The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-11
Held in Trust
By cEcILLE LANcDoN
10. 1899. Western Newspaper union.,

am afraid OF myself" spoke Elstol
Murray. THAT is why | have come t
you, Rivers, and | wish you to hold II
have inherited"
| But why not place 1t In bank o.
invest TT inquired Paul Rivers, flush
ing with pleasure ut so sincere com
plIment to his integrity and faithful
ness.
/ Because | am going TO eventually
| link my life with yours and that OF
your estimable wife. ! shall have to
spend nearly year In a remote por-
/ ton of Canada looking to backing a
| new venture financially. While ] am
| gone want you and Alice to house
and care for the young girl | have
told you about, Mercy Tyne. When
return | shall settle down beside you
In your new home"
They were converslng just outside
the new home In question now. 1t was
not many miles from a settlement.
Elsto4 Murray handed his friend a
small roll of bank notes. There is
"
dollar bills" he enlightened Paul.
"Put them in some safe place until
! return"
Rivers took of his money belt and
slowed the little package of opulence
In It's most secret compartment. "Come
into the house and viii write you out
q receipt he said, but Murray airily
waved away the suggestion.
mot from YOU" said Murray. MY
oldest, truest friend. we will do some
fine things In the way of improvements
ont in this wilderness when / come
to join You Be good to Mercy. She
deserves it."
Mercy Tyne was poor orphan girl
whom warm hearted Elston Murray
had rescued from poverty and the
tyranny of a cruel stepfather. She
arrived the week after his departure.
Paul and Alice had never seen her he
fore. She was wan. III nourished and
not beautiful. but her alteration for
the man who had lifted her from mis-
cry into happiness was something
pathetic. Murray had seen her placed
in safe friendly hands in the city, had
treated her as If she were an own sis
ter, and now as an afterthought had
decided to try and restore health and
happiness to the forlorn creature amid |
the bracing air OF. new frontier scenes
under the kindly friendship of Paul |
and Alice Rivers.
There was something appealing in |
the helplessness Of Mercy Tyne, her |
plainly revealed sense Of intrusion, but |
never did two human beings SO earn |
estly strive to make the lonely refugee I
feel that she was welcome. When |
they spoke or Murray the sad face
became illumined.
"Ohl he has been so kind to me"
said Mercy, I shall never forget to
pray for his success and happiness"
''She loves him. whispered Alice
to her husband, and the impression
grew stronger with her as the weeks
passed by and then the months. for a
dozen times a day Mercy spoke Muir
rays name and always that inetfahle
glow was in her eyes when she did SO,
Within the year Paul knew that they
had made an unwise move in settling
where they had. The mountains were
giving up gold and mining was the
'eigning industry. They found diff
,uIty in hiring help, transportation was
aggard and expensive they had not
he means to purchase machinery
necessary to clear the land and culti-
rate it, and it became so that about
III they got out of it was what they
aised from the unfriendly soil for
home use only.
Many a time Paul Rivers thought OF
he idle fortune in his possession,
many an opportunity to invest in
lain promised immense speculative
eturns, but he put aside the fitting
remembering that he was |
observing sacred trust. ,
All the time Mercy worked with a
gill and a purpose. She became wen !
nd strong. Exercise. pure air. en-
ouraging companionship brought out
he best that was in her
''She is growing beautiful Alice +
old Paul one day. "And she continues ,
o itlollze Murray. Every evening ! | =
ee her go to the great bluff, and with
apt eyes and elasped hands she faces a
he far north as IL dreaming of the a
lan she loves"
II was at the end of year that
,lston Murray came back, his business
entures a failure Paul Rivers told n
Is own simple story of disappointment , ),
nd poverty. :
"Why. manF' exclaimed Murray. :
you were at liberty to have used
that money you needed to carry out
our plans. "A sacred trust? yes, but
on and are like brothers What is
line is always yours. Now I'll show II
on what capital can do to make of !
his bare place rare grand beauty 2
pot Who Is that?''
1t was Mercy. and Murray scarcely
new her. His eve tiickered as Paul
Sid him Of the fidelity and gratitude
( that sterling spirit. of her love for +
I'm. too. w. I
I'VE shall begin in earnest now I
AID Murray, as he came into the y