The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-05-13

Was led 20 invest mis- nrnS n.Oney IN
the famous Mrs. Merdle's schemes
And then the bubble broke. Merdle.
committed suicide. The Dorrits'
money was gone Arthur's firm vas
ruined and Arthur himself was thrown
into prison-the same poor debtors
PRISON that had. for 50 long. been the
home Of Little Dorrit.
The days dragged YEARLY on.
At last Arthur. respondent ana
crushed. haggard from broodIng and
stricken with fever, one day saw, as
In a vision, kneeling before him the
figure Of dear Little Dorrit. She had
hastened TO make happier the lot OF
the man who had helped her family
In the same gloomy surroundings and
whom she loved. She nursed him in
his sickness. She offered him all her
money to help him overcome his dis
tress. And then. as he refused the
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
ladventurer, Rigaud, murderous iail-
bird with dropping nose and ascending
mustache, who opens the rift still fur
Their for the sunshine. He has discov-
cred Mrs. CIennam's secret. having
stolen the strong box that Flintwinch
had smuggled into Holland and in
which lay page of the win of Ar
thurs uncle, page which Mrs. Glen
nam had concealed for years.
Rigaud visited 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.
7 She had learned, after Mr.. Glen
! MANS marriage to her Ga marriage
: commanded by his overbearing uncle),
that her husband had loved and gone
t through a sort Of ceremony with a
j, beautiful young singer whom Fred
D eric Dorrit, a kind-hearted musician
(the uncle of Little Dorrit), was be-
4 friending and giving an education. She
e had obtained the first clue from those
y initials in her husbands watch which
t she found years ago, sgnifying "Do
d Not Forget She accused both her
t, husband and the woman, who put the.
d initials there.
l. Instantly Rigaud, seeking to black
mail the old lady, declared he had de-
!. posted with the niece, Little Amy
d Dorrit, then at the prison with Ar
+. thur, a packet containing the sup
II pressed section of the will with in
Il structions to open 1t at a certain hour
\ unless reclaimed by him. What would
r Mrs. Clennam pay him to reclaim it!
n To the establishment of all, the par
IS alytic old lady rises to her feet and
\ rushes from the house to the prison
seeks Little Dorrit; calls for the pack
~ ct, and then bids Amy read it, at the
"a same time begging her to forgive the
81 past.
10 Il forgive you freely" cried the gen
or erous girl.
:, "God bless you" was the fervent
10 and broken response.
And then came the good news thai
Arthur's firm had re-established itsel1
- and that he would be able now tt
- leave the debtors prison.
" So they were married-but not be
~ fore Little Dorrit had handed to Al
y thur folded bit of legal paper ask
49, ing him not to open it but to burn
~ in her presence.
~ SIS 1t q charmW he asked, smil
le' ingly. "And does the charm want an
~ words to be said?" he added as h
~ held the paper over the flames.
"You can say (if you don't mind)
love you =" answered Little Dorrit.
So he said it and the paper burne
away.
With it died the secret of Arthur
G birth, never to be known to him
> with it, Also Little Dorrit had volul
tarily destroyed the evidence of he
own legacy.
And they We're married with the su
shining on them through the painte
IS figure of Our Savior on the window.
ID Then they went quietly down ini
the roaring streets, inseparable an
! blessed; and, as they passed aloT
in the sunshine and shade, the noil
80 "a and the eager and the arrogant ar
the froward and the vain frette
10 and chafed and made their usual u
~ roar.
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