The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-02
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cut down his wages.
Each afternoon when he went walking
with Bella, he would make her go into
book shops and inquire IL they had any
book about a niser. IF they had nc
would buy it. no matter what 1t cost and
lug 1t home to read. He began to drive
Lizard bargains for every thing he bought,
and all his talk came to be about money
and the fine thing It. was to have Il
"Go In for money, my dear he would
say to Bella. Moneys the artlcle!
You'll make money OF your good looks,
and of the money Mrs. BofIin and mo
will leave YOU and you'll live and die
| 5rich. That's the state5sto 1.-Two and die
lin-R-r-rich!" ia.j VI "A u
Il Bella was greatly shocked mt the sor-
rowful change in Mr.. Boffln. Wealth.
began to look less. lovely when she saw
him growing so miserly. She began to
wonderful she herself might ever become
like that. too, and times when she
thought how kind aud generous the old
MI. BONN had been, she fairly hated
| money, and wished It e had never been
Invented N l5 81 s.5l5 D.! 5 s.5 u
$ There was an old woman who Speddled
knitting work through the country, whom
Mr.! and Mrs. 13oflln had befriended, and
to. whom they had given a letter to carry
| wherever she went. asking whoever
should find 4her,&ic she fell sick, to let
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died one day by the roadside near the
| spot w here Lizzie Hexar1 was now, living,
and Lizzie, finding the letter, wrote about
LIT to Mr.. and Mrs Boffln.i They sent the
| Secretary and Bella 4 to make arrange.
! ments forSthe poor woman's burial, and
lin this way Bella met Lizzie and became
| her friend. Lizzie soon told her oil her
story, and Bella, seeing how unselhshly
she loved began to think her own ambi-
| ton to marry for money mean and
| iignobles thing. She thought how patient
and kind the Secretary had always been.
and. knowing he loved her, wished heart
| 5ilyz that her own coldness had not for-
! hidden him to tell her o. ii s
Is5EOne day Mr.. Bofn's pretended harsh
5treatme Of his Secretary seemed to
come to a. climax. He sent tor him to
come to the room where Mrs Bofin and
4 bella sat, and made a fearful scene. lie
said he had Just heard that he, tRoke-
smith,, had been presumlng on his posi-
|stion to make love to Bella--n young
lady who wanted ito marrysno nor VINO ! 2
.lEhad q right to marry m oncyi and VINO
was very far from wanting to marry
poor beggar OF q private secretary. He
/ threw the wages that were due him on
i the floor and discharged him on the
spot, telling him the sooner he could
pack UP and leave the better. 8
Then. at last in the face OF this appar
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herself and Mr.. Boffin's money and j Ohm
5Rokesmith's love and dignity al IN
/ their true light. She burst out crying,
$begged 3Rokesmith's forgiveness, told MI.
Boffin he was an old wretch Of q misel'
and when the Secretary had gone, she
| said Rokesmith was 4 n gentleman, and
| worth a million Boflins,f and she would
| not stay in the house a minute Ion ger
Then she packed up her things and
went straight to her fathers Office. All a
the other clerks had gone home, for It
was after hours, and she put her head
| on his shoulder and told him MI about IL
| And while they were talking, who
should come In but John Rokesmith, and
he, seeing her there alone with her
Father rushed to her and caught her In
his arms. r. n e,s sS 5s t
NY dear, brave, noble, generous girl"
he said, and Bella, feeling all ut once that
! she had never been quite SO happy N
| her ife, laid her head on his breast as IT
| that were the one place for It In all the
world. They all had a talk together,
and then walked home to the poor little
|bhouse, Bella's father agreeing that she
had done exactly tile proper thing, and
Bella herself, feeling SO happy now; IN
having John Rokesmith's love, that she
cared not a bit for the nno house and
| clothes and money of the I3oftins which
! she had left forever. 4,
a few days later John Rokesmith and
Bella were married. and went TO i've ~
| a little furnished cottage outside OF Lon
don. where they settled down rs happy
as two birds.
5.-The End Of the Story.
While these things were Happening at
Mr.. Bofflns house. Eugene Wrayburil,
with Headstone, the school-master watch
ling him like a hawk. had never left or
trying to find where Lizzie ilexhm haN
gone. At length through the trouble
some child" OF the little dolls dress
maker, lie learned the name of the VII
Ilnge whero she was living and went at
once to see her. Headstone followed close
behind him, and when from his hiding
place ho saw how glad Lizzie was to
see the lawyer he went quite mad Wlth
jealousy and hate and thnt moment no
determined to kill Wrayburn.
Now. 1t CHANGED that "Iaogua' Rider-
hood was then working on tho river That
flowed past the village. where no tend
Cd Il lock- The school master, IN order
10 turn suspicion from himself in case
ANYONE should see him when no did this
wicked deed, observing carefully how
Riderh0od was dressed, got himself clothes
| exactly like the lock-tellders even to u
red handkerchief tied around his neck,
| In this guise, with murder in his heart,
| he lay in wait along the riverside w
| Wrayburn passed one evening Just after
no had bada goodbye to lizzle Hexam,
The school.master crept up close behind
tho lawyer and struck him y fearful
crashing blow en- the head with club,
Wrayburn grappled with him. but Head
stone struck again and again with tho
| bloody weapon, and still again as tho
| other lay PROSTATE Mt his feet, and drag
| cling the body to the bank threw II INTO
| the river. Then he fled, 8s5
Lizzie 1Iexanl. as itShappened, had not
| yet turned homeward from the riverside,
She heard through the night tho sound of
blows the faint moan and the splash,
She ran to the spot saw the trampled
grass and looking across the water, saw
ial bloody face drifting away She ran
| to launch q boat and rowed with all her
strength to overtake 1t, hut for her
dreadful life on the river with her father.
she could not hAys found the drowning
man In tho darkness; but she did; and
| then she saw 1t was the man she loved.
One terrible cry she uttered then roWed
| With desperate strokes to the shore and