Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1902-08-14
was when he went away.

ure OF knowing Mr. and Miss Calender
would be glad to be on that footing, .
said the consul, with polite significance.
Tim not agreein with por thera.''
said Mr.. Calender quietly; "and I'm
observin in ye Of late a tendency to
combine business wi complement.
But it was kind of ye to call, and I'll
be sendin ye the authorization y
Which he did. But the consul, pass
ing Though the locality few weeks
later, was somewhat concerned to find
the shop closed, with others on the same
block, behind a boarding that indicated
rebuilding and improvement Further
inquiry elected the fact that the small
leases had been bought Up by some cap
italist, and that Mr.. Calender, with the
others, had benefited thereby. But there
was no trace nor clew to his present To-
cality. He and his daughter seemed to
change in their fortunes.
1t was late March morning, when
the streets were dumb with snow and
the air was filled with flying granula-
tions that tinkled against the windows
Of the consulate like fairy sleigh bells,
when there was the stamping of snow
clogged feet in the outer hall and the
door was opened to Mr.. and Miss Cal
lender. For an instant the consul was
startled. The old man appeared as usual
erect and as frigidly respectable as
one of the icicles that fringed the win
dow, but Miss Ailsa was, to his aston
ishment, brilliant with new found
color, and sparkling with health and
only half repressed animation. The
snowfakes, scarcely melting on the
brown head Of this true daughter Of the
north, still crowned her hood, and as
she threw back her brown cloak and
disclosed plump little scarlet jacket
and brown skirt, the consul could not
resist her suggested likeness to some
bright eyed robin redbreast, to whom
the inclement weather had given a
charming audacity And, shy and de-
mure as she still was, it was evident
that some change had been Wrought in
her other than that evoked by the slim
illus of her native sky and air:
replied briefly that he had bought the
old cottage at Loeb Dour, where they
were living, and where he had erected
small mandatory and laboratory for
the making of his inventions, which had
become profitable. The consul reiterated
his delight at meeting them again.
"I'm not so sure Of that, sir, when
you know the business on which I
GOMEZ said Mr.. Calender, dropping
rigidly into a chair and clasping his
hands over the crutch Of shepherdlike
staff. eye mind, perhaps, that ye con-
veyed to me, osteensibly at the request
Of James Cow, a certain sum of money,
for which gave ye good and suff-
cient guarantee. thought at the time
that it was a most feckless and unbusi-
nessike proceeding on the part of James,
as it was without confederation or ad-
vice by letter, but took the money!
Do you mean to say that he made
no allusion to it in his other letters?''
interrupted the consul, glancing at ALL
sa.
There were no other letters at the
time," said Calender dryly. "But
about a month afterward we did receive
a letter from him inclosin a draft and
a full return Of the profits of the inven-
tion, which he had sold in Honduras.
Yell observe the Discrepancy. I then
wrote to the bank on which had drawn
as you authorized me, and I found that
they knew nothing of any damages
awarded but that the sum had drawn
had been placed to my credit by Mr.
Robert Grey. -
In a flash the consul recalled the one
or two questions that Grey had asked
him and saw it all. For an instant he
felt the whole bitterness of Grey's mis-
placed generosity-its exposure and de-
feat. He glanced again hopelessly at
Ailsa. In the eye Of that fresh, glowing,
yet demure young goddess, unhallowed
as the thought might be, there was
certainly distinctly tremulous wink
The consul took heart 81 believe I
need not say, Mr. Calender he began,
with some stiffness, "that this is as
great a surprise to me as to you. [ had
no reason to believe the transaction 9TH
er than bona fde, and acted according
~. If my friend, deeply sympathizing
with your previous misfortune, has hit
upon a delicate but unbusinesslike way
OF assisting you temporarily-Is say tenn
porarlly, because it must have been as
patent to him as to you that you would
eventually find out his generous deceit
you surely can forgive him for the
sake of bis kind intention. Nay. more
may point out to you that you have
no right to assume that this benefaction
was intended exclusively for you? If Mr..
Grey, in his broader sympathy with you
and your daughter has in this way cho-
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