The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-05-21
1YsTERY OF THE
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~ WALKER KENNEDY.
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Nv wALKER KENNEDY

1T ID bit of romance in it's way.
illustrating, however, the triumph of
the good and the just over the evil
and the unjust"
please do go on with your story.
My appetite is sufficiently whetted."
Then Warde told her about the old
agreement and it's recovery He gave
her the entire story, including Mr..
Everett's adventure with Franklin.
Miriam was alternately shocked and
thrilled; and when he had concluded,
she said: Then Col Franklin is
"a pirate of purest ray serene" in
terrupted Irving. For the present we
have quieted him by letting him sup
pose that he has US cornered. The
possession of the agreement is known
to you. Mr.. Everett and myself. And
when your mother is told, il will be
confined to us four"
How can we ever show our graf
itude to you for what you have
done?"
ut was mere accident that helped
me to get that agreement, SO you
must thank fate this time"
But you have been devoted to our
interests all the time. You have
never let an opportunity slip to do
favor for some member of our fam
lily, and you have worked as indus
triously for us as some men work
for themselves. | do not care to he
wealthy, but my mother has had a
great deal of care and unhappiness,
and it has been my earnest hope that
she would be able to spend the re-
mainder of her life here entirely in.
dependent. And now | feel that
,, through you this hope will be real
lied"
"If 1 have done anything to bring
about the object of your desire, an
perfectly satisfied"
81 think that you must be the goo'
r angel of the family"
Then she few away to tell he
5 mother the news that Warde ha'
l brought, leaving him in a trance hal
I way between doubt and happiness.
= Irving was not worshipper o
4 mammon, and he did not propose t
e allow the substantial deity to com
between him and the desire of hi
heart, which was to win the love q
Miriam Wright; he was not forum
hunter, and he saw no reason wh
he should stand aghast before pil
Of gold if in other ways he coul
dare aspire to the love of woma
like Miriam. Her gold would be tn
/, least thing to make her seem inacce
! sible to him.
But how would the radical chang
D in her life and the adulation incideI
= to her wealth affect her? NOW 81
: was all womanliness. There was
: sweet timidity about her, half-sta
tied air, a frankness without artlh'
I and a sentient beauty that renders
l. any description of her colorless. U
d spoiled by contact with money-ge
e ting. place-hunting Society, Mira
d was the lovely token of somethil
I. which Warde only dreamed.
IT But the test? How would she cor
n out of the furnace fed by the ass
20 ciated passions of humanity? Won
II she remain steadfast TO hersel'
IT would she alter with alteratlo
n There would be uncouth lips to I
c. her that she was beautiful. The
" dance that wealth can scatter rou
about one would cling to her
pc sensuous arts would environ her "a
o. assail the simplicity which was NJ
her charm. Fashion would spread
i'd her it's subtlest wiles, and MANN
Is would write sonnets 20 her deep or
IL eyes.
he These thoughts few through
re mind while Miriam was gone
of when she returned she almost TEN
I'M ed him to lay aside his Judgment W
of his doubts, she was so frankly maj
in his presence. 1t cost him or.
re exertion of will not to put ms
as tune to the test then and there
ed, he conquered the inclination ana :"
zee awav with his secret unspoken'