The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

' rained blows on him with cudgel ana le.s him for dead.
 On his way back from the scene of
 his crime Headstone stopped at Plash-
 water Wier Mill, where the lock was kept by Rogue Riderhood who had for
 salSen his waterslde haunts because they
 had become too hot for him.
 The Rogue. who had been spying upon
 Bradley, accused him of the crime and announced his intention of following him wherev CT he went and of getting from him every cent he had or could get hold cf. They were standing by the lock, both gates of which happened to be closed, leaving between them a pool with slip pery steep sides out of which no man, once he fell in, might crawl Bradley
 tried to take the Rogue unawares and throw him In. but Riderhood grabbed him, and the men went down together to their death.
 >,nen Bella reached Lizzie she found
 her nursing Eugene back to life, and this she accomplished with the greater
 ra9ldity that she consented to marry him.
 | NOW Bella was happy again in her lit- l tie home. and her happiness was crowned | because Sle was the mother of little l baby who looked exactly like Cherubic
 Pa on a small scale. When John asked
 her now if she would not like to be rich. l Bella admitted that, perhaps for bahys s
 sake 1t would be good thing to have
 a little more money, but as for herself
 she was rich just as she was. | One day John announced that his in- | come having been increased, he had taken
 a larger house in a more fashionable part
 of London. Would Bella come and see if she liked the house-and bring baby?
 The hired carriage stopped before i familiar door
 | "Wh," said Bella, 'ft is"
 "Yes," interrupted John, "the house | where MT. Boffln used to live l ney went in and passed through the 1 old familiar rooms, new furnished and
 redecorated until they came to a 'iper- | feet love" of nursery and Bella sat 1 down there to think what 1t all meant I And suddenly s1fF paineed MT. and Mrs
 Boffin and had her In their arms-and baby too-before she knew what had hap
 pened weeping and laughing over her. i Then Mrs Bofin confessed that it had | all been a trick played on Bella to school
 her and discipline her, develop her better
 sen and bring about her marriage.
 Mrs Boffin, going Into Rokesmiths :
 room on the day Bella had refused him. had seen him sitting so like the little John Harmon she used to know. lonely
 and sad, that in that moment she had
 recognized at once who he really was and
 tainted dead away. Mir. Boffin, coming 1 to her assistance, had recognized him, too, and the rest had been play, though MT. Boffn had acted his part so well that 1 his good wife used to cry over it. idr. Wegg, coming around to have his 1 settlement with Mr. Boffin soon after, l found John with the Golden Dustman. 1 Now. you scoundrel," said John. when | Wegg had been more than usually in-
 solent, "Ill tell you what was in that | Dutch bottle you charged up to MT. 1 Boffin. IL was a will dated year later
 than the one you found. And 1t gave all
 of my fathers property without condi- l tion or reserve, to MT. Boffin. l am In | possession of that property through the | munlfcence of MT -offin. Now, you un- 1 grateful hound. get out and never let
 me see you again."
 So that ended Wegg, and as for the l other characters in the story they lived happily ever afterward. and John gave
 Eugene Wrayburn all his law business
 and Eugene really went to work and | shook off boredom Lady Tippins nearly dlned herself into the grave going about
 to tel the sequel to the story of the Man from Somewhere and wondering | how Eugene Wrayburn could possibly
 marry female waterman"