St. Landry democrat., 1894-01-06

door carefully in the morning and com
5 to town rs early as possible. You ca
take coffee with me if you're in befor
eight. Good night"
Cory locked the door after him an,
heard him ride away in the calm night
then went back and crept between hi
blanket folds and blew out the candle
AS he drifted into 4 first ,lozc he sud
denly remembered that this was Thurs
day-thc last Thursday of the month
and therefore it was Thanksgiving Day
at home.
lie W ordered if Lydia had thought o.
him. He hardly believed that she haC
gone to take Thanksgiving elmer Will
his aunt as she had formerly done. She
loved him little-perhaps a good dca
if only as sister. She was too loyal
for that Thus he fell asleep and slept
steadily, d'spite his uncomfortable couch
and the chill temperature.
Julio Vergas Vcrea was pretty well
known in town. a lawyer by profess
sion. with hardly any practice, because
he had neglected it; formerly Legation
attache abroad-the husband of Il pretty
woman and father of several pretty chill
dren--a thOrOu- lilly honorable fellow
with one dcporablc passion for gambling
at the exciting country cock fights.
Who did not know Julio Nergas Ncrca?
Cory found his way to his new friends
house without trouble and had coffee
with him as agreed And Julio Ncryas
Ecrea babe him consider himself vel
come guest at his house until he should
find work. For Cory was pcnnile.s
Tie would accept any situation, he said,
anything, however humble. Shame and
humiliation were his, to find himself
helpless, O fellow of twenty nine. lie
had supposed strong young fellow of
that age could find work in any part of
the Globe. He had forgotten the diff
Guilty Of a different laugllagc
Aud so for weeks lie had blue time
OF 1t. lie wanted to 90 back to the port,
where some English was So ,kcn. but
Vargas \crea objected lie wanted to
So k employment on the primitive little
Railway, but Vargas Ncrca objected
Vargas Eerca was the kin,lcst fellow on
Garth, but over proud. An Cory chafed
under his object :ons. Night after night
he lay awake supprcSsing groans at his
hclplcssncss and his tormentinr mem |
orles. Oh, to have come to This land of
eternal sunshine under different circum- |
stal c2s ! Oh, 20 have come TO this land
of eternal sunshine under different cir
Oh, not to have had to |
run away from home and friends. But |
could he have remained there after the |
accusation OF theft? And WHO lad been !
he thief? Who had taken his uncle's
thousand dollars from the open safe on
hat fatal afternoon when he had sat
'eadlng III the next room and had hardly
lotlccd his uncle passing out into the
,ltchcn fer moment? He had sat in
he sitting the safe was in the
lttlng-room bedroom: one could only
inter- the bedroom from the >itting-room.
lis uncle had gone into the Kitchen
nd hud left the safe unlocked. Han
all, the servant girl, had leu kettle of
Dap grease boil over, and for a brief
Ime the kitchen was almost on fire
DRY, little lazy, had heard
he VI roar, and had gone to see what
le trouble was. His uncle, in fury at
&c servants carrlessncss, called him {
,upid fool and ordered him nngriy not to
and gaping there. And Cory, angry in {
lrr, had quickly come back, seized his bat
ON the sitting room table and left the ;
ouse. lie had not returned very soon. t
is uncle had seemed to hate him of late, {
nd he had gone off with some young
lends Of his to a neighboring town, not
back until the next afternoon
hen he had found his uncle in state
excitement bordering on insanity.
he thousand dollars that had been des- r
ned Tor the payment of a mortgage was :
}ne from the safe. 1t had been taken d
hile Cory's uncle was in the kitchen Il
.lplng cxtlnguish the fire. No one could f.
we entered the house in that brief Il
ace, and no one but Cory, his uncle and t.
5 invalid aunt was aware of the pres 0
zee of the money in the safe. Nothing /
Sc had been disturbed. 1t had been but
instant's work to extract the package il
r one who knew it was there and in c
ecisely what spot. And-but for the W
ock and misery for the invalid aunt +,
'ry's uncle would, he said, have sent il
officer after the young rascal, all of Il
lich Cory had listened to in dumb T
lnded way and then said: al
"You are either crazy or else you tt
ink me capable of stealing. I will o.
yer pass another night or eat another CO
lmb under your roof-much less re- NJ
in in your employ. If you wish to p
We me arrested go about it quickly and c,
oclaim your inhuman feelings toward :.
elativc to the world. You will be III
ghed at when the true theft is found. al
t go about it quickly, tor am going re
far away from you as possibly can sh
Il can keep my last months salary. l &C
MT touch it." te
md, as his uncle was silent and ri
eyed, Cory left the house and pres, tic
ly the town. But before leaving the sil
N he had contided his story to Lydia ba
1t is true" he said, "that I did go pr
with the fellows last night, but took
money to speak of. You believe me,
1T you, Lydia?'
Can You ask?' she said, her voice
cring little and tears rushing into
soft eyes. 10
III this came back wildly to Cory hu
kinson during the weary weeks in err
oh he felt himself so thoroughly no
,wn ON his luck" an
tut at last chance came. He seized 10
18th avidity. Itwas to 60 out on a a
cacao plantation. remote from the do
ital, sixty miles by land through i'm az,
sable woods and over dangerous tirs
lntaln paths, or sixty miles by sea in The
ilboat down the coast and by canoes dr.,
river of dangerous rapids. Julio da,,
gas Ferea shook his head. wo