The Irish standard., 1902-12-06

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mind, I'd like to ask?"
"a number of things, but chiefly
this: 1 have come to know now that
what l did that morning was wrong"
"Wrong!" shouted the banker.
care ye clean daft, man? Was there
ever any doubt about it's being
wrong?"
haps; but if it had seemed wrong to
me, 1 should not have done it,"
you're crazy, man; clean daft, I
say"
"Put it in the past tense, if you
please, Mr.. Galbraith. I'm in my
right mind now"
"And what cured ye, I'd like to
know?"
1.-THE fact that l found out an hour
ago that had made a good woman
my accomplice after the fact. There
can be no question about the sinful
ness Of that, so am here to do what
may in the way of reparation.
"Go on" said Andrew Galbraith.
First about the money"
It was the canny soul of the old
Scotchman that groaned.
"Ye lost it, ye loon; l know all
about that. Go ON with your repara-
tions."
"How did you know I lost it?"
queried Griswold, no little mystified.
"Never you mind what I know or
how know it. Go on, say"
"But l didn't lose it; or rather, l
lost it and found it again. Odd as 1t
may seem to you, have never re-
garded the money as my own. have
held it as fund in trust for the good
of my kind. Ninety-6ve thousand
dollars are invested in the Wahaska
iron works, and there are some three
thousand dollars of undivided profits
due on this investment. Here is q
check payable to your order for my
balance at the bank-$3, ,940.57. The
iron works stock can be sold at par
tomorrow, if you like, and that, with
the dividend and this balance, will
make you whole again, with small
interest on the principal"
Andrew Galbraith heard him
through, with grim satisfaction de-
picting itself on the shrewd old face.
"Ye're not so bad financier," he
said "Now, what's to become OF
YEP"
"That remains for you to say.
You may go and ring for the police,
and I'll wait here till an officer
comes; or if you don't care to be
mixed up in it, I'll take the first train
south and surrender myself in New
Orleans"
"Is that all?'
GAIL but one thing. If you put the
iron works on the market at once it
will embarrass Mr.. Raymer perhaps
to the point of forcing him to the
wall. l have no right to ask favors
of you
The banker sprang up and began to
tramp up and down in something as
nearly approaching rage as he ever
permitted himself.
"Why, ye callow young fule, what
dye think I'm made of?" he explod-
ed. ga few hours ago you and that
brave bit of lassie-God bless her
-risked your two lives to save mine.
Dye think I'll be sending you to that
leevin' death in the chain gang If ye
were twenty times the crazy loon ye
nre?"
Griswold drew himself up. "You've
got it to do, Mr.. Galbraith. You
must not compound felony to save
me-"
compound your grandmither!'
shouted the old man. "If you go and
give yourself up in New Orleans, III
go on the stand and swear 1 never SET
eyes on We before. Then yell have ar
old mans perjury on ye're soul tc
answer for. Ma, ma, lad; they call me
hard old skinfint, but after a I'm
just human. You've turned face about
and it's not old Andrew Galbraitt
who'll be piling stones in your way
60 you right away down to the doc
tors and tell that brave lassie O.
yours what's come of it a, and to
morrow we'll see about the none,
matters. Maybe I'll make up m.
mind to let sleeping dogs lie, and Sc
We up as my resident manager a
, your iron works. Go on, ye loon, be
fore turn ye out"
i, Griswold went toward the door
: with his brain in whirl, but whel
| his hand was on the knob Andrew
Galbraith stopped him.
"Hold on minute, I forgot
: There's man here by the name o
Griffin; he knows who you are, an
: he'll be nabbing YOU" Griswol
smiled. "No, he won't. He ha
thrown up the job, as he will proba
: bly, tell you tomorrow"
"Thrown it up? What for?"
3 Griswold hung his head. "I-1 wa
3 lucky enough to save his life, too
e l."
: "That'l do; ye've mission tina
3 way, it seems. Now, then, be O.
. with you."
. Griswold left the room and hote
walking as one in dream. Th
y dream lasted until he entered til
e gate of Lake Lodge and saw flute
of white on the high veranda.
n "What have you done, Kenneth
" she asked, when he would suffer he
IL to speak.
81 have done what l could, dea
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