The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-05

InrSe hours iSter letter came Tot
Philip Arson, Esq. by hand. 1t was
from the solicitors and read:
We are In receipt of your esteemed in
structions. Although Saturday is day
on which II is difficult TO do business. we
lost no time in inspecting the premises IN
the Mile End road. accompanied by a
surveyor. We found that the news stand
approximately on an area OF 3 200 super
fetal feet while the shop tenanted by
Brien has a frontage on the main road
! OF eighteen feet. with q probable depth
: of thirty thirty five feet The owner
OF this shop is a resident in the neigh
borhood and he will accept GiJ0 for the
freehold.
We We're fortunate in finding the man
! aging director of the Cardir and Havre
| Coal company. limited, at his Office. AL
/ though the company require the news
! for the purpose of a depot. they are not
unwilling to sell. with stipulation that
| the premises shall not be used by any
| competing company during a period of
| twenty years from the date of transfer.
! We stated that the site was required for
| yphilanthropic purpose, but the latter
! stipulation is insisted on. The price asked
/ Is E2,200, which we consider excessive.
| there being a very inadequate approach.
| Moreover. we wish to point out that
| O'Briens shop does not adtoin the news,
| and 1t would be necessary to purchase
| two other houses to make the entire
| property compact one.
I
! instructions. we have pleasure in inform
ing you that the two properties can be
acquired. with very little delay, for f2,eso.
| The legal and other charges will not eX-
| coed ESQ. We trust. etc.
Philip Immediately wrote:
am greatly obliged by your prompt
tude in the matter of Johnson's News
| and the shop. 1 inclose check herewith
for s2.so0 The purchase of the other
houses can stand over for few days.
This he dispatched by special mes
senger, and in a few minutes he held
| a formal receipt.
a telegram came for him. 1t was
from Mr.. Abingdon.
Can see you after at my house.
Then Philip enjoyed his first real
breathing space during hours of day
light. He went by train to the ceme-
terry in which his mother was buried,
carrying with him beautiful wreath.
1t was a remarkable fact that this
was the first visit he had paid to her
grave. During the days Of misery and
partial madness which followed her
death he never lost the delusion that
her spirit abided with him in the poor
dwelling they called home"
meath the green turf in no way appeal
ed to him. But now that succession
Of extraordinary external events had
restored the balance of his mind he
realized that she was really dead and
buried; that what he revered as her
spirit was in truth fragrant memory
that he would be nearest to her mortal
remains when standing in the remote
corner Of the burial ground allotted ia
the poorest of the poor-those removed
by one degree from pauperdom and a
parish grave.
1t happened by mere chance that
since Mrs. Anson's funeral no one had
been inferred on one side of the small
space purchased for her. There were
three vacant plots here, and a sur
prised official told Philip there would
be no difficulty in acquiring these fol
the purpose Of erecting suitable mon
ument
The boy filed in the necessary forms
there and then 1t was some consola
ton to know that he could perpetuatt
her memory in this way, though ht
had formulated another project which
should keep her name revered through
the ages.
On the site of Johnson's News shoult
arise the Mary Arson Home For Des
titute Boys. He would build a place
where those who were willing to worl
and learn would be given a chanc,
and not driven, starving and desperate,
to pick up an existence in the gutter.
He was too young to devise all the
details of such a splendid institution,
but he had got the idea and would
possess the money. He would leave
the practical part of the undertaking
to older heads.
The one essential feature was that
, generations yet unborn should learn to
love and honor the name of Mary An
son. Provided that were achieved, he
knew the work would be successful.
Soon after leaving the cemetery he
came face to face with Bradley. the
policeman. who was in plain clothes
and walking with a lady. obviously
Mrs. Bradley, Judging by the matronly
manner in which she wheeled a per-
ambulator containing a chubby infant.
"Well, I'm blowed!" cried the police
! man "Who would have thought of
meeting you? looked In at the news
last night. but you had gone Some
one is looking after you pretty well,
eh"
He cast a patronizing eye over Phil
ip's garments, which were, of course,
considerably smarter in appearance
than those in which the constable had
seen him on Thursday evening.
Yes" said Philip. II am in good
hands now"
They haven't given you a watch?'
: This anxiously.
"No. I am watchless."
That's right. You'll have one soon.
q The inspector has your address. By
T the way, he wants to know your Chris
tan name"
philip"
. Thanks. I won't forget"
> Philip raised his hat and took the
: quickest route westward. He did not
count on being recognized so easily.
, Mr.. Abingdon received him with
some dNgree of reserve. The magis,
trate could not understand the receipt
! of a letter bearing the address Of the
Pail Mall hotel, a place where he had
: been entertained at dinner occasionally