Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-06-06

was mere matter of routine, and yee there were other and far-reaching out comes of public interest. First and foremost was the question of inherit ance. Angie, of course, the sole heir, would inherit in due time, and after legal preliminaries had been adjusted, and provided no other claimant ap- peared. Upon this, however, there was divergence of opinion. Many still believed Amzi yet alive, some insisted that he must be (and that it was known to David). and few were positive that 1 his ghostly presence had been the cause of David's first case of 'fits," as a return on Halloween had been of the final scare.
 It was but justice, as all agreed, and yet 1t was a mystery as dark and un- canny as the hackmatack swamp where I David was found. For three months many had considered his premises haunted. now this number was in- creased; and out of those who still 1 secuted the idea of any ghostly connec- tion, there were few who would have visited either mill or the big empty house after dark.
 But the Mizzy falls kept on rumbling. the, autumn winds swept the dead leaves into every nook and cranny of the premises, the leafess elms moaned. the loose boards of the old house screalKed by night, and if Amzi's ghost came not, it seemed that David would be like to come.
 2 A foolish will had wrought It's worse than finite woe, mean and miserly hypocrite had continued it, and dead. had-iike a serpent-left his trail and impress upon Greenvale.
 When the outcome of David's death. scarcely realized as yet by Aunt Com fort, was conveyed by her to Angle. 1t was told with bated breath and as If a ghost might be listening. It was all so sudden, and so quite overwhelm- ing also. Angie was stunned. All her life long she had felt grievous wrong had been done her father, and she had been left to suffer for it. At times she had felt such bitter hatred of her uncle that his very name and sight of his pinched face was obnoxious. At his funeral she would not look upon him. and when the "earth to earth and dust to dust" finale came, only it's solemnity impressed her.
 We do not even admit some thoughts and feelings, and when those who have Wronged us most pass down into their final resting-place, our lips must also remain sealed, and when Angie turned away from her uncle's grave, she would not say, "I am glad," and could not say, T am sorry"
 Neither did the fact that she was to inherit his estate undo the sense of wrong. It was not his will and wish that this was to be, he had not thought of her, or Justice to her in life, and only the laws mandate now said so, and that left a taint on the heritage. He had wronged her father in the long ago.. and had driven him from home. had kept what was hers by right, and. in spite of public opinion, willingly saw her dependent upon charity and her own effort to earn trifie, and now, in passing, had left her to stifle her natu- ral feelings as best she could. But there was one spot of silver beneath the cloud, and that, the face of Aunt Com fort and the chance to reward her, was some compensation for all her self denials. It was the first and about the only impulse that came to Angie when the tragic shock had passed away, and that night when the two sat beside their little round table recount ing all that had been said and done in the past few days, this chance was Angles only sense of gratitude. She had weeks before come to realize that any change in her own life would and must be impossible while Aunt Com- fort lived, and Martins self-evident hopes seemed doomed to fail. To care for the good old soul, who had been home and mother since childhood, she must, or forever despise herself, and al- though this legacy would remove the narrow and cramping poverty that had been theirs always, the obligation re- mained, and with Angie such debt was sacred.
 With Aunt Comfort 1t was other wise, as might be expected, and when the evening had grown late and the fire had burned low, her resume of the situation may we'll be quoted.
 I've alters b'lieved the Lord ud see justice done us all," she said, "and I b'lteve He has. He ain't like to bring Aruzi back to life, but maybe He's gin David his just desarts. I don't exact- " USIl0N0 III SpcIltSs yet 1I AOOhS cz IA the hantin' No' conscience had made David see one the night he was took with fit last summer n again now when he run off in the night. He's wronged your father m you all his life long, m if his sufferin' from con- science ain't dispensation O Provi- dence n his just desarts, I dunno what would be. Thar is one thing can't quite hgger out, n that is, what made Martin Frisbie pay him $2,000 fer an agreement O deed O the mills m Mizzy lands, n what he wanted on 'em It looks curus, but s'pose he'll explain when he gifts back It's most time he did. too; he's ben gone now most two months" Then she paused, looking at Angie and smiling benevolently. "It'll all be in the fam fly. s'pose," she continued. still smil- Ing. when you n Martin git married,