The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1904-05-19

but which he owned himself. You tAId
me that" said Reuben.
"He was strange that day. It might
have been the raving Of I mailman"
/ "As that" said Lucy, pointing to the
Are, twas the act Of madwoman."
II think not" answered Mary conf
IDENTIFY; 1T is an act Of justice to the man
entitled to his fathers money, and who
will marry this brave young lady in pos.
session."
"She has given me up" said Reuben
dryly; but Mary turned from one to an
other and read no doubt or distress on
either face. Hers were two lives in the
sunshine at last.
II believe 1t was always Simon Cul.
wick's wish that Reuben should have
this money! continued Mary; he did
not know Of my marriage, and dared
not tell him for my homes sake, and SO
we went on from one complication to an.
other. There were only two wills; the
first left all to his sister, the second to
me--and the second could not, and did
not care to prove. The answer to the
riddle came round in the way thought
II might do, If were watchful and re-
seryed--f0r / knew in what high esti-
nation Sarah Eastbell held her cousin,
and how she had made up her mind to
give an obstinate man his rights. She
and l together planned more ways than
one--she very artless, very artful per
haps--but the best and simplest and hap
piest way has come without our plotting"
"But youT said Sarah and Reuben
almost together.
"You two are not likely to forget me,
or my little daughter hereto shut me
from your friendship-to help me In the
world, should ! want help"
"HelpW echoed Reubens why, Il Is al
yours"
"You can't prove that" said Mary EN-
phatically, "and would prefer to be de
pendent on your bounty. will not be toe
proud to ask for a pension, when my lit.
tie girl grows up and tires Of her moth
err"
1.-THE future, for you and Tots, you
will leave to Sarah and me-" said Reu.
ben; you will trust in those whom you
have trusted so much already"
AS they win trust In the now" said
the unselfsh woman. holding out her
hands to them.
1t is a fair picture on which the eur.
tain is rung down--on perfect confidence
and true affection and prosperity on
life opening out before these three with
no shadows on the scenes beyond. Reu
ben and Sarah will live happily forever
Afterwards young couples always
should In books--and Mary and heI
daughter will be their faithful friends
and loving companions to the end Of life
In the red glow Of the sunset Of ouI
story, stands poor Lucy Jennings--gravt
and stony as the Llbyan sphinx--com
menting but little upon the happiness
about her, and yet feeling that II reaches
to her heart, and makes her more like
other women.
Reuben's brother-ln-law, one Thomas
Eastbell, will not visit Worcestershire
again, and Reuben's wife will not learn
for years of his disappearance In tht
Australian bush--where we can afford
to let the last Of our villains hide him
self.
In the bright early morning, gazing
from the window of her room at the faii
landscape beyond, with the silvery laugh
ter Of little children ringing upward from
the lawn, and with her husbands arm
linked within her own, Second-couslr
Sarah will talk no longer of Sedge Hill
being an unluciky house.
(Tha end.)