The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1916-11-17

what they would do n ever, By sana
miracle, $1,000 were to come 30 then.
They had envisaged o pretty little
farm In Virginia. with roses growing
up the walls. . horse and buggy and
fields Of corn and peach trees. Ana
now all this seemed about 10 sopes
TO pass.
Al he stepped OF tho car the little
Japanese came MP TO him. giieutiy
imbrie slipped tho carbon copy tnta
the mans hand and left him.
A month passed. Imbrie had told
Dolly that his uncle had died and left
him that 5000 which they had a.
ways talked about and never hoped
for. Dolly was delighted. The colos
came back into her checks. She wac
happy. But In Imbrie's heart was the
burning shame Of betrayal.
II was three months before he sent
IN his resignation. He wanted 10 a.
lay suspicion. He expected 10 be
watched. He had omitted 10 dis
ohsyse his debt to the money lenders
for fear that no would come under
suspicion. II required oil his courage
10 send in notice.
Then, toward tho end OF his hasa
month. he began TO realize what his
treachery meant. He knew that, UNI
der the Official silence. somebody wac
suspected, somebody was watched,
somebody was suffering wrongly for
his abominabie decd. He could not
endure his position. And he told
Dolly.
He confessed TO her one evening
when she had questioned him about
his distress. He told her that there
could be no future for Thorn upon the
money earned by his betrayal OF his
native land. He bowed his head whom
he had ended. for no expected that
Dolly would herself denounce him.
But when no raised his head after
q long silence. II was to see Dolly
standing beside him, her face expires.
sive Of plying wonder.
"The bitter thing 10 that you did
It for mo, Ronald" sho said, and sud-
denly dropped TO her kneen. ''Ronaid,
dearest, you know now what you must
do"
"But, Dolly
II know. You are going 10 say that
my happiness Ia worth more than the
nation. But II isn't, II isnt."
II have made purchases. ! have 10
signed my position. We shall be beg
gars, even after I have served my
term OF Imprisonment"
AT least, Ronald, we can hold up
our heads." she answered proudly.
On the following morning Imbris
went down to tho ONCE with o reso-
luton TO which no had come. On O
result Of his talk with his wife. He
would confess everything; and the
$4,000 no would turn into charity.
The worlds weight seemed 10 have
been lifted from his shoulders. WASH
ington had mover seemed 30 beautiful,
nor iife no free. He looked 10 years
younger 90 he went to his desk, and
his fellow clerks. too. noticed the
change in him.
Il WINS q long and difficult watt tili
no was able TO see tho high ofiiciai
who had given him tho treaty to copy.
Az no kicked his heels In the mans
ofIloe. watching dignitaries come and
20, q little sense OF resentment began
TO assail him. What right had Mr..
Mowbray had TO place temptation In
his path--in his. q Gas clerk'sf Would
not anyone with q sick wife have been
tempted toof
And he had worked himself MP 10
such degree Of anger that hs had
almost decided 10 turn back when Mr..
Mowbray's secretary came out and
ushered him In.
The great man was sitting alone at
his desk, and his face was quite I'M
passive; but there was cynical smils
upon tho lips Of the secretary e. he
sat down beside him.
Mowbray, IDLY turning over he
pages Of q document, did not look up
for an unconscionabie time. All the
while Imbrie was growing more and
more uncomfortable. At last hs could
no longer endure the suspense
"Mr. Mowbrayis he blurted out
Mowbray looked M, -Yesf'' he n
uuired blandly.
Then Imbrie told him. without an,
tonuation,
when hs had endsd amazing Mov.
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