Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-01-13
Ills Hearts Desire
BY SIR WALTER BEsANT
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ht Of laughing and crying-in the inn"
THAT was perhaps because he had
learned that his uncle was still alive"
This was indeed the case, though not In
the sense intended.
"And this morning the first day Of his
return. he begins with a row with his
uncle. Well. there is going to be mis-
chief at Gratnor."
"Why, what mischief can there be?"
81 don't know. David went away
comes back cursing him again. When
man broods over a wrong for six years,
mischief does generally follow. First OF
all, the old man will do nothing for him.
DO you understand thati There was
solid obstlnacy In his eyes while he list
ensd to David. Nothing Is to be got out
Of him. What will David dol"
HE will go away again, | suppose,
unless he takes farm work"
David Is as obstinate as his uncle.
And he Is not altogether a fool. There
will be mischief"
George, old man, return TO my old
thought II you and Mary marry with
out old Dams consent. her fortune goes
to David. Does David known
Il should think not"
10 which Of the two would the old
man prefer to hand over that money!
ITO Mary, certainly"
$50 | think Then don't you see that
some good may come out Of the business
after all?"
at may come. but too late to save
Sidcots. He means to have Sidcote. My
days here are numbered Well. it is
pity after Ave hundred years'--he look
ed around at the inheritance about to
pass away from him-only n farm Of
three hundred acres. but his fathers and
his great-grandfather's- he was 81
lent for moment. "As for work, what
would | grudge IL | could keep the old
place! But | know that over at Gratnor
there sits, watching and waiting his
chance, the man who means TO have my
land, and win have II before the end OF
the year"
"Patiencs. George Anything may
happen"
He is crafty and a dangerous man,
VIII. We can say here what We cannot
say In Mary's presence He il more
crafty and more dangerous now that he
is paralyzed and cannot get about among
MS Dtlu. lnAn ne YVES IN the Olu nhNN
He cannot get at me by the same arts
rs he employed for David. He cannot
persuade me to drink, and to sign agree
ments and borrow money. But the bad
times have done for me what drink did
for David"
So we talked away the afternoon in a
rather gloomy spirit. Life is no more
free from sharks in the country than in
the town; there are In Arcadia. ~ well
as in London, vultures, beasts, and birds
Of prey, who sit and watch their chance
to rend the helpless.
And So" he said. summing up. 81
shall have 90 part with the old family
place, and begin In the world again; 20
out as David went out and return, per
haps. as he returned"
mo, George; some things are possible
but not probable. That you should CONS
back as David has come back is not pos
sible."
At that moment the man Of whom We
spoke came slowly out Of the house, rub
bling his eyes
when you are among the blacks, y
he said, you never get enough to eat
"What are you going to do now you
are come home. DavidY
II will tell you. George, in a day OF
two. The old man says he will do moth
ing for NEWELL see to that presently
He's turned the clS farm house at Berr,
into two cottages. and the buildings ar,
falling to pieces Says l can take uE
my quarters In one OF the cottages, II
like; that Is liberal, isn't itl And an
to earn my living how l can; that's gen
erous. isn't ltr
TRY Cancellation, David"
mo. VIII; think l know a better