Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-01-23

pet aversion - Sam
Scarcely had the sounds Of aaun
Iers' horses hO0fs eeaseu 5
back from his gallop over the mn. M !
careful Cousin Fritz came huIrylhB - !
20 find his coat. his poeketbook ana us
Golden contents. which he had mo- i
Toentarily forgotten. Fastening 70 as
sure himself his money was sale' ~
opened the pocketbook and iouhu
nothing. Then he uttered cry ana !
looked again, searching with tremo- {
iina 6ngers for the invisible. Canny /
Cousin Fritz was bit misery iUi
man so young. His loss smote nm
ike a stab with a knife. Sweat oathsu
his face. and his hands shook NhNS
bis teetb chartered. Then he erlea
ont again. and the two women cant
runping to him. Nellie hoped and Mrs,
Dietricb feared that Cousin Fritz haa
been suddenly stricken with ague,
which grows profusely on the banks o.
tbe wabash. and is easily gathered by
, the unwary. ..a 90
gether.
"Your money!"
ayes; my $40 gold-pieee. IL IS sOHe
| Somebody has stolen T. VINO 20" a.,
boen here IN the last five minutes
Mrs Dietrich looked pointedly at
noor Nellie. Nellie flushed holly ana
then turned very pale as she an
swered that look. Both OF them ~"
very wen who had been there uHi9
n moment before they had seen jess
u tbe she'd. with that very coat IN ms
,,,iltv hands. The elder woman SPOKE
first, and quickly; -.
"yby Jess, he was here, minute
ooo after his saddle, ! suppose
saw him holding your coat. fefn ,5
he was brushing it OIL she eon''uU
ed, malieiously.
20 mother. the idea that jess
,ronld stealln cried Miss Nellie I'M
netnopsly. Then she began to cry
Fyep in her eyes, so strong a glamour
: 5oas circumstantial evidence cast the
j facts were too strong for convincing
: denial
. FRITZ hardly knew whether most TO
/, olive his soul to joy or sorrow on
. The one hand he would be rid OF a
d hated rival. Upon the other ms
!. money was gone All, but stay! fer'
IS hans he could lose a rival ana mo ~,
money too. He picked up the eoa'
l. and empty pocketbook and grinlls
= 4a11.oa ayyav 10 tell old man Dietrich
D. all about il. -,
II Well what could that good mar
D. and able boss carpenter doF III
70 noob-poohed the idea that jess wa
d ! thief. but when that young MAJ
e. was accused by Fritz, openly, on IN
III Monday following, when the earpen
e. ter's hands went to work, the lore
n man promptly knocked the Juno
r. mariner down and would have wors
Id created him if Dietrich had not intei
lie fered. Jess was discharged. lie ma
m rowly missed indictment for larceh'
al Then he sued Fritz for SANDER an
ed lost his case. Half the township D.
He reyed Jess guilty. He was forbidde
70 the Dietrich house, and even Nell
lie refused to meet him privately
,v- wasn't right to disobey her parent
his she said.
III Then jess grew morose, and
of started for the bad at DOWN
ed. Gait. and to help the pace left u
lat hanks of the Wabash far away al
sed went up to Chicago.
ed AZ for Nellie, between the urgll
tho of Fritz, and the opportunities OIL
my mother, and the acquiescence OF II
tie father. and the absence of Jess, S
grew thin and pale, and was 'pret
wo. Nellie" no longer. And, at last,
.ttv dav she said she didn't care anyho
ent that neace was worth something a
ess that if Fritz really thought pc
raj oirl like her was worth anything
wife. he might take her, and
,od- blessed. And Fritz, he was oy
,iet- loved There might be some Ia
bod Of bloom in Nellie's fair cheek,
inc the bank account waXed apace, a
.ody the black loan acres were still I
d in tening.
mite So a wedding day was set, and
Inn bells were hidden ready to ring. p
non Nellie
SON When that notable housewife, Ma
ney. ma Dietrich, finally determined L
Ie in yellow-legged chlckeh PIE SHo
vas grace the board at the wedding
20 he ner, Papa Dietrich went to select
inns behead the victims. He stopped
NsI- the woodshed to get his AK. Altho
- os a boss carpenter, he lost his holt
tbey the handle as he seized it, and 1t
nam glancingly, casting up dirt and q
- from the earthen floor as its bl
bpt descended sharply. Then, where
nor- ak had fallen and raised this w
shed commotion, Papa Dietrich
+ba something shining which was
steel. something yellow which was
!" IL moonlight, He stopped and pi'
IN - up-Fritz's lost $40 gold-piece'
M Then he shouted for Nellie,
|, and Jess is back again. The down
sopl Gait has been reversed. Ano
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