The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-12-07

When ne returned from COIese, us H'
had said he would, and he kept up the
process after his return from the
honeymoon. During the next two
years Jim Bennett and his wife made
the money fly. They inhabited the fin
est house In the town, and life was for
| them a succession Of entertainments
and pleasures. Arthur Royce was now
getting twenty dollars week. Ben
nett never saw him and seemed tc
have forgotten him. But Mllllcenl
bowed There Is something about re-
Jected lover that makes woman fee
tenderly toward him.
Two years passed and Bennett be
came financial leader In the place
A few who watched knew that his af
fairs were unstable. Arthur was among
these. And for Mllllcents shke he
dreaded the crash that must come, But
Bennett plunged more wildly, until the
banks were totterlng upon the verge
Of the preclplce while Bennett juggled
with his millions and refused to look
facts In the face.
He treated his wife badly, too ey'
eryone knew. There were reports OF
his infatuatlOn for several women sue
cesslyely. Arthur saw MillIcent rarely
but he noticed the progressive look OF
unhappiness upon her face.
Bennett began to notice Royce again
He promoted him 10 twenty-five, chief
ly because another bank, an old, con
servative institution, wanted to get
hold Of him. Arthur would gladly have
left, hut he had an instinct against
leaving his present bank when It was
In difficulties.
one day the truth cume out. Arthur
had been sent TO Bennstts house on an
important errnnd. Ha found Bennett
out, but as he was about to leave Mill
cent came In.
"What did he send you fort" she
cried Historically.
"The manager sent me, Mrs. Ben
nett. It was nbout a private matter
"A banking matterT"
"Yes."
She burst into tears. 'T thought he
sent you to taunt me- she cried. Gle
has told me / ought to have married
you. o, am so wretched.'
She cried on his shoulder. During
that interval the young man learned
many thlngs-Of Benefits lnhdelIty
Of his dlshonor. He had made her life
a misery from the day they were mar
rled.
Presently she grew calm. 81 should
not have spoken In this way" she said
But sometimes | think of the old days
do you ever remember them, Ar
thur"
Remember theml When they lay
upon his mind forever?
Somehow he managed to tear him
self away. His last memory Of Mill
cent was OF a pale-faced woman who
watched him at the door pathetically
as II nothing in life was worth LIVING
for.
Faster and faster Benefits banks
carecned toward disaster. The com
ing crash was clear to everybody now
Bennett himself went about with an
anxious face and glum expression. II
was at first a matter Of months, then
one Of weeks-then people just waited
Arthur Royce waited. He was think
Ing all the time Of Millcent and won
dering what she would do.
One afternoon Bennett sent for Ar
thur to come to his house. Arthur had
not been there since that last inter
view with AIllllcent He did not like
the task; but he went, because 1t was
part Of his duty.
"Alr. Bennett Is In his library, sir,
said the butler. Gle said you were tC
90 right In when you came.
Arthur went In. He saw Bennett
seated at his desk. Bennett did not
look up, and when Arthur approached
he saw that he was quite dead, with O
buHet hole through his head. Upon
the desk was a letter addressed tC
him. Arthur opened II.
"Take her. She loves YOU" was oil
that Il contained.
Arthur never quite remembered the
details Of the following hour-his has
" summons Of q doctor, the terrified
servants; lastly MiIlcent, whom HI
had valnly tried to keep out Of th'
room, standing before her husbands
body. And she wrung her hands, anC
all she could say was:
~ meant to leave him tomorrow"
Il was six months before Arthur
saw Nllllcent Bennett again. She haC
been travelling. When she came bacl
she went TO her old home. She an
nounced that she was going to open {
school. All the heartlessness seemeC
10 have died when Bennett died.
But Arthur had other plans for her
"Do you remember, dear" he sale
to her one day. "how | used to tel
you you would marry me, and your owl
prophecy? Yours has come true. Nov
make mine true. | am going to tax,
over the managership Of the Fifth Ma
tlonal next month, and-dearest,
have loved you so long,
And Arthur thus came into his own