Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-05-11

ne declared. ~ ou-you seem to he ac
cusing me Of something of stealing.
believe. DO you understand who |
am? l have some influence and repu.
tation, and it Is dangerous toto try to
brighten me. Proofs are required in
law. and
"S-s-h-h! You know I've got the
proofs. They were easy enough to get
once ! happened on the track OF 'em.
Lord sakes, Heman. amt a fool.
What's the use of your pretendln' to
be one? There's the deed out in Frls.
co. with yours and Johns name on 1t.
There's the records to prove the sale.
There's the receipt for the $50. 900
signed by you on behalf OF yourself
and your partners widow. There's old
man Everdean alive and competent to
testify. There's John Thayer's will on
file over 10 Orham. Proofs, Why.
you thief, If it's proofs you want I've
got enough to send you to state prison
for the rCSt of your life. Don't you
dare say proofs to me again. Herman
Atkins. you owe me. as Bos'n's guard
Ian. S3I 800, with interest since 1854.
What you goin' to do about it:"
Here was one ray. feeble ray, of
light.
You're not her guardian" cried At
kins. THE courts have thrown YOU
put. and your appeal won't stand Ell
Their. IL any money is due It belongs
TO her father. She isn't of age. No.
sir. her father
Captain Cy's patience had been Civ
Ing away. Now he lost it altogether.
He strobe across the room and shook
his forefinger in his victims face.
SO" he cried. That's your tack.
Is 1t? BY the big dippcr, you go to
her father--just you 20 TO him and tell
him! just hint to him that you owe
his daughter thirty-odd thousand dol
lars and sec what he'll do. Good heav-
ems above. he was ready TO sell her
out to me for $50 with of sand bank
In Orham-almost ready he was. till
you offered a higher price to him TO
light. Why, he'll have your hide nail
ed up on the barn door! If you don't
pay him every red copper down on the
nail he'll wiring you dry. And then
he'll blackmail you forever and ever.
Rmen-->inless. of course, 7 90 home
and stop the backmail by printing my
story in the Breeze. I've n precious
good mind to do it. BY the Almighty,
| will do it unless you come off that
high horse of yours and talk like a
man"
nd IA 81
PROSTATE. with sickly, pitifu crash
If We of Bayport could have seen our
congressman then. The great man,
great no longer, broke down complete
~. He cried like baby. 1t was all
true-all true. He had not meant to
steal at first. He had been led into
using the money In his business. Then
he had meant to send It to the heirs,
but he didn't know their whereabouts.
Captain Cy smiled at this excuse And
now he couldn't pay-he couldn't He
had hardly that sum IN the world. He
bad lost money in stocks. His prop
rrty in the south had gone to the
bad. He would be ruined. He would
have TO so to prison. Ec was getting
to be an old man. And there was
Alicia, his daughter. Think of her.
Think Of the disgrace And 80 on.
over and over with the one recurring
burden--what was the captain going
to do-what was he going to do? 1t
was a misera BILE, dreadful exhibition
md Captain Cy could feel no pride in
mis- triumph.
There, there he said at last. stop
It, man. stop It. for goodness sakes!
Pull yourself together. | guess we can
TX It up somehow. l amt goin' 10 be
loo hard on you. If 1t want for your
neanness in hcin wilhn' to lei Bos' L
,uffcr her life long with that drunken
beast Of dad Of hers I'd feel almost
like tellin' you to get up and forget it.
But that's got to be stopped. Now, you
listen to me-"
knees beside the bed. his face buried
IN his arms. and his gray hair, the
(eonine Atkins hair. which he was
wont to toss backward In the heated
periods OF his eloquence. tumbied and
sraggled. Captain Cy looked down at
Slm.
This whole business about Bos' n
must be stopped" he said. land
stopped right off. You tell your law.
yers to drop the case. Her dad is only
aangin' around because you pay him
o. He don't want her; he don't care