The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-09
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1t was the other one with this ones
dress on
Inspector Bucket seemed pleased.
Mr.. Tulkinghorn permitted a CLEAN
of satisfaction to escape FROM his
close, secretive features. The next
day 10 was told to move on. So well
did the police move him on that Es-
Their Summersop found him Ill OF a
fever many miles away from London,
in a hovef whittier she had gone to
succor distressed family
When the lad saw her he stared at
her with remarkable expression of
surprise and terror. II won't go to
the berryin' ground again. won't@
cried he.
Esther sunnmerson. seeing him
shaken with fever. thought that he
was dellrious. as indeed he was most
of the time. talking Wildly about
gowns and promising piteously to
move on, always to move on.
She nursed him for some days. till
he fed and disappeared in his fear of
being took up" Soon afterward
Esther Summerson fell Ill., JOS sick
ness had been smallpox and 1t had
Infected his nurse. She locked her.
self UP with her maid, who had had
the disease and was immune. and she
would not let any one come near
her for fear of transmitting 1t to
them, though all in the house begged
to nurse her. ~
When she recovered after many
weeks she noticed a change in her
room. Finally 1t came to her that all
the mirrors had been taken away.
She knew what had happened. then.
II was hard to bear; but she thanked
God that It was not shock to her.
She heard her maid sobbing AMI call
ed her In and embraced her and said:
TT does not matter, dear. / can do
without my old face very Well
And when John Jarndyce came in
ana held her in his arms and could
onIv saw. my dear dear girlP she
thought: "what have to mourn fort
He has seen me and loves me even
better than he did"
She so blessed and honorej him.
she so prayed to repay his goodness,
that when one day soon afterward he
asked her II she would be the mis-
tress of Bleak House, she put quietly
away from her the thought OF GER
tain dark young doctor of whom she
had seen much during her work
among the poor and Ill. She cried
iittle Then she went down stairs
ana mt her arms around John Jarn-
dyce and kissed him.
pane burden soon had great cob
webs TO sweep out of her John Jarn-
,5vcs,s slxv. Richard Carstone was
on the way to become another famil-
lar and humorous figure In the Court
OF Chancery, like little Miss Elite ana
the Man from shropshire. He had
drifted away from Bleak House long
a 9o anA as Jarndyce had been turn
ed. against Jarndyce before. so now
the malignant influence of the great
suit made him hate his cousin.
Then Ada confessed that she had
married Richard; and John Jarndyce,
who had been helping Richard secret
ly, told her that her place was by
her husbands side. and let her go
with his blessing. BLEAK House" Is
thinning fast, Oh, little woman" said
he, turning his old bright fatherly
look on Esther
Richard, listless. detected. unable
to take up any occupation, was much
In their minds and made their hearts
very heavy. At last. one day. an old
usurer brought to John Jarndyce an
ancient paper. John Jarndyce looked
at II ana paid the man the large sum
that ne demanded for it, He took It
to his lawyer, who examined 1t with
stared at him with amazement.
why" said they. this is an abso-
lutely incontestable will by old Jarn-
dyce and II wins the case for your
wards, Richard Carstone and HIS wife,
while you lose"
'If all the wealth that this vile suit
brought into this vile Court of Chan
Gerry could fall to them. would be
content" said John Jarndyce "But
no good can come out OF Jarndyce
and Jarndyce."
DO one dav there was p,ra.t h,s
tie in the court. The lawyers crowd
ed around and talked loudly ana even
the Lord Chancellor showed an al
most human interest. The newly
found Old VIII was genuine and the
Great Suit was ended.
And with that ending Richard
carstone's life was ended, too. The
Court OF Chancery had broken hts