Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1903-09-04
CHAPTER xvn.-fCoxrryurp,

| well ma am, since you know q,
much. you probably know also that
have sold my pension. How am l I,
I'VE II do not turn my hand to work p
Mrs. Westmacott produced a larg'
registered envelope from beneath tn,
sheets and tossed It over TO the oiC
seaman.
That excuse won't do. There are
your pension papers. Just see II they
IRE right"
He broke the seal. and out tumblcd
the very papers which he had made over
to McAdam two days before.
But what am l to do with these
now?' he cried in bewlderment.
You will put them In safe place or
| get friend 10 do so, and, II you do
| your duty, you will go to your wife and
| beg her pardon for having even for an
instant thought of leaving her"
The Admiral passed his hand over hts
rugged forehead. This is very good of
you, maam' said he, very good and
Kind, and know that you are a stauncA
friend, but for all that these papers
mean money and though we may have
been in brolAp water lately. we are not
quite in suGt ttraits as to have to signal
10 our frlyds When we do, ma am.
there's no sne we would look TO sooner
than to yfh."
Don't be rldiculous" said the widow.
You know nothing whatever about II.
and yet you stand there laying down
the law. I'll have my way in this mat
ter, and you shall take the papers, for It
is no favor that 1 am doing you, but
simply restoration Of stolen property"
How that, ma'am?"
II am just going to explain. though
without asking any questions Now,
what am going to say is just between
you four. and must go no farther. 1
have my own reasons for wishing It
kept from the police. Who do you think
1t was who struck me last night, Ad-
miral?"
Some villain. mann don't know
his name"
But do. 1t was the same man who
ruined or tried to ruin your son. 1t was
my only brother, jeremiah"
abr
II will tell you about him--or a little
about him. for he has done much which
i would not care to talk of. nor you to
listen TO- Ne was always n villain.
smooth-spoken and plausible, but a dan
gerous. subtle villain all the same. II
have some hard thoughts about man
4
hood which / spent with my brother.
He is my only living relative. for my
other brother, Charles father, was killed
In the Indian mutiny.
"Our father was rich, and when he
died he made a good provision both for
Jeremiah and for me. He knew Jere-
miah and he mistrusted him. however;
so instead Of giving him all that he
meant him to have he handed me over
a part of It, telling me, with what was
almost his dying breath. to hold 1t In
trust for my brother, and to use IL in
his behalf when he should have squan-
dered or lost all that he had. This ar
rangement was meant to be secret
between my father and myself, but UNI
his words were overheard
by the nurse, and she repeated them
to my brother, so that he
came TO know that l held some money
Ia trust for him. 1 suppose tobacco will
not harm my head Doctor? Thank
you, then I shall trouble you for the
matches. Ida" She lit a cigarette. and |
leaned back upon the pillow, with the !
blue wreaths curling from her lips.
II cannot tell you how often he has
attempted to get that money from me-
He has bullied, cajoled threatened, |
coaxed. done all that a man could do.
| still held 1t with the presentiment that
4 need of 1t would come. When 1 heard
II this villainous business, his flight,
and his leaving his partner to face the
storm, above all that my old friend had
been driven to surrender his income in
order to make up for my brothers de-
'alcations. felt that now indeed l had
1 need for 1t. l sent in Charles yester-
lay to Mr.. McAdam, and his client
lpon hearing the facts of the case, very
yraciously consented to give back the
,apers, and to take the money which he
lad advanced. Not word of thanks to
ne, Admiral. l tell you that II was very
heap benevolence. for Il was all done
With his own money, and how could /
Use It better?
II thought that l should probably
lear from him soon, and 1 did Last
vening there was handed in note OF
he usual whining. Bringing tone He
ad come back from abroad at the risk
his life and liberty, just in order that
e might say goodbye TO the only sis
Pr that he ever had, and to entreat my |
forgiveness for any pain which he had
aused me. He would never trouble me I
gain. and he begged only that 1 would
and over TO him the sum which 1 held !
- A9A ANA MINI mat Win what ne ] =
ad already, would be enough 10 start :
im as an honest man In the new world.
Then he would ever remember and /
ray for the dear sister who had been t
rs savior, That was the style Of the q
tier, and Il ended by imploring me TO 8
ave the window-latch open, and to be
] the front room at three IN the morn
w, when he would come to receive my ,
st kiss and to bid me farewell. g
bad as he was. could not. when he
listed me- hetray him. I said nothing.
az l was there at the hour. lie en-
red through the window, and implored
r TO give him the money. He was ter !,
bly, changed gaunt, wolhsh and spoke u
Re a mailman. 1 told him that / had II
lent the money He CRASHED his teeth o
me, and swore Il was his money. I
ld him that had spent II on him. lie b
.ked me how said IN trying 10 make n
m an honest man, and In repairing the N
suits Of HIS yillainy. He shrieked out =
curse, and pulling something out Of