Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-08-27

a tightener, Don't be SO squeamish,
Rich"
81 will not take the money You de.
ceived me once before"
well, If I'd told you | won it at
pool you wouldn't have taken It."
NO" said Rich firmly, Il would
sooner have lived on dry bread. This
money, then, is part Of some gambling
trasactlon?"
at isn't"
Then how did you come by it?"
"Well, then, If you viii have it,
Poynter lent it to me-"
"Oh, Hendon, Iiendon has it come
TO ths?" cried Richmond piteously.
Eyes, 1t has. What Is a fellow to
do? Homes wretched; one never has
n shilling, The guvnor's mad over
his essence, as he calls it, and | be-
lleve, II he saw us starve. he would
smile and sigh"
mo no. He Is so intent upon his
discovery, that he does not realize
our position"
"TIIs discovery Bah! Lunacy,
/ There isn't "A fellow at Guys who
wouldn't laugh at me If ] told him
what the Buynor does. Rich. old girl,
I'm sick of it! IT was madness for me
to go through all this training, when
| might have been earning money as
porter or clerk Every hing has
been swallowed up IN the fees. Why,
| If Jem Poynter hadn't come forward
like a man, and paid the last"
"What?"
well, what are you shouting at?"
did Mr.. Poynter pay your last
fees at Guy's?"
cor course he did, DO You suppose
the money was caught at the bottom
Of n spout after shower"
"Hendon, dear Hendon!"
There. It's no use to be so
squeamlsh. If those last hadn't been
paid, 1t would have bed like throwing
away all that had been paid before"
Il did not know OF thIs--I did not
know of thls"
Don't don't dear! couldn't help
It, used to feel as bad ms you do;
but this cursed poverty hariens
man. | fought against it; hut Poyntcr
was always after me, tempting me-
standing dinners when | was as hun
CRY IA n hound giving me wine and
cigars He has almost forced money
on me lots OF times and at-at other
times when I've had few glasses
II haven't refused IL, It's all .Ianets
fault"
"Hendon!"
well, so It ISL cried the young fel
low passionately. "lf she hadn't
thrown mo over as she did"
"To save You from additional
poverty"
mo, It didn't; it made me Ios-
pcrate, and ready to drink when
chap like Poynrer was Jolly ana
forced champagne on me, was as
proud as you are once. but my priio's
about all gone!"
flush will not hear you speak
like that Hendon my own darling
brother loor Janet's sake"
she's nothing to me now was
thrown over for some other fellow"
"lIow dare you, sir! You know 1t is
not true Dear Janet, Working daily
like slave and offering me her hard
earnings when we were so pressed"
"Did shc-dld she?" cried Hendon
oNcitodly, and with his pale face flush
ing up.
There" cried Richmond half laugh
ingly. half scornfully, confess sir. that
u lying spirit was on your lips Say
you believe that Of Janet and that You
do not stIll love her II YOU dare!"
Ncndon Charley let his head fall in
to his hands, and bent down, with his
shoulders heaying with the emotion he
could mot conceal, while his sister bent
over him and laid her hand upon his
head
He started up at her touch, seized
and kissed her hand, and then, going
to the side of the room, he laid his
arm against the panel and his brow
upon 1t, to stand talking there,
Il can't help 1t, Rich dear, he groau.
ed, Il feel like n brute beast some
times, and rs IL can never look her
in the face again. I've drunk; I've
gone Wild in kind of despair; and
Poynter scems to have been always
Ivy me to egg me on, and get mo u6dcr
his thumb"
My own brother"
Don't touch me, dear can't stop
here I'll do as Mark Heath did, and
II Janet Il wait perhaps some day |
may come back to her a better man,
and she may forgive me"
] There was pause.
4 4 don't believe anything of her but
what Is good and true; God bless her
for little darling Why, Rich"
He turned sharply. for low moan
had escaped his sister, and he found
that she had sunk into chair, and
was sohhtng bitterly with her face IN
her hands,
Rich, darling, | did not mean It.
What have said"
Nothing, nothing, dear; only YOU
you must not leave me"