Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-12-09
s. BARRING GOULD

before her on one knee, with his hand
on his heart.
oh, Miss Eve, he said, since saw
your face in the moonlight | have
never forgotten it. Wherever I went
it haunted me. saw these great beau
tiful eyes looking timidly into mine;
by day they eclipsed the sun. What
ever l did l thought only of you. And
noW-what is it that | ask of you?
Nothing but forgiveness. The money
the portion of goods that fell to me
was yours. My father owed it to
you. 1t was intended for you. But
now, hear me, you noble, generous
money, it shall be returned-or its
equivalent If you desire it, l will
swear He stood up and assumed an
attitude
oh, no, said Eve; you had my
money!
AS surely as 1 had your ring.
Much in the same way she said,
with a little sharpness.
But I shall return one with the
other. Trust me. Stand up; look
me in the face. Do bear the appear
ance of cheat, thief, robber? Am
I base, villanous! No, / am nothing
but a poor, foolish, prodigal lad, who
I has got into scrape, but will get out
of it again. You forgive me. Hark.
l hear someone calling
Tt is Barbara She is looking for
me-
Then / disappear. He put his hand
to his lips, waited her kiss, whis-
pered, When you look at the ring, re-
member poor-poor Martini and slip
ped away among the bushes.
CHAPTER XVIII.
Father and Son.
Barbara was mistaken. Jasper had
gone to Buckfastleigh, gone openly to
his fathers house, in the belief that
his father was dying. He knocked at
the blotched and scaled door under
the delapidated portico, but received
no answer. He tried the door. 1t
was locked and barred. Then he
went round to the back, noting how
untidy the garden was, how out of re
pair was the house; and in the yard
of the kitchen he found the deaf
/ housekeeper. His first question,
| shouted into her ear, naturally was
an inquiry after his father He learned
to his surprise thai the old man was
not Ill, but was then in the factory
misunderstood, he entered the house,
went into his fathers study, then up
!, to his bedroom, and through the dirty
window panes saw the old man leav-
| ing the mill On his way back to the
| house.
What, then, had Watt meant by
sending him to the old home on false
tidings? The boy was indeed mis-
chievous, but this was more than com
mon mischief He must have sent
him on a fools errand for some pur-
pose of his own. That the boy want
ed to hear news of his father was pos
sible, but not probable. The only
other alternative Jasper could sug
gest to explain Watts conduct was
the disquieting one that he wanted to
b. rid of Jasper from Morwell for
purposes of his own. What could
| that purpose be?
Jasper's blood coursed hot through
his veins. He was angry. He was
a forbearing man, ready always to
| find an excuse for transgressor, but
| this was a transgression too malicious
to be easily forgiven. Jasper deter
mined, now that he was at home, to
see his father, and then to return to
the Jordans as quickly as he could
He had ridden his own horse, that
horse must have a nights rest, but
| tomorrow he would return.
| He was thus musing when Mr.. Babh
came in.
You here, said the old man. What
has brought you to Buckfastleigh
again? Want money, Of course
Then snappishly, You shan't get it.
4 am come said his son, because
I had received information that you
were ill., Have you been unwell
father?'
mo, I'm never i'll. No such luck
| for YOU If I were i'll and helpless
you might take the management. you
think. If I were dead, that would be
nuts to YOU
MY father, you wrong me. | left
you because I would no longer live
this wretched life, and because hate
your unforgiving temper
'Unforgfving!' -sneered the OLD
manufacturer. Martin was thief,
and he deserved his fate. Is not
Brutus applauded because he condem-
ned his own son? Is not David held to
be weak because he babe Joab spare
quarter Century-Ago in Madison
Absalom?'
we will not squeeze old crushed