The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1896-10-16
tlIaC tt WAS -ncr Property rs wrlI- as "a
furniture of her room.

III;tG 10 WAS HCr Property is NCil as tnS
furniture of her room.
Come cheer up, my girlr' he said at
parting Your master was fond of you,
and he would rather see you bright than
tiowEcaSt And remember that | am yolr
friend, If you should happen TO want one "
Joan thanked Mr.. Cameron, and then,
having roycrcntly kissed the old book, put
il on one side.
Mrs. Peter. before she parted. thought
wei to tIo5pass in the kitchen and say
some cruel things TO Joan. But somehow
the girl did not mind them very much
low.
TLcr Seth looked in again and said she
wSs to come nj to his mother that even
Ing. Ii sho didn't, lie should tch her.
Ard to make sure Of having her ho carried
U1T tho Zig scraphe1S.
Mrs. Peter B&ttclsby did something else
before sho left 81.
Together with hlr disappointed son and
darling Walter, she climbed thc stairs to
Joan $ little attic and took IL hammer with
her.
''It'stho very kind OF spitcful thin; he'd
be Iihcl: t. do she said, but III not
stand it. IoEbing his own flesh and blood
TO- = yorthouSG brat"
EIr Peter left her to her own devices
lie. Mr. Craven and the three vgSc:l-iu-
deed insuItctI-girls went away together.
Then Mrs. Peter studiously searched
.Toun's attic from wall to wall. She turn
c:l out the girls one tin box, looked in the
drawer OF the waShstand, ripped up the
EaiIlassc OuJraa eOusiy and threw the straw
all abouta and treated the bolster with equal
brutality.
There was also q handsome old oak ward
robe that would have graccd even royal
bcdchambcr. This Was for .Iuan's three
or four poor frocts.
Itwas quite laughablc to sec how moth
e. and son tapped and prubcI this antique
Piece of furniture. They cvcI knocked of
the head Of Il lion il RELIEF a. the top Of it
to sec if there was Il sccre5 cavity behind
the head.
But the wardrobe taught them no more
than the paillasse and the bolster.
We'll, I'm of to the Hen ana Chickens, "
said Walter Battersby at length. I've had
enough of this. -
| so, toe had Mrs Peter, for there was
not an article in tho room that she had not
| thoroughly tested.
The sun was still above the cemetery hill
when Seth called at 80 in his workaday
| Crime and his workaday grease.
Art ready, my lass" he inquired OF
Joan.
The girl began to make excuses.
Its not right, Seth, to leave the house
with no one i'll it. He wouldn't have liked
it, she said.
Its not right, Joan, to mako Il promise
| and not keep it, - retortea Seth. Come,
| f,, Tn
your eyes out. DO you mean to make me
carry you?"
She was persuaded with difficulty.
Then it was y revelation of character tc
see how she locked ono door after another
and pocketed the different keys.
| AnybCd I'd think the things were al
yours, joan said Seth admiringly.
Its the same to Inc as if they were, y
she answered, with the tone of fresh tears
But Seth hurried her off before she could
| break down again and soon had her i'll
the little rcd brick cottage he shared with
his mother.
Old Mrs Peter had in her younger days
| been Il servant herself She had true
woiuan's sympathy for Joan and discern
! mcnt enough TO know that hor son might
do far worse than marry such girl
II was as comfortable q meal as any IL
| Moxford. with the cat purring on thu
! hearth all tic time.
! AftCrvarjl the talk turned solidly upor
cid Carmel and his singular requests tC
Joan.
The money and the furniturou be use
full enough to you, child" said old Mrs
Perry, "but the idea of leaving you thing
like that" pointing to the scrapbook.
81 used TO he so fond of it, " stammerct
loan Tho times we've sat together, hin
FASTING and me cutting what he hi,
marked. -
she rose and lifted the big book on thu
table, united its strings and opened it.
why, what's this:" exclaimed seth a
u bank note for Gl00 appeared.
Joan turned pale as she took it up. /
was Endorsed or the back, Pay to Joal
| Smith, and no one else
L2o they had finished looking through
the book they found 81 other notes of ex
;tctly the same kind.
They are certainly yours, my girl,
said Mr. Cameron, when Joan called o;
Kim in the morning, "aEd l shall hay,
greet pleasure in telling Mrs. Peter Bat
tcrShy what has becoElc Of the money tt
Icr brother IN law credit at the bank. ,
| -Cassell's journal.