The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-05-30

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In the first place proceeded Dam
tree. tell ne franiziy and finally
whether you mean 10 marry the girl
or not-yes or MOP
No. sir. il Is impossible
You shall 60 just exactly what yon
Ike At the same time, she tells me
you did ask her.
Il did. | wronged her in doing so.
but she had the sense TO refuse me.
and I'm not going to wrong her worse
by asking her again.
THAT settles it I've found a cap
tain who's willing to smuggle you over
TO America for consideration. all de-
! tails to be arranged before l leave
Sydney tomorrow. Will you go?"
..Will l not, Thank God for the
chance
Then that settles that--for the pres
ent. You shall he spirited aboard to-
morrow night. and by Monday morn
ing you shall have seen the last of
New South Wales forever"
peGgy crept away from the door.
Her mind was made up.
THE other things trife,'' said
Daintree "A pretty place this New
South Wales. l go to the bank and
cash a check, come in and shove the
notes into one OF these drawers. and a
man breaks into the house and all but
into my desk while am sitting In the
next room at my dinner! Look at
this!" And he pointed out the marks
Of = Jimmy az the pnIished mahogany.
The circumstance ia not appear to
excite him in the least He smiled
loftily on Toms concern and at once
exaggerated an attitude which had
been perfectly genuine before.
'.Ah, Thomas he remarked. "even
you don't know your sydney vet or
you would be like me and think moth
ing of such tribes. / was eating my
dinner. as l say, when heard him at
his work. Unfortunately l let him
hear me. Still, l chased him out OF
that and some way down the road and
could have caught him if hadn't pre-
ferred to come back and finish my
dinner.
by Jove," exclaimed Tom. II won
der whether it was the fellow who
turned up on the beach almost at the
instant we went down.
"What!" cried Daintree. Ibid you
see him."
Yes, l caught glimpse of some
body as we heeled over. Depend upon
it, that's our man.
Daintree turned nasty in moment
why depend upon it?' he snapped.
did you see the mans face! Would
you know him again? Oh. you would
not! Then let me recommend you not
to make fool of yourself my good
fellow. Nobody but fool would con-
meet the two men,"
His i'll temper was inexplieable. yet
to treat an attempt upon his property
as a joke and an ir-oflensive theory OF
the attempt as something of an insult
was but in accord with the capricious
character of the man. And, indeed,
Tom would have gone to bed like
lamb and thought no more about the
matter, but yet another caprice detain-
ed him. Daintree would not hear of
his going. 1t was their last night to-
gether; they must sit up and talk, and
he apologized for what he had said.
So they sat up once more. but the con-
versation languished for the first time
on these occasions. Something had
unnerved and depressed Toms master;
he was never himself until the last |
night of his single life was at an end, /,
and in the first light of dawn full |
rugged ship sailed in just as the Rosa
mund had done on the previous Sun |
day afternoon.
.Lettersi' he cried Letters for my |
wedding day. Who knows but what / |
may get the best of news to crown /
to be Mrs. Daintree at all? Yonder
ship may dub me baronet. Open n
bottle, Thomas. and we will drink to
all she brings us!''
Then at last they lay down. but
sleep came neither to the happy man
nor TO his miserable valet. aud by 10
O'Clock the ono was helping the other
into his wedding garments. A few
minutes before the hour the coach ar
rived which was to take the bride
groom in state to church. a few min
utes after n man was observed rowing
in the bay. and Daintree insisted on
taking look at him through his spy
glass. Evidently the rover saw him,
for he shot out Of sight behind head
land. but not before Daintree had
brought his telescope to bear upon the
rover and now the glass joggled be-
tween fingers which seemed snitten
with the ague.
That was the man. whispered
Daintree. land he's after me still. IL
didn't mind last night. / suppose it
takes less to turn one queer on ones
morning" He was struggling
in vain against some growing terror.
Brandy. nan. braady.'' he gaspsd and
81 bsided III q chair.
Tom rushed downstairs for the de-
,anter ana. returning. found the terri
led man fun b.ing with his pocket pis-
-ol. He tossed OF the spirit and hand
ID the pistol TO Tom.
There" said he, better withdraw
md reload 10 make sure. Stop, give it
back" Ec snatched the pistol and
fred excitediy through the open win
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