The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-05-31

all the conditions. You will do that won't you!"
Gribber promised with something perilously like
There amt SO much as there was the old
woman went on. but don't owe nothing out o
what there is. Feel under the pillow
Gribber did So and presently drew forth
grubby, dog-biscuit-colored savings-bank book and
a little canvas bag.
AN right; put the bag back. Aunt Porcher
said. That's pound or two loose, just to pay
for things. Look in the book 1t ought to be jst
over undred and twenty now
1t hundred and twenty pounds fifteen
shllings. in exact figures. Gribber experienced
mingled feelings-some qualification. for this was
certainly amount worth having; and some dis
appointment, for it was very low in the hundreds
cheapest possible figure.
The will you'll find all right Aunt Porcher
concluded. TN about that It's what said
all to you. provided you bury me at Thorpe
Dedham, near mother. An now I'm tired an
think l can sleep a little Good-by. Dan my boy.
Well. it seemed settled that there to be
fair profit out of Aunt Porcher. after all. if
vast one. Gribber saw the landady before no
left. and entrusted her with six penny stamps.
One was to be used to communicate with him
no more than twenty-four hours. But if the
breakup came suddenly, then the landlady
authorized and empowered to squander the whole
Gribber most friendly and gracious with
the landlady, but he did not mean to leave Der
alone with Aunt Porchers possessions if he could
help it, Also. there was a grandniece to bear in
mind.
Gribber began his journey home in a rather
happy frame Of mind, but finished it in perplexity
ana alarm m AS prudent man OF business ne
the railway station, to ascertain the very lowest.
de FRY rock-bottom cut price for plain
corpse enclosed, free rail at st. Pancras.
The result made him very uncomfortable. At
first he received the estimates with airy derision.
explaining that he didn't want gold lining and
nails 5eweled IN tour holes, but soon it grew plain
that the thing really going to into money:
AID then his facetousness turned to positive
Slocm Moreover not an undertaken of them all
would even consider his proposal to give the
co-ose's old clothes in whole or part payment. but
themselves grew derisve (if not indignantly at the
lie had at first even INDUCED the hope that he
hi Tht discover undertaken from whom actual
e,3h Pre- might be derived in the matter of those
sco,ns that the coffin itself might be of any quality
or, no-e bit now it grew clear that. on the con-
f7trary,1 the coffin was going TO ccst good deal
mere than it seemed IT, . worth.
r cribter ,e, to calculating prime costs with such
rrSsHitsr that he aside for future consideration
the idea Of adding little undertaking trade to
the triesacid. the farm. and the chambers shop.
hcieat!y alarming, another blow awaited Grib5er
at the railway STATEN. He had assumed that a
at good rates but an inquiry elicted the stagser-
Ing information that the carriage would come to
The thing seemed SO absurd that Gribber VEN
tnred to Tenrove the official for his obvious gno-
Cr:bher, alive and well. could travel the distance
for exactly one-.welfth of the sum. with liability
on the company in case of his death by accident.
which. for obvious reasons. they need not fear in
the case of corpse. But all for naught; for the
impatient official. .hrcs..ns his finger into the
midst OF a great printed column of charges and
regulations, withdrew tn his work. and left the
disnsyed Grihher to face tho indubitable. printed
exnrbitant black-a nd-wh:e fact that the un-
h'ushins charge for the conveyance of corpse
was truly and actually shilling mile.
Poor Gribber entered the train gloomy and
solred leeatee: and he reached Thorpe Dedhan
at last. to find occasion fer more scurness and
increased glooc,. For he there ascertained that
thoprh the burial fees fer a person diving in the
parish moderate. those for an imported
ccrpee very different matter
hat Aunt hot
vas he-t dying with every circumstance OF