
shatter every canon of latter day writ
ing, shall stand by the readers who
have so perseVeringly stood by me.
Hence this chapter.
After Kate's departure from Rising
ton, Grace Alden took charge of Clar-
ence Diegal's victim, and patiently and
persistenly taught her sten0graphy, and
the poor young woman, disgraCed in
the eyes of society" but pare in the
eyes of God, has position in distant
city now, where, enjoying obscurity'
privilege, she passes for widow and
is prosperous and happy.
Clarence Diegal, returning from
Mexico, wandered into the Cherokee
strip, where, few months ago, with
his characteristic insolence, he offended
a "boomer" from Texas-and is nc
more.
Last January the Diegal Loan and
Trust company passed into the hands
of a receiver, and as nothing but the
company has yet come to his hands
the receiver would be thankful for any
information as to the whereabouts O1
the Diegals or Of the assets. For the
Diegals left Kansas quite suddenly
forgetting in their haste to leave theil
future address, and the head OF the
household loved the assets too dearly
to endure leaving the poor things be-
hind.
Only a little while before the flight
of the Diegals, the appellate court de.
cided in Mrs. Harbinson's favor, and
she collected the long delayed life in
surance for which her husband had
paid; so the Hsrbinsons have money
tnow. But they still live in their little
home, to which they have become at
tached; Hattie is still seen in the MILL
merry store, of which she is the proprietor
now, and thanks to the lessons of ex'
perience and the teachings of Wendell
they do not in their prosperity "cut'
the poor who are guilty Of honest work
The "co-operatiVe" hOusekeeper still
lives with Grace Alden, who has
changed her name to HarbinsOn and
has removed from the suburbs to
house in town. When l last saw her
she was still at her desk in her uncle's
old office, but Judge Bolder has re-
tired, and it is her husbands office
now.
When they met at Sam Cotterell'E
that evening of the wedding, Mrs
Delorme and Judge Bolder, as was
natural under the circumstances
walked about under the trees for
time and talked, within the limits Of
propriety, of old times; little dreaming
what the fates had decreed. Presum
ably, the "grand lodge" which Major
Delorme left home to attend is in ses
sion yet and extremely busy, for he has
neither returned nor found time tC
write, although the stockholders and
depoSitors of the bank over which ht
presided lovingly, yearn for a sight Of
him and would even send after him
were he ready to return. Perhaps his
| GREAT rnsnacf for claw and order" anC