The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-04

tinued in the same even voice:
 In remembrance of my mother. of whom she was an acQuaintance.' Now sign itF He did so and handed 1t to her' She read it over carefully, fold ca It. and put 1t in her pocket She handed him the bundle of receipts. and then stood up. He rose also: and as ne moved over to the door--he had not onered to shake hands with her-he said:
 'I should like to see Miss Norman
 am afraid you will have to wait"
 -'Why?" I@f
 -she is over at Heply Regis. She went there for Lady Heply's ball, and will remain for a few days. Good af- ternoon! The tone In which the last two words were spoken seemed in his ears like the crow of the victor after a cock-hght.
 As he was going out of the room a thought struck her. She felt he deserv- cd some punishment for his personal rudeness to her. After all, she had paid haif her fortune for him, though not on hts account: and not only had he given no thanks, but had not even offered the usual courtesy of saying goodbye. She had Intended to have been silent on the subject. and to have allowed him to discover 1t later Now she said. as if 1t was an afterthought:
 By the way, did not pay those Items which you put down as debts of honor: you remember you gave the actual names and addresses" Why not?" the question came from him involuntarily. The prosecuting lorgnon rose again:
 Because they were all bogus! Ad- dresses. names. debts. honor Good af- ternoonr
 Cocka doodle doc -e-e-ot He went out flaming; free from debt. money debts; all but one. And some other debts--not financial--whose mag nitude was exemplified in the grinding of his teeth.
 After breakfast the next morning he said to his father:
 By the way. you said you wished to speak to me. sir" There was some- thing in the tone of his voice which called up antagonism.
 Then you have paid your debta1''
 Good! Now there is something which 1t is necessary I should call your at- tention to. Do you remember the day on which I handed you that pleasing epistle from Messrs. Cavcndish and Cs- cil?'
 Certainly. sir"
 Didn't you send a telegram te them7'
 'T did"
 You wrote 1t your yoursslf@'
 Certainly"
 q had a courteous letter from the money lenders, thanking me for my ex- ertions in securing the settlement oe their claim. and saying that in accord. ance with the request in my telegram they had held over proceedings until the day named. did not quite remem- Der having sent any telegram to them. or any letter either. So. being ae . loss. went to our excellent postmaster and requested that he would verify the sending of the telegram to London for me. He courteously looked up the file, which was ready for transference to the G. P. O., and showed me the form It was in your handwriting" He paus- ed so long that Leonard presently said:
 -Well!"
 Tt was signed Jasper Everard. Jas per Everardi my name; and yet 1t was sent by my son, who was christened. if I remember rightly, LeonardT Then he went on. but in cold acrid manner which made his son feel as though a February wind was blowing on his back:
 "I think there need not have been much trouble in learning to avoid con- similar Have you any explanation to offer of the-the error. let us call it?" A bright thought struck Leonard
 "Why sir" he said, 'T put in your name as they had written to you. l thought it only courteous" The eldeI man winced; he had not expected the excuse. He went on speaking in the same calm way, but his tone was even more acrid than before:
 Good! of course! It was only cour- teous of you! Quite so! But think it will be well in the future to let me look after my own courtesy; as regards my signature at any rate. You see. my dear boy, a signature is a queer sort of thing, and judges and jurtes are apt to take a poor view of courtesy as over against the conventions regarding e man writing his own name. Do you know that there are a whole lot of men in this country sitting in small rooms with short hair--the short hair refers of course, not to the rooms but to the men-just for looking in a similar way after the courtesy of other people. But that you doubtless know already. What I want to tell you is this. that on see- ing that signature I made a new will You are of course to inherit some day, my dear boy. You are my only son. and it would eb hardly hardly courte- ous of me not to leave 1t to you. But have put a clause in my will to the effect that the trustees are to pay all debts of your accruing which can be proved against you. before handing over to you either the estate Itself or the remainder after the settlement of all claims That's all. Now run away. my boy; have some important work to do."
 Cock "a doodle doo- oo-oo!