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CHARTER VII.
HOWN WITH THE LANDLORDS.
“We have hum',' sail Uncle Joseph, re
gard iu>> hi> first glass of giu and water with
disrontented looks, ‘*wo Invo now, Maria,
j lieen members of the j*rarnge—actually of
the jieeragtt—the peerage of the realm—for
nearly u week. Vet I see no change.”
“No one hn* called,” paid her ladyship. “I
have put on my l»est gown evory night. But
; no one lias thought lit to take the least notice
1 off us.”
I “Where i>
rolies? Whe
i collar!*’
! 'i he doctor silently filled his pipe and went
on reading his evening paper, taking no
notice of these complaints. Vet it did strike
him a* strange that a man should succeed to
a peerage w ith so little fuHs.
! “No message from the queen,’’ Uncle
Joseph continued; “no officer of the house of
| lords with congratulations from that august
body; no communications from iToviucia!
grand lodge; no deputations from a loyal
tenantry; no ringing of liolls Marla, in
the whole course of my ex|ierience among
the tilled classes 1 never before saw such a
miserable succession.”
! ‘ Miserable, indeed,” said her ladyship.
“The reason,” continued Undo Joseph, “is
! not ditlicult to And. They are waiting,
banquet.
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lo anything without it. Why, if you initiate
‘by clerk you have a banquet over
, raise a man to the dazzling height
third, you inu*t celebrate theocca-
u banquet. Aud here we succeed
o the rank of viscount, and' not even a
of champagne- Gin and water in thn
of the Right Honorable the Viscount
I'liero was a full attendance of the houra,
to s|x*ak. The Honorable Hyacinth was
ssout; the Honorable Noruh, with Mr.
| Hugh Aquila, had just returned from an
I evening walk among the leafy groves of
j Camden Town’s one square; the Honorable
I Terry, lairry m.d Rat were, as usual,
| quarreling over a draught board,
I “Well, my dear,” said the doctor at last,
j “what did you expect?’
I “I ex | tec ted recognition. I thought that
our brother p ers would call lipo.i us.”
| “What have wo received. Maria.'” said
: Uncle Joseph. “The outstretched hand of
brotherhood.' Not at all. Cold neglect.’’
“Wo may belong to the Irish peerage,’
I -aid the doctor, “but, i erne ruber, if you
I please, that J am still, and am likely to re
main to the end of the chapter, a general
practitioner, with a largi practice and a
small income, of Cain den Town. It will be
a prom! distinction, no doubt, to reflect that
| we are the only titled people in Camden
Town. Well, we must lie contented with
the pride. You may add to the alderman s
robe, my dear, your coronet, when it comes
along.”
I “We ought,” said Uncle Joseph, firmly,
“to assert ourselves. Thera ought to lie a
banquet.”
“At the funeral to-day,” the doctor con
tinued. * there w as not a single mourner ex
cept myself and Datf and Hugh who went
with ns. Not one. Tho old lord srams to
have outlived all his friends. He left no
will, so Hi at all the property, whatever it is,
entailed or not, should have come to me,
but for an accidental circninstauco which
! you ought to learn at once.”
I “As thw old lord is buried,” said Uncle
; Joseph, * tho time has come for action; of
I courso it would ba uu-eomly to rejoice be
fore the- funeral. Now. if my udvice is
thought to bo worth anything in this fam
ily—tho advice of a man who has shaken
hands familiarly, yet respectfully, with
earls, nnd sat next to a prince at a bunquet—
•is that wo should, without any delay, issue
invitation* to a largo number of our noble
and illustrious brother peers for a banquet
in robe* and coronets at the Freemasons or
tho Criterion. I will myself sufierintetid
tho banquet, inspect tho menu—at this time
of tho yeur, what with lamb, duckling, green
pens, saluufti, whitebait, turtle, young |k>
tatoes, early apricots aiul strawberries, the
banquet will R* unusually' choice—choice
and toothsome. As for the chain|Mtgue—
ah!’ ho gasped, and drunk off the whole
glass of gin and water, “I w ill order it. Do
not lie in anxiety about the champagne.
Maria. It shall be my care. When tho
banquet is over, your health—you will l>e in
the chair, doctor—shall l>e taken after tho
loyal toasts. 1 will inytelf respond for tho
craft. Then we will give up this house,
which is moan for a viscount’s town resi
dence, and we will move to a mansion in tho
west, where Maria can take that place in
society which she wat born to adorn.”
Ho spoke m> confidently, with so much en
thusiasm, that her ladyship murmured, and
eveu Norah wui carried away with the
thought of the family greatness. A largo
buu-e in tba West End, with nothing for her
father to do, aud society—though it is not
certain how she understood that word—
scorned fittin* ae.onipnuiuient* to a title.
The doctor listened gravely. Then he
laughed.
“It is too ridiculous,” he said. “I nm
Viscount Co isilla All vou boys and girla
are hono. allies. Aud. except for your
iiiotlier 1 ' money, there isu t a p.mnv in the
world lor any of us. What do you say,
Hugh;’
•‘(.should let tho title fall into abeyance,
said Huge. “I don’t know whv, but a title,
without la id or money, seems rrntemptiblo.
1 should giw it nil ”
“Never!” said Uncle Joseph, with de
cision. * Hive up a title? Hive up a thing
that thousands are envying an t longing
of.erf 11 row away a title? You must l>.*
mad, young men ' Actually refuse to enjoy
your title? V<iii might as well go to a ban
quot and pi« tho champagne. But it shows
your , ignorance. You have never »o.*n
among lords and honorable*. V ou don t
know, young mail—vou cannot know what I
mean. You are only a young doctor. Be
humble. Don’t presume to advise, sir, ou
matters connected with rank and society.”
“I know what Frtence mean*.” *al«l IInull, "and
thutV enough »<>r me. Tltli*! Who would not rather
make a name for hlniHolf than lx?or a title!"
, "I-ct ip* look ut Hu* tiiliiR practically. children,"
niM the doctor. "I shall never make u iibine lor my-
self unless I mak - a name as a great donkey. As for
the title, then. If rank allows me to enlarge my
praetlei*, ami makes • better class of patient** m ud
for me. and enables me to ride In a enrriuge Instead
or trudging along the strwla, and to double nil the
bills, and to give up making up my own iiiimIIcIii -s.
ami to have a ba'aii'V at the linnk, wliy then I will
Kindly sport the title. But If It only makes u-
ndloulous, let u.t give It up. A coronet «»n the door
of utergi t v, wher ? medicine* are made up by the
iioh^ord within, does seem rldlenlous; doesn’t Itf
Uliele .losepli shis>k Ids head.
"Ilnnk." he said, "can never lv ridiculous. Itut.
If voa feel It lliat wav. follow my advice; give up
tin; surgery, fake a house at the West Knd. and go
ppens, to think
„ v _ _ he pleases. «>f
is»ume. ut first I thought there must Is-a great for
tune with It. 1 alwa - thought that l**er* were very
r.eh men. un i I thought it would ».edelightful to* *>
him n-st ng a little from his hard work, and n-d to
he afraid any iwti’ «>f tu • iincht ‘udl."
The d(K*tor kUwii bin dau^litvi.
Chldreu. ' In said. I nave a eonfcaslon to make.
“Children;' he said, “/ haven confession
to nial:e '
“If I had been consulted—'* said TT nele Joseph.
“No doubt." the doctor inti r.-npted him. "Now
hear my Three year* ago i happened to l»e
very much in want
ery
far i
pavli
pi Li le |
troubled for niouey that 1 eousulted Mr. Murridge at
to the liest way of getting a loan. I then learned,
for the first time In m.v life, that my second cousin
ship to an Irish lord might Ik* turned into money.
Mr. Murridge thought It was worth exactly twr
hundred pounds, aud for the two hundred pounds,
without which I could not have sent you. Duff, *o
university, I sold my reversion.”
•There was some estate, then?" paid Hugh, curious
ly. **i und -i stood there was nothing.”
"There was this small estate of -1 do not know how
mauv acres, and Ido not know what It Ls worth, ot
whether the tenants have paid any rent.”
"And Mr. Murridge -Dick's father—bought you*
reversion?" said Hugh. "It seems a very strange
thing for I)in* to do.”
“His business lies among genealogies and family
histories.” said the doctor, "lie found out what I
ought to have learned before signing and selling—
that mv cham-es were really very good Indeed—al
most a certainty.”
"Then," said Hugh, "Mr. Murridge thinks ho Ic
going to be the landlord, I suppose?"
“Certainly; lie has bought me out."
“Father," said Noruh, “you did it for the best. II
was for us- for DafT—thnt you took the money.
What does It matter? Let us all go on Just as before.
Hugh won't mind; will you, Hugh?”
"No, 1 don’t mind. Noruh. Hut I venture to make a
little prophecy, doctor. Mr. Murridge will never be
owner of the Clnnsllla estates, even If they consist of
nothing lint a foilr-neru field of bog. He thinks he
has got them, Inti he may find that ho lias over
reached himself.”
"If 1 were consulted,” wil l UDele Joseph, "I should
invite the tenants to u ”
Again he was Interrupted. This time It yvhs thr
la-1 post of the day, which brought u letter In a
great blue envelope, add roused great, sprawling
hand, ns If written with a pitchfork: “For the Hon
oral»li- Lord Viscount I'lonsilla. somewhere In Ism
*'It is the llrst recognition of rank." said her lady
ship. “Open It und read lt«|Uiek:y. Perhaps It U u
missive from the queen—a missive of congratula
tion.”
"Ur an Invitation from the Jord chancellor,” said
Uncle Joseph. “A summons Uo doubt to a banquet
on the Wo ilsuck.”
The doctor opeued It curiously. It did not look
somehow, like an invitation, it wus more like a
bill. The writing of the letter was even Yvorse—
more spraw ling—than that of the address:
the signal for your bloody end. No rents. No evic
tion. Komember Lord Mountmorrea. We will have
vengeance, lllood and revenge. You shall die.
Is.ok at the picture. Think of the Whltelgiys and
the Invincible*. Death! Death! Death! KYcryniau
has got his gun, and we are sworn. Death! Deuth!
Blood and death! Down with landlords!”
Ami at the lsittom, rudely designed, were a coffin,
a guu. a skull, effectively aud feelingly delineated,
and tYvoerossbones copied from the churchyard.
The doctor handed this cheerful epistle to Ids wife
w’itli a laugh; but no one, even In the secure retreat
of a fastness of Camden Town, quite likes to have a
letter sent to him with a promise of murder If he
dares to enforce his rights, and the picture of u
c< Ain ami a skull.
•Murridge, I suppose, has sent them all notices to
pay up,” he said. "This ls u cheerful situath
nd la
i bullets. I
think
> get the credit for
to find
cuts.” said Hugh, "they don't know where
‘Somewhere In I Ain don’ Is a little too
for an evicted Irish tenant.”
"As their landlord,” said Uncle Joseph, "you should
gain their loyalty—by a banquet.”
“Well, children.” the doctor continued, disregarding
this suggestion, "you have now heard the whole
story. What an- we to do? Shall I alter the plate on
the door? shall I attend ray patients, at anything I
can get a visit, In my coronet ? shall we Invite the
o Camden Town? What do you
, lb*n'?'
flier
•dleal st ti
money, there will lie no fun with the title.''
"We will go on." said Norah, "Ju»t as before, only,
of course, with a little more pride. You are pleased,
Hugh. are. you not, that you are engaged tonreul
lady, by Idrth, ami the daughter of a viscount If he
choose* to take the title? It Is always best to be
long to a good family.”
"Yes," wild the doctor; “Creeping Hob was ”
“Hush!" said Norah. "I will not hear any stories
about my gteat great grandfather. There are ul-
ways scandals In every old family. I prefer to be
lieve thnt they have all been the soul of honor -
ever)’ one of them.”
“You art; disappointed, my dear?” Tho doctor
turned to his wife.
•t)h!” she cried, bursting Into tears, with the revo
lutionary letter In her hand. “If we are to he inur
dered In our beds, and all for nothing, with no
money nnd no land, let us say no more about It. But
it Is a cruel thing to give up your rank. And Just us
beginning to find It out. Why,
'Of.”
“Well," wild the doctor, "that Is settled, then. Too
title Is extinct. My children, you will, however, con
tinue to Is* as honorable as you can."
Before Hugh went to bed that night lie rend over
again e Idler which he had received that morning
from his mother. This was the conclusion:
“Amt now. my dear boy, you know the whole. If
you arc desirous of acting before the doctor allows
me to travel, go to my solicitors, Messrs. Ougur A
(bvensted, of Lincoln's Inn Fields. They have the
I tapers and know my secret. If It la not necessary,
wait until my arrival. I expect to be released in a
week or so, If things go well. Do not, however, movo
in tho mutter without consulting them, and 1 do not
think It Ik prudent totell anyone—even Norah -until
you have consulted them. It Is vexatious to conceal
anything from her. still, have patience for a week."
“I don't think,” said Hugh, "that the doctor will
mind much. Murridge, I take It. will be astonished.”
CHARTER V11L
TilK tiKAVM OK HONOR.
Let this chapter be printed within a deep
black border. L tt it bo in mourning, l^et it
be illustrated with all the emblems which
can bo gathered together of dirtgrace and
cii-honor. The Valley of Topbet, with its
baleful tiros, may furnish a frontispiece—
there may be funereal cypress, henbane,
deadly nightshade, und the poisonous
flowers of marsh and ditch may adorn the
coiners <f it* pages. There should be a
drawing of Adam turned out of Paradise,
with portrait)* of all tho most celebrated
renegades turncoats and traitors, and tho
most eminent sneaks in history. For a man
may do ninny things wicked and base and
yet find forgiveness; ho may drag his name
in the dust, and trample on his self-respect,
and give a rain to his passion and yet be
welcomed back into tho world of honorable
men. But the thing which Dick Murridge
did was one which can never be forgiven
him in this world save by tho girl to whom
he did thin wrong. And she, 1 think, has
forgiven him already.
He did it ou the Tuesday mornirtg, two
days before bis week expired. He spent the
whole of Monday in putting his case upon
pajsr in the form of a report. On Tuesday
he went into town liefore hi* father, nnd on
his arrival followed him into the inner office
with a roll of paper in hi* hand.
“1 think, sir,’ he raid, ‘'that I have done
all I <nu in this matter. 1 have put down
on paper what l have to tell you—for your
private information.”
“Do you menu that, you have found the
thief and forger?”
“I think I have.”
‘•Think! 1 want you to be sure. And
what «!o you iiumu by talking of my private
information? If you’ve got the man, 1U
hood show you bow private I will keep the
information.'’
“If you will r« »d these patters ”
“Alterw’urd. Tell mo who did it.”
“Well, then. It was—none other—than—
your private uierk—Norah Cronau.”
Dick looked his father steadily in the face,
sjtenking slowly and deliberately.
“I don’t believe it!”
Mr. Murridge sprang to his feet and
banged the table with hi* list.
“Read these papers, then ”
“Dick, I don’t believe it! The thing is
im|H)ssiblo! Where are your proofs?”
“Read these jiapors.”
“Norah Urouafi! It cannot bo”’
Dick smiled, as one who is on a rock of
certainty and can afford to smile.
“What have you always told me, sir?
Never trust anybody. Every man is for
himself. Everyman has Hi* price. Every
body think* of uotbiug but himself. Very
well, then, remember these maxims before
you say that anything is impo sible. if you
will read tl^ee popeiw you will find ”
“Read the paper yourself. Lot me know
all that you can prove. Head the paper your
self. Quick!”
He threw himself into a chair aud waited
w ith angry light in hi* eye.
Everything happens ju the way we least
expect Hick had made up his mind that he
would lay the paper upon the table with
solemnity suitable jo the occasion, ami then
retire, leaving the docunicut to produce i s.
natural effect He further calculate l that,
alter reading tho paper, his father would
most likely send for him aud enjoin him to
say nothing more about the matter. That,
at least, was what lie hoped. But lie had
not expectM to be asked to read tho paper
aloud, and le* naturally hesitated. He bail
committed to writing an enormous lie, or
rather a chain ami series of lies—all strong,
massive, well-connected, forming together a
tnlo which, for cowardice and meanness,
never had an equal since the days when men
first learned to tell lies, swop yarns, invent
excuses and pu*s on the blame. Certainly it
would never have a superior. To write such
a thing, however, was one thing; to rwW it
calmly and coldly was another.
When Dick bad once mode up his mind
thnt escapo was only possible by one method,
lie gave bis whole thought und devotc l jhe
greatest possible pains to make tho narrative
complete in all its par:*, and impregnable at
every point. He wrote and re-wrote every
single sentence half a dozen times; ho read
it over and over again; he ex mined the
document critically; ho put himself in the
place of a hostile and suspicious critic; lie
even read it aloud, which is the very l est
way possible of testing tho strength of such
a document, whether from the credible and
the probable, or from the plausible and per
suasive, or from the pure y literary jioint of
view. Ho was not greatly skilled, as may lw
supposed, lu fiction considered as a tine art,
which is. j)crhaps,the reason why ho w as quite
satisfied in his own mind with his statement,
looked at from any point of view.
“Read it,” his father repeated. “Lot mo
hear what you have found. If it Ls true ’
Ho stop|>ed, becTUso he know not what he
should do if it were true.
Tho young man hesitated no longer. With
perfectly steady eyes, which met his father's
lonrlessly and frankly, nnd with brazen
front, and with clear, unhesitating voice, he
read tho thing he had inndo up.
“Before I begin this statement”—tho words
formod part of the narrative—“I wish to ex
plain thnt nothing but your express com
mand that 1 should investigate the case for
you would have induced me to write down
what I know about it. You will consider it
as, in part, a confession.”
Mr. Murridge looked up sharply and sus
piciously.
*Yes, a* you will presently see,” Dick re
pented. answering thatglauee, “a confos*ioil
When tho duty of taking up and investigating
this com; was laid upon me, my lips, which
would otherwise have remained shut, as n
pomt of honor, wore opened. If I did not
obey your command to the fullest extent,
innocent per-ons might Is* sus|ected and
even bo punished. 1 have, therefore, re
solved upon telling you ,all that 1 know,
whatever happens. And since I must writs
down the truth. I pray that uo further ac
tion may be taken in the case, and that this
most deplorable business may lw forgotten
und dropped, never to lw mentioned again.”
"Whit the devil do you mean by that?”
hiifather cried. “Tho busine-s forgotten!
Tiff matter allowed to drop! Do 1 look like
the man to forget such a tiling? No further
action, indeed! Wait, you shall see what
further action I shall take!”
Dick did not stop to press this jietitiou for
mercy.
"U is now four weeks,’’ ho continued, read
ing from tho paper, “since I had the misfor
tune—it was a great misfortune to me, and
I am very sorry that it happened—to ob-
serve, qiuto accidentally, a certain suspicious
circumstance which took place in your own
office. This circumstance caused me the
greatest uneasiness nnd suspicion at the
time, and has 11 led me with anxiety ever
sii*o. Of course, as you will immediately
understand, directly you spoke to me last
week mr suspicions turned to certainty. 1
was. ns usual, in the outer office, nnd 1 hiul
nothing to do hut to sit ami wait for nny
work which might 1)3 sent out The time
was a quarter pnst two. You were gone out
to you- dinner, and the boy was gone to liU
There was, therefore, no one at all iu the
II a co except myself. Before you wont oui
vou locked up your safe with your papers in
it. 1 know that, because, as you pa-)«d
through tho outer door, vou dropped tho
keys into your pocket. You left your own
Joor wide open. A few minutes afterwards,
to my astonishment, Norah Cronau came in.
Is your (at %r inf she asked, in a whisper.
1 asked her if she knew what time it was,
and whether she expected a regular man
like you to lie in at a quarter |>o*l two. She I
made no reply, but went iuto your ollhe
very quickly und shut the door. As she
passed mo I remarked that liar fa:*o was red
and her eye* looked swollen, as if site bad
bran crying. I dare say you yourself have
noticed that, for soAio time past, she has
been out of spirits?”
Mr. Murridge grunted; but wbat bo meant
is not known. •
“Hhe shut the door, but, as some times j
happens, the lock did not catch, and lli*
Joor stissl ajar. From the place whore I
was sitting i could see through the door,
and coni I catch something of what she wfiK
aUnit I was not curious, but I looked, and
l observed that she wa< tearing something
out of a liook This wa* such a strange
thing to do that it caught my eye. Why
should she ••ome to your oflico, when you
wore out. in order to tear leaves out of a
.l ook? It certainly seemed to Is* a hook of
mine kind, but from niv place 1 was quite
unable io s*o what it was, or why she was
(earing it up. Then she folded the leaves
very carefully, and. so far a* I could see,
put thorn in her jioekor. After a few minutes
die came out again. Of course I was, bv
this time, very curious indeed, but 1 asked
uo question*. A man does not like to seem
curious about u thing which lie has seen,
<o to speak, through a keyhole. I
notice* i, however, that her breath
was quirk, and that her hand trem
bled. And shb said a very strange
thing to me. ‘Dick,’ she said, ’when your
father conus back, do not tell him that I
came here. I only came to get something—
something which 1 forgot this morning,
nothing of any importance.’ She stam
mered a great deal while she said this. I
told her that it was no business of mine
whether she came or whether she stayed
aw’oy, beeanse 1 had nothing to do with her
or her work. 1 lien she laid her hand on my
shoulder and looked Into my face. ‘But
promise, Dick,’ she said. ‘You see we are
such old friends, you and I, ami I)aff is
your bo-om friend. Wo ought to bn able
to depend on you. Promise, dear Dick; say
that you will never tell your father that I
came to hi* office nny day when he wa* out
of it.’ 1 naturally promised. And she went
away. As soon ns slio wa* gone I went into
your office to find out wlimt she had been
rearing, if 1 could, l»c>mg still curious,
and not lest satisfied with myself
for having made that promise. There
were two or tfireo great books ou the
table, your genealogical book*. But she
would not lie likely to tear any of the leaves
out of them, because they are not the only
•opies. 1 looked about, therefore, and pres
ently, poked away under some papers, I
found your check liook lying on the table. I
took it up and examined it. I do not know
wliy, Itecuuse I had no suspicion of this kind
•f thing. What was my astonishment to
iiscover that six of the checks* had lieen
taken out of the liook! Six; they were
scattered here and there, not taken out in
i lump. Till*, of course, was in order to
lessen the rhanceof immediate discovery. I
never before know that you wore in tho
babit of leaving your cheek book out. This
was tho thing that I found. It was after
wards, w hen 1 bi*gau to think about it, tliut
I connected the leaves torn one of tho book,
and so carefully folded, with tho check
oock.”
Mr. Murridge’s face, which had Iteen at
first exjHictant and interested, was now a*
black as Erebus.
“Go on,” he said. “Get on faster. Let
ut linixh w ith this.”
*‘(7o on,” he said. “Oet on faster.
•J returned to my desk, aud considered
w hat was best to be done. Of course—I ad
mit. this freely—I ought to have gone di
rectly to you and iuformed you of my dis
covery. In not doing this I committed a
great error of judgment, ns w’ell ns a broach
of duty. For I should have considers I that,
when tho absence of the checks was discov
ered, it would l»o remembered that there
were only two persons—not counting tho of-
fl e boy—who had access to your office.
These were Noruh and myself. One of u*
must have taken them.”
"Why, no,’’ said Mr. Mufridge. “For it
cannot lie proved that no one came into this
office except you two. There i* tho office
boy; then* is the housokooper; there are any
number of people whom the liousekee|)er
may’ have admitted on the Sunday or in tho
svenlng; there is nothing to provn when I
left my check t>ook lying about. It might
have been lying on tho table all night, or
from Saturdny until Monday. I cannot ad
mit that the thing lies bolweeu you and
Norah Croaan ”
"Very well, sir; I am glad you think thnt
it may lie outside n& That, however, was
how 1 put it to myself, I confess.”
"You ought to have told me at once.
You find my chock book with six checks
torn out, and you did not tell mo. Were you
mnd?”
“Perhaps; but remember that I only saw
leaves, or what seem *d to be leaves, torn
nut an 1 folded up. It was not till after
ward. I repeat, that l su*iK*cted Norah of
stealing chocks. It was not till you told me
ot your loss that 1 really connected her with
those check*.”
“You ought to have told mo directly you
'aeanl of tho loss.”
“I con I'«* s again that 1 ought to have told
you. Well, 1 did not. '1 hat is All 1 can
sny. Fir.-t, I had |Missod my word to Norah
that I would not mention her visit. Next, I
was coni used aud liewilderod ou her ac
count. und then 1 was afraid of you.’’
“Oh, afraid of mo!”
“Yes, afraid of you. Norah has lieen your
favorite always, kougive her the confiden
tial work, ami me tho office drudgery. I
thought you would not believo me. Perhaps
I hoped tliut she would get off altogether.
But when you placed the whole case in my
band*, the first thing that forced itself upon
mo wa* tlmt the forgery must have been
sommftted by means of these very missing
checks.”
“Well, tho numix*!** prove that.”
“Ho that nothing was left to mo but to con
fess what I knew', aud to follow up tlmt fuel
i.s a clew.”
Dick sighed heavily.
*T wish' .tho task had been intrusted to
another in m. First 1 thought of going to
Calista anl telling b rt r everything. But
Norah is her water, so that It seeiiunl beat
to tell you all my.*elf. Perhaps Calista may
bo spared tlio puiu of ever learning this
dreadful thing. As for the actual forger, I
cannot yet M|teak. Hu* 1 have proofs ns to
the presentation of two cheeks out of the
tiva ”
“Proofs? Nothing but the dearest proofs
w ill satisfy me!”
"You shall t»e satisfied, then. What do
you think of this for one proof? Tho girl
doicnUsl by tho bank clerk a* having pre
sented one of the checks wus Norah herself.
For proof send for tin clerk when she is
here. He will Ini able to identify her. 1
daresav. That is my tlii|t proof. Now for
the sraond: The ‘young gentleman who pre
sented and cashed the oliack last Thursday
ut one o’clock was no other than her brother,
young Hyacinth Cronau—Daffodil. Ho
must have gone to the hank just ‘before one
o'clock, because ho came.here a few minutes
after one, anil we went out to dinner together.
We went toCro-by Hall und sat there till two.
Tho clerk, you know, gave one o’clock as the
hour, i have no doubt but ho will identify
Daffodil a* well. It will he perfectly easy.”
‘ The checks inay have been given to
them.'’
“By the actual forger? Very possible.
But in this ruse unlikely. Because who
would do it for them?''
“Go oa” The case was getting blacker.
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