News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1908-01-22

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| full enthusiasm. he had rebutted hel
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| so forth she had pinned him down tt
| the Fundamental question. do you OF
do you not believe in blood. Peter
KinrOSs?"
Il do, The blood that makes true
men and women. not the blood that
makes snobs!' With which parting
shot he had left her. and the GOODNESS
between, them thereafter had never
been overcome.
He remembered his cynical reflection
at the time of her brothers death.
"She'll think the angels in heaven will
feel honored at the arrival of VOL
cottw
Yet he found himself just now. per-
haps. inconsistency patting himself on
the head for his perspicacity in having
recognized that Eunice was of no
common stock.
He himself had no doubt of the
truth of the confession" and of Eu-
nice's identity with the stolen child.
But while the moral evidence seemed
clear and convincing. would it be suf
ficient without the legal proof which
he recognized was lacking to persuade
Miss Wolcott of her duty to give up Il
fortune after nineteen years posses
sion of it? Here would be a test of
the good blood of which she was so
proud.
1T would be more than common hon
esty: it would be heroic. But if she
the herosm"
The fact that the communications to
Miss Wolcott of Beatrice Daniels. the
trained nurse, had been ignored did
not promise well for Eunice's case just
now.
Kinross threw himself back on his
pillow and clasped his hands under
his head. No use to undress-he
couldn't sleep. The thought of this girl,
brought up as a servant to the Morn
ingStars, her marriage to their son
opposed because her poverty made her
Hot SpOl FhObri lui 'uA -hbCs Ilti
ignorance Of life combined with her
knowledge of books making her unique
to the point of being pathetic-this
young creature to suddenly find herself
a great heireSs The Speculations
which the situation gave rise to drove
sleep far from his brain. Would she
be good enough for our Abe" when
her story was known? He chuckled
when he thought of old M0rningstars
earnest endeavOrS to hang himself
metaphorically speaking, by opposing
his sons marriage to n great fortune.
"She may imagine she's in love with
that fellow Abe, never having seen
any other sort of men, but of course a
few months in the world will cure
her"
He wondered whether he would do
well to tell her at once all that he
knew of her or to wait until he had
seen Miss Wolcott and learned wheth-
err or not there was going to be diff
Guilty about her coming into her own
1t would be cruel to raise her hopes
before there was some assurance of
their being realized. He would do we'll
to put her off when they met tomor
row night in the haunted room with as
little as would satisfy her for the time
being. He would then communicate at
once with Miss Wolcott. If she was
spending this summer at her Newport
house he would run on to see her i'm
mediately. If she were abroad (she
frequently spent the summer in Swift
zerand) he would cable her to return
home at once on important financial
business.
"A good thing for Eunice that this
matter has fallen into my hands" he
thought. zone wholly DISTINGUISHED and
With time. inclination and, | fatter
myself, skin to work the thing out for
her in the best possible way. not mere
ly for the fui-of~ t-s--excitement OF the
case, though there's that side Of it, too.