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ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 14 1886
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Our Story Corner
The Mortgage Money
"I am «ony you think mo bird, Junto, but
you lie unreasonable. It in noir two year*
•luce I gave yon notice that I moot cull iu the
money, end you know you have only paid me
half a j car’s Interest since.”'
.The speaker, George Bry mer, was a plea rent
cherry-looking manor about forty-two yean
«f age, with curly hair and a short crisp bsanl.
Be was seated at a table covered with papers,
in a little three cornered office, scarcely large
enough to bold more than two or three per*
ions besides himself and hie table. Hero he
annon need himself to the publle as land agent,
auctioneer, and valuer, transaoted all the bas
inets of a lawyer that could be done by one
not actually a member of the profession, and
generally undertook every kind of awenoy re
quired by the mixed population of the little
village or town of Alverstoke.
The man whom he addressed appeared to be
about thirty years old, and hia short, rather
thick set fltore was dressed with something. ,
of the knowing smartness of a woll-to
young farmer. Bin hair and complexion were
light, tod be had altogether in his rather
hsndsome fsoe an air of feebleness and vaccll-
Jation. His features Just now were over
shadowed by the anxiety that had brought
him to Ur. Brymor*s office.
In explanation of Ur. Brymor’s words, It
mgst he stated that tome five years previously
Bo had advanced toBarte the sum of XJ30,
secured with interest by a mortgage on Harte'a
farm and lands. It was about a demand for
the immediate repayment of this loan that
Harie bad come to Brymer’s office this morn
Ing. Be was seated in front of the table, look
hag very despondent, as ho replied to Brymtr’t
"Well, anyway, you can’t get blood out of a
•tone.”
’That’s true,” said Brymer, "but you can
get money out of a good security.”
Harte'a face darken od. "Do you really mean
far sell me up then, a man that you call your
friend!"
”Uy dear feUow,” said Brymor. “you are
talking neither reason nor justice. Yon know
that when I lent you the money I was at some
i two yean. Until now I have never bother-
ed you for It; but now I really must havo It te
makeup the purchase money for Flemmings.
"Ah!” said Harte, “I heard you wore Info
that. And so, I suppose, I am to bo sserifleed
In order that you may got this placo a bar'
gain.”
"I need not answer 1—.
"Business Is business. If I could lay my hands
on any other money, so as to give you a little
mere time, I would gladly spare you "tin an
noyance for old acquaintanceaake; but I think
yon ought not to expect me abeolutely to
forego my plans and intereete for your con
venience. Besides, I can’t help believing
that wbatovortlmo yon have, tbero will bo
just as much difficulty at tho uud Ifltiitt
is now.” -
After a short alienee—during which Jimes
Harto stared moodily athls bootaasha flicked
them with hia rldlng-whlp—Bry;
tinned:
“Why In the world can’t you get some of
your fileudstoadvsnco you. tho money snd
tako off the mortgage? I'll make it as easy as
lean. I don’t want to put you to lnconvoa
tenet. But there really must ho no mistake
way or auothorl am bo
y thii day two mouths.”
about it. One.'
have the money
Bar to rose to go, saying, "Well, If you must,
yon most, I snpposo; but I didn’t think yon
would have screwed mo up so. confoundedly
shstjp at the last. It’s very hard upon a fel-
Brymer waa really distressed as ha shook
hands with Harto, and said; “Depend upon It,
I am sparing yoD and will spam you all I cm,
but if a man wants. money, where Is he to go
except to those who owe It to him? You mutt
manege it. Good-bye.’’
George Brymor bsd risen, by dint of ehrewd.
nets, Industry and integrity from the position
of copying clerk in the office of Messrs. Hey-
dorn, the solicitors of D > to his prassnt
independence. By great frugality hs had
gradually accumulated a few hundred
pounds, investing them, hern and thereon
good snd available security—such, for instance,
aa the mortgages upon James Barto’s farm of
Baechlelgb. A very tempting opportunity
was now offered him to bny the email estate
known is Flemmings, at a considerable advan
tage. Be had often looked npon it with long
ing ayes, but hitherto it had not been within
hit reach. The present occasion, however,
promised him the realization qf all that far
many years ho had been laboring for. Ho
desired to give to his wife snd bis two sons a
place as well as a name, in the neighborhood
where he had atriven and prospered. It wae
bat a modest ambition after ali; bat it Is some-
thing to eay inita favor that, in hia long
straggle to realise If,, he had never done
anything the thought of which could mar
the rijoyment of hia success. Alt tho
people of Alveratbke wished well to Brymor.
Be bad never been sharp or grasping, or
unwilling to oblige; snd blsgood fortune,inch
as it wss, wss regarded with pleasure snd sym
pathy. It Is possible (hat then might net have
been the same cordial feeling for him if hti
success bsd bees more considerable; but on
that we need not (peculate. The bet which
we wontd notiee is, that no. ooa had a ward of
disapproval to utter when hit Intention to
purchase FIcmmingt was madi public.
Becchleigh farm, the home of James Harts,
had been left by their father, Dulet Harte, Co
James and hit elder brother John. James was
Just el age when blf father died, and tha two
Brothers did sot bavo any great incests with
their fsrmlsg speculations. in fact, Boeehlelgh
required considerable management and econ
omy to make it rtmaeeraUve, and neither
of the brothers was a good Illustration of these
virtues. About three years after the death of
old Daniel, John had been indneed, by an
oiler from a schoolfellow who had emigrate 1,
to throw np his interest In the property, in
order to go end take charge of o large sheep
farm in Australia. For this purpuo it had
been tecesssry to relae some x >00 to equip
him for the voyage. With this responsibility
James had been glad to saddle the eiUte, so
as to make It entirely his own. Oj bis
brother’s leaving he had married a young girl
from D , without mosey, end with very
little of the training anitel for a farmer'*
wife. One little girl had been born to them,
when! Mrs. Harto made an exeats for no-
gleet lug many of her other domestic duties;
eo the household, email aa It was, was comfort-
less snd slatternly. Personally James
Baits was math liked in the village,
as a good-tempered, free-handed young
fallow: bnt the old people shook
their bead! athli marriage and his farming,
and said that it “wanted Dannal to keep that
farm together. The yenng on ad toon split
it apart.”
Beechleigh was about a mile and a half from
Alverstoke. After the interview that hai beea
recorded, It was noticed that Jsaes Barte
■ecmed to spend mush mors of his time on Fie
road between the two pieces then he did at h s
farm. He had boaomo soar and Irritable also,
and altogether he was changing for the worse,
not only in temper bnt in appearance. When
he was In Alverstoke he was constantly seen In
the dirty den, called a shor, of a little tradee*
mao kuownas EliWIro-s disreputable area-
tore, hut supposed to be poseeeied of untold
wealth, Certainly there wu nothing either
In bis appearance, his habits, or hie
surroundings to Justify this supporltion. His
wizened figure wu always enveloped In a
lexg rusty black frock like a cassock. He hsd
a bnngry-Iooking eye, a thoroughly typical
nose, and hlsfaeo wss finished off downwards
with unclean, grizzly beard, covered with the
spoils of tha anuff with which he fresly in
dulged his nose.
Whet James Harte couM find to fnterost
him in the nsaal talk of this unattractive
being wu a mystery to everybody. The
cbcmlel’s shop indeed wu a place of frequent
general resort, u he wu believed to have
great skill In the preparation of all remedies
for honuhold sickness and disuters. Nay,
much lo the asgrr and disgut of Dr. Poyntz,
the regular practitioner JlViro had been known
(oprcscilbe and supply what had proved a
euia in some more serious tales.
Thoto that entered the shop, how
ever, when Harte wu there, never
beard anything that paaaed between
the two. They said that he wu gene
seated on the oounter, flicking hia boot w ..u
his whip, while the old man wu busy with his
pestle and mortar.
Timewu passing on, and Harte wu known
to have made nrunecetMtol applications In
riose qusrtera for the loan ortho cum he
quited. One evening Mr. Brymer had walked
over to Beechleigh, with tha purpose of saying
aklndly wordto him, that might enoonrago
him to throw a little more energy into his ef
forts . Hsrto received him with boisteronsex-
pnssiose of hie gladness to see him, ctllod hi*
wife down Immediately, and knitted on having
spirits and water, and pipes, introduced. By
teste and habit a very temperate man, Brymer
partook of theeevery sparingly; but he could
net help noticing with regret that Harte
drank vety freely, and that Mrs. Harte took
mote than could be desirable foreoyoun;
wtAnsn, On the subject of them
ing np the contents of tho box and making
thtm rattle.
“Be qnlet, Jemmy,” said he, '“Letthat
alone.”
"How mneh money have yon got In It,
t .ihei?" said Jemmy.
"There are more than seven hundred and
sixty pounds there," said Brymer, with con-
cclr-ns importance, u he watched theawetrnck
look of tne child at hearing of eaoh untold
wealth.
When breakfast wu over he took down his
satchel to consign to It hie precious charge,
and fcuud the contents of the cash-box con
siderably tossed ahont by Jemmy's manipula
tion*. He proceeded, however, to gather up
theuotea and the gold (him among the memo,
random hooka andpapera that it contained.
“Four hundred, (bur hundred and twenty,
four hundred and thirty, four hundred am
nga
[Ot
and appeared nervosily anxious to prevent
Mrs. Harte from giving any opportunity for
It by leaving the room. When at length Bry
mer plainly asked him whether he htdanj
prospect of being ready to inset theptymenl
by the time appointed, he anawerod hastily,
"Ob! that will be all right, saver fou,” and
pointedly changed the subject. Brymor loft
csrly,perplexed athls manner, anil deeply
pained it tha signs of coming degradation in
a yonng fellow that might have dono to well.
It need budly be uld that he had little faith
In Harte’s assurances; aod he contemplated
with grut sadness and pity the necessity
under which he-vru placed, or being the means
of bringing min upon tho little household.
One dey Brymer received a abort note, tell-
ling him, u much to his surprise as pleasure,
that Mr. Harte would call upon him the fol
lowing morning to settlo the matter of the
mortgage. He had been altogether unpre-
pars'd for this, but ho was nnill'octedly glad
to be spared tho necessity of any hostile action
stalest hia old acquaintance.
The next morning accordingly Harte ap-
peartd at the office, accompanied by a friend,
a dion well known in the village u a com
mercial traveller, occasionally stopping there
for a day or two, After the ordinary grut
Inga Harte said:
"So hero I am, yon see, after all; and I am
ready to nay off the mortgage. I took the
liberty of bringing Mr. Payntor as a witness
of the payment,” ,
“Well,” said Brymer good timporedly, “wo
need rfbt have troubled Mr. Faya ter. I rap
pee* It eonld have bun dose without a wit
ness; bnt still there Is nothing like being per
ilcnror.”
Hutu’s manner was excited, u If by tome
thing mors then the elation of being abl* to
msko the payment.
"Whit do yoa make tho amount?” laid he,
taking out his pockctbook.
"Altogether, with tho Interest, two hundred
end eeventy-fonr pounds and a few shillings,”
uld Brymer: bnt we’U make It even money
and eay two hundred and aeventy.”
"Thank yon.” uld Hart*. “I thought It
would he about Ural;" and from hia pocket-
book hs took a bnnul* of notes, which be
smoothed eat npon tbs table. ‘There,” he
eeid, "are one hundred, three dftlei, and on*
twenty,” and he handed.them over to Brymer.
“Well,” said Brymer, laughing ae ho looked
ot them, "I most say, yon’va get about as
dirty and discreditable a lot of notes as ever I
taw. Where In the world did yon pick them
up?”
"Ob! if yon don't like them, yon knew,”
uld Harte, with a quick flush, "give me them
' tek train. I wish I could only get a few
are like them.”
The notee were certainly exceedingly worn
and thio, aa well at brown with age; and they
bad to b* handled with gnat care lest they
should cornu In pieces.
Brymer signed the release, and the receipt
for the money, which wu attested by tho sig
nature of Paynter u a wltoees of the pay*
meat, and then ha handed over the cancelled
mortgage deed.
I’ll juet tako down tho number of the
note*,” raid be, as he rapidly copied them Into
bla pocket book.
“Thora’t nothing like being pertienlar,”
eeid Harte, with a short laugh. "Look here,
Brymer,” hs added In a harried and sager
nnuuer, “I’m Jost going to drive into D ;
can I he of any tervle* by paying that money
into the bank for you?”
"Tbank yon, no,” uld Brymer, somewhat
surprised, tu uy the truth, at the offer,
tell yon what, thi
"I’ll
. longh,” after a moment's pause
he we at on, "If you would not mind (earing
a noto for mo at Heydorn’e I should ba
obliged.”
“All right,” uld Harte, trying to' look iu*
different, end tho note was written and hand
ed to him; and as ho left the office,
Brymer locked the notes into his tin
cun-box. Ho had written to Hoydorn'e tu
appoint the next day for the completion of the
pnrcku* of Plemmlogs and tho payment of
tho deposit ef the purchase mosey. He was
t reatly pleated with the auruiog’e wore, aod
bought much better and more kiuJIy than
hehtd den* lately of James Harte.
’.'Yet tho poor wretch had been drinking al
ready tbia morning,” bo thought to hnuralf.
"1 wonder where bo got that money! I
shcnldn't fancy he conM hive had it from
Wire. However, It it no but loan of mine, eo
long u I've got it. Thank buiven for ill"
And brut himself to hit work agate.
When, after the day’s labors wan orar, ho
shut up his little office and passed into the ad
joining bouse when he lived, ho carried hia
cash-box with him u aural, hat wu ores more
cartful than usual to take it up with him Into
his room when he went to bod. Daring tho
evening he ut with hia wife, laying out bit
aimpto plane, and rejoicing with her hi tho
inspect of tbo hard-earned reward of hit
The next morning ho eamodowo, cub box
i bud, aid already, equipped for hia rid*
into D . White ho wu breakfasting, hia
Utile pet Jammy, a roiy lad of about nine
years old, began to amuse himeelf with shake
He called to hie wife to elt down quietly and
count over all tho mousy ebe could find la tho
cosh-box; hut she could only make It, u ho
had, four hundred and eighty pounds In notea
and about eleven pounds in gold and ailvor.
“What a a css yon keep in thle box, Georg* 1”
•he laid, upsetting into the flreplaeo a consid
erable quantity of dust, paper 11 ben and rub
bish, such u generally are found In recepta
cles of the hind.
Brymer wu lost In thought. He tried herd
to remember having done anything else with
tl e money, hut In vain. Ho hurried Into tho
cffics without a word more to his wife, and
searched every likely and nntlkely drawer
snd corner 1 or tho milling notes, but entirely
wltbontraeccem He felt bewildered and ex
cessively uncomfortable. “He certainly did
not taka them away again,” uld ho to himself.
Bnt be determined bo go and uk him, and
locking tho door or his offioe, ho started off at
a rapid walk to Beechleigh. Harto wu stand,
ing outside hia door with his pips in bla
month, and volnbly expressed hit eurprito at
seeing him.
“Harte,” sold Brymer shortly. “ what did
jou do with that money you paid m* yestor-
“ Do with it ? ” said Herts, forcing a tough
" Why, I paid Itto yon, to ba rare.”
" Ay, bnt afterwards ? " uld Brymer.
" Why, do yon think I took it back again?”
uld Harte, eeowltog at Brymer.
“Upon my life; I don't know,” laid Brymer;
“only 1 have not got it.”
“I don’t know anything ahont that,” uld
Harte. “That's your lookout. Yon had it
from me, and I have the receipt, yon knew.”
“Yet, yes,” aild Brymer, looking him full In
the face; "you took ears of that, and before a
wltnetf, too.” So raying,ho tnrned away with
out another word, Hs did not know what to
mike of it. Ho felt ran something wu wrong,
but be eonld flx npon nothing. Ho did not at
all Hke.Harte’a manner. Hs had a notion that
he had been prepared for the eommnnloaUoo.
And yet how eonld tbo mosey havo been Jug-
E led away ? Ho had locked It Into the cub
ox himself, and It had never loft his sight all
day.
He eat down and thought One thing he
in not do, In cue—he didn't like to finish the
thought. Fortunately he had taken tho nntn-
Lris of the notes, and be hurried down to the
principal ahope Iu tho village and gave notice
to Hop them. Then ordering a hone to bo sad-
died, be rode rapidly off in tbo direction of
D .
Having given the necessary notice at tbo
banker's, be went on to Hejdoru, tho lawyer,
who wet surprised to see him so early, but
more especially to see him eo haggard saddle-
tressed. Aeklngfor a private intervlow, ho
told him all tho ctreametanccs known to the
reader. The lawyer could mak* nothing of
them. Brymer himeelf could sea no reasona
ble ground fbrenspeettaguy ana. In bet ha
would have been more than half afraid that
be himself might In some moment of abstrac
tion have hidden away tha Motes, only that it
wu so altogether Improbable. ■ Mr. Ueydorn
told him plainly that be thooaht this mutt
havo been the cate, and that be would And
them by und-by. However, be; too, took the
numbers of tho notes, and promised to keep
hie eyes open, and, should anything occur, to
ccmmaatcaie with him directly. Tha lawyer
wished him to oomplote the purohau notwith
standing tbo defleiency, good-oatnredly offer
ing to become security for tho balance of tho
deposit money: but thle he gratefully declined
thanking him for hbf-onfidenco In hlai,and re
tcinad heme to nuke tha but of it.
Several month* passed away, and no new
eventconnectedwlthwbatwo have recorded
bsd transpired, when Brymer wu one morn •
teg nrprleod by the arrival of a messenger
Irons D , requesting bla Immediate attend
ance it the bank. Ho did not sued mneh pre
paration lo obey tbesummoni He sruatouoo
shosra into tho bank room and greeted by the
txeaagcr,
“I am eorty to trouble you, Ur. Brymer. but
will yon oblige me with the numbers of the
notes you lost (event mouths back?”
“ ier took out hia pocket-book, and rtad
list of numbers. The manager locked
at a paper.
“Ooo o( them is a flfty-pound note, No.
84 101-307, ia It not?"
, "Yes,” uld Brymer, his hurt beating with
cxjpf elation.
“This note,” uld the manager, “wu paid
Into our hande this morning,’’ and bo placed
before Brymer a bank of England not*.
With all hie eagerness, Brymer could but
observe that the not* before him wu compar
atively clean, and crisp, and altogather unlike
Ike shabby notee that hs ramembond so
wo'L
"Who paid it in ?” said ho.
“Well," uld the manager, “I used not mak*
any secret of it; It wu brought to ns tbla
morning, with some other money, by John
Brunt, and ho 1a now waiting In tha hank psr-
lor by my request. I'll ring for hies to come.”
“John Brunt ? ” said Brymor; “wo can’t ins
pect him! ”
"Certainly not,” raid the maoagen "hut you
at* wt had to act simply on the facts, ant so
wen bound to stop thin not*.’’
Join Brunt had been wall known all round
tl* neighborhood for moro than fly* and
twenty yean, as a large cheese dealer, buying
up pretty nearly all tbs cheeses nude on tho
lurreanateg flume. HU turn*, both for capl
in! and integrity, wu u thoroughly trusted
as tbit of Bedtey’s bank ltaalf. Aa b* entered
the room he greeted Brymer with a frank and
jolly tough, and laid—
"Ho. Mr. Brymor, it eeeau I has* bean rob
bing you of a fifty-pound note, eh?”
"No, no-,” earn the manager,’ ”oot that
either; hut will you rated tailing us, if you
can, where you got that note?”
"I havo been trying to remombar," uld
Braid; “and although I can't ba quite ear*. I
believe I bad it from Budertobank In Easter,
lot I suppose I can sully flod out.”
"But,” old Brymer, gaaiog at tha note ia
perplexity, "I am very certain that this wu
tot on* ot tho notes that were paid to ms.”
“Yea uld that It was,” raid tbs manager;
"that srai on of tha number* you give me.”
"Yes,” uld Brymer. looking at hie book,
“that Isons of tho numbers, bnt tbit U not
cue of tie notes, I can swear. This la tolera
bly clean,white all thou wen noticeably worn
end filthy. Why, this U abort twice as thick
u uy of thou "—rubbing It, aa he (poke, be -
tween hi* Sagers.
•Then what about the number?" uld the
Tdon’t know," uld Brymer, “X don't b*
liovs I could have made a mlitako In ctpylng
them, although I certainly had to look twice
at tome of them to mo what tho numbers
were. At any rate, I can’t pretend that thle
note wu among them.”
“Yon mnit have made a mlitako then, Mr.
Brymor," uld the manager, with ran asper
ity. "Still, if you maintata your numbers are
light, I date ray that Mr. Brunt will leave this
note with ue for two or three day*, and in the
meantime get any Information ho can about
To tbla Brunt readily agreed; and u the
tLreo parted, the manager isld to Brymer u
be hade him good morn log, “a pretty mtre'e
neet you havo found for tu.”
ti e figure* Wrong; and yet ho wu quite eortalu
that the note shown to him that moruiug wu
not one of Ihno that bad bten paid to him by
Barte. Had thoao notes been counterfeit? The
thought flatbed upon him for the first time.
flaMnle would leave tho difficulty uneolved;
V bat had become of thorn, bad or good ? It wu
aliogetbtr bewildering.
In the coerre of a week ho received a note
term Scdlcy’e, informing him that the Exeter
bank hsd paid the fifty pound noto in quea.
tha, with others, about aix woeke previously
to Join Hi nut, having themselves received ft
nnt.flrcm the bank of Englaad a short time
terfirje. Thi* mado it certain that, before that
any other unto In elreulsllsn for Sty
"bearing that number moat havo beoa
lothubankof England, Brymor was
atl-fled, et leost of ono thing, ho had
le’ald the notti as be had once thought
it; became, rlncothcy had been paid to
mu of them had bcon paid Into tbo bank
(land. Therefore they must havo bcon
■from him.
^Bod yet this war very little comfort. For
even if ho oeuld believe that Harto had stolen
them, which he could not bring himeelf to do,
how in the world could It have keen done?
And hew wu It possible to bring the fact
home to him ? or even to make tho raaplolon
of it lock reasonable? Ho would not bother
himself any more about It.
Ono morning * large peetlng-blll was
Incur lit to his office, announcing theunre-
reived salo of the farm, land and atock of
Betchlelgb, tho ownor being about to quit tho
country. Ho was considerably surprised at
this; nut so much, however, at the result of
Harte’i careless management, u at the obser
vation that thoiate, Instead of being put into
Ihlgbar dr, as be might have axpoeted, bad
been entrusted to an auctioneer at D . He
thought it did not look very well, taking
every thing Into aocount; bnt be wu lorry for
Harte after all, end determined to hire noth
ing to esylu the matter. |
It me not many days later that the little
I society of Alyereteke had - further food for
surprise. Jt was discovered onomornlng that
Ell Wire hsd dlisppoarod, leaving tho hoy of
I blebousr In the door, end conalderable arrears
of rent unpaid. Insldo the hones and shop
un round scarcely anything but empty hot-
I’t.-aud dirt, of which latter article there wee
great /ibuudanco. A young shopman at the
grocer's declared that! aa ho wu returning at
about SI o’clock the previous evening from tho
neighborhood of Beechleigh, ho bal pastel
Itto men on the rood In loidalincitlvn. lie
hzd pliluly recognised the voice of Wlro, end
Iks believed, but ho could not he quite sure,
that tho other voloo wu Hr. Itorte's, which
seemed to bo threatening Wlro, calling him
thief, (windier rad forger. He thought be
hurd blows given, bnt,uot liking to interfere,
be hsd harried home.
It wee understood that Mr. rad Hn. Ilart*
end lb* child woroto leave Alverstoke two
days before the rale, and to embark from
Liverpool to Australia about ten deye Isters
The night before they Wert to leave, Brymer]
wu reading tho newspaper In hie little parlor,
when ho hurd a ring at hia office bell, and
answered It himself. To his eurprlse, but not
much to his gratification, hnncognlood Barte,
whosaked il he might hayo a few words with
him. J
Brymer admitted him lato the ofllot,earing,
"1 etarcrly expected to Me you again, Harts,]
before you left.”
"So," eeid Hut*, nervously, "I support not,
hot I aid not like tv go away from England
far good with.ut nklng you to shako hinds
lib me.”
■ Brymer hesitated. At length he uid: “If
yen, Junes Harte, can look mein the face,!
and take my bud. there It Is for you.”
"Welt a moment,” laid Uute, very pals, aud
not responding to tho proffer; "f have a few I
words to lay to you first, piste*. You know
why I am going awty, I tappete?”
"No,“laid Brymer, "I know nothing about
It. I have made a point of listening to nouo
of the atorlee I hare heard.’’ ■
“Well," laid tha other, "John—you remcmj
her my brother Jehu—hu written to me, tell!
teg me that ho bu been very tuccesiful out’
there; bu rued* money aud hu bought a Jarga i
ibeep-furm, and Want* me to Mlltboiilsre
bereudgooaltoblm at a partner. Aud be
bu lent me five hundred pound* for tho ex-
r< rrc of tho voyage.”
“And you era going? I think you art doing
nvery wImthing, lam afraid, you know,
you would never do uy good hero; I with you
(ttccru with all my heart.” m
You eri
with emol
movtd ebe
hia p-cket
again, and
alrald,Bry
tad lame
By thle I
companion
what wu t
Harts co
oanoeir
pound*? 1
“What it
Brymer. •
yourself?''
"1 tuppoi
n Miner,
"No,’’sal
Soon.
•They w
"All" eel
Ing a lung I
" ID — ?
‘I know
ymer,”sstd Harte
ul” lit got up,
nervously, took
pocket, eat down
iw vote*: “lam
very badly of me,
unervoueu fall
uuablo to gueaa
member you gave
•ed end aeventy
tuny of It.”
you mean?" sail
> me the note*
nking hU vofeeto
rho can hoar u*?“
ng to both th*
prate, and draw-
id umach. Bat
>lng to ask,” raid
Hart—"what became of them? I’ll tell you.
That Eli Wits act mo on! I weat to him,
UHaving Die n fool, that be bsd got ploaty of
Morey, ai d I wanted to borrow two hundred
and Pity pout du or blur. Ho laeghud ia 'my
fate, and told me ho had net got two hundred
rad filly pea.ee. But atUI he talked as if bo
could help rue, and et length suggested th*
payment by flub notee. Of coarse I treitad
thle si if h contempt, because they weald be sura
to be detected et once, and then I should be a
j!, But the old
uld he could get
criminal M
fiend quiet!
seme note:
eny rteyoi
moreover, 1
chtmwal B|
hours they
no trace by
banknote*
Tbero wi
“Ah!” at
awas
IsA cot
Jiutt tumbled lik« » Itaf, ui big tWg
>r detection, and,
thorn with eon*
ban twenty-four
lo dees, end leave
I be recogelxed os
ier, “Iseelt all!”
lid you lead your-
rroag a man that
rolled down bln cheeks. “It wu that devil
tempted me,” uld he, "and it eeemed to tho w
me the only way out of an awful fix. Bat *
had no sooner given the notes to you than
would have cut off my hand to get them book.
And I ssrev that if you had trusted ms when
I wonted to toko them Into the bank, I should
have Men tic responslbllltyof destroying
them royMlf.”
Ho was still fidgeting with his pocket-book,
While Brymer recalled the ctrcumstanoee, re
membering how little Jem had ehaken t "
oath, bor, end how hie wife had notlot
quantity of duet rad piper-fibres that wu In it
wbfn rho emptir d it Into (he fire.
"And now,” eeid Hurts, “I have corns to
conlcu ell this, rad to uk you to forgive me
before I go, and to eparc my turns u much ai
yon tin when I am gone. There is the money,
with interest for tbo lest few months!’’ rad he
told notes on th* table to that amount. “I
could not bear to carry with me the thought
of having defrauded the man who hod been
ray friend and treated me." And hero he ut
terly broke down.
"Hatlo,” uld Brymor, “I confess I w
tbie room y very badly, but I c in honestly uy
Itat I am almoit ss glad tha; yon have put
ynuuelf right iu thle matter w that I havegot
the money.”
"llod bless yen!” Mid natte, and they
jartcd.
liHtie moremed be uld. Flemtaloge wu
purchui d. Bry mer continued to prosper, and
It sets not msr.y years tralum lie wu abls to
«lira altogether from buslncss,audtopiir-
ciisiea still larger estate. One of the first
things rbet Harte waa Indneed to do on getting
iu A uttialla wu to take thetemperraoe pledge;
and it la not Is be wondered at, therefor*, tbali
sbrrp farm to tbo English home. No other
ftllutltm la ever undo either by Brymer or by
Hans to the strange history of‘Tho Mortgage
Money.”
WHAT THE KUKUUX DID.
Wash Brnilfcn, N. 0., September a.—Sit-1
ting on the broad piuza of tho hotel hero,
away from tbo promenaden, I listened tost
night to a postlonlto, earnest Justification of
[kukluxlam iu Louisiana rad other ioathern
elites. The story of wrong and ontragM; tbs
violation, ruthless rad rough, of all that men
hold most dear ud sacred, u It camo pouring
In burning words from the lips of ono of New
Oilsnu’e most eloquent divlnee, sru In strik
ing rontrost to the perfect peaco thst wrapped
I tbo valley In deep ellence. The moon was
shining with a brilliancy teen only In aouth.
I cm climes, and the clearly defined mountain*
were patched with alternate light anil shadow
as tho clouds drifted by. Thu convorsitloa
bed drifted on southern topics, and as tho
preteber, whosehlth Isa 11 riu belief la the
fnthirhood of (lod and the brother-
1 cod of nmn, wsrmod with his subject-hit
pliydct! Ills for the time were for|otten, end
tlio mentality that hu stirred many a coarre*
smion with iu fire burned end glowed Ilk*
molten Iron. "Wu kakluxtem JntUflebJef”
ke said, In answer to a uneeUoo. "Yee,sir,aad
If tho doctrino that 'the end JnstBlea the mesas'
was ever correct, It mm during the reign of
terrorism In tbo southern states when kuklux-
inu tv as iMiupsi.t. Remember, air, that at tho
cloro of tha svar snd during tho reconstruction
period tha white men In the south were die
armed, ud It wsi a penal ofleUM for them to
have firearms In thou homes. The uegroee,
however, were armed; our etreete and high
ways wero patrolled ly negro soldiery; who
were hits ttt of barber lane tod UTegee.worte I
then are the savages today In the Interior
of Africa. It got to that a whits
women dire not orau the
threshold of her house Intake bo assaulted by I
one of three brutee, while white men had to
abandon tbs roads to the negroes and mtka
their way acroutbo fleldi u beet they might.
To appeal to the tow was useless, for the
Jtidgis were carpet buggers and sustained the
ntgrres.
' It wu this state of affairs, when we esw our
civilization, snd nil (hi rights ud psivlltgM
of rodtt.r bciny|twept away, and our dear ones
exposed is a fate won* than death, that gavel
birth tokukltxism. Bolt preservation Is
but hereto messuras wauls quill the crowing
evil, tbo whits men quietly organized, aud ia
gined bodice began Ut redress of the wrongs
from which tbn were suffering. Do not
lneslns that the kuklux were recruited
fnm tho criminal clteeoe. Such I know It
the prevalent northern Ides, but it le
atMlntwy false. The momberi of the K. K.K
were griitltmen (f fine education, elruggling
manlully to retain andatutalu their manhood,
and give to their children as a heritage of the
war a higher clviilutlen than perlspe they
thcmeclvci bed enjoyed. Iu many instances
that wsi tho only legacy they hsd to give, for
all else hid been awopt away In the storm of
slot and shell thst had for four year* been
sweeping over tbo land.”
“Mow did the band* work?”
“Negroes; like sheep, require s leader, and
tbs bends quietly noted the leaders and whore
they lived. At nights they visited their cahlns,
and railed tho meu out. Tho most brutal ware
either shot orhuny; others thoroughly whipped
snd ’ordered to lesv* th* country. In this wey
a reign of terror wu created among the ne-
groor, end the white men gained control. Wny,
■Ir.cvi n the federal troop# that wcrceantdown
to supines ka-kiuxlsm refused In attar In-
(lures to Interfere, snd in some cases eo utlly
aided. They knew that it wu not# condi
tion of crime ud anarchy, bat# necessity
bora of negro insolence tea intolerance."
“Whit about th* Ford-Murphy murder in
New Orleans?”
"New Orleans to and has been line* the
dey* ot WSraonth cursed by ring rule. Tas
spectacle of a Judge adjourning his Court sad
deliberately going rat end ehootiug a mta to
death u one would a wild beast wu simply
disgraceful, and it a blot on tbs fair fsw* of
th* quea city {that will, not soon be effaced.
Tho ring did all In iu powor to ears
tbo murderers, and perhaps would
bar* inceecdcd hsd it not been for
th* efforte of Bev. B. A. Holland, of Trinity
church. He not only puhllthed letter after
tetter in tho Picayune, demanding their
pnnlihment, but also publicly bnd from bis
pulpit dsmsndcd tbtfr execution. Hu life
wet frequently threatened by members of tbo
iloi. but be persevered end won. nod those
wen bten pordoaed they would bar* been
lyi-cbed Wilkin twenty-four bran Ho de-
trim lord were the members of Trinity parish,
the wrtlrbfnt In New ilrleant, to rid the city
of Ike eeowige, that 100 of them organized
’ ' ‘ jurposeof ljnohlngtho mur-
the members of this bud
tome of the most respected
qftlxsB* of New Orleent, sod their conn-
■el wet their pastor. Ia many respects Bev.
K. A. Hollaed ie a remarkable man. Holla
Kentuckian by birth, ud although of email
‘lyelqne, is til pluck, and does not hesitate
raise bin vole* In denunciation of wrong
doing and fa favor of a higher civilization.
From bin pulpit be fraght the fraud in tho
exposition mraegement, ud alono wu the
meant of stopping the ball fighting on tho ex
position grounds. Yon may know how de
voted bote to principle when I tell you tho
men hn fought in tho exposition were among
the wealthiest members of his church. He Is
strouply Intense toal.ud hu moat pronounced
TtokhttUebbt BtYCi httltajud M |Xjr«,
THE DARK CONTINENT.
ONLY FIVE WHITE PEOPLE IN A
CITY OF 6,000.
A Wild tee OurloutCounlrj—Strsnc* Customs ef tut
ntUvM-TUt Krto*. Vormsrly SlaTe-OaUsc*
end Uit War tte Women rmci rua-
•rives Win Faint-mowers, Ktc,
Fnm the Indianapolis Journal.
Dr. Balph Bt. John Perry, who went frsna
thle city to Africa Mvcrsl months ago, In ■
letter lo a friend here, writes from . C<rpa
Monnt, nndcr date of June 20th, about his ex
periences In the dark conttoont: "Monrovia
Is built npon a bed of Iron ore, part of which
smays DO per cent pare iron. The town con
tain! five thousand people, fir* of whom are
white. It hu no dmgstoree, no library, no
public halls, no buber shop, no saloon*, no
itrecte, ud veiy few fence?. They havo no
need for itrecte, u they havo no hones or
vehicles. The population la divided Into threo
claiscs-tho nstlves, or aborigines, the Libe
rians, or children born hereor foreign parents,
and the emigrant*, or foreignsn. Tbo totter
era on a por with the** (hipped to tho United
Blatrt ot America from Europo—poor, Igno
rant and Itsy.
“i bo Krooi, a native tribe, were formerly
the store dsalenof this rout. Every Kroo
man hu a blue tattoo mark down tbs mlddlo
of his forehead, extending on down the nose.
They cut their hair with bit* ofbrokonbot-
ties, and cut It in *U torts of »tylo*. Instead
of tattooing, the; women paint themselves
from bead to foci; it la no uncommon thing
to see a girl with tho Llborltn flsg painted on
her forehead. Some of the women, whoso
husband* or father* work for Amorlcani, wear
tho United States flag, bnt nothing can Induce
them to wear tho British flsg, at they all lists
Englishmen, ud wUl havo nothing to do with
thtm. Wo use five nations’ money here—
United States, English, Dutch, French, snd
Libcilsu, and occasionally a Spanish gold
coin.
“The country here Is very broken and wild.
The mountain above us Is rocky, snd only in
habited by goats, doer, aud other wild ani
mals. Monkoyssro abundant, and play karoo •
with tho gardens below at night. O ir hill to
planted with coffee trace, and our ooffee If *x-
ctllcnt. It to picked, cleaned, roasted, cooked
end diank loaldo of twenty four hours. Wo
havo fiesh venison, chickens aud flih every
day, with rice, cassava, plantain* and green*.
Tho cenava 1* a tuber liko the sweet potato In
shape, rad looks and taitte like t mixture of
lui mi and plaster of paris. lYppor is out
Into everything eatable,* and vory plentiful,
too. Our native boy, who tend* to roasting
end pounding np the coffee, was not satisfied
is ■* not long eons aero lore
two plaMpplee M Mg
for one cent; bananas and
r ten cents t bsSCB; hntogd
until he bnd put e big hand fill of pepper Into
It, which waa not discovered until bt tried to
drink It. We have a now coffee boy now. A
small watermelon a tool long Mile here for m
shilling, bn# two
u your head eell I
plantains sell tot u.
plume, which sell In New York for ii"i ceolo
each, can bo had here forone cent a doaen. All
these fruits grow wild, anil tho only charge Is
for the trouble of getting them to yon.
Flowcis are most abundant—megoulls everj-
-*■ nd holiotropo It used for hedges,
its ud ponton (loiters are trod undsr
foot, bo thick arethoy,
"The bank or our lake—roso-U dotted ell
along with native towns, called bum-towns.
Two bonus mike* town; etch town of 100
bourn blinking or governor. H ime't'noi a ’
king has oevrrtl sintl! towns. All thopoopla
are called th* king’s children, and dare outdo
soy tblog without his consent. One man who
wanted to came to eeemo about a tumor had
to lend twenty miles to|ct peimisalou from
h(a king. The king lent mo a rorsaago giving
me authority to do anything I wished to the
man, snd ho would bo responsible for all touts. :
When at Monrovia I engaged a Kroo hoy at a
• *laiy otttt s year to attend tho office and do
Ilfli W'.rk IIS I required, hut liu was lo lazy 1
rad to give him tho grand beanos, ’
Ho wu too Iszy to car, snd, rather
than (to him starve, I sent blot home, where
eumelody could feed him. My new boy lo
• tout twenty years old, nemed Homo — Vey
named for Mohammed- -and ho la heir toon*
of the Vey throne*, hie father liolng an up-
country king. Homo wanted te learn EaglUla
■oho ran awty from home and cam* to the
minion, and 1 took him In and adopted him.
Hia people comedown with cloth oral sheep
anduwd loseaxhim beck—mi g-i. llisulder
brother ran awty aiio, and bu last left on tha
Iblp Liberia for the United .--.ate*. Uy the
way, J hive the only United Sts'eu flsg in Li-
hena, the United .States consol hiving none. '
The medical echool bu optncii with a fair at- '
tendance. We have a plant hero csllod 'boola,'
Snd 'bonds’ by Us natives, aod 'vegeUbl*
mrrt ury' by the whiter, which is twenty time*
■trorgtr than castor oil, ono drop of save per-
cent tincture causing a very brtok catharsis,
"Tne Vey language to very easy to lesra,
being nearly all vowel eoands. With 100
ot a person era talk very well; all plants,
trees,etc;, goby ono name—'bush*—trees sro
lit bush,' Hewer* are ‘sins 11 bush.’ All
animals, bltds, ud fish are meat—‘sush.’ A
mtn to *ki;’ a woman, ’naasu'; a child,‘ding;’
tin’; girl, 'iiiujudliig;’ luoad Is ‘bulfo;’
'JitY medicine ie ‘bootsy.' Every
one who bss >ny dealings with tbe natives
hu a natlvs name. Mlnela'Rooly'ki.qaa'p.
mo,’ tunning tha 'white medicine man.’
Tlelrown doctors are called ‘Booly-kl grew
grew.’ Everything secret Is called 'greo-
ink/
' Tte girls, at soon u they ore able te walk
ud talk, are pat in tho 'gree grre bush,' a sort
i,t " i.amt, wlme they are inetraced in their
ilullrs •- woiiii u end wlvee. They ero uiaelly
•old by their parent! In mtrrlego u aeon as ,
■key on born. If not soil) they imwt remain
In lb* ‘gno-gree bnih’ until Mme one bay* -
them. The old girle in the ‘bash’ Instruct tha
new CBS*. A wife coats about $15. When tho
bidding takes place the bride comm with prei-
tnti to lbs groom, and ho most give In return
double at much as she brioge. A man may
have u many wives u he can pay for— .
In fact, they are the African branch of th* ■
Mcimen chinch. Thebojeare kept ia tbn
see gree bush’until of nge, generally Liar- ,
nyraie. Should one of either MX disclose
the Mints ef tbiir ‘hush,’ eronc he caught ia
till ether's 'hiitb/ he or ebe is pat to death
publicly.
‘•Their houses are mode of bamboo and clay, /
with (hitched roofs. Their canoes are very
iklllfnlly maderad evenly baltnced. Waea
cruktd they are sewed with bamboo fibre sod
tbe creek calked with cotton from tho native-
cotton tree. I have ono aboat fifteen font
ffig xnerioni. and coat mo
_ bought It from an old man, a nativo canoe*
maker, who to the grandfather of two Hula
Vey boy*, who are my godchildren. Their
names ere John 1*. Ouigame aod Kslph 1*.
Oulgunn. My neareat competitor to fifty mile*
cut, tl Monrovia, next nearest, 300 ruitoi
west, et Sierra Leene; none south at all; au L
the nearest north lion tho Medlterrtncaa
The doctor’hu sent over a box'of cnrior,
consisting of monkey ekins. native kniv«
mode from African Iron ore, palm nau, sea
beano, ehells, coffee jrpaat, duck 4J«nr*s
planle, bc«W«, eld -
I