Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-17
CHAPTER TX.
THE OLD

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ITO Mrs. Lawrence?" I repeated.
Here was a coincidence, indeed! Could
1t be, l asked myself again, hat this
thins could have been deliberately ar
ranged? But l dismissed the thought
rs ridiculous.
~ will tell you the story so far as /
know it, a the clergyman. 1T is
&c breach of trust to do so. for it was
public property at the time, though
long since forgotten. 1 should not re-
call it now but for the fact that it
may shed some light upon today's oc-
currence."
Perhaps 1t WILL I agreed.
Mrs. Lawrence began my compan-
ION, was born at Scotch Plains about
30 years ago. Her fathers name was
Hiram Jarvis. He had made a COM
Portable fortune in the dry goods bus
mess in New York, and had built him
self a country house at Scotch Plains.
going in to New York every morning
and returning in the evening. Scotch
Plains is a very small place-a mere
village-but has a number of handsome
country homes. 1t is not on the rail-
road. but lies about a mile back of
Fanwood, which it its station. 1t has
o little Presbyterian church, and when
I graduated in '65 from Princeton sem
mary, 1 received q call to it, which
accepted. Mr.. Jarvis and his daughter
were members OF my congregation-the
former. indeed, being the president of
the board of trustees
I nodded my interest. Plainly / had
done Well In coming to DR.. Schuyler.
Jarvis was a tall. straight, austere
scotchman of the old school, continued
the clergyman, with a belief in pre-
destination and eternal punishment.
which was-well-rather fanatical, ever
for those days. His daughter was a
beautiful girl of IL or IS. Her mother
had died como voQrS hoforo. a-l ~
was left solely in her fathers care.
without brothers or sisters. There was
an unit in New York city, a younE
sister OF her father, and married to a
banker named Heminway, but she
seemingly took little interest in the
the few times I saw her-was much
like her brothers., tempered, perhaps,
with a little more wo%rldliness. think
she's still living: at least. I've never
heard Of her death. She has been a
widow for many years.
s the girl grew up in the lonely
house, with only her father to care for.
I sometimes thought his treatment of
her q little severe-he would rarely
permit her to take part in even the
most innocent merry making-and j
often found myself plying her. But
I concluded 1t was o M Of my business
"a conclusion which was var
RSA "A OoS SASoS was IA l1ISt Cn1rRG
and Jarvis was quite a terrifying man !"
I could well believe it. and said 30
There was another member OF nv
congregation" vent on Or. SCHUYLER
''concerning whom I had doubts al
quite an opposite character-that was
young Boyd Endicott. The Endicott
place lay just beyond the Jarvis house,
which 1t quite overshadowed, for the
Endicotts were very wealthy. The
father did not belong to my church
o indeed. to any c~hurch-and / sell
dom met him. He had been associated
with Jim Fisk in some operations
which seemed to me Of QUESTIONABLE
UNCONSTITUTIONAL F1sk's reputation MAY
have prejudiced me unduly. But his
wife was a lovely christian woman
ana devoted toaher children"
"Her children?" repeated. Thu
story interested me 80 im1fnsely ma
] wanted every detail.