Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-28

Behind him there was confuSion of little noises--the sound of chair pushed hurriedly aside. rustic of skirts. a happy sob or two, low voices intermngling-si Out of it finally came the fathers accents.
 There. there. my dear. my dearest dearr protested the old gentleman. Positively l don't deserve 1.-the of this r. The young old voice qua vered and broke in happy laugh. You must understand" he continued more soberly. that no consideration of any sort is duo ne When we married was too old for your mother. child. We both knew it. both believed it would never matter But if did. By her wish l went back to America. We were to see what separation would do to heal the wounds dssension had caused. II was n very foolish expert ment Your mother died before | could return"
 There fell a silence. again broken by tbc father. After that l va.. in no haste to return. But some years
 
 mu.licated with the old colonel, ask Ing permission to see you. lt was re- fused in manner which precluded the subject being reopened by me. was informed that if l persisted in at tempting to see you you would be dis inherited. He was very angry with me-justly. admit. One must grow old before one can see how unforgiva- bly one was wrong In youth. So settled down to q quiet old age. de- termined not to disturb you in your happiness An Kirkwood."
 The old gentleman was standing. his arm around his daughters shoulders. when Kirkwood turned.
 Come here. Philip. I'm explaining to Dorothy. but you should hear. The evening called on you, dear boy. at the Pless. returning home 1 received a message from my solicitors. whom had instructed to keep an eye on Doro- thy's welfare. They informed me that she had disappeared. Naturally can celed my plans to go to Munich and stayed. employing detectives. One of the first things they discovered was that Dorothy had run ofs with an eld- erly person calling himself George Burgoyne Calendar, the name l had discarded when I found that to &C., knowledge me would imperil my daughters fortune The investigations went deeper. Charles, let us continue to call him. had been to see me only this afternoon to inform me of the plot they had discovered. This Hal lam woman and her son--it seems that they were legitimately in the line of inheritance. Dorothy out of the way. But the woman was-ah--a bad lot Somehow she got into communication with this fat rogue. and together they plotted if out. Charles doesn't believe that the Hallam woman expected to enjoy the Burgoyne estates for very many days. Her plan was to step in when Dorothy stepped out, gather up what she could. realize on it and de- camp. That is why there was so much excitement about the jewels-naturall the most valuable item on her list. the most easy to convert into cash. The man Mulready we do not place. He seems to have been a shady character the fat rogue picked up somewhere. The latter's ordinary line of business was diamond smuggling. though he would condescend to almost anything In order to turn dishonest penny.
 That seems to exhaust the subie But one word mere Dorothy. I am old enough and have suffered enough to know the wisdom of seizing ones happiness when one may. My dear, little while ago you did very brave deed. Under fire you said most cour- ageous. womanly creditable thing. And Philips rejOinder was only second in nobility to yours. do hope to goodness that you two blessed young sters won't let any addle pated scru- pies stand between yourselves and the prize of romance, your inalienable inhertance!"
 Abruptly Brentwick, who was no longer Ercntwick. but the actual Cal endar. released tae girl from his em- brace and hopped nilnbly toward the door. 'Itcally. must see about that pctrol"' lie cried. While it's per fectly true that Charles lied about its