Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-09-17

"A number Of trunks and boxes hays
already come ashore" he went on, $50
it is just possible you may yet recover
| your lost property"
"The salt water will have spoiled
4 everything by this time,'' she said,
/ with an absent look in her eyes.
| Il understood you had some valu-
! ables?'
| There is the silver box, of course.
| 1t would be satisfaction to get it
/ back, though / fear its contents are
not of very much value"
They may be of very considerable
value. Your father seemed to attach
Importance to them, at any rate"
| Eyes, she said, absently; and her
thoughts went back in flash to that
| wild night when her father lay dying
on the floor of a gambling saloon in
| Cdero. Yes, he mentioned particu-
| larly the silver box"
If it comes ashore YOU will soon
| hear of it. Esther is tremendouly
| interested"
Mr.. Evans was very much interest
ed, remember"
who is MI. Evans?'
ooh. he was confidential clerk, or
something of the kind, to Mr.. May
I, hew l discovered him when I was in
Exeter. 1t was from him | got to
know about my fathers life in Eng
land, He told me great many
things"
But he was able to give you no as
sistance?'
None at all. He did not seem to
be particularly well Off He could
! not understand, he said, why my faith.
er had consigned me to the care of
Mr.. Mayhem. Mayhem was an old
bachelor, and not particularly agree
able person at the best I sometimes
think that perhaps everything has hap
pened for the best
/ How did you discover this, Mr.. Ev-
ans?"
Mr.. Pinder mentioned him. He
said he had been with Mr.. Mayhem as
a boy, and that if any one could give
me information he thought Evans was
the man"
And you say he was greatly inter-
ested in the story of the silver box?"
Greatly. Just as you are" she
laughed. He asked me no end of
questions as to it's size and shape, and
whether my trunk was in my state
room or in the hold when the vessel
went down, and all that, you know"
DO you think he knew more than
he chose to tell you?"
No, don't think so. He could have
no interest in keeping anything back"
Perhaps so. Only there is mys.
terry somewhere, and one would like
to get to the bottom of it,
Better let it sleep. My father as
you know, was not good man, though
he was, on the whole, very kind to me.
You told me just now you did not want
to rake up the past"
Il do not want to rake up anything
that would give pain to you or that
would mar our friendship"
what we know can never be buried
or forgotten" she said, with averted
eyes. "Ah, if we could only put into
box some Of the things that have
been and bury them in the unremem-
bering sea, we might dream of friend
ship--to talk of it now is foolishness.'
81 do not think So" he answered,
promptly. "Why should you pay the
penalty Of what your father did? Why
should /, suffer because my father was
unwise?''
81 cannot answer as to the why or
wherefore. But you know as we'll as
do that there is no escape from an
| irrevocable order. We have to pay
the penalty whether we will or no.
I'm some things, yes. But this is
matter that really rests with our
selves. If we have the grace or the
courage to put our pride side, what is
there to hinder our being friends?'
"Could you put your pride aside?"
Easily
| "Could your mother?"
| 81 cannot answer for her"
Does she know who I amp
mo; i think not.,.'
you had not the courage to tell
her?"
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