Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-12-16

given and 25 per cent dividends guaran-
teed. Cali on or address J. Cresco, AGO
Blank Bldg, Chicago"
| Linda devoted several minutes to ex-
! citcd calculation. Her bonds bore only
4 per cent; they could easily be con-
verified into cash. Under Kirke's man.
agement her income, though reliable as
the sunrise, had never gone above eight
! per cent. Here was chance to more
! than treble it.
! Linda investigated the matter palpi-
| tating with freedom that hurt while it
exhilarated. She found ]. Cresco all that
! could be desired, at least in deferential
/ courtesy and bland confidence She left
his Office wrapped in dreams of luxury,
but extremely misty as to her concep-
tons of the business whose returns
were to realize them.
During the following three months she
reveled-Or tried TON reflections over
her shrewdness. At the end of that time,
her promised profits did not appear She
waited two weeks, when a suave letter
came, expressing regret at the delay, and
promising a payment directly. Six
weeks passed, filled with growing fore
bodings. She had put all her available
cash into the scheme, and began now to
be decidedly cramped to meet her bills.
AT exactly the end of the half-year, she
wrote very decided demand for remit
lance
The answer delayed. Then. one morn
ing, Linda took up her paper, to
read under staring headlines an ac-
nf Cof
raided, and prominent among them the
name of her Golden Vision.
There seemed to be no way but to
swallow her pride, and face the ignominy
or having been victimized. She went to
lawyer, who in turn referred her to
well-known legal firm in the city. In this
thinly-veiled superciliousness Linda
read her doom; and it is to be hoped
more frightened and desolate soul new
er set out on that journey.
In the luxurious private Offices of Cav.
OVerman & Co., the second-named gen.
tleman was donning hat and gloves. He
turned back at the last minute, address,
Ing the firms latest acquisition in q
Junior partner:
Gay said there'd be a woman in at
three, to see something about that Cresco
business. She'd invested all she had.
believe. Gay said to tell her she might
as we'll try to pump up the bed of the
Pacific, and that we couldn't undertake
a suit"
He went out. The matter had half
slipped the new partners mind, when an
office boy laid card on his desk. He
had barely glanced at it when the door
opened. and his client was admitted
She stood transfixed, as he rose; a hot
flush ran UP to her forehead, and then
she grew pale as lily.
"Kfrke!" she gasped
Lindai" he cried. coming quickly
forward. Good Lord, dear! 1t wasn't
you who got caught in that beastly
scheme?"
Linda drew back. Her lips quivered.
and her lashes dropped heavily. Kirke
stopped, but only for an instant. The
sight OF her misery was sending the old
protective tenderness thrilling through
him, to the obliteration of his wrongs
He followed persistently, and took pos
session OF her hands
You'll have to let me take care of Won |
now, darling" he declared, with sudden. |
mischievous triumph Every cent of |
your money is gone!"
Linda tried to pull away. and failed. |
Back Of the crushing shame that her HUI
initiation lay bare before the last ewes |
she desired should see it. something else |
was working havoc within her.
can StarVe, then" she retorted an |
grily. Let go my hands. Kirke Norris, |
What would Helen Ritter say?"
He loosed his hold, staring.
Helen Ritter?" he repeated, in aston |
ishment; Helen Morris, you mean. She |
and Cousin Dick were married five
months ago. Good Heavens!"-as light |
burst suddenly upon him-"It can't he
you were jealous. dear. because I escorted
Helen to few places? She was nv
aunts guest. you know, and Dick was
confined to the store"
hirke's arm was around her, but she
slipped out of it and hid her face.
If am so poor" she began hu,
kirke gathered her resolutely to him
again.
And since you are" he finished for
her, with happy laugh, I'm going to
make it the business of my life to prove
the scriptures true, in that I have the
poor always with me"
Clever Thieves Score Win.
magistrates clerk has been known
to have his tie pin stolen while in court
and one IN Birmingham few years ago
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