-yai i 9nm' ' 'rmif "'WSiKS'r,, THE SORANTON TRIBUNE-FHID AY, MAY 5, 1809. Nelly's Fortune. Two men worn sitting In the amoklng room of I.nneshold, the seat as tho KUlde books tell us of Daniel Lane, esq., whose nncpRtors owned the Island of Scartha Ions beforo tho English took over tho Orkney. The house Is mi old, weather-worn Htono bulldlns tlint stnnds under the hill nt tho liend of a little bay, and from tho mnoklnR-roum window one looks across n well-kept though storm driven garden to tho blue sea, and then to a cluster of Mlstant Islands. Tho room waB furnished as a smoking-room, yet hero were signs of a wo tnnn'u use, as there was a piano with a litter of music on It and a work basket. The room, as well It might bo, from the charm of Its look-out, neemed to bo the moat lived In the house. "You need not tell mo her story, Uncle Dan," paid the younger of tho two men, Cleorgo Lane, n lieutenant In the navy and Just the man one likes to think Is typical of tho service. "I know enough when I know that Nelly has promised to bo my wife, and that I am the luckiest man on earth." "That Is true enough, young one." said the other, a gray-bearded man of about sixty, "Still, you must bear her story. 1 wish I bad told It to you be fore. But It Is an ugly story to toll, though her life has been happy enough. You know that she Is my adopted daughter, nnd that I brought her from Africa. You know that was her moth er." lie pointed to a picture on tho wall, nn enlarged photograph crudely color ed and Inartistic, nnd yet evidently of a sweetly beautiful young woman. "When I knew l)cr first sho was liv ing with her father, an Irish Austral Ian dlgcer, Tom O'Brien, one of a fam ily of brothers who, from the earliest days of the diamond fields, were large claim-holders In the Klmborcly mine. It was a bad day for her when she fell in love with Dick Johnson, a young fellow who like most of us, had como out to the diamond fields to seek his fortune, but ho never did much to find It until he married Tom O'Brien's daughter. "He managed to get over O'Brien, nnd got some claims In one of the mines from him. But that wns no good. In a few years he was sold up. Then he per suaded his father-in-law to give him a billet under O'Brien Brothers. He was made secretary, nnd for some tlmo was supposed to have turned over a new leaf; but he was always a bad lot, and in a year or two be had the floor mali nger of tho company were caught steal ing a big diamond, and they were both sentenced to seven years. Nelly knows nothing about this. She was n child nt the time." "Why idiould she ever know it? It will only pain her," answered Cicorge, "But, of course, It makes no difference to me. I would consider myself the luckiest man on earth to have gained her love, even If she had fifty convict fathers. By the bye, what happened to him? Will be give any more trouble?" "He never will, but his story may. Two years after his sentence, there was a rising among the convicts on the breakwater at Cape Town, where he was sent. He was in It; In fact, he was the ringleader. It was an attempt to escape, and in the fight be killed a warder, nnd for this he was tiled, sen tenced nnd hung." Lane looked curiously into his neph ew's face as he said this, but if be were afraid that what he had told would make the other unwilling to marry the daughter of a man with such u history he was at once reassured. "Nelly knows nothing about this. T suppose. Well, she never need. Not that I think so much of it. However, just a man's punishment Is. one can understand his fighting for his liberty," he said. "Well, that Is the story." continued Lane. "The year that Johnson was hunK his wife died. That year was the beginning f the depression on the dia mond fields, which lasted for some time and ruined a srent many men. Tho firm of O'Brien Bros, came to an end, the bank taking over their claims for money advanced on them. "Tom O'Brien died, more of the bad times than anything else. The otl.er brothers sailed for Australia, and tho ship they were In went down. Nelly, who had been born the granddaughter of the richest digger on the flnld", was left an oiphan, with no mean"' and without a relation in the world lint anyone knew of. "Now, I had been a boarder nt tha Johnson's, going there when they 'were hard up. I had taken a spU at tie civil service about that time, but when my ofllce was abolished, had gons down the river, putting the money the gov ernment gave me into a digging stjee. It came off prettv well. I don't suppose nny one ever found better In the bed of the river than I dld.I worked a patch of ground rleht out, und by the time the river came down again, as it does In the summer, T had made some .1.1(100, nnd every one was talking about my good luck. I determined to go home, and ns there seemed to be no one In the world to look after little Nelly, I took her with me; nnd you know tho rest." "Yes; how she grew up the sweatest girl who ever lived, and how she hos promised a fellow who is not half good enough for her, but who would give bis life to make her happy, to be his wife," answered George Lane. "Yes, I sup pose you were right ti keep the stoiy from her, und yet I Ivite a secret; there Is always the chance that, like an old spent shell, it may expl ide." "You are right," said Lane, "and tho mischief of It Is that I think the secret may come out soon. When I was down nt tho landing waiting for you this morning, I saw a stranger, who had come by the steamer yesterday, hang ing about by the Inn, They told me he said he wss from tho diamond fields, end bo had been asking all about me. I had thought that I remembered his face, and when I heard that, It came across mo that ho was Sam Dredge, tho floor manager of O'Brien Brothers, who waa run in with Nelly's father, if he knew who Nelly was, ho might try nnd trade on his secret." "Ho would be an Infernal villain, and ho would find the island of Scurtha rather close quarters It he tried on that game." ' "Well, seeing him has made me feel ureasy, but let's forget him. There is one thing, In marrying Nelly you are taking a penniless bride. I have spent nil I got out of the Vaal ilver In re storing the house, and in doing n bit nf Improvement about the place, buUiling a sea wnlt here, and putting up some decent houses for the crofters there. Tha place comes to you, ns it must; all my money has gone into It, but there Is still n drain of debt nnd charges on It. You had better have married an heiress." "I lovo tho old place where our people have lived so long, but I love Nelly a thousand times more," replied George. "I don't blamo you, though I would like to have thought that there was a little money to go on the property," said Daniel. Just then tho door wns opened, and a girl of about twenty came In, whoso bluo eyes and dark eyebrows bore witness to the strain of Irish blood in her veins, while her bright radiant beauty wns out of kecpljig with tho story that had Just been told. "What a lot of business you must have tnlked over," she said, with a blush, ns she remembered what tho business would be. "Tea Is ready, and, dear, there is n man waiting at the gate who wnntn to seo you." "What Is ho like?" asked Lane. "I have never seen him before on this Island. Ho Is a talllsh man, with a red heard." "He Is tho man I talked to you about," Lane said to his nephew. "I will sco him, here. I would llko you to bo present. Don't wnlt for us, Nelly, but go nnd have yours." Walking to the window, which opened to tho ground, he went out, and sonn came back followed by a tall man whose shaved face wns set off by a red chin beard. Ho had rather a colored nose, and u pair of little eyes that wandered restlessly about, the room, though after some tlmo they fixed themselves on the picture of Nelly's mother. "Well, what do you want?" said Daniel Lane. ' 1 suppose you havo come to see mo about something?" "Yer right, but I think it would be best for me to say what I've got to S'iy nlriiic niPMiIng no offense to this young gentleman, only we know each other out yonder where they find dia monds." "I havo no secrets from this gentle man, If you have anything to say, you can say It beforo him. Who are you nnd what do you want?" "You know who 1 am, mister Sam Dredge, who was run In along with Dick Johnson, and who has done his seven years, and ain't nshamed to talk of It. Now, I say, hadn't you better listen to what I have to say without any gent being present?" "Yo can talk beforo this gentleman or you can hold your tongue," an swered Lane. "What have you como about?" "I have come to have a little talk about my mate, poor Dick Johnson, which ain't a very pleasant subject, and what I have to say relates to that." And he pointed with his thumb at the picture on the wall. "Say what you have to say, or clear out without saying it," said Daniel Lane, a.s. he faced round at the other, looking for all his sixty years very big and powerful. "You're going to carry It off with a bounce, but I say now it's 'nrd. I comes out of doing my seven year, and what do I hear? Why, that a month or two after Dick Johnson waa run In, you goes to the river and finds ir.,0.10 worth of stuff in the bed of tho river. Ain't that a treat? Other poor beggars down the river live on mealy meal, and don't find nothing, but you get 'em all. Ain't I a right to something? Don't you think that if I was to open my mouth there'd be a deal of talk over these blessed hllands where you go In for being sucli a toff? Come! you know what I know, and If I hold my tongue I want It made up to me. ' 'Now, listen to me, Sam Dredge. I know what you know, and if you think you can do any good by talking and letting Dick Johnson's daughter know mnlco a great mistake. I won't pay of the shameful end of her father, you you blackmail, and this gentleman, who is going to marry her, never will. But if you ever do talk, I shall most likely hear of it before you have left the islands. If so, I will hammer you till you wish I would kill you outright; and if you have left these islands, wo will find you out, wherever you are, and thrash you. Ay! won't we, George, my lucf" "Our friend here can depend on a thrashing from me," said George. "In fact, perhaps it would be as well if I gave him something on account." There was no doubt that these speeches had a considerable effect on tho respectable Mr. Sam Dredge, but they seemed rather to puzzle than to frighten him. He stared into Daniel Lane's face as If he were trying to read Its expres sion. '1 wunt to tell Dick Johnson's daughter about her father's shameful end? AVell, I never! Yes, of course; perhaps It would 'ardly be the thing. Well, yes, I will say good evening. The days lengthen out wonderful for the time of year In these hllands, don't they, Mr. Daniel Lane? Oh, I am quite your way of thinking, only I have been misunderstood." And Sam Dredge, with his wandering pye again and again coming to an nnchor on the pic ture, bowed himself out of the room to the window. When he got outside he walked very slowly, and kept taking furtive glances at the ooeii window. The steamer left that evening for Kirkwall, but Dredge did not leave by hpr. He was In comfortable quarters, he said, as he drank his whisky and water and talked to the landlord of tho little inn. "Yes," said the latter, in nnswer to something Dredge had said, "I think one might say that tho people hero are as well behavod-as on any of tho Islands I am an old man, but I never heard of anyone from here being sent to prison. On the mainland of Orkney sometimes the fishermen will take a drop of grog, and then they will light; and I once heard a man on the mainland who got Into a houso at night and stole whisky. Here If people lock up their doors at night It Is all they think of doing. There are no thieves on tho Is land." "No bolting or barring up of houses, ay," said Dredge. "It's to your creMt, that Is what I say." In the mean time tho Lanes hud not wasted many thoughts about their visi tor. From the way he behaved when he left they began to doubt whether he was quite right In his head. Ho had gone off llko a man who was perfectly provoked and bewildered, and yet there was no denying that they had both ex pressed themselves very clearly. George Lane, however, put him and the painful story with which ho wns associated out of his mind, and ho de termined that tho past should throw no shadow over hlni. Very often when he la at sea far away from all ho loves best, will he think of that evening ho spent at the old home of his race after Nelly had promised to be his wife. When he got to his room ho found he could not sleep, and after some time he gave up the attempt, and sat at the open window smoking and looking out to sea. It was that sort of twilight which Is all tho night one gets when the days are at heir longest nt Orkney. Kverythlng wns still, except tho faint splash of the sea. After a while ha saw tho figure of a man walking on the path that led from the seashore up to his house. "A strango hour for a visitor," ho thought, but even then tho Idea of a thief never occurred to him. Tho thfng was so out of keeping with his sur roundings. But tho man scorned to be coming up to tho house, nnd ho passed underneath his window. Walking steathlly on tho crass, ho went on till ho cot to tho Bmoklng-room window. Then George recognized tho man. Ho wns their friend of tho afternoon, Sam Dredge. For some minutes ho stood at tho win dow which had been shut up, fumbling at the lock. It appeared to give way without much dlfflculty. As tho man went Into the smoking room George dropped from his window on to tho grass It was only a fall of a few feet then ho silently followed In tho other's footsteps, But he camo to a stop nt the window. The man had lit a candle, and when George came up, ho waa In the net of taking down tho picture of Nellie's mother that hung on tho wall. "Now what can his little game be?" thought George as he watched tho ec centric burglar take tho picture down and lay It face downwards on tho table, and then proceed with his knife to cut away tho card-board back. Then he stooped forward, and from the expres sion of his face George felt sure that ho had found whnt he was looking for. JiVU then Georgo sprang "into tho room. Tho man turned around fiercely, and with an oath rushed at him, mak ing a stab at him with tho knife. But Georgo was too quick for him, nnd got hold of his wrist with his left hand, while he let out with his right, hitting him on the point of his chin and sending him staggering into the corner of the room. Tho knife had dropped out of hi hand, and the first tiling that Georgo did was to secure It. Then lie stood, watching bis prostrate foe, ready enough for him In ense he should think fit to get up and recommence proceed ings. As he began to rise, there was a sound of footsteps along the passage, und Daniel Lano camo Into the room. "Hullo, George, my boy, what's tho meaning of this? Why, hero is our friend again." "I don't know what it Is, but what lie came after is there," answered George, as lie pointed at the picture on tho table. Daniel Lano took up the candle nnd walked to tho picture, and as he did so he gave an exclamation of surprise. "And enough to come after, too," he said, "Whv, by Jove, I never saw a nicer parcel of diamonds ull the time I was on the fields." Well ho might say so, for tho back of the photograph, from which tho card board bad been stripped off, was covered with rough diamonds, all of them from ten to twenty carats. By tills time Sam Dredge had got on his less again. He made, however, no attemut to escape or Interfere, but stool looking at the other two out of his ualy little eyes. "Now, look hero, let's bo reasonable. That there parcel of stuff is mine by rights, 'cause Dick Johnson and! I got 'em, and we bid 'em there; and, Dick being out of it, I take his share. I have done my time for the diamonds, and ought to have 'em. When I heard, af ter I camo out, how you'd found down the river, 1 made sure as tho diamonds you got came from behind that pic- Use the WORLD FANOUS VIN MARIANI Marlinl Wine Tonic Marvelous Results In Caies of SPRING FEVER For Sale nt Alt Uruzsltt Everywhere, AVOID BbilSrlTUTnS. Portraits ani Undorsement free. Mrlanl ft Co. s W. 15th Street, New York ture, whoro wo put all we took from O'Brien Brothers' floor. You wouldn't bo tho first by 11 long bit who went off to the river with tho diamonds ready found. This afternoon, when I was hero, It camo over mo all of a sudden that you knew nothing about the dia monds, and they still wore where Dick Johnson and I had hid 'em behind tho picture. "Well, I came for 'em, but you've been' loo many for mo. Whoever they belong to, they don't belong to you. Now I says, halves or they go back to O'Brien Brothers' representatives. Come, there is plenty for us both and I says halves." "Halves, you rascal. Do you think I would go halves In plunder with you? Go back to their rightful owners, they shall," said Daniel Lane, and though tho Idea did force Itself Into li'-i thoughts that the price of those dia monds ho saw" glittering on tho table would help to pny off the, debts on his property, he never, todo him justice let It stay there. "You nro a fool, Dan Lane. A big ger fool than I thought you." said tiio disgusted Sam Dredge, "letting this parcel go to you don't know who." "I don't care whoso they are, they are not mine or yours," snld Lane. "By the Lord Harry, though, I do know, George, they are Nelly's. She Is the only real descendant of tho O'Brien brothers left allvo that I over heard of. That Js Nolly's fortune, and after all you will marry an heiress." And so it turned out. Daniel Lane kicked Dredgo out of doors. The next day he wrote to the high court at Klm berley, who had administered the es tate of Tom O'Brien, telling bow ho had found a parcel of diamonds that belonged to the O'Brien brothers. There were a good many difficulties and legal formulas, but in tho end tho diamonds were sold and their price went to Nelly as tho heiress of her grand father and great-uncles. They real ized some twelve thousand pounds, for they were all picked atones. Nelly never knew how they had been found. Her only trouble seems to be that her sailor husband has often to be away from her, nnd her life will not be darkened by tho knowledge of her father's crimes and fate. Illus trated Bits. JONAS LONG'S SONS. GREAT FRIDAY SALES. JONAS LONG'S SONS. S Or discomfort, no Irritation of tho In testines but gentle, prompt, thorough healthful cleansing, when you taixe '& Sold by all druggists. 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How pleasant, then, to buy where you are safe and sure; where the refund of your money awaits you if you are dis-satisfied and where legitimate merchandise is sold for less than what pay for transparent humbuggery. Here are Friday Bargains dependable and good; we challenge the world to produce better ones. Fair, isn't it? Friday Sale The opportunity r oi of a lifetime for a Fancy SllKS handsome dress. In the lot are black and colored all silk taffetas, fancy waist silks, suras silk, moreens and many new and popular weaves. Positively worth from 75c to $1.00 a yard. On Friday only, AQrr Friday Sale A saIe, that should Z7, .j, r crowd the depart Clllld's Caps ment. There are Tarn O'Shanters.Golf Caps.Yacht Caps, Polo Caps and Fedora Hats all are made of elegant broadcloth, flannels and leathers; very finely made and trimmed; all new designs more than forty patterns. Sold regularly at oc, 75c, 85c and 98c. Take your (f choice Friday only "-' Friday Sale Juusouii Women's Suits wool Chev iot and covert materials in popular shades. Fly or box front jacket, silk lined throughout. Three piece circular skirt, flare or plain gored and lined with fast color percaline. In no store for less than $12.00. Your (A fjsz choice here Friday only.... PO. O Friday Sale T'ie . height of s j rr style in footwear Oxford Ties at very little cost. 300 pairs of ladies' fine Oxford ties, in black and russet. Nine styles, all new toe shapes, both kid and patent leatlier lips, gUUU SUlUSi, IICAIUIC UI1LI SOIL IU lilt; foot and perfect fitting. We guarantee p the wear of every pair. Sizes 2 to 8, C v.ui,i, .. , ..v.v.. ngu $1.25" pair. On Friday only, pair and C Friday Sale Bath Towels What's the pan cake without maple syrup ? What's the bath without a Turkish tow el? Here are 50 doz. fine quality un bleached Turkish towels, size 22x50, that have never sold under 25c, Ar which are yours Friday fot ' Friday Sale f a Fine Petticoats RomanstrlpS sateen petticoats, made with very full umbrella ruffle, heavily corded. Sold the world over as a bargain for Qcr $'1.25. Here on Friday only for OO Friday Sale n exceptional- , X . . ly good quality LaceCurtams 0f Nottingham Lace Curtains in many new patterns, 3 yards long and fully worth 69c a pair. Take them on Friday only at, Ar Friday Sale Tere are .flour .- J . sifters, 4-cit. tin m Basement coffee pots, now- er pots, painted and gilded, 15c; 10-qt. painted chamber pails and large jap anned coal hods, worth 19c. Your Qr choice of the lot on Friday only.. " Friday Sale ,200.; ys fine M .. J r a quality plain In White Goods dia linons, dimity stripes and fancy open-wot k lawns; all worth from i2c to 15 cents yard. As a big special bargain for hn- Friday Sale A, Phenomenal r-. 1 chance. 1,000 Embroideries yards of cam bric embroideries and open work in sertings; all new patterns and designs; 4 to 6 inches in widths; worth from 15c to 18c a yard. On Friday Ar only, per yard fi Friday Sale lor children. , T - J Very fine cotton Underwear ribbed vests and pants, nicely made and finished with pearl buttons, high or low neck, short sleeves; parity are knee length. Posi tively have never sold under c 19c. On Friday only, each... i Friday Sale These rockers - 1 r 1 are fitted with Porch Rockers reed seats- not splints, which means durability through all kinds of weather. Built o"f solid maple frames, nicely finished. Chairs of equal worth sell in no store for less than 90c. and $1.00. We of fer 200 of them on Friday AKr only, for. day only at. C Frdav Sale wo styles 0 . ,1 . fine cotton Fine Chemise chemise for choosing; one trimmed with pretty lace, the other with cotton ruffles. Sold regularly at 29c. and fully worth it. On Friday only Oirr uL Friday Sale erodes Good Wringers ff weseii regularly at $1.45 and i.6j, cheap at that. Made with and without frames ; of highly seasoned hard wood, with best para rubber rollers and roller bearings. The most start ling bargain of the year on QEr Friday only at sJK Friday Sale T,he biggest r t ir t ' chance of the Wash Fabrics year at sum mer dress and shut waist fabrics. In the lot are 1000 yards of fancy striped and figured pique; 1500 yards of dress dimities new and desirable; also 2000 yards printed lawns and Swisses. Here are goods that are selling at 1 $ c to 20c yard, and no one with fault to t 11 r find. Choice Friday only, yard K Jonas Long's Sons , . ...A.
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