The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-06-03

The city clocks are striking 10, when
ragged street gamin crosses the
wharf and halls Andrew.
Hi, there. Be your name Rus
sell?"
Andrew mods, and the boy hands
him note.
"A big swell uptown sent this to
yer"
Andrew takes the note and tears it
open. He knows, of course, that the
"big swell" is Darlington. The note
reads as follows:
"When you read this we shall be
] aboard an outward bound express.
Goodby, my dear boy; many thanks
for your gallantry. Mr.. Darlington
}Slakes you a present of the boat as a
reward for your services. G. F."
For moment Andrew stares at the
note in dumb amazement. His brain
reels. The letters dance blood red be.
fore his eyes. He staggers down into
the little cabin, and throws himself
PROSTATE upon the floor. He breaks
l into great sobs which shake him from
head to foot. To be fooled, played
with, cast aside, when he had served
| their turn!
Oh, the bitterness, the grief, and
rage in the boys hot heart as he rolls
to and fro upon the cabin floor!
| All night long he battles with this
first great trouble. In the morning he
rouses himself and goes up into the
city TO find purchaser for his boat,
for the sight of il is hateful to him, and
he must have money to get home with.
He sells it for $50, which is pretty
sum for poor lad. At noon he has
sunstroke, and is conveyed to the city
hospital
When he comes out of his stupor he
finds himself under arrest for being the
accomplice of an adventures. He
learns, to his horror, that Cars Ferris
is Madge Delaphine. That she en-.
gagged herself as companion to little,
miserly old woman. That she and
Darlington, who is her lover, planned
the old woman's murder, in order to
obtain possession of the money and
jewels which she boarded about her
That Madge Delaphine accomplished
the murder by means of subtle poi
son, packed the body into trunk, and
conveyed it to Barrington's house,
where it was buried in the cellar.
The very trunk which Andrew fer
ried across the river! Andrew is
taken before Magistrate, where he
tells his story, emitting the love pas
sages. But the Magistrate is an as
tute old man, and reads between the
lines and pities the lad.
"The woman and her lover have
been arrested. l want you to identify
her"
He opens the door to an inner room
and utters an exclamation of dismay.
There, PROSTATE upon the floor, with
her jeweled hairpin stuck through
her heart, lies Madge Delaphine quite
dead.
us this the woman?"
Cars Ferris had dark hair" re-
turns Andrew, who is white to his
lips.
The Magistrate lifts wig of dark
hair from table nearby.
"A very simple Disguise" he says,
and motions Andrew back to the outer
room, where, after few more ques-
tions and some fatherly advice, he
dismisses him. The misery Of An
drew's journey home is boundless.
When he reaches the familiar spot
he is taken ill and for weeks is de-
lirious with brain fever. Jen Hardy
is his patient and faithful nurse. To
Andrew it seems as if the memory of
his folly must torture him forever,
But as the months 60 by the shame
and agony die away little by little.
Jen, faithful soul, believes in him
and loves him. He is young, and the
world is fair, and life is pleasant af-
ter all
So gradually he returns to his old
allegiance, and it all ends as it should
with wedding.-Dublin World.