The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-06
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He closed the eyes, and covered the with balsal
boughs.
Enough for you and your girl"
The words seemed TO go on in spite OF the balsan
estimated the purchasing power of the packet Thu
Prince began TO wonder how much there was-no
that it made any difference He picked it up from tn,
bottom of the boat-at least it could not lie there
The seal already broken. A spruce shooting int
sudden fame made the place like day and showed
the crisp yellow ends of the bills
One hundred" he read on the uppermost. II 4
were package of hundreds Hiram had not under
estimated so badly. 1t would be interesting at leas
to know how many bills package like that contained
He counted them grew very pale. and stared for
long time the mysterious obscurity Of the ever
green in the bottom of the boat Then his sought
the red shore carefully. though there were tn,
possibility of spectator that lfeless arena. H,
delayed for long time. and his thoughts man.
and whirling AT last with only the flaming trees "a
see he put the package in the pocket OF his
Just for start. he muttered to the gesticulatins
ing upon his action. He's partly right you know
in way-why should it shock one TO get down &c
first principles like that? 1t wasn't any than
their roundabout way of robbing him But the tree.
only whispered among their flames. and the oil
the forest was like a waterfall
Just for start" argued the Prince I'm sure to
win out-then can make it all right" But
how to the he did not mention 1t as the
Right isn't always right" said the Prince. nor
wrong wrong" And with that he sat down in the
boat to wait for morning.
When parents are averse to ones friends. 1t be-
comes necessary to be surrepious and have trystine
places. week after the fire the Prince and the
Princess met among the musical instruments at the
Metropolitan Museum. He was there before she came
his nervous and absent-minded fingers drumming OUT
rogue's march upon the tou-ton and his face was
like burnt-out ashes.
You ill.,"
NO." said he Out Then he SQUARED his
shoulders and looking her between the eyes told her
all Inc story or the night the mountains what
manner of giant he had met there and how it had
nearly done him to death during the past week He
frnp hte
his thumb across the crisp exposed edges of the bills
that she might the face OF his tempter. and laid
no fear Of an intruder.
about having done the right thing but was his
business and he's dead. 1 reasoned for a while that
to pass it over to me. reasoned all SORTS OF ways
I've had rather bad time. It's been worse carrying
the brook. 1 knew even less where I was going
Won oou,d only 1t seemed as II any road that led to
ieadine 70 Won oNe' II mao oeen sure that Z was
wasn't :. Are you-that is-youIl probably
'n Row me over aor ever dreaming of keeping IT.
wisdom of understanding and forgiving IL Something
haps it was of little She came owe. r.
him and kissed him The color back to his face
, with rush, and he lifted his head he had not
lifted it for week
"Princess-if you mean that, really and truly-will
I'll wait" said the Princess.
!. When at last the safe of the Nmrod Accommoda-
tlon Bank was dug out Of the hot ashes and opened
the officials of that institution became very grave and
silent. all but the cashier who burst into a storm
o. assertions. The fire came he swore. the moment
when he was putting the envelope into the safe
While it was in his hand there a flash at the
forests edge alght. Then the screams of the
women, and the stampede of teams into which the
burning ship and hurried down the road to the
Valley but all this, asserted the cashier had MT
Of notes into the safe Of hs admitted e
ought to have taken it with him. but such times
one does things mechanically-surely the gentlemen
would bear him out in that-they bowed with grave
assent-and he put 1t into the safe and locked It be-
The president asked-the president was the father
of the girl called the Princess-he president asked
snd srs any one naa been near him at that
he thought he remembered bel-boy running in an
II on some errand-he seemed to remember the light
from the window shining in on his brass buttons
yes he remembered 1t might have been the called
Hiram. he thought-the one that had been killed by
"of course, if didn't put it in the safe-or, If
hadn't locked the safe-I thought put 1t in the safe"
he muttered, sadly.
The president, the Princesss father, had listened
throughout with a face moro grave and puzzled than
any of the others Now he eyed the uncomfortable
cashier long and searchingly though trying to Mt
him into some role that was not altogether convinc-
ing But at the end OF his scrutiny he took out of his
pocket the missing bills and laid them the blsered
safe
las 1 have the notes, perhaps we had better let
this problem remain problem. 1t is possible under
the influence Of fear to do strange things Perhaps
Mr.. Grimshaw even dropped them and ran, and the
bell-boy-evidently not Hiram, since he died that
night, and his only companion at the time was
young man of whose honesty there be doubt
but some bell boy we will admit picked up the bills
as Mr.. Grimshaw dropped them. As to their COM
ing into my possession, they were returned under
very peculiar circumstances. They the table
in my room in my New York hotel yesterday morning
when awoke. My door locks with a spring on the
inside, aud there bars at the windows / could
have sworn that my daughter the last person
who entered that night. She read me to sleep as
usual, and know she closed the door she went
out, for 1t was locked in the morning. Ny explana-
ton Is that the thief-well, thief suppose-was
concealed in the clothes closet during the evening
That he came out very cautiously for am a light
sleeper, and departed by the same means as my
daughter"
daughter put them there,"
My dear Mr.. Grmshaw." smiled the president
the suggestion.
Conscience is singular thing" murmured the
president TO an acquiescent audience when In their