The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-02
LITTLE DORRIT
BY CHARLES DICKENS
Condensation by Charles e. L. Wineate

L1CSo. 1AAO llIC1l, as 1SluoCu liz
money, he realized, for the first time,
that she loved him-and that he, too,
loved her.
A feeling of peace comes over his
mind.
The clouds begin to break.
And strange to say, it is a rascally
adventurer, Rigaud murderous Jail
bird, with dropping nose and ascend
ing mustache, who opens the rift still
further for the sunshine. He has dis
covered Mrs. Clennam's secret, having
stolen the strong-box that F1intwinch
had struggled into Holland and in
which lay a page of the will of Ar
thurs uncle, a page which Mrs. Glen
nam had concealed for years.
Rigaud visits the strange old lady.
Leaning over the sofa, poised on two
legs of his chair and his left elbow,
coarse, insolent, rapacious, cruel, he
reveals to her his knowledge.
Then, torn by the explosion of her
passion, the old lady vehemently tells
her own story.
She had learned, after Mr. Glen
mans marriage to her { marriage
commanded by his overbearing uncle)
that her husband had loved and gone
through sort of ceremony with a
beautiful young singer whom Freder-
lex Dorrit, a kindhearted musician
| (the uncle of Little Dorrit), was be-
friending and giving an education.
She had obtained the first clue from
those initials in her husbands watch,
which she found years ago, signifying
| Do Not Forget She accused both
her husband and the woman who put
the initials there.
! Il said to her" declared Mrs. Glen
nam, you have a child; l have none.
You love that child. Give him to me
and swear never again to see his
father. Then l will support you and
not expose your shame. And l will
reclaim the otherwise lost boy"
Thus it had been that Arthur came
into the Clennam home.
At this point in her narrative
Rigaud contemptuously interrupted.
Come straight to the stolen money"
he commanded.
| "Wretch!" she responded, Know
then that I suppressed part of the will
of my husbands uncle''-the part
IN which that uncle had revealed the
maternity of Arthur and had left, as a
; repentant compensation, a legacy to
Arthur's mother and to the neice of
the man who had befriended her
but l found that niece of Frederick
Dorrit and what did for her was bet
ter for her than the money"
! Instantly Rigaud, seeking to black
mail the old lady, declared he had de-
posted with the niece, Little Amy
DOrrit, then at the prison with Arthur,
a packet containing the suppressed
section of the will with instructions to
open it at certain hour unless re-
claimed by him. What would Mrs.
| Clennam pay him to reclaim It?
To the establishment of all, the par
alytiC old woman rises to her feet and
rushes from the house to the prison;
seeks Little Dorrit; calls for the
packet. and then bids Amy read it, at
the same time begging her to forgive
the past.
81 forgive you freely" cries the gen
erous girl.
God bless you" was the fervent
and broken response.
And then came the good news that
Arthur's firm had re-established it.
self and that he would be able now to
leave the debtors prison.
So they were married-but not be-
fore Little Dorrit had handed to
Arthur a folded bit of legal paper
asking him not to open it but to burn
it in her presence.
rs it charm?" he asked, smilingly
And does the charm want any words
to be said?" he added, as he held the
paper over the flames.
you can say Gf you don't mind)
I love you!'" answered Little Dorrit
So he said it and the paper burned
away.
With it died the secret of Arthur's
birth, never to be known to him; anC
with it also. Little Dorrit had volun
tarily destroyed the evidence of hel
own legacy.
And they were married with the
sun shining in on them through the
painted figure Of Our Savior on the
window.
Then they went quietly down into
the roaring streets. inseparable anC
blessed; and, as they passed along II
the sunshine and shade, the noisy anc
!, the eager. and the arrogant and the
frOward and the vain fretted, anc
chafed, and made their usual uproar
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