Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-25
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sort of failure. But while he waited he
smiled grimly. He did not cover, as Mus
ser did.
He looked forward with real malicious
pleasure to the CONSERVATION which the
lie would cause among the followers of
Cooper. For the old man he did not care
snap of his finger, and never had. His
defeat or victory meant nothing to him.
Mussers defeat victory meant nothing
for him. His love for Mercy had burned
until the flame had consumed all the de-
cent sustenance there was in him, and had
now turned blue-feeding on the envy and
malice that he felt for Selkirk. 1t rather
pleased him than otherwise to think that
she would suffer in believing that her lover
was guilty of such perfidy toward her
father and he wondered with real enjoy
ment just how the truth would be made
public-just what means Selkirk would use
to prove his innocence.
1t is probable that the only really de-
cent human emotion which Henry Hubbard
felt that afternoon came through Billy
Sucker Billy had, in a way, won a sort
of affection from him, although even that
was undoubtedly strengthened by Jealousy
over the boys evident preference for Sell
kirk.
There was considerable surprise at the
Cooper house because Selkirk did not APP
pear there Cooper thought little of it,
for the two men had made their plans for
the day the night before and he was busy
talking politics at Dennison's and else
thought a great deal of it.
Billy, too made inquiries of Hubbard.
Where is Mr.. Selkirk?' he asked
II don't know" said Hubbard. He went
out early and hasn't came back"
When Billy went to dinner he impaired
this information to the family and caused
much bewilderment. Betsey believed that
she understood. He had gone somewhere,
she thought in a desperate effort to raise
money She smiled as she thought of this,
for Betsey had begun to put her plan into
operation.
The first part of this plan involved the
withdrawal from the local bank of $780,. 10,
principal and interest; her whole account,
the savings of her entire, Woodworking,
thrifty lifetime.
Then she went to Sam Bull and ex-
planned the matter to him. She felt that
she was justified in this, for Selkirk had
told her that he had already spoken to Sam
about it, The idea of raising the balance
in small loans rather pleased Bull. The
dressmaker's plucky determination to stake
her all tickled him. He could not raise so
much as Selkirk had told him that he need
ed, but he could and did raise 5000. Betsey
then told Cooper that she wanted all he
could spare and gave him an inkling. He
did what he could. Then she made Bull
tear himself away from politics and raise
the balance in small sums, here and there,
throughout the town, until, by o'clock in
the afternoon, she had enough to pay Mus
ser cent for cent. 1t was all in cash, too,
place where she carried her money, and
where no such sum had ever been deposited
before.
Makes me feel like limpin'," she said to
herself, smiling.
She went to her room and pulled on one
heavy, wooden stocking-for what reason l
know not. But she felt more secure a
safety deposit institution afterward
She was rather pleased than otherwise
that Selkirk not in Toms River, for
she believed that he would try to stop her
If he were.
Bull who was an encyclopedia of legal
msinformation. told Miss Bobbin that the
legal day ended at sunset. and she planned
with him a dramatic descent upon the
house of Musser just before that hour,
when they should pay over the money and
demand the papers.
In the meantime in Philadelphia, Selkirk
was having hard time of it. The officers
of the machinery manufacturing concern
were rich men and when a holiday was only
one day removed from Sunday they did not
go to their offices on the intervening day.
This necessitated a long and tedious search
for them, which took him out of the city to
a country residence. When he reached there,
at last, he found that there would be still
further delay, for neither of the men he
looked for was at home, nor could he learn
whether either could be found before dinner
time After having received this discourag-
ing bit of information he went back into
the city again and telegraphed Frank
Barnard.
please tell Hubbard that / have been un-
avoidably delayed" his message said, land
tell him to notify Cooper and Mercy Tell
him not TO forget the kilograms"
1t was about o'clock when Hubbard
decided to give out the copy for the cam
paign lie. The message had just reached
him from Selkirk, and that he felt. he
could twist into a sort of justification If
any of the men questioned him about Sell
kinks desire to have the outrageous libel
printed. Even Hubbard was little nerv-
Gus as he pulled the manuscript from his
pocket and began to paste the sheets to-
gether, end to end. He decided to set the
type of the headlines and the first para
graph himself so that the full tenor of the