The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-08-10

EdTTluStOu, Vi course.
you mean. down In Virginia"
Fortune favored the bold Ulysses
prOffered single condolences:
"Yas'm; my old father, he lived with
the Harringtons. They had elegant
big white house all full of red-satin
furniture. | loves grand furniture"
Then he was gone with his Snapshots,
leaving me with my thoughts and cata-
logue proof, which lasted me until late
that afternoon, when. true to form, Mr..
Roberts interrupted on the telephone.
"Are you busy?"
mo" | answered. also true to form.
Then | was kindly to come to Mr..
DarrOw's Office. Not once before In
nine years had been summoned to
the Presence. | wondered why Mr..
barrow should take the trouble to fire
me personally. but marched into his
cherrywood headquarters and faced
him and Mr.. Roberts with all the COM
posture | could muster.
"Ahl Miss Fuller?" said Mr.. OAR
row, as If he wasn't quite sure. "Sit
down. Now, in reference to that book
plate You know what l mean?"
81 think So" | murmured.
Miss Fuller showed considerable In.
telligence in that connection" inter-
rupted Mr.. Roberts.
"All Almy's efforts seem to have
been crowned with success" said Mr..
barrow, hastily. 81 have been glad to
exert my poor influence to obtain for
him the vacation he has long desired
to spend with his worthy aged parents
on their picturesque Maine island. |
would not see one who has eXerted
himself in behalf of the cause of JUS
tice and my house remain unre-
warded."
Then don't forget Ulysses % said [.
And, swearing both my astonished
hearers to secrecy, outlined Ulysses
epic of devotion, for such his whole
course of conduct during the previous
week had to be accounted. Without
analysing too closely the ethical
aspects of his delay in identifying Mr..
Grosvenor, it could be seen that it
had won a certain advantage for Julia,
Case and win his friendship for Mary
Grosvenor's daughter. For be knew
that Julia was also the daughter of
Miles Harrington, without doubt. II
the Harringtons had been his fathers
family" if, thirty-odd years before,
he had seen the professor, then a boy,
down in Virginia, he must have known
| Miles, too; and an old colored nurse,
long years a GrosvenOr retainer, who
| had tended both Mary GrosvenOr and her
| little daughter, had been sent home to
| Virginia for giving that child informa-
| ton that was to be kept from her.
| Far more important information, con-
| tided by that dying mother to. her old
nurse, must have gone the rounds of
| the log cabins in Eliot's Crossing, and
found its way north again to one who
secretly knew the gray-haired pro-
| fessor as more than one of the details
! of life in Darrow's
And finally, Ulysses, seeing the
| spring lancet under my desk that
| Thursday had undoubtedly recognized
! it in some way Exactly how, would
| never be known. Yet il might be
| safely assumed that his old father,
with the interest in bodily ills char
acteristic OF his race and class. had
| told Ulysses over and over again of
the fine young naval surgeon who once,
long ago. by means of strange little
brass box full of knives, had cured
him of pleuriSy. And it was the more
| likely that Ulysses had heard this
story frequently because this admir-
| able doctor was so strangely one OF
these no-'coCnt Grosvenors no Harring
ton retainer would have had use for.
| And so Ulysses, seeing the spring.
| lancet under the desk and knowing
the suspicion lowering over Julia and
the evil reputation of her grandfather
| had kept the secret in her defense.
''He must be rewarded" proclaimed
Mr. barrow, as | finished. Ills dis
erection has safeguarded the interests
of my house in aiding favorable out
come of the investigation. and he has
been loyal indeed TO the former bene-
factors of his family"
"He expects set of red-satin furnf-
ture," said l.
"He shall have 1t at once. Your in
teresting story, Miss Fuller, confirms
me in the desire have to discuss
! with you certain matter, since it
shows you have won esteem in widely
varied classes of sdciety-an asset, in
! deed. By the way, you have heard Of
the gratifying offer l have received for
Clarihew's 'Notes'?"
"NOt yet"
Magistrate Juddes will give six
hundred dollars for it. | let him have
| it for that figure; he desires it for a
special purpose. He was particularly
| attracted to it by the significance of
the substitute bookplate which you so
astutely inserted, that bearing the
motto Invictus.' most appropriate for
his political purpose. You understand
me"
"Quite."
81 think, Miss Fuller, you do ordi-
nary things rather WELL"
"Thank you."
| "Now, with my nephew's most graft
| flying decision to remain here on my
account, we shall unQuestionably be In
position to increase our interna-
! tional business through his connection.
He believes, accordingly, that 1t would
be well If a reliable and experienced
person could be sent to England very
shortly for six months, to observe the
conduct of Ashland's business, so that
we might get their point of view as
he is getting ours. Now, how do you
feel about it? You understand me?"
Captain Ashland's judgment is ex-
cellent, am sure" / replied cannily,