The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1903-09-04

CHAPTER vH-tCoNrNuEpl
We'll. ma'am, since you know so
much, you probably know also that
have sold my pension How am / TO
i've II do not turn my hand TO work.
Mrs Westmacott produced large
registered envelope from beneath the
sheets and tossed 1t over to the old
seaman.
That excuse won't do. There are
your pension papers. Just see II they
are right"
He broke the seal. and out tumbied
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 bewilderment.
You will put them In a safe place or
get a friend to do 30. and. n you do
your duty. you will go 10 your wife and
beg her pardon for having even for an
instant thought OF leaving her"
The Admiral passed his hand over his
rugged forehead. This Is very good OF
you. maam." said he. very good and
kind, and know that you are staunch
friend. but for all that these papers
mean money. and though we may have
been In broken water lately. we are not
quite In such straits as TO have 20 signal
20 our friends. when we do. ma'am.
there's no one we would look to sooner
than 20 you"
Don't be ridlculousr said the widow.
you know nothing whatever about ~,
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 II
q no favor that I am doing. you, but
simply a restoration OF stolen property"
How that ma'am7"
IL am Just going 20 explain. though
you might take ladys word for II
without asking any questions. NOW
what am going to say Is Just between
you four. and must 20 no farther. /
have my own reasons for wishing II
kept from the police. Who do you think
h was who struck me last night, Ad-
inirai2"
some villain. ma'am. don't know
his name"
but do. II was the same man who
ruined or tried TO ruin your son. II was
my only brother. jeremiah"
"Ahi''
81 will tell you about simon little
about him. for he has done much which
. ] would not care TO talk OF. nor you to
listen to- He was always villain
bmooth-spoken and plausible. but dan
kerous. subtle villain all the same. II
have aome hard thoughts about man
kind I can trace them back 20 the child
hood which spent with my brother.
he IN my only living relative. for my
other brother. Charles father. was killed
In the Indian mutiny.
"our father was rich. and when ne
died he made a good provision both Tor
Jeremiah and for me. He knew Jere-
inniah and he mlstrusted him, howeveri
% Instead OF giving him all that he
meant him 10 have he handed me over
a part OF Il, telling me. with what was
almost his dying breath. 10 hold II In
trust for my brother. and to use II In
his behalf when he should have squan'
dered or lost all that he had. This ar
ranEamont was meant TO be a secret
between my father and myself. but un.
fortunately his words were overheard
by the nurse. and she repeated them
afterwards 90 my brother 30 that ne
came TO know that held some money
in trust for him. l suppose tobacco viii
not harm my head, Doctor1 Thank
you, then l shall trouble you for the
matches, Ida" She III a cigarette. and
leaned back upon the pillow, with tbs
blue wreaths curling from her lips.
II cannot tell you how often he has
attempted TO get that money from me
He has bullied. cAjolod. threatened
ooaxed, done all that n man could do
stlli held II with the presentiment thai
a need OF Il would come. When heard
Of this villainous busipess. his hight
and his leaving his partner TO face tbs
storm. above all that my old friend had
been driven TO surrender his income II
order &c make up for my brothers de
kaisatltna l felt that now indeed l hAe
a need for II. I sent In Charles yeater
day 20 Mr.. MoAdam. and his client
upon hearing the facts OF the case. verJ
lgraciousiy consented TO give back thu
papers, and 10 take the money which III
had advanced. Not a word OF thanks 4
me. Admiral. tell you that II was yer,
cheap benevolence. for II was all don't
with his own money. and how could
use Il better7
II thought that should probabl!
hear from him soon. and did. Las
evening there was handed In a note o
the usual whining. Bringing tone. IL
had come back from abroad at the risl
sf-his life and liberty. Just In order tina
he might say goodbye 20 the only sln
Ter that he ever had. and TO entreat M
forgiveness for any pain which he ha'
caused me. He would never trouble mi
again, and he begged only that l woult
hand over 10 him the sum which hell
III TRUST LOT nun IHAAf win MhAA az
had already. would be enough 10 star
him as an honest man In the new world
when he would ever remember an'
pray for the dear sister who had beer
his savior. That was tho style OF IN
better. and II ended by lmploring me q
leave the window-latoh open. and 20 b
IN the front room at three In the morn
inR. when he would come to receive M
last kiss and 10 bid me farewell.
bad as he was. could not, when n
trusted me. betray him. said nothing
ou. I was there at the hour. He en-
lered through the window, and lmplorei
re 20 give him the money lie was ter
aNiy changed; gaunt. wolhsh and spok
sdo a mailman. told him that ha'
hpent the money. He CRASHED his teetl
~ me. and swore Il was his money.
HdId him that had spent II on him. II
aalred me how. I said IN trying to max
him an honest man, and In repairing n
foluits Of his villainy, Ele ahrieked on
b curse. and pulling something out o