The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1903-11-06

anu winch MI. buTrlJt was tue uTsI u
to break.
James" he said, and there were
traces of considerable emotion in his
voice. you are much changed.
should hardly have known you"
Changed" exclaimed the other,
somewhat bitterly; land in twenty
years! Is it to be wondered at?'
Then, with an alteration of tone, "But
l should have know you anywhere,
Silas."
Twenty years!" repeated his friend.
"Ah, well, SO 1T is! How quickly the
years have flown. 1t seem nothing
like that to me-"
ut is that, all the same" said the
other. at is twenty years to the very
day. This is the Gath of April, 1884.
1t was the Gath of April, 1864, when
you said goodbye to me on board the
vessel In which I was to sail to a new
country"
"It is a long time to remain an
exile-a voluntary exile" said Mr.. Bur.
rift; you might have, returned years
ago, nau you CHOSEN
The other man shook his head
gloomily. 81 have kept my word"
he said. "You remember my last
speech to you? said, 4 am
going to begin a new life-to make
my fortune. In twenty years, If have
oone SO, l shall return. By that time
I may hope that my crime will have
been forgotten. 1t may be that in
twenty years some Of those who know
my wretched story will be dead may
even be dead myself; but, if not, l
shall return to the country am now
about to leave behind; for surely in
twenty years the disgrace which now
furnishes my name will be blotted out
and forgotten. Until then, FAREWELL
And now" he continued, "the term
Of my self-imposed Punishment is at
an end. l have kept my word and l
have returned"
Mr.. Burritt laid his hand upon his
friends shoulder.
You Judge yourself too harshly,"
he said; ''the word crime is too Sc
we're a one to apply to that youthful
indiscretion-sin, if you will-repented
of as soon as committed"
"Repentance!" cried the other, i'm
patiently; what IL the good of repent
ance? Will it recover a lost reputa-
ton and wipe out a stain upon the
past? The fortune l went to seek is
mine, but l would give it all for an
unblemished record, so that / might
not be ashamed to look any man in the
face. All, Silas! it is a terrible thing
to think that a child of mine should
ever blush for her father!"
"You are married, them" inquired
Mr.. Burritt, gladly Selling the oppor-
tunity thus offered of changing the
dismal subject. rs your wife with
you?"
81 am a widower," was the reply.
my wife died twelve years ago, leav-
ing me with one child-a daughter"
Tell me all about your daughter"
said Mr.. Burritt, "and how you came
to make up your mind to part with her
for so long? l have a daughter of my
own-as well as the son who was born
before you left England-and though l
have been threatening to pack her off
to boarding school for the last four
or five years, l never could reconcile
myself to the idea of the separation.
And now she's too old-nineteen last
birthday" and her father shook his
head over his own weakness and smil-
ed. an indulgent, parental smile.
That's the age of my Agnes within
a year." said the other; strange that
we should have daughters SO nearly
the same age!"
He looked at his companion strange
ly.
81 am in your hands, Silas," he said;
you car ruin me in my child's eyes,
as well as in the eyes of the world,
whenever you please"
(To be continued.)
The Real Thing in Toothaches.
"Geewhitaker! Jumping Moses,
But it was the worst case of toothache
1 ever bumped against" he said. st
was easy in the early part of the even
ing, but when midnight arrived it got
busy for fair. Liniment, hot and cold
water and all the rest of the standard
remedies were applied without avail.
Seven thousand devils, with seven
thousand red-hot sledges; hammered,
hammered and hammered away at the
throbbing nerve That tooth stood
upon its head, rolled over the carpet
and hung out of the window. 1t
growled, grumbled, moaned and NUT
tered, laughed, cried, ran, walked, trot-
ted, galloped, sailed, flew, dug and ex-
cayated, and did everything under the
heavens but quit and go to sleep like
a decent tooth and stop monkeying
-"
But why didn't you have it ex-
tracted?"
"Just as soon as Brown could get to
the dentists he"
Great Scott, mani Wasn't it your
tooth?"
mo; it was Browns"
Floored the Englishman.
At a dinner party in London Miss
Beatrice Herford was taken down by