News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-01-26

,un. banker and widower; two months
later had come 1horntons financial
smash and, Immediately afterward, his
spiritual, moral and bodily collapse.
Everything that had made for life in
him having been swept away, he died
as matter of course, and was buried.
For sole Inheritance. little Genie
Thornton found herself possessor and
possessed of one Maggie O'Rourke. Il
nurse of long standing, Of earnest and
faithful face, and Il monster heart inn
prisoncd in pitifully thin chest
1t had taken Genie's great-uncle,
Asa Thornton. six more months to for
get n quarrel of sixteen years stand
ing with his nephew. and by that time
child and nurse had been seeped into
that lower world which can't afford
morning and afternoon editions and is
too busy praying for sailY bread to
look for rain of mamma in the daily
press
In short, Maggie and her charge,
traced down the ladder of reputable,
disreputable and Impossible lodgings
had slipped ultimately from sight and
the ken of people with addresses and.
as result, Mr. robert Hervey RAN
dolph. whose relationship to Mr.. Asa
Thornton. is of no import whatever to
this tale Of cause and effect came into
ten thousand a year and string-the
string being the possible temperance
Of Miss Imogene Pamela.
Bob" had said old Asa, on the
verge of tardy demise, I'm not in
Producing you to d war between con-
science and self-interest. There's no
silly story-book test about my money;
you are under No obligation to look
for Imogene or to shout if you step on
her by any twist OF chance My law
yers have all tie instructions neces-
sary along those lines; they lare to
make every reastnable effort and if
they succeed, whg, you're man enough
to look out for Yourself. lit isn't
going to make Il tjavil of a lot of differ
ence to me whCcT the cash goes so
long as l die with--die with the
credit"
With that last sentence, his mind
had stumbled and wandered off TO
memories of his nephew Brewster.
Looking back from the vantage of
twenty-siX years. Randolph caught,
for the first time, the full import of
Asa Thornton's farewell words to him
and to life: Die with the credit"
They held the kernel of the old mans
carefully measured amend.
Great old top" murmured Mr..
Randolph aloud. and half unconscious
ly turned to the left at Forty-second
street. Five minutes later he was
caught in the maelstrom of the
Thanksgiving crowd milling around
Times square.
Presently he found himself on the
edge Of human sea, banked up to
give passage to a honking empty taxi
cab. Here was another question for
suddenly inquiring mind. Where did
taxi-cabs, empty ones, go TO in such a
hurry? The door of this one was
swinging open, and the proof of how
intent the crowd was on its myriad
individual goals is evidenced by the
fact that a dozen voices did not in
form the driver that the season was
off for fans on wheels.
The cab was moving mere slowly
than Mr.. Randolph's subconscious
mind, which led him to step into it and
quietly close the inviting door. Upon
seating himself, he tried TO analyze
the impulse that had lifted him. from
the curb. He decided that it was not
so much the curiosity as to the desti-
nation of empty cabs as a natural and
ancient dislike for being pushed and
elbowed by people.
1t was not long before the cab. I'M
Willingly loaded for bear. drew I'D