News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-07-03

! child had suddenly disappeared, stolen
4 from her bed in the night while the
i nurse slept sOundly, and no clew had
ever been obtained as to her fate.
The certificate of her birth had also
! been taken at the same time, for
! what reason was not known. The
young mother had been frantic with
{ grief. and her husband had employed
! the best detectives and spent money
! freely, all to no purpose. His wife
| died a year later. He continued the
search as long as he lived at intervals
! and had his will drawn as described,
with the additional testimony that one
| Harriet Carey had been n deadly and
vindictive enemy of his wife and that
he knew of no other person who would
be likely to have stolen the child. What
the reasons were for this enmity he
did not state. AS for a description of
the girl, he could only mention one
marked popularity which would be
certain to remain as she grew up, and
! that was that while one of her eyes
was a deep violet blue the other was
more of a dark gray. This was hardly
| noticeable unless one observed closely,
but remained a distinguishable feature
by which she might eventually be
identified.
1t did not seem very likely that aft
er IS years of search this discovery
would ever be made. But handsome
| Harry Marsden, in the honesty of his
heart and his love of justice fervently
hoped that it might have been left for
him to bring the discovery to pass.
Harry was 26 and, strange as it may
appear, had never been in love. He
declared that the reason was that he
had never met his ideal. not consider
ing that the matter of an ideal has
nothing to do with the divine passion
as experienced on this mundane sphere.
However, after he had received the
Inheritance before mentioned he had
come to wonder if girl with blue
eye and a gray one could be beautiful.
lie had heard of the great beauty of
his uncle's English wife and wondered
if the daughter resembled her. always
providing that she was living. After
long deliberation he had come to the
conclusion that the phenomenon of two
colored eyes would prove rather
charm in a fair face than otherwise
and had contracted the habit of look
ing carefully at every strange girl he
met who might be about 20 years of
age.
How he did eventually meet the girl
| L. La Il
Of those accidents-as we count the
workings of never errng fate-that
happen every day. The world is full
of them. So Harry looked into the
delicate face, saw one blue eye and
one gray one and saw his destiny.
Elated at the discovery (of the eyes,
not knowing yet of the other, he at
once saw his way clear to the end, or
thought he did, but found obstacles
ia the path. Mrs. Carver declared that
the fact of the peculiar eyes was only
a coincidence, that the girl was the
daughter of her son and that no one
could prove that her name was other
than Carver.
But fate was working in a manner Of
her own, and this brings US back to
SpOOk. crOuching on the stairs, ponder
Ing, percharce plotting and planning,
as boy never planned before. There
was something in the air, a force re-
volving about, which must be captured,
put in the form of a thought, developed
into a suggestion and thence to the exc
cution or act that would bring about
q desired result, a result beneficial to
Laura Carver.
A boy from the street threw a fire
cracker into the stairway. 1t fell close
beside Spook. 1t Kissed threateningly,
then exploded triumphantly. A mo-
ment before he would not have heard
it any more than he heard the noises
of the street. But now his mind was
at a point where the explosion came to
him with terrible force, and he arose
suddenly and made a motion across his
eyes with his clawlike hand like the
brushing away of cobwebs.
He looked down at the spot where the
spent firecracker still glowed duly in
the gloom; then he passed quickly
down the stairs and into the street. He
did not stop there, but FASTENED away
out of the vicinity and up the street
, He wanted some money. There was nc
money in that wretched place he called
home or if there was it was not fol
him. The drunken aunt who was sup.
posed to care for him had no money tC
waste on Fourth of July fun for the
boy. She had sold herself long ago fol-
what she could get. She would sell the
boy himself at the same price, only
t there was no buyer. That there was
5 money in the world that would ere long
, buy him from her and place him in the
, niche designed for him she did moi
| dream. Neither did Spook. He only
I knew that with the explosion of The
firecracker in the dark stairway some
= thing had come to him like the sudder
+ opening and shutting of a door through
which he had seen clearly to the end.
! But he must have some money. Spool
] had never begged upon the street. His
] spectral face would have been an effec
1 tual one for the purpose, but there wa'
something within him which absolutely
S refused to do the degrading act, and NJ
' amount of threats had forced him to it