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A fi.ost Key.
CHAPTER I.
Edgar Hrnton had made a high
ly important discovery, and one
that troubled httn. He was a sur
geon, and one given to examining
hearts. For n full hour, in the
$
gathering summer twilight of the
Park avenue, he had applied his
sternest faculties to the testing, in
another sense, of hi? own. The
decision to which, very unwillingly,
he came was that his suspicions of
the past threo months were well
founded. He was in love. The
thrill which had gone through him
as he clasped Kate Gerrow's band
on leaving her uncle’s gate every
evening pointed in that direction.
The expansion of soul and the ex
hileration of mind which he con
tinually experienced in her pres
ence, the longing that eften seized
him in his moments of professional
disgust and weariness to feast his
eyes, if only for an instant, on
Kate’s bonny face, all drove home
the unwelcome conviction.
In the course of his final turn
along the broad path between the
whispering poplars Edgar formed
a resolution. Entering Brixby he
encountered the very friend he had
desired to consult.
Mr. Treut was a solicitor, many
years the young medical man's
senior, and his only confident in
all the country side.
“If you are disengaged for ten
minutes or so, Mr. Trent,” said
Edgar, “J should like to have a
talk with you about Mr. Gerrow’s
niece.” %
“I am entirely at your servico.
You are smitten by a great appre*
ciation of Miss Gerrow's charms. I
have seen it coming a long time.”
Edgar smiled a little sardonical
ly in the dimness.
“It’s a lawyer's business to be
farsighted,” he said. “I have
found it out now—the fact of which
you speak—and lam afraii only
just in time.”
A harshness was in his tone
which surprise the listener.
“I do not understand,” said Mr.
T rent.
“Why, I mean that, had the dis
ease gone further, I might have
proved unable to overcome it, as 1
mean to do now.”
“You astonish me mere and
more. Miss Gerrow is beautiful,
of good bnth, and well educated.
She is an heiress into the bargain;
and if she cares for you, and her
uncle consents, what possible ob*
stacle can intervene ?”
“You have said,” returned Ed
gar, moodily, “she is an heiress.”
“The lawyer bit his lips lo keep
from a loud explosion of misplaced
merriment,
“The very thing, that, whether
she were pretty or plaiu, would
make her quite an attraction to
most suitors.”
“I am aware of it. But I am
not like the majority. lam poor,
my prospects are barren enough;
all the world would say I was for
tune-hunting—marrying for money
if it came to a marriage. She
might learn to thmk so too, and
that I could Dot bear. I have
seen plenty of this already—in my
own family.”
The concentrated’pathog of the
last sentence, and the involuntary
6igb which concluded it, touched
the solicitor. His meditated words
of bantering remonstrance were not
uttered.
“What shall you do, then ” he
asked.
“Shun the danger, fight the
temptation, work the harder. I
cannot run away as in other cir
cumstances I might bo tempted to
do; my living lies in Brixfcy. But
you can help me considerably in
tho struggle, if you will/’
“I ! flow ?” i
“When you see me running any
risk of a tete-a-tete with Miss
Gerrow and you can possibly in
terfere. do so.”
“And make you hate me for it.
I will not promise.”
“I shall not hate you—l shall
be very grateful. I must meet
her frequently at tho houses of
mutual friends. You will be ablo
to make me your debtor in the way
I say.”
The route the pair had taken
brought them at this point within
the cordon of habitation again.
With a few more words of less
special interest they parted for the
night.
CHAPTER 11.
As fate would have it, a week
later he was thrown into Kate
Gerrow's company even more con
stantly and more intimately than
before. Mr. Gerrow wa9 taken
suddenly ill. Edgar had to attend
him and to labor hard to ward off
an attack of probably fatal
apoplexy.
They were a lonely couple, tho
wealthy, eccentric owner of Brixby
Lodge and the fair young girl who
was reputed his heiress. Kate wa9
an only child, an orphan. Neither
she nor her uncle hal any kinsfolk
in the neighborhood. Cousins,
Kate believed she had somewhere
in the north; but there hal been
an estrangement in the family and
these she had never seen.
“Is it anything dangerous. Mr.
Hrnton ? My uncle will recover,
will he not ?” Kate asked, as after
a careful examination of his patient
Edgar stood for a moment or two
in the wide, old-fashioued hall.
“I sincerely trust so, Miss Ger
row,” he replied; of course. I dare
not disguise freon you that there is
risk—grave risk that is inseparable
from such cases; but I see not the
least reason for despair. Pray do
not worry yourself unnecessarily.”
•‘My uncle is the only relative
I have living in the whole west of
England,” she said. “You will
not conceal his real condition from
me at any time, I beg, Mr. Arn
ion,” she subjoined.
“Na, Miss Gerrow. I will bo
quite frank, although it is medi
cal privilege to be discreet, you
know. But you will need a train
ed nurse, the work will be too del
icate for ordinary "servants and too
wearying by far for you. May I
send you one from the 7/jlstcad
Infirmary ?”
‘lf you think that will be the
best course to take. • But I shall
certainly wait upon my uncle prin
cipally myself.”
Hod so Kate did. And day by
day in his visits Edgar Arnton
met her and fell more deeply in
love. Not that he abandoned in
any degree his determination tote
frain from becoming Kate’s suitor.
That resolve was as firm ns ever
He simply elected to drift with
tlio tide.
The patient gradually recovered,
and bore grateful testimony to
Edgar’s professional skill.
The mend was not for long,
though, a message in the dead of
night some few weeks after took
Edgar hurriedly away to Brixby
Lodge, to find that another seizure
had proved fatal.
Kate’s grief was intense Edgar
must have appeared cold and dis
tant in the dark days before her
uncle’s funeral, for he new felt
himself compelled to keep down
his sympathy with an iron hand
and to breathe condolence iri the
most conventional of phrases. But
for so doing he felt morally sure
that his vow of personal stlenee
would have been irretrievably
broken.
But in the course of time an odd
rumor reached him. The old man’s
will had been read, and Kate was
not an heiress after all. With n
chaos of conflicting emotions with
in his breast, Edgar called on Mr.
Trent and learned the truth.
“The document is dated ten
years back, before Miss Gerrow
came to live with her uncle,” said
the solicitor; “there is no doubt as
to its gonuineness. Every one
thought he had made a later one—
I did mvself—but nono can be
found beside this. I suppose he
put the business off, as so many
people do, until it was too late.—
The property all goes to a wealthy
Lancashire manufacturer.”
“How does Kate—Miss Gerrow
take it ?”
“As quietly as you may guess. Some
girls would have been almost killed by
the disappointment, but not she. You
had bi tter go up and see her; she is
not an heiress now Indeed, she II
have barely sufficient to live upon, un
less this cousin does something for
her."
Elgar took his advice and went up
to the desolate great house the same
afternoon. Some commonplaces pass
ed and then that old, old story burst
forth which somehow alwrys seems to
me far too sacred to be written in de
tail. Edgar made full confession. Bnd
not in vain.
“The saddest experience of my
youth,,' he said, “came through mar
riage for money, aud through misplaced
confidence. /ery early I vowed that
that, mistake should in no shape ever
be mine; that nobody should ever
throw fortune-hunting of that kind in
my teeth. And yet —with a smile of
infinite content —"I am not certain,
Kate, after all. whether love would not
have beaten me in the end.”
‘T hope so," the maiden answered,
shyly.
CHAPTER 111.
There was a hale at Rrixby Lodge,
and in due course one of the Lanca
shire manufacturer's sons, who had re
ocntly married, came down aud was ins
stalled as his father’s representative
Edgar Arnton had arranged that
Kate Gerrow should reside in London
with his sisters, until such an interval
had passed as etiquette prescribed. At
the sale he was a large purchaser, and
poor, as by comparison, he had once
styled himself, the house he furnished
was one of the best in the village.
Wedding and honeymoon were both
over, Edgar had just came iu from his
day's rouod of visits, and was standing
with his wife at the window, gazing
out at the fast lulling snowflakes.
Suddenly there was a crash behind
that caused them to look rouod. A
Persian kitten, gamboling mischievous
ly on the top of an escritoire, had
knocked down the plaster figure- of an
an'ique cupbearer. The fragile article
of vertu wa3 broken into a dozen frag'
ments, amidst which a tiny silver key
revealed itself.
‘•There is where tlie key of uncle’s
Japanese cabinet went to, then,” said
Kate; “the hand and arm of the image
must have been hollow, and the key,
once pot into the cup, slipped through
into the interior."
‘•Odd. certainly," answered Edgar;
"let us try if it is the one.”
He went out, and from the next room
fetched a small, inlaid oahinet of ex
quisite workmanship. The key fitted
at once.
‘ I was sure it would. I kuew it
again at first sight, said the lady. “It
is fortunate wc waited and did not
trouble to force the box; that would
inevitably have spoiled it. I doo t
suppose there is anything in the cas
ket, though.
“Ob, but there is!” ejaculated Ed
gar, as at that instant he poised up the
delicate lid and caught sight of a tight
little roll of paper.
Kate watched in siTcnt surprise; Ed
gar slowly undid the bundle, a shrewd
suspicion of what he barf found flashed
upon him and making his ordinary
firm, white fingers lv>l and bungling.
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARf
*lt is uncle's real will, his last and
legal will, I should say, rather,” said
Edgar with a gasp, “found just where
he might have been expected to have
placed it. and where srarehefe might
equally have expected to iii’ss it. • Quite
a wonder I bought the cabinet I”
And then lie read slowly, till the
full moment of the discovery had been
realized by both brains, how lands and
houses and money snugly invested in
consuls had all been devised, without
reservation or qualification, to .Air
Gerrow's beloved niece Kate, “the com
panion of his old ago, and the faithful
guardian of his interests.”
“I)i spite all precautions you harp
married an heiress, then, Edgar," said
Kate, merrily; “the pity of it is it's
quite too late in the day to disown hpr
now.”
“As if I emild possibly wish to!”
Mr. Trent laughed likewise.
“All’s well that ends well,” fie sod.
lie was speedily put in possession of
the recovered document, acquainted
Mr. Mudbury with the circumstances,
and convinced the manufacturer how
futile it would he to contest his cou
sin's claim. In a very brief space the
Lancashire gentleman returned in dis
gust to his own district. Brixby Lodge
became the residence of the Arntons
and their children.
Both hu-band and wife treasure the
once lost key above its weight in gold.
Hut for its opportune disappearance
two loving souls might have remained
apart.
An insane girl in Rochester gets out
of bed at midnight and goes to Work
sawing wood in the hack yard., 'lf she
would, in addition to this, turn her at
tentinn to writing editorials, collecting
aecnnnfs. keeping books, ete., we wd\*ld
marry her,yes, even if we had to Cwirmit
polygamy and subsequently suicide.
Avery old lady on her death f>ed>
in penitential mood, said: ‘I have beco
a great sinner more than eighty years*
and didn’t know it,” An old colored
woman, who had lived with her a long
time exolaimed, ‘'Laws, I knowed it all
the time.’
An exchange has an article on "bow
to treat wives." This seems to remind
ns of th old rale about cooking a rah
bi<— 'first catch him.”
It is the mark of nßgreat mind to he
firm in matters of real weight and im
portance, and of weak ones to be in
flexible in little things.
—mm** *
“George,” asked the teacher of a
Sunday school class, “who, above all
others, shall you wish to see when you
get to heaven?” with a face brightened
up with anticipation, the little fellow
shouted, "Gerliah !”
(■ieorgiii Ituilromt 4'oiiipsiuy.
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