Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-11-29
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by MELVILLE DAWSON Post =
g 1900 NEA Service. Inc

| 20 out to the race-course TINS AFTER
noon an pick a winner"
"I tried to turn it down. l didn't
want TO lose his money; L didn't
know one horse from another. But
he lust laughed and kept patting
me on the back. "a beginner for
luck" he says. where's your nerve,
Alp" Well, l picked that big Der
cum colt that nobody had ever
heard of, a five-to-one shot, an ne
romped inn
II was alimpin' along the sea-
| path, aproddin' the gravel with my
| cane an atalkin' to my feet, same
as if l was afraid the recollection
would get away with me If 1 WASH
! careful. The girl didn't say nothin'
and / went on.
"'Harry wouldn't touch the win
nins; he picked out his f1tty thou,
sand and put me out or the room.
1J limped on, talking to my feet.
".And it saved me two ways, for
| the thing 1 was agoin' to do would
have ruined me-
my voice got down pretty near
az v saw Harry after that
I SAYS, until last night
"She stopped quick, an 1 went
| on a step or two.
"'My father?' she said.
ayes 1 says, not looking up.
Harry, Just as he looked that morn
ing in Louisville-only he was
troubled
"Then 1 turned on her like I was
maxim a clean breast of it. / had
the tears startin' and the right
choke-up, an it wasn't all jury
dope. 1 didn't want that heavenly
angel fouled over by little West
ridge. 1t balled the heart out of me.
"fNow, Missile 1 said, you've got
to help me even this thing up. L
don't know nothin' about your af-
fairs-I don't want to know. But
you've got to take that same bunch
of money and chance it on m
thing
"She shook her head. and I had a
bad hour. All along that sea-path,
with the fog lodging in and out. ]
kept right at her; / never lost a
step. I was old and rich; money
was nothin' to me.
"'But what should I do with the
money!" she said, finally, in a sort
of queer hesitation.
"'Ill tell you that tonight /
answered." The huge creature
seemed to relax, as though there
had been a vital tension in the mere
memory of the thing.
THAT cleaned up my end of it"
he continued, land after dinner
when it was getting a little dark, l
limped over to the church. l had
the last copy of the Financial Reg
lister in my hand. I stopped in the
door. The church was closed and il
was dark, but 1 didn't need any
light for the business 1 come on.
Governor I says, the rest of
this jobs up to you. I'm agoin' to
open this magazine here in the dark
and the first thing that's advertised
the top of the page on the right
hand side is the thing I'm agoin' to
tell her to put the coin on-Ready.'
I says, go to it, and / folded back
the page and went over to the
hotel.''
Again he paused.
II got a jolt when I saw the page.
1t was some sort of Canadian gold
mine, so fishy that the letters had
scales on 'em. But I says to my
self, That's the Governors busi-
ness an I it out. put it into an
envelope with the draft, and left it
at the desk for her."
ne paused.
"The next morning 1 slid out.
months later the plague
me. 1 crippled into England,
asked her to hide me while l died,
and she put me here"
And the gold Stock" I said. "I
suppose it turned her out a for
tune?"
The energy came back for an in
into his voice.
1T was so rotten" he replied,
that the encouragement Of Cana
da summoned all the victims to
meet with him for a conference in
Montreal"
At this moment I caught the
sound of a motor entering the gates
at some distance through the park.
The huge paralytic also heard it,
and his attention was no longer to-
ward me. 1t al on the great coach
colored limousine drawing up at the
end of the avenue of ancient beech
trees.
1 looked with him.
A girl helped out by footmen
stepped down into the avenue, car
peted now with the yellow autumn
leaves. Even at the distance it was
impossible to mistake her; her
charm, her beauty, were the wonder