Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-03-10

$3.50 nnu AZ lie loses ~
orbitant interest he charged. T.. 'e
TESS ! should like to repay ~,
principal" LIN
We'll, shouldn't despair !,
You know Miss Joyce as wen " I
and | think 1t is only right ~
should make some compensa.'
you. who have been led 70 a asoa
yourself the heir SO long s0uS
Captain Winter shrugged M I,
ders and left the office. 70
Next day he was i'm London
luck would have it. he saw r aug
the Strand. The Jew Womb aa
avoided him. but Captain WIn,o.
without an effort, went after hIus
touched him on the arm.
Come in here" said the "a.
quietly, pointing to the door a. /.
taurant opposite TO them. q !,
something TO say to you" !
The Jew followed him in. nd H.
down ut one Of the little morhla ~
tables, and called for sometb;Ds
drink.
The sooner it is over the h0..
said Winter, aloud. Kisch lootsa
him with apprehensive eyes.
Il shall not want that 80 0o0 /,
posed borrowing from you" ba /
abruptly.
My dear sir" said the Jew, oh,.
ously, lit is ready for Won 81
thought it was all arranged ana
check is already made ont. r.
come to my office now / will give !
YOU
The Captain looked ut him stess
He knew that the man was lyinc
II am afraid YOU have made I .
take lending money TO me-" he ma
What? What Is Il at you saw /
tain? A mistake? do not ma
stand YOU"
lyon supposed, | have no doubt /
| was the heir TO the Winter psta,
So did l.. Well, ii seems pretty i,
that there is a nearer heir than Id
in fact, | am not the heir"
For some seconds the Jew was I
BILE to speak. Winter was afraid !
he vas going to have a fit.
Not the heir?' he gasped out
length. You cannot mean that \
YOU arc only having a little Joke AL
expense. | will forgive you. Its
n joke. is II not?"
"ltS too serious n subject for iOkij
said the other, grimly. 1T is bad M
for ne, as well as for YOU and n]
worse. You lose "A large sum Of N
ey, hut ! am absolutely ruined, if d
Is any consolation To YOU said
Captain, Tranquility, Fitting the glad
his lips.
Then you are n COMPOUNDED svl
Ter. sir. and | shall inform the nod
You will get twenty years penal "a
You shall end your days in Drj
YOU have swindled me out Of twdi
what am | saying?-out Of tBg]
hlee thousand seven hundred pOuJ
You Will get twenty years penal u
tude'"
Take care what you are saying I
said the Captain. sternly, for be
that some OF the other customers 81
place. attracted by the curious, Id
pitched voice in which Kisch I'D
We're looking around at them. III
make allowances for your disappd
ment but you took a risk, and mad
laundering heavy charge In respect
il. And if you say that | bad
slightest idea when | borrowed 4
money FROM you that ! was not ny !
cle's heir-at-law, you are lying, tI
ALL"
But the Jews mood was aral
changed. He saw in a moment i
clustering and charging his debtof 4
farud would avail him nothing !
ready he was busy thinking hos
could save something out of the WIZ
"But the money is owing TO me
cannot deny that. Captain. Do YOU
think that, for the honor of the ian
the debt should be paid?'
The Captain smiled grimly. laI
think my uncle is the man to pa!
debts" he answered.
but after his death-the next y
surely, debts contracted by you, VI
il was supposed that you would
coed To the estates, ought to be pa1I
II Lave thought OF that, and, IL
/ don't see that Miss Joyce has i
thing to do with my debts, or ina
is in any way bound 10 pay them
Miss Joyce?"
Captain Winter bit his lip. he
not intended to mention Ursulasl
SIS Miss Joyce the heir t oyou
cle's estates?" asked the Jew, hSp
ing black eyes fixed like gimietsV
companions face.
well, / think you have a lilly
right to know how it stands. anu
pose 1t will be all over the ~
soon now, so l may as wen len
When | went to MI. Lawson y
him to meet your lawyer aDous
1000 loan, you know, he SAID IT,
do nothing to enable me TO W
money on my expectations for ~
they were worth nothing. Ana ,s,
went on TO tell me that my uncies
tti -ll-id W. WIN ID INV lad
ceived him into thinking that . w.
ter of his, her niece, had lie ~ "a
cy, that she was still living-lms
~Joyce-and that she was unuouvs
the heir-in-tail. Nothing, he ~
me, could { .eat her claim, uhss
uncle married and had a son, VIII
out Of the question now. lie saw
evidence had been carefully pre.o
and, in fact, it Is convincing -supr
1t to be what Miss Upton toM =
is. So we may as well throw y
sponge. I'm sorry for you, hls.n
Of course, II ever l have the mS
will repay you what ! have na nh
you. But 1t dosn't seem very ISs ss
present, and what I say ", .Ihre''
use crying over split milk. ,.a
With that he got up ana Ms
place. But the Jew sat stili VIZ wy
was. He had scarcely heard M
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