Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1916-03-17

Nonsense, That's not the truth
What's troubling your kindly.
THAT which Is always troubling
me. Braveiy. since she knew 1t mus,
be said. l.
The mans features seemed to draw
together almost impereepiibly.
The eyes narrowed; the nostrils, the
lips became pinched. She could bear
the long draw breath.
you are always thinking OF her"
Il cant help IL. She Is flesh of my
flesh. blood OF my blood am her
mother
And am | not her fatherY'
She smiled waniy. That Is not
quite the sumo thing.
''lon are without n stick of pride"
No. no. hive pride. but 1t is the
pride Of pity. the pride of love. can
not crush out either at command from
you II Is i've years since you denied
her"
An He was one of those men
whose faces grow white when angered.
All the blood went with "A rush to his
heart. leaving his mind clear aud cold.
Il have told you never 10 mention her.
| have 10 daughter.
Il hive. And OH. / think of her at
night Where is shef Is she dead,
alive, in miseryt Sine. too. has pride,
for she has never written but once"
Il tell you | have no daughter"
And / repeat I have. And If / did
not depend upon sou for my bread and
butter ! would seek aud lind her. In
my heart | have never f9rsaken her.
she Is still more TO You than | ever
WIS
No. Since that day when you ceas-
eel to be my lover. Money and pomp
and false pride have robbed me OF both
my daughter and my lover
He sat down. This seems TO be a
crisis, Jane" He spoke gently now.
al want her"
Listen Was the tyrant the ogre1
Did | ever deny her anything in rea-
SOM Did ] not do my duty In laying
all the facts before her and proving
them-tha the man was a youthful
blaekleg, gambler. handsome scoun-
drel. the son OF one of the greatest
rascals In the state? God knows 1t
was not that she had chosen as her
lover poor young man. honest"
He paused passionately.
Il know MS well as you do that love
Is something we cannot harness and
drive. hut in the face Of all these
facts she ran away aud married him.
| have spoken diSaWnea my daugh-
ter the day she disowueI me fer THAT'S
what she did and So long as / live she
shall not cutter this mousse When ! am
dead and gone you may do a. you see
fit with my money. | make no reser-
vatious
She may he hungry and cold
Am / 20 blamef Jane. you are
wrong Money has not made me a
hard man, but II has given me some
thing to think Of Tint girls foolish
ness seemed To change my heart into
stone. | have never snid anything bnt
| know that you gave her your inner
itanee II was yours. 10 do with as
you pleased Doubtless she dumped II
into his hap Now listen. Rather than
have this subject brought up again
will meet you halfway. Find her IL
you can. Feed and clothe her II she is
hungry and cold. for | am certain the
scouudIcl eft her when he found that
he could not get his crooked tngers
into my wallet. But never let me hear
her sloaen Of again Ia this house.
Never brns no. 10 me, hoping that
shall forgive her. That j. the last
word f,om me on the subject.
With ,ais lac left the reom.
Quarter a.tcT 10
Ii TIM ca from an ormoiu clock
which hal once been Napoieon's. This
house. but few blocks removed from
The othes oud have been called a
priceless II lsures such as only these
modern Ah,ddins may purchase.
To the intelligent eye there was some
thing more ghan the treasures them
selves dlscernible In the atmosphere.
Ia the arrangement, in the lack OF jun
bile, which few millionaires escape who
leave the hlling Of their mansions to
collectors more OF less greedy
From the antique Ispahans on the
floor TO the ON blood and peach blow
and Persian plaque all had been col
leeted one by one. by the man who
loved them II was all he had left to
do. all he had left 10 love. He was u
very old man
The man In the first house. and he
knew nothing OF the others existence
they dwelt ia worlds apart, yet their
lives were definitely linked together
Together they had danced Ia the pup
pet bGuth IT pain to the wires OF an
other man who had emptied their
houses OF laughter and happiness.
Quarter after 10.
The old man heard the message from
Time
Under the study lamp his head glim-
mered Ike Few mintel silver Slowly
he laid down the faded photograph.
He touched the hand belt aud the iiy
eried iootman came Ia from the hail.
call up Nlr simmons aud tell him
To eeme over Ten him it is a matter
OF HE aud death that / urgently need
him
The lawyer was almost as old as his
/ client His Withered face WIS fun ol
concern as. later hy hslf an hour. the
feotman ushered him Into the room.
Anything wr0ug1" he asked.
Ne At last every thing is right
I've been a fgol for thirty years. sim
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