The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-09-14

nvva1i ma am, since you know so
Yah Won probably know also that +
ln,ro sold my pension. How am I to
no # 40 not turn my hand to work?''
Ms Westmacott produced a large
-.oistnrad envelope from beneath the
Soots and tossed it over to the Old
seaman
vour pension papers. Just see if they
are right.
Tho very papers which he had made over
n McAdam two days before.
"Rut what am I to do with these
,ovq" he cried in bewilderment.
..vou will put them in a safe place or
uo+ . friend to do so, and, if you do
sorr duty. you will go to your wife and
hoo her pardon for having even for an
instant thought of leaving her"
The Admiral passed his hand over his
,,,oqad forehead This is very good of
Won ma'am," said he, very good and
lind and know that you are a staunch-
friend but for all that these papers
mean money, and though we may have
hnAn in broken water lately, we are not
mite in such straits as to have to signal
70 orr friends When we do, ma'am,
tbora,s no one we would look to sooner
than to you"
"Don't be ridiculous!" said the widow.
cYou know nothing whatever about it,
and vet you stand there laying down
tba law. I'll have my way in this mat
ter, and you shall take the papers, for it
&c no favor that 1 am doing you, but
e 4O1oz W
How that, ma am z?
81 am just going to explain, though
Won might take a lady's word for 1t
without asking any questions. Now,
what am going to say is just between
ven four. and must go no farther. l
have nv own reasons for wishing it
kent from the police. Who do you think
if was who struck me last night, Adj
miral?"
Some villain, ma am. I don't know
his name"
But [ do. 1t was the same man who
ruined or tried to ruin your son. 1t was
nv only brother, jeremiah.
"Ahr
81 will tell you about hin-or little
about him, for he has done much which
I would not care to talk of, nor you 10
listen to. He was always a villain,
smooth-spoken and plausible, but dan
gerous, subtle villain all the same. Ii l
have some hard thoughts about man
kind I can trace them back to the child
hood which I spent with my brother.
He is my only living relative, for my
other brother, Charles father, was killed.
in the Indian mutiny.
Our father was rich, and When ne
died he made a good provision both LOT
jeremiah and for me. He knew Jere-
miah and he mistrusted him, however,
50 instead of giving him all that ne
meant him to have he handed me over
a part of it, telling ne, with what was
almost his dying breath, to hold 1t IN
trust for my brother, and to use 1t IN
his behalf when he should have squan-
dered or lost all that he had. rms ar
rangement was meant to be secret
between my father and myself, put uh-
fortunately his words were oVefhedro
by the nurse, and she repeated tne1n
afterwards to my brother, 50 that ne
came to know that / held some money
in trust for him. I suppose tobacco VIII
not harm my head, Doctor? mann
you, then I shall trouble you for the
matches, Ida" She lit a cigarette, anu
leaned back upon the pillow, with the
blue wreaths curling from her lips.
u cannot tell you how often he mas
attempted to get that money from me-
He has bulIied, cajoled, threatened,
coaxed, done all that a man could 90.
still held it with the presentlment tiio !, !,
a need of it would come. When hearu
Of 1. L L,
and his leaving his partner to race liis
storm, above all that my old Irlellu no.
been driven to surrender his income -
order to make up for my brother ue
falcations, I felt that now 1ndeea l no.
need for it. I sent in Charles yestol
day to Mr.. McAdam, and his clehe'
upon hearing the facts of the case vel
graciously consented to give pach lne
papers, and to take the money Whlch 'ie
had advanced. Not a word OF thahhS -
me, Admiral. I tell you that 1t was YER
cheap benevolence, for it was all uon1
with his own money, and how couiu
use it better?
L thought that I should propapiy
hear from him soon, and l dla. Los
evening there was handed in note u
the usual whining, cringing tone. q
had come back from abroad at the Iloh
of his life and liberty, just in order tld'
ne might say goodbye to the only sle.
ter that he ever had, and to entreal NY
forgiveness for any pain which ne hau
caused me. He would never trouble ins
again, and he begged only that I woulo
hand over to him the sum which | helo
IN trust for him. That, with Wna. -
had already, would be enough 70 sd
him as an honest man in the new Woila