Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-30

they lapse?'
Fathers interest - my interest
now" Ethel said quietly. ''of course
is lost. But that's not most inn
portant. It's to see that fathers
friends and our neighbors out west
get their money back. They thought
he was going to live and see every
thing through"
80 you came to work upon my
, natural affections for you?"
Yes" Ethel said. Yes, l sup
pose you may say I've done that"
Her grandfather slowly drew his
leg back from the desk drawer: sud-
denly he kicked the drawer shut
and with his hands upon the desk.
he pushed himself up to his feet.
He was still a towering man in
spite of the slight stoop which took
more than an inch from the stature
which had distinguished the days of
his great vigor.
Your father believed he was so
smart-so smart" he gloated over
her. He carried off my daughter
and thought he could win against
mel He sided with John-John," he
repeated the name of MS brother
violently. well, it did look like
good business then. John seemed to
have stronger hold on the property
than l had. But your father forgot
about longevity.
John was under the sod before
he was seventy. Your father forgot
about my sons, too. john had Oh
iver-damn weakling; so he's under
the sod, too; his wife's below the
waves; and everything they had's
in court. But it's coming to me!
It'c cpt RI onn,a IN noafb ba rannataH
swapping off each word short and
failing with his arm for emphasis.
And you got to come to me if you
want anything: everything, every
body's got to come to me! For IN
alive and they're all dead!
He jerked about and strobe across
the room.
Ethel watched him as he went to a
window and stood staring out while
he recovered himself. For a few mo-
ments, he seemed not to be seeing
but simply to be staring. Then he
jerked straight, and Ethel knew that
he had begun to see and that what
he saw was the Rock, guant and
glistening in the last rays CT the de-
clining sun.
Her grandfather slowly turned
about.
you want about two hundred
thousand dollars Immediately?
lone hundred and eighty-five thou
sand is the total I put down as nee.
essary now, grandfather" she said.
practically two hundred thou
sand; call it that" he corrected gen.
erously. "Well-well. it may be
reproduce, now. the indulgent man.
In nSnl IN tnLn wifi, hor 1anO
ago when she was a little girl and
came to him for dimes and quarters
and half dollars for children's trink-
cts.
He patted Ethel's arm fondly.
Nov, my dear, tell me about that
fellow Loutrelle."
She drew back a little from him.
Then it was his sight of the Rock
which, the minute before, had
changed him!
"Why, grandfather she said, II
just met him on the train this morn
ing"
He seized her as the passion
which he had with difficulty put
down rose to mastery of him again.
That's a liza lie!" he charged.
you're friends; you know all about
him. You're-friends."
she struggled to break she hold OF
his hand upon her shoulder. the
blood hot within her. II don't lie!"
she defied him. Il do know more
about him than I told you: but what
I said was true. 1 told you he was
going to the Rock"
Are you going to tell me about
him?"
mo"
WHAT"
mol"
He bent over her. "All right; all
right" he said at last, pulling her
papers from his pocket and thrust
ing them at her. He put his hand
to a push button. Ethel could hear
a bell ringing in some other part of
the house and, knowing that she was
dismissed, she went out. meeting
Miss Plat in the hall.
Beautiful afternoon" Miss Plat
said a~greeably.
beautiful Ethel acquiesced and
returned to her bedroom.
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