Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-11-17
SYNOPSIS.

| Copyright. 1885, b
| SYNOPSIS.
,s Ss2haP obr H. Inon the night of December g.
BraokIyn were ere in IL the library
tackled he BY q stroke Of apopiexy and died
OF h ear failure at two minutes past twelve
DYING om SrnnF 4 of beee% n Before
| fortune to his nephew il he married Wit h his
ten years, with the exception OF Of J $1,000
cnapter s n ys psPps ss
| comes engaged to young lady. He meets
and da IS n dGm ne fo west hohard
ton awakens next morning at his homo
and finds letter breaking his engag cement
h he is tord that ne was drunk the night
was drugged by Raymond. Five years
fhe deaths ae certayye Sa ,s
| 9lmstead died on December Instead Of
the date OF his uncle's death Stanton de-
night Of December Q. so as to Beat beat Ray Ray
played Gs me taF the ts sec Mh he
he had given him and then sending him in
Chapter hs taPsees keqse
| wife and his advertisement is answered
by woman who agrees to send him a
woman. Esther Thorndike. to marry him
Chapter v.-Esther Thorndike meets him
d as artr rs ns and they seek Rev; Or. Bor.
before twelve.
ferry and after sndins SEPARATE on He
wishes her to become his wife in reality,
but she refuses and asks him not to Try
accept money for her assistance to him,
and announces that she Is going to Europe.
| The other claimant for the property sees
that be Is beaten and withdraws and Stan
CHAPTER &T The young Woman mar' Whom
"a aea is the Nsg oa
WHO had at one time wanted to marry Stan
| fon's mother. She had visited Stanton
some one to answer his advertisement and
she impersonated such a person until sh1
bad heard his story anl then decided to
sired that the two should marry, but they
had nevar met hefore
CHAPTER VIII.
Thaddeus Braddon's best developed
faculty was that of holding his peace
and letting matters take their course,
especially where women were con=
cerned: II was enough for him that the
two who represented all the world to
him were well married. He started for
Europe with his daughter, and Stanton
reached San Francisco none the wiser
for what the old banker knew.
The young lawyer had almost week
te dispose Of before the sailing of the
steamer. The thought of it was hor-
rible. He knew no one. He did not
wish to know anyone. If he had seen
a familiar face approaching he would
have fled from it.
He was unknown in California, and
the common civilities accorded to q
stranger were responded to by him SO
eeldly that they were rarely repeated,
Very soon he found himself In his idenl
condition of being let alone, And yet
1t was not his ideal.
He called in vain on common sense
to help him. He upbraided himself.
He denounced himself. I'm making
an idiotic fool of myself" he groaned.
But between fact and philosophy the
unfortunate shuttlecock was merciless-
ly battledoored, while very common
disease developed, in accordance with
very well known laws.
If he could only have realized that
he was desperately in love, the case
would have promised much more salts
factory recovery. He insisted upon
considering his symptoms the upheav-
ais OF remorse for having cruelty
wronged q woman. He felt that she
must despise him.
He knew that she was his wife.
A few business kilograms arrived and
were quickly answered. A few friend
ly inquiries were forwarded, and were
utterly ignored, A letter came from
DR.. Borden, requiring a reply, and
Stanton struggled with 1t.
The good doctor wrote.
"My Dear Boy:-I trusted you that
night, and l trust you still, but am
greatly troubled by reports and lack of
facts. If you led me into marrying you
to blank, simply that you might Sc
cure your uncle's fortune (however
wise that step might beg, you betrayed
my love for you. 1t was crime. If
she was q woman whom you are
ashamed to acknowledge, I have still
done you an injury rather than which
would willingly have sacrificed both
my hands"
II shall land in the insane asylum be-
fore the steamer starts" Stanton
groaned, as he walked the room with
DR.. Borden's letter In his hand.
Passing a mirror he paused, folded
his arms, and stood, for q time, calmly
looking into it.
Robert Stanton, you are disgrace
to humanity" he muttered. Throwing
himself down ut the table, he wrote
to DR.. Borden:
II am leaving for Japan, and must
answer you briefly. You did not marry
me to blank or to woman I am
ashamed to acknowledge. She was pre-
cisely what I represented, true wom-
an, and would that were as worthy
OF my wife as she is of me-"
With a thrill of supreme delight
Stanton hailed the first motion of the
wheels as the steamer started, but it
was OF very short duration.
He looked about the deck with a
shudder. 1t was crowded with the
promiscuous company always to be
found on the Pacific.
Before the land had disappeared
Stanton discovered that it had been all
mistake to imagine that the starting
OF the steamer would better his eondi-
ton. It had only changed It for the
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