The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-10
You do me a great wrong, George,
he faltered. IT you knowed my

to know what it all means. / tell you
I'm no fool. It's not whisky in me
talking either, for I've puzzled overs 1t
for years, an now that this thing has
happened-an' 1 don't care whether !
stay in your town -anywayvIim goin'
to be told the truth. What did you
give me my education for and this
start in the world? Why, as | look at
you gazing at me now it seems to me
you are the very personificatton of the
fate that mas Knocked me ever since |
was old enough to know | was alive.
Curse it. what's the matter with you?
Can't you talk ?"
Hillyer rose TO his feet. .I'm goin'
to leave you, George he said. To
morrow we'll talk this over. You are
in no condition to
Taking a swift, steady stride for
ward. the yonug man laid his hands on
the merchants shoulders and forced
him back TO his scat on the bed. Ne
he said: you don't leave here tonight
until you nave answered my question
and satisfied me- e'8s
Hillyer leaned forward sahis face in
his hands, and groaned.
Then. George, III be Obliged to
speak of something that has not pa sed
my lips in thirty years. but maybe II. is
best fer me to do II, considerin' every
thing. Set down I kin talk better IL
you won't stand so close an look at
me SO straight. You've had yore
trouble, an eff Won have tilss heart
think you have you'll be souyssfe fer me,
an me an you maybe viii be truer
friends In the future. Gil i1estisne III
git it out"
George Buckley threw himself into
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the chair at he table. There was 2
pause. a train passed ON the track
within twenty yards of the rear door
of the warehouse, and the floor shook.
A pistol shot was heard, followed BY
the yelping of a wounded dog at the
other end of the street. The town
slept.
George began the merchant in a
strange husky voice, you arc now
meetin' the biggest trouble of -a-cre
who life. was lost about yore agss
an everything was about as pron,isin,
when my trouble overlook n~1cSsSeorge"
the old man gulped-"did you ever
hear that Killed a fellsr iest at the
close o. the war?w ny
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