Connecticut western news., 1921-08-11

pupll oI fdSIn, antt mistress or Dill Sikes, the greatest ruffian of the whole gang.
 In order to close Divers mouth, by making him also a criminal, he is taken along on a housebreaking attempt. Protesting, he is put through a small window that he may open the door to his companions. He is firmly deter mined to warn the people of the house, but the burglary is a failure, and Ol- iver, wounded by a stray shot, is left in ditch by the fleeing gangsters. The next morning he crawls, injured as he is, to the same house, where his story is believed and he finds new and lasting friends.
 Again the lad is sought out by Fagin, aided by a mysterious man who has shown great emotion at chance sight of Oliver in the street, and who now plots with Fagin not merely for the possession of the boy, but for his nor al ruin, which seems to be desired es- pecially by this so-colled Monks.
 Their whispered plottings are over heard by Nancy, who atones for her former Kidnapping of Oliver by risking her life to inform his new friends of his true parentage.
 The interview between this scorned street-girl and the beautiful Rose May lie, adopted niece of Divers protect ress, gives Dickens a splendid oppor- tunity to which he does not fail to do full justice. "Coldly and harshly treated by Mrs. Maylie's self-righteous servants, the girl is in a defiant mood when finally admitted, and remarks, with a toss of the head, It's a hard matter to get to see you, lady. If | had taken offense and gone away, as many would have done, you'd been sor- ry for it one day, and not without reason.'"
 But "the kind tone of the answer she received, the sweet voice, the gentle manner, the absence of any accent of haughtiness or displeasure took the girl completely by surprise and she burst into tears. Oh, lady, lady she said, clasping her hands passionately before her face, If there was more
  ne, there would, there wouldP"
 Then comes the startling account of what Nancy had overheard: Monks has secured, by clever inquiry and bribery, the locket and the ring; he recognized Oliver; he aEudes to his fathers will and speaks of the gratif1- cation 1t will be to him (Monks) to make a common felon of his young brother Oliver. He also says with a laugh that there is some comfort in the fact that his identity has been kept from his latest friends, "since how many thousands and hundreds of thousands of pounds they would give to know who their two-legged spaniel is."
 Rejecting all Roses efforts to place her in some safe refuge from her hor- rible associates, and refusing all re- wards, the weeping girl returns to the only life she has ever known, arrang- ing to repeat her evidence to some dis erect man whom Rose is to bring to London Bridge.
 Nancy keeps this appointment with Rose and MT. Brownlow, but 1t costs her her life, as suspicious Fagin has had her followed and watched. Sikes, insane with rage, brutally disregards her protestations that she has shielded Disbelieving her, he beats her to death with a club, then fees vainly from the terrors of his own memory of the deed, and dies by an accident as he Is trying to escape arrest.
 The gang is broken up by evidence in MT. Brownlow's hands. Fagin Is tried and hanged.
 As to Monks, whose real name Is Leeford, MT. Brownlow proves to be his fathers intimate friend, to have had first-hand information of all the facts the absolute son had tried to conceal. Oliver is his half-brother, natural son of Edwin Leeford and Ag- nes Fleming, to whom he had turned in passionate love from his unhappy and wretched home. His will left the bulk of his property to Agnes Gin de- fault of other atonement) and to their unborn child. If a boy, however, he was only to inherit If he kept his name unstained during his minority. Rose Is the younger sister of the un- happy Agnes.
 Monks takes the share given him and leaves England. Oliver Is adopted by MT. Brownlow; Rose marries Mrs. Maylie's son, Harry, and the two house holds enter on well-merited blessings and happiness.
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