The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1914-08-01

Miss Frankie FASTENED to stem the
reminiscent flow.
Il am sure my cousin Ora merely
means this as a professional visit to
Price, mother. | have no idea we will
be able to keep her to dinner tomor-
row."
Feeling her scepter slipping from her,
Mrs. Sheldon fell to badgering Miss
frankie out of her new fledged indie
pendence.
you have no idea! Really, Frances,
you had better set up a dictatorship
and have done with It,"
II just thought, mother. that perhaps
we had better save the turkey until
for
For what?'
1.-THE coming of my cousin Orrick."
"That will certainly give the turkey
ample time to take on fat"
But the day of surrender was nearer
than her im%perious majesty suspected.
The blind man created a diversion by
asking a question Of Price.
How is the lawsuit going, SOM"
IL don't think Voolfolk is making
any Roadway from what 1 hear on the
streets"
His grandfather struck the floor
angrily with his heavy walking stick:
obstinate Ounce, why don't he COM
promise as his WI lawyer wants him
to do?"
THAT would mean paying Saterlee a
big lot of back money which l doubt
my cousins ability to do unless He
left the sentence unfinished long enough
for him to roll and light a cigarette.
Unless what?'' the blind man asked
impatiently.
The two women idolators were will
ing to bide their idols convenience.
Unless, l was going to say, old
Savannah's hoard should Unexpectedly
materialize."
you don't mean to tell me that
Voolfolk gave any credence to that
old lunatic's story? That he is de-
pending on that to lift him out Of the
slough:'
II can't speak for the amount of de-
pendence he places on settling his
debts with it. but l have reason to
believe that he did credit her state
ment."
"I'll be d. He is a bigger fool
"Mr. Sheldon"
II beg your pardon, my dear. but l
am glad to think that the Voolfolk
strain belongs to your side of the
house. The man is an imbecile."
Il don't know that l ever claimed
| klx.A 1900, I-.-.s Coz, xrrn n vovnfrrC
Mr.. Sheldon"
Miss frankie made a gesture of ap-
peal: "Oh, l thought we had con-
Guided to take poor cousin Orrick and
his daughter just as they are. Doubt
less they could find a great deal to
c~riticise in us If they are so minded"
Everybody knows" said Mrs. Shell
don inconsequently, that the thievish
camp followers of the federal army
looted the entire neighborhood and that
poor Fanny's v%aluables disappeared
when the troops did. How do 1 know
that this poor deluded man may not
be accusing me next of having ap-
p%ropriated my poor dear sisters jewelry
and plate when she ran away from it
all without even turning a key?"
Price turned laughing eyes on her:
There's where old Savannah fits in
so neatly. l shall certainly sustain
the fiction of the hidden hoard in or
der to divert suspicion from you
grand"
Miss frankie drew in her breath with
an ecstatic little gasp. Wouldn't it
be just like a fairy tale If it should
turn put to be true after all and cousin
Orrick should come into his inheritance
through the faithful efforts of his old
nurse?"
Selecting the line Of least resistance
Mrs. Sheldon flung a snub at her
daughter:
Frances Sheldon. to hear you talk
any one would take you for five instead
of fifty years old"
"Only the difference of a cipher.
mother dear" Miss frankie said, with
a meek smile that had the effect of
acknowledging hereslf the cipher.
Price frowned portentously on the
meek little cipher:
FAIRY tales do not obtain wi
days, Miss Sheldon. outside of story
books, which l hope you have not been
reading. All the pumpkins grown on
this place remain stock food to the
bitter end and mice are still quoted
as rodents with small demand"
Don't be silly DEAR" Miss frankie
smiled at the nonsense maker. and
returned to the charge. "Just let's
make believe. mother, that the hoard
was real. Have you any idea of the
value of my aunt's jewelry and plate?"
Nothing pleased Mrs. Horatio Shell
don better than to dilate on the vast
possessions that belonged to ante bel
lum days OF magnifcence. She cro-
cheted re1ectively for a few silent sec
onds:
"Of course I could not say exactly.