The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-11
CHAPTER VI.
TEDDY'S NEWS.

Mr. Gasken looked at the image with
extreme disfavor. Norah seeded Fancy
for having taken it.
You know I don't like the horrid
thing, w. she said. Il do believe, in siN-e
of what they say, it's the cause of my
trouble
En- what's that?" cried Gaskeil. "Oh.
the Chinaman-of course, I remember
now. My dear child how can you be
so foolish. This craven image can have
nothing to do with the matter. l hope
you are not so superstitious as to belle c
the thing is unlucky. If you do, give
it to me, beg" and he stretched out his
hand
Fancy put the idol behind her back.
ooh, no, you don't, Cousin Rowland, -
she said. pertly. II intend to make a
picture of 1t. Besides, l don't see what
you would do with it,
MY dear Fancy, I would sell it, and
apply the proceeds to aiding the poor :"
Il couldn't let you do that, Rowland
said Norah, with tears in her eyes. 1T
was Leonard's last gift to me, and 1 shall
keep it till I die
She paused and looked steadfastly at
the idol, while Fancy was dancing
about like doll.
Il can't help feeling that it has had
something to do with Leonard's going
away l. lOi+A Nlldl IlG SeJlO, ItSi SSIltlIl
that the one-eyed Chinaman knows about
this image --..----
I'm that case, let me take it to him
and hear what he has to say about it.
1t might-although I hardly think it will
throw some light on Leonard's death. y
He isn't dead" denied Fancy, lush
ing. Don't be pig! Teddy believes
he is alive, and so do I. AS for the
Boojum, I'm going to use 1t for a model.
7 %o11
when I've finished with it, Norah. Good
bye, Rowley; keep your venerable wig
straight"
so nght-hearted," sighed Gaskell;
land perhaps death"
''Bosh! That's like mother. How You
Bcreechi"
Fancy turned to her heel with a grim
ace and ran out of the room. A keen
observer might have noticed that Row
land appeared discomfted but whether
at Fancy's extreme fippancy or at her
blank refusal to give him the idol to sell
for his poor, it was impossible to say.
Norah, dwelling on what he had told her
addressed herself directly to him as soon
as the door had closed upon her irrepres-
sible junior.
Rowland, I want you to bring Jinfou
here. 1 will show him the idol, and ask
him about it. He will know, at all
go says it is
Whatever he may know, you may be
certain that he will say precious little;
and I don't think you will understand
what he does say" was Gaskell's reply.
mot that 1 think he Is in any way in
culpated in the matter, for I myself saw
him asleep at the very time Leonard is
supposed to have been decoyed to his
DOOM"
"Po1v1op5 o,,;od NJou.n, .,,, !. - J.,
Il do wish you would not use those hor-
rid words! Once and for all, decline to
believe that Leonard is dead; or to hear
you say So"
May your faith be justified my child,
] hope so, too, and l Will do. nothing about
the mortgage for a few months Bendi-
go can look after the cottage and in the
meantime we must do everything posi-
BILE to find Leonard. We must get that
packet of papers from the old man, too
I'll bring Jinfou to you, if I can manage
it, Norah.' He rose and took up his hat
but paused in the act Of putting it on
There is another, and again a painful
subject, about which, perhaps, I'd better
speak to you"
What is it?' asked Norah, anxiously
She had some idea of what was coming
'NOt-not-not Philip?''
Yes, Philip. 1 saw your brother 6
week age"
Rowland! Where? Where?"
Where, but in the depths?" said Gas
kell, bitterly. rs he not the prodiga
son. Athe drunkard, the gambler, the vi
cious profligate and spendthrift? Cal
the leopard change his spots? No, indeed
Philip blush that l should call hin
cous!n-Philip Is feeding on the husk
with the swine"
us he no better?"
Better? He is worse-if it be possibl,
for one so fallen to become worse. I trieC
to bring him to a sense of his iniquity
but he scoffed at me as Of DID,
Poor Philip!" Norah's tears fell fas
for the Oldest son and black sheep of tn
family. He had been his mothers darl
ing. Now she could not bear to hear hi
name, much less see him. With tn
brightest prospects, the young man, veal
and easily led astray, had gone utterly
to the bad, and for some years had beel
cut off entirely from his family T,
Fancy he was a mere name She hardl,
remembered him; but Norah, recalIin,
the bright, handsome boy hoped tina
even yet he might be redeemed.
Oh she cried, looking at her cousin
imploringly, lis there no hope for him?''
None, replied Rowland, grimly. {"
cannot save him, although I would glad
S1y do so. The seven devils of his vice tea
MIN, and who can redeem a man whel
his worst enemy is himself?" Gaskel
paused and looked thoughtful "Norah
1t has been in my mind, but 1 have no
said this to any one, that Philip ma
know something of this disappearance.
What do you mean?" cried Norah
scarlet and GREATNESS.
you know 1t is said that Leonard
must have been decoyed into Dinch',
beat by someone he knew-might it no
have been Philip?'
Rowland! How can Yon2,