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THE WILSON ADVANCE: AUGUST 29, 1895. 7 lift r (1 ft fore me. Millie,' lass, 1 clniict say any thin' to cheer you up, yet I see you a fadin' away before my eyes. You bad hope enough once for both of us, but the light's played out now, an' there's nothin' but darkness around us." "Still, dear Jack, I do not give up all hopes of seeing our little one again;, but if it is not to be we must meet our fate with resignation." . "An' that's just what I cannot do. Do you think, Millie, that in the next world, about which you seem so cer tain, that we shall know him again?" "Yes, that I do, Jack." This very fervently. "Well, there's some comfort in that ior you, at any rate." But it didn't-seem to bring much sol ace to the prospector, who sank again into moody silence. "Hark, there's some one at the front door." "Don't stir; Jack, I'll go," .Millie cried, springing from her seat. She returned with Corporal Whitford at her heels Corporal Whitford iu evi dently a great state of mind, so excited that he could hardly speak. "I've come to tell you that we've just -1 i Til M' ' ' received a telegram irom iisie. : Ah "She's in BiTalo." . "Coming home. I smtw? WeH, I'm r-lad you've had news of her, for she's a dear, good girl we love dearly. "And say, Jack," the corporal drew nearer to the prospector, and his voice sank to half-whisper, "I think that I wouldn't that is to say, I only think, you know but I really wouldn't quite give up all hopes of seeing Willie again." The prospector sprang wildly to his feet. "Great God! You have news of him? Speak out, man; I can bear the strain no longer." i The honest corporal had been thor oughly impressed by his wife with the necessity of breaking the news by de crees; and here was this provoking ouple working themselves into hys terics before he had said a dozen words, or, as he tersely put it, "going off half cock before the game had risen." "Well, there's a telegram read it for yourself. "I did my best, but the fat's all in the fire now." The prospector took the paper in his trembling hands, and, with an effort, read the blessed words aloud: ""Willie Wilders is with me safe and welL Break the news to his parents, and tell them to come on here as soon as possible. I found the child acci dentally in New York. Reply. Elsie Whitford." A bright gleam of ineffable joy spread itself over the prospector's face. He was like one drunk with ihe delirium of delight. "Hurrah!" t the corporal shouted, matching the infection of joy. "Three i cheers for Elsie, and 'a tiger' for the ) boy!" ; j But Millie J after the manner of her sex, when the trouble was over, of -course broke down, and, to the dismay of the gallant corporal, fell into a dead , swoon at his feet. i We will not attempt to depict their I joy on meeting their child, such scenes are better imagined than described, for j words can paint events but not emo- j tions. . - J Of course the Wood groves were in i .'Jiigh glee; their kindly hearts were touched to thei depths at the joyous at mosphere they breathed. Wilders in sisted on Elsie receiving the thousand dollars reward, which he had brought for her in crisp, new bills, and, as the prospector showed signs of offense at her refusal, the happy girl took the money to Jack's entire satisfaction. Meanwhile Jack arid his boy had big communings together. From these lit tle conferences the prospector picked -up several bits of information which he pieced together, and was enabled to arrive at a tolerably accurate guess as to who was the originator of the out rage. Of these suspicions he said nothing to his wife until they reached home, but then his wrath broke forth. The first thing he did was to send for Susan Green.j who, now that the boy was found, had hoped to be spared fur ther explanations. ""When you took Willie away from Alma Miggs," Jack asked, judicially, "'had you been talkin' to a man walk in' with him, in fact?" . "Lor', no.". now, tnimi, tousan Susan scorned reply. xiiiniv again. "Did you meet; that fellow Dodd, there?", "Man, you said he's not a man; he's a parson:" i - "Oh," Jack grkined, for he had a strong sense of humor, "so you confess that you did meet him?" "Confess, indeed. I'd like to know what you mean by confessing? Of course I met h-im. Did I ever say I didn't?" ' "Had you an appointment with kim?" . Susan's wrath was rising. "That's xny business." 22 V ") . Copyright i$95. "So vou decline to answer i She remained silent. , "Did Dodd hand you a package that afternoon?"' Susan's nose was sharp, her lips were thin and her anatomy of bony proclivi ties' not wholesome to look at, but as Jack put this question she seemed to shrivel up into ten times her natural ugliness. A leaden hue spread over her -fapfv rt? lino- all but the tin of her nose. which was a naminjr, scorbutic red. I i Without a word, she dashed for the ! door, but the prospector's broad back was against it. "No, you don't, you vixen! By thun- der, if you don't behave yourself 111 have the constable in in less than three minutes. Did you take money from that man?" "No!" "You lie!" ; The man's passion was terrible, the swollen veins in his forehead stood out like whipcord, as with towering form he stood over the trembling girl. "You sold my little one to my ene mies," he cried, hoarsely. "Like Joseph's brethren you sold him into bondage." Susan's limp figure bowed to the blast. "Oh, Mr. Wilders, dear Mr. Wilders," she cried, flinging herself on her knees. "Don't kill me! I'll tell the truth! Ijwill indeed! I'll tell the truth! Oh, good- I ness gracious me, do have pity on me." j Jack paused. "Wife," he cried, as though struck by j an inspiration. "Give her pen and paper. She shall write her confession." . CHAPTER XIX. ' MR. DODD APPEARS AGAIN. 1 "It shall be a legal document," the prospector said solemnly. "Wife, keep your eye open on errors, for I ain't : much of a hand at literatoor. Susan, prepare to write." i The meek-eyed girl meekly took her place at the table pen in hand: ; Jack dictated: i ' "I Susan Green, spinster, being of sound mind, do hereby affirm before all conditioiis of men, regardless of sex or color " Here Millie interfered to ask how many sexes a man could be, but was promptly reproved and told that no woman ever could understand law terms. "That I was hired by one Dodd afore said " "Dear Jack, you never said one word about Dodd before." " To lay out and do up one Jack Wilders by putting up a plant to rob him of 7i chili" Lay out' and do tip' are not law terms, are they, Jack?" "If you don't hold your tongue, Mil lie, we shall never 'get there.' Go on cusan." "And 7 received" "How much did you receive?" 'Twenty dollars," Susan sobbed. "Great Scott! Twenty dollars only! To think that a boy like my Willie didn't fetch the price of a Newfound land pup! Go on." "The sum ofticenty dollars sterling" "'Sterling' is wrong, I know," pleaded Millie, "it is only applied to silver." Her husband dared not debate this shaky question, so he simply ignored it. "To do so, tchich I accordingly and fe loniously" did " "Did what, Jack?" J ack glowered. "How often must I tell you that there never was a woman critter born, as could get within a mile of a legal document." "By enticing him from a female person one Alma Miggs, and handing him over to a thundering, dough-faced sneak, one " "Jack! Jack! All those bad words cannot be right." '"''Archibald Dodd. All tchich is the truth, theiohole truth, and nothing but the truth, so herp me God. Amen. Susan Green." When the prospector had got his "legal document" signed and delivered, he turned upon the dismayed Susan, and, pointing to the door, roared in a voice of thunder but one word: "Git!" "Now," he cried, "for Mr. Dodd. Get me my coat, Millie, while I put Dandy in the cutter." ! "Stop, Jack, you need not go on that errand. Here's a (rutting1 from a news paper my sister sent me this morning'. I did not show it to on before because you are so very excitable. 2Cow listen." "A sad end. Our readers will remem ber the case of Archibald Dodd, who suffered so severely whilst driving- to our city from Oretown some weeks ag-o. He died last night,' a raving- maniac, in the county poorhouse." "And there's no forty -below zero tem perature when he"s gone," Jack sneered. "Don't jest, Jack. Lame, blind, mad!" Millie shuddered. "What an end!" s CHAPTER XX. AX INTERESTING UNCLE. One bright summer's day, Mrs. Frank Grev ran down the walk to the trarden gate ox rier pretty new house to meet her husband, on his return from his office. It was no? long after a gay little wedding, which had turned Elsie Whit- ' ford into Elsie Grey, and made two ! young people supremely happy. j "Frank, darling!" was the young wife's glad greeting; "what do you think. I bave found to-day?" "Another lost baby?" "No, indeed; but a real live very much alive uncle, Frank." i "You are joking?" "I never was more serious. He came all the way from England on purpose to see me, and I don.'t like him one lit tle bit. Frank, I do absolutely believe the horrid man was going to kiss me!" "Shows he has good taste, at any rate. Is he the corporal's brother?" , "Why, don't you know the Whitfords are not my real father and mother, Frank?" Frank stared in amazement. . ' 'And you were not Elsie Whitf ord?" "Not myself at all, you stupid dear, but it appears my, mother died in my infancv and I was-f left to the care of Uncle Jacob Gregsou, the gentleman who called here to-day, who put me in charge oi Airs, vv nitiord, paying her I large sums for my support." "Where is your uncle?" "At the Tifft house. I promised that you would go up to the hotel this even ing and call on him." "Sol will." "Don't be prejudiced,, Frank, but I fear he is not a bit nice." "Rough, eh?" "No, but, oh, so intensely vulgar however, you must form your own con clusions." And Frank's conclusions were the same as Elsie's. He had not been in Mr. Gregson's presence five minutes be fore he mentally declared him to be the most insufferable cad he had ever met, and only to be tolerated for Elsie's sake. "So you're the chap that's caught the golden pigeon rather a bit of a prig, I expect, but might be worse," was the courteous greeting of the showy stranger. "You are very candid," Frank smiled. "Candid! Jacob Gregson's truth it self. Just ring that bell by your hand and let us have a nip of brandy, for talkin's dry work." "Not for me." "Well, I thought you were a prig. Do you smoke?" "With pleasure. Thank you. He took one of Gregson's cicars. though he distrusted it. "Well, that's something m your fa vor. Now, see here, young man, I've come across the raging ocean which, by George! I hate with all my soul to see your wife on most important busi ness, but now she's married. Accord ing to English law she's nobody, an' you, her husband, are everybody; con sequently, I'm driven to open matters to you." "You'll find me keenly alive to my wife's interests." "Devil doubt you; but I want to find you alive to mine, too." "To yours?" "Yes, the game lies in my hands. Here's a young woman entitled to a large fortune; here's a young man mar ries her; here's an enterprising uncle i a kind, good uncle, on whose bosom she j lay an innocent babe, whose hard-won ducats have for years supported her. j Now the kind uncle says to the nice young man, says he: 'You can never ; learn one word of your wif e's fortune I without my aid.' An' the young man j says" he paused, and, with a drunken leer, winked expressively at Grey "what do you think the young mrvn says?" Frank smiled. "The young man," he declared, "says he would deal very liberally with "Mie Jiind uuclc." "Spoken like a brick! Tip us yei flipper, old chap. You're the right sor' after all." 4 Well, what does the kind uncle pro pose to do?" "He means to give that nice young man a cool fifty thousand dollars a year." Grey started with incredulous won derment. "Impossible," was all he could ejacu late. "Why, man, you must be dream ing." ne did not say drunk, thougrh he thought it. "I knew that 'ud take the starch out of you, but it's gospel truth ah, you didn't think you'd gone in for such big stakes, when you married the little gal, did ver?" "If Elsie had never a cent " "Oh, yes, I know all about that bosh. You're in your calf love now, an' life's all molasses an' moonshine. She'll be all the swreeter for golden trimmin's, you bet yer life." Grey felt a strong inclination to kick his wife's irrepressible relative. Gregscn drew from his pocket a legally prepared contract, securing to himself liberal compensation in case of Frank Grev's accession to the unnamed ' .1 fortune and cried exultingly: that document, my boy, an' the estate is .yours." Grey dnedlike cn' in a dream. t ar away m ?7! norland lires an old bloke," MivGrogson bes"an with a ccn- tirnchtal Sir Go.cl tone and expression, "named ;n' iliilborough, who had cue child, Richard, who was rather a wild young cv.sz. When this youth was still young an' green he secretly mar ried my niece, a young country girl of seventeen." ' 'Elsie's mother!" Grey interpolated. "How glad she will be to hear about he." Continued Next .Week. & ertiiizers for Fall Crops should contain a high percentage of Potash to insure the largest yield and a permanent enrichment , ot the soil. Write for our " Farmers Guide," a 142-page illustrated book. It is brim full of useful information for farmers. It will be sent free, and will make and save you money. Address, - i . ' GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau Street, New York. if TS 4 k tk - m. SS TTN e - 1:2 5v?- t-Niif-wfM. w. W. P. SIMPSON, PresMecf. V lM TRANSACTS A GENERAL BAHKISG SOLICITS THE 25-27-tf. BUSINESS OF NO CLASS LEGISLATION. Equal Eights For All, Special PriTilssca f to None. 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