Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-10

sYoa heard him! Oh, heaven! he sus-
pects-he accuses met
/ A few more days. and Mrs. Lind
SAYS last hour had indeed arrived.
The few and urconnected words
which had remained on that fragment
Of the burnt letter, mother and daugh-
ter had read together again and again,
but could not extract n0r sense nor
hope from them.
Now. rs she lay dying, Mrs. Lind
say asked that Emmeline would once
again. and for the last time, read
those words to her.
And Emmeline read the scorched dis
jojnted words which were:
"EugeniaT p - with gold' wretch
| Nicholas Shearman"-"a month
Neutrality-suspicious. Tree Square"
ARNOLD Lindsay"
Fifth of February, Eighteen Hun
dred and Seven"
"Oh, 1t is DREADFUL Mrs. Lindsay
feebly moaned. ''That letter would
have been an indication, and 1t is de
stroyed."
With a anal effcrt the poor woman
said:
"A mad hope, Emmeline, has remain
ed at my heart l have said to myself,
heaven cannot have willed the eter-
nal triumph of the guilty-one day,
the unexpected proof of Arnold Lind
says innocence viii he give1 to me,
hat | may re-establish the honor OF
my husband. Heaven has been with
out pity for my prayers, but win per-
hons no rry,arAI hu un,,p w~,,th 1,p,
incline. l leave to you my work to ac-
complish."
And Emmeline kneeling beside her
mothers couch. and holding her moth
er's hand, said with great fervor:
and l will accomplish it. dear
mother, at cost of the last breath OF
my life-the last drop of my blood"
Those words pronounced. Emmcline
rose to her feet, hut was not 10 time to
receive her mothers last sigh.
Poor, crushed, heart-broken Mrs.
Lindsay had ceased TO live.
CHAPTEE, VIII.
"Tbe Sprat AMI the GrfdIron."
Noel harrington had reached the last
town at which he had business to do,
on his way back to London.
Alighting at the Commercial Inn"
he was accosted by n seedy, disrepu-
table looking man Of about five and
forty years of age. who asked for n
little assistance TOW ard procuringsome
food and a nights lodging.
Darlington was by no means prepOs-
sessed with the fellows appearance,
who, truth to tell, had anything but
an honest look.
The landlord of the inn, coming to
the door to welcome Noel. who was OF
course well known to him, saw the
man, who was still im~portuning our
commercial traveller, and ordered him
away.
"Harkye, my man." the landlord
said sharply to the mendicant, the
oon you are out OF this town the
better. unless you want another month
in jail"
Eyes. | know" retcrted the man.
"they gave me n month because they
said | was a suspicious character,
with no visible mean OF livelihood;
and inst because | was found sleeping
in a farmers stable, they accused me
OF wanting to steal one of the horses"
"Well. be off from my premises"
Sdtu tlit idGhlOlh, VI ptlIopS yOu may
have o than another month in
prison."
"YOu consider yourself a respectable
Christian, | suppose!' cried the man,
"to talk that way to a poor fellow
who was bundled into jail a month
ago for nothing else than because he
hadn't 4 penny in the world, and who
was kicked out OF Jail again about an
hour ago with just the same amount
Of property"
"Well," said Noel, and diving his
hand into his pocket, "if there was
nothing against the nan but his pow
erty, it was rather hard to send him
TO prison."
And the man having observed NoeIs
movements. and that the landlord
might not have time to speak again,
exclaimed. very hurricdly:
"Wasn't IL now? And wouldn't I be
glad to get from their town; but l
can't start up the road with an emp
ty stomach and empty pockets, too"
And harrington putting half a crown
into the mans hand, said TO him:
"Well, II you are really anxious to
quit the town, there is something to
help you on your wsy."
And. with the landlord, he turned
from the mendicant, ard entered the
inn.
The landlord blamed Noel for his
generosity, expressing an opinion that
the man just relieved was nothing bet
ter than a thief.
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