Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, July 20, 1893, Image 3
CHAPTER XVI. A MIDNIGHT VISITOR. Now all this time while tho tragi comedy of lifo was being played in theso three suburbifh villas, wliilo on a com monplace stage love and humor and fears and lights and shadows were BO Bwiftly Bncceeding each other, and whilo these three families, drifted together by fate, were shaping each other's destinies and working out in their own fashion the strange, intricate ends of human life, there were human eyes which watched over every stage of tho per formance, and which woro keenly crit ical of every actor on it. Across tho road beyond the green palings and tho close cropped lawn, behind tho curtains of their creeper framed windows, sat tho two old ladies, Miss Bertha and Miss Monica W illiains, looking out as from a private box at all that was being enacted before them. The growing friendship of tho three families, tho engagement of Harold Den ver with Clara Walker, tho engagement of Charles Westinacott with her sister, tho dangerous fascination which tho widow exercised over tho doctor, the preposterous behavior of tho Walker girls and the unhappiness which they had caused their father, not ono of theso Incidents escaped tho notice of the two jpaiden ladies. Bertha, the younger, had a smile or a sigh for the lovers; Monica, tho elder, a frown or a shrug for the elders. Every night they talked over what they had seen, and their own dull, uneventful life took a warmth and a col oring from their neighbors, as a blank wall reflects a beacon fire. And now it was destined that thoy should experience the one keen sensation of their later years, tho one memorable incident from which all future incidents should bo dated. It was on tho very night which suc ceeded tho events which have just been narrated when suddenly into Monica Williams' head, as she tossed upon her ■sleepless bed, there shot a thought which made her sit up with a thrill and a gasp. "Bertha," said she, plucking at tho slioulder of her sister, "I havo left tho front window open." "No, Monica, surely not." Bertha sat up also and thrilled in sympathy. "I am sure of it. You romember I had forgotten to water the pots, and then I opened tho window, and Juno called me about tho jam, and I have never been in tho room since." "Good gracious, Monica, it is a mercy that wo havo not boon murdered in our beds. There was a house broken into at Forest Hill last week. Shall we go down and shut it?" "I dare not go down alone, dear, but if you will come with mo. Put on your slippers and dressing gown. Wo do not need a candle. Now, Bertha, wo will go down together." Two littlo white patches moved vaguely through the darkness, the stairs creaked, the door whined, and they were at the front room window. Monica closed it gently down and fastened tho snil). "What a beautiful moon!" said she, looking out. "We can seo as clearly as if it were day. How peaceful and quiet tho thrco houses are over yonder. It seems quite sail to seo that 'To Let' card upon No. 1. I wonder how No. 2 will like their- going. For my part I could better spare that dreadful woman at No. 8 with her short skirts and her snalio. But, oh, Bertha, lookl look! look!" Her voico had fallen suddenly to a quivering whisper, and she was pointing to tho Westmacotts' house. Her sister gavo a gasp of horror and stood with a clutch at Monica's arms, staring in the same direction. Tliero was a light in the front room, a slight wavering light such as would be given by a small candle or taper. The blind was down, but tho light shone dimly through. Outside in the garden, with his figure ontliued against tho luminous square, there stood a man, his back to the road, his two hands upon tho window ledge and his body rather bent as though lie were trying to peep in past tho blind. So absolutely still and motionless was ho that in spite of tho moon they might well havo overlooked him wero it not for that telltalo light behind. "Good heaven!" gasped Bertha, "it is a burglar." But her sister set her mouth grimly and shook her head. "We shall see," sho whispered. "It may bo something worse." Swiftly and furtively the man stood suddenly erect and began to push tho window slowly up. Then ho put ono kneo upon the sash, glanced round to see that all was safe and climbed over into tho room. As ho did so ho had to push tho blind asido. Then tho two spectators saw where tho light came from. Mrs. standing as rigid as a statue in the center of tho room, with a lighted tajier in her right hand. For an instant they caught a glimpso of her stern face and her white collar. Then tho blind fell buck into position, and the two figures disappeared from their view. "Oh, that dreadful woman!" cried "Monica. "That dreadful, dreadful wom an! She was waiting for him. Yousaw it with your own eyes, Sister Bertha!" "Hush, dear, hush and listen!" said ■ her more charitable companion. Thoy pushed their own window up once more and watched from behind tho curtains. For a long time all was silent within tho houso. The light still stood motion less as though Mrs. W estmacott remained rigidly in tho ono position, while from time to timo a shadow passed in front of it to Bhow that her midnight visitor was pacing up and down in front of her. Onco they saw his ontlino clearly, with his hands outstretched as if in appeal or entreaty. Then suddenly there was a dull sound, a cry, the noise of a fall, the taper was extinguished, and a dark fig ure fled in the moonlight, rushed across tho garden and vanished amid the shrubs at the farther side. Then only did the two old ladies un derstand that they had looked on while a tragedy hall beon enacted. "Help!" they cried, and "help!" in their high, thin voices, timidly at first, but gather ing volumo as thoy went on until The Wilderness rang with their shrioks. Lights shone in all tho windows oppo site, chains rattled, bars were unsliot, doors opened, and out rushed friends to tho rescue. Harold, with a stick; the admiral, with his sword, his gray head and bare feet protruding from either end of a long, brown ulster; finally Dr. Walker, with a poker, all ran. to the Westmacotts. The door had been ol reaily opened, and they crowded tu multuously into the front room, Charles Westinacott, white to his lips, Was kneeling on the floor supporting hjs i!'[ **• Supporting his aunt's hend upon his knee. aunt's head upon his knee. She lay out stretched. dressed in her ordinary clothes, tho extinguished taper still grasped in her hand, no nuirk or wound upon her— pale, placid and senseless. "Thank God, you aro como, doctor," said Charles, looking up. "Do tell me how she is, and what I should do." Dr. Walker kneeled besido her and passed his left hand over her head, whilo he grasped hor pulse with tho right. "Sho has had a terrible blow," said ho. "It must havo been with some blunt weapon. Here is tho place, behind tho ear. But she is a woman of extraordi nary physical powers. Iler pulse is full and slow. There is no stcrtor. It is my belief that sho is merely stunned and that sho is in no danger at all." "Thank God for that!" "Wo must get her to bed. Wo shall carry her up stairs, and then I shall send my girls in to her. But who has done this?" "Somo robber," said Charles. "You seo that tho window is open. Sho must havo heard him nnd como down, for sho was always perfectly fearless. I wish to goodness sho had called mo." "But she was dressed." "Siimotimes sho sits up very lato." "I did sit up very lato," said a voice. Sho had opened her eyes and was blink ing at them in the lamplight. "A vil lain camo in through tho window and struck mo with a lifo preserver. You can tell tho police so when they come. Also that it was a littlfe fat man. Now, Charles, give me your arm, and I shallgo up stairs." But her spirit was greater than her strength, for as Bho staggered to her feet hor head swam round, aud she would havo fallen again had hor nephew not thrown his arms around her. They car ried her up stairs among them and laid hor upon tho bed, where tho doctor wutched besido her, whilo Charles wont oil to the polieo station, and tho Donvers mounted guard over tho frightened maids. CHAPTER XVII. IN POUT AT LAST. Day had broken before tho several den izens (if Tho Wilderness had all returned to their homes, tho police finished their inquiries, and all como back to its nor mal quiet. Mrs. Westinacott had been left sleeping peacefully with a small chloral draft to steady her nerves nnd a hnndkorchief soaked in arnica bound round her head. It was with soino sur prise, therefore, that tho admiral re ceived a note from her about 10 o'clock asking him to bo good enough to step in to her. He hurried in, fearing that sho might havo taken somo turn for tho worse, but ho was reassured to find her sitting up in her bed, with Clara aud Ida Walker in attendance upon her. Sho had removed tho handkerchief and had put on a littlo cap with pink ribbons and a maroon dressing jacket daintily fulled at tho neck and sleeves. "My dear friend," said slio as ho en tered, "I wish to make a last few re marks to you. No, no," sho continued, laughing as sho saw a look of dismay upon his face, "I shall not dream of dying for at least another 30 years. A woman should bo ashamed to die before sho is 70. I wish, Clara, that you woul4 ask your father to step up. And you. iUa, just pass mo my cigarettes anu open me a bottle of stout." "Now, then," sho continued as tho doctor joined their party, "I don't quite know what I ought to say to you, ad miral. Yon want some very plain speak ing to." " 'Pon my word, ma'am, I don't know what you aro talking about." "Tho idea of you at your ago talking of going to sea and leaving that dear pa tient little wifo of yours at home, who has seen nothing of you all her life! It's all very well for you. You havo the life, and tho change, and tho excitement, but you don't think of her eating her heart out in a dreary London lodging. You men are all the same." "Well, ma'am, since you know so much, you probably know also that I havo sold my pension. llow am Ito live if I do not turn my hand to work?" Mrs. Westinacott produced a largo registered envelope from beneath tho sheets and tossed it over to tho old sea man. "That excuse won't do. There aro your pension papers. Just see if they are right." Ho broke the seal, and out tumbled tho very papers which lie had mado over to McAdam two days before. "But what am I to do with these now?' he cried in bewilderment. "You will put them in a safe place, or get a friend to do so, and if you do your duty you will go to your wife and lieg her pardon for having even for an instant thought of leaving her." The admiral passed his hand over his rugged forehead. "This is very good of you, ma'am," said he, "very good and kind, and I know that you are a stanch friend, but for all that these papers mean money, and though we may have been in broken water of late we aro not quite in such straits as to havo to signal to our friends. When we do, ma'am, there's no one wo would look to sooner than to you." "Don't be ridiculous," said the widow. "You know nothing whatever about it, and yet you stand there laying down tho law. I'll have my way in the matter, and you shall take the piqiers, for it is no favor that I am doing you, but sim ply a restoration of stolen property." "How's that, ma'am?" "I am just going to explain, though you might take a lady's word for it with out asking any questions. Now, what I am going to jay is just between you four and must go no further. I have my own reasons for wishing to keep it from tho police, Who do you think it was who struck me last night, admiral?" "Somo villain, ma'am. I don't know (lis name." "But I do. It was tho same man who ruined or tried to ruin your son. It was my only brother, Jeremiah." "All!" "I will tell you nbout him—or a littlo about him, for lie has done much which I would not care to talk of nor you to listen to. Ho was always a villain, smooth spoken and plausible, but a dan gerous, Bubtle villain all the same. If I have some hard thoughts about man kind, I can t race them back to tho childhood which I spent with my broth er. Ho is my only living relative, for my other brother, Charles' father, was killed in tho Indian mutiny. "Our father was rich, and when ho died he mado a good provision both for Jeremiah and for mo. He knew Jere miah, and ho distrusted him, however, so instead of giving him all that ho meant him to have he handed mo over a part of it, telling me with what was al most his dying breath to hold it in trust for my brother and to uso it in his bo half when ho should havo squandered or lost all that ho had. This arrangement was meant to bo a secret between my father and myself, but unfortunately hii words wero overheard by tho nurse, and slio repeated them afterward to my broth er, so that ho came to know that I held some money in trust for him. I suppose tobacco will not harm my head, doctor! Thank you; then I shall trouble you for tho matches, Ida." Sho lit a cigarette and leaned back upon the pillow, with tho bluo wreaths curling from her lips. "I cannot tell yon how often he has at tempted to get that money from me. Ho has bullied, cajoled, threatened, coaxed —done all that a man could do. I still held it with tho presentiment that a need for it would como. When I heard of this villninous business—his flight and his leaving his partner to face the storm— abovo all, that my Old friend had been driven to surrender his inconio in order to make up for my brother's defalcations —I felt that now indeed I had a need for it. I sent in Charles yesterday to Mr. McAdam, and his client, upon hearing tho facts of tho case, very graciously consented to givo back tho papers and to take tlio money which ho had ad vanced. Not a word of thanks to mo, admiral. I tell you that it was very cheap benevolence, for it was nil dono witli his own money, and how could I uso it better? "I thought that I should probably hear from him soon, and I did. Lastovcning there was handed in a note of the usual whining, cringing tone. 110 had como back from abroad at tho risk of his lifo and liberty just in order that ho might say goodby to tho only sister ho ever had and to entreat my forgiveness for any pain which ho had caused mo. Ho would never trouble mo again, and he begged only that I would hand over to him the sum which I held in trust for him. That, with what he had already, would bo enough to start him as an honest man in the new world, when ho would ever remember nnd pray for tho dear sister who had beon his savior. Thut was the stylo of tho letter, and it ended by im ploring mo to leavo tho window latch open and to bo in tho front room at 8 in tho morning, when ho would como to re ceive my last kiss and to bid me farewell. "Bad as ho was, I could not, when ho trusted mo, betray him. I said nothing, but I was there at tho hour. He entered through tho window nnd implored mo to give him tho money. Ho was terribly changed—gaunt, wolfish, and spoke liko a madman. I told him that I hail spent tho money. Ho gnashed his teeth at mo aud sworo it "was his money. I told him that I had spent it on him. Hp asked me how. I said In trying to make mm an honest man and in repairing the re sults of his villainy. Ho shrieked out a curse, and pulling something out of the breast of his coat—a loaded stick, • I think—ho struck mo with it, and I re member nothing more." "Tho blackguard!" cried tjio doctor, "but the police must bo hot upon liis track." "I fancy not," Mrs. Westmocott an swered calmly. "As my brother is a particularly tall, thin man, and as tho police ure looking for a short fat one, I do not think that it is very probable that they will catch him. It is best, I think, that these little family matters should bo adjusted in private." "My dear ma'am," said the admiral, "if it is indeed this man's money that has bought back my pension then I can havo no scruples about taking it. You havo brought sunshine upon us, ma'am, when tho clouds were at their darkest, for hero is my boy who insists upon return ing the money which I got. He can keep it now to pay his debts. For what you have done I can only a6k God to bless you, ma'am, and as to thanking you I can't even" "Then pray don't try," said the widow. "Now run away, admiral, and make your peace with Mrs. Denver. lam suro if I were she it would ho a long time he fore I should forgive you. As for me, I am going to America when Charles goes. You'll take mc so far, won't you, Ida? There is a collego being built in Denver which is to equip tho woman of tho future for the struggle of life, and espe cially for her battle against man. Some months ago the committee offered me a responsible situation upon the staff, and I have decided now to acoept it, for Charles' marring© removes the last tio which hinds mo to England. You will write to me sometimes, my friends, and you will address your letters to Professor Westmacott, Emancipation college, Den ver. From there I shall watch how the glorious struggle goes in conservative old England, and if I am needed you will find me here again fighting in the fore fr< nt of the fray. Goodby—but not you, girls. I have still a word I wish to say to you." "Give mo your hand, Ida, and yours, Clara," said she when they were alone. "Oh, you naughty little pussies, aren't you ashamed to look me in the face? Did you think—did you really think that 1 was so very blind and could not see your little plot? You did it very well, 1 must say that, and really I think that 1 like you better as you are. But you had all your pains for nothing, you little conspirators, for I give you my word that I had quite made up my mind not to have him." And so within a few weeks our little ladies from their observatory saw a mighty bustle in The Wilderness when 2-liorso carriages came and coachmen with favors to bear away tho twos who wero destined to come hack one. And they themselves in their crackling silk dresses went across as invited to the big doublo wedding breakfast which was held in tho house of Dr. Walker. Then thero were health ch inking and tears and laughter and changing of dresses and rice throwing when tho carriages drove up again, and two more couples started on that journey which ends only with life itself. Charles Wcstmacott is now a flourish ing ranchman in tho western part of Texas, whero ho and his sweet little wife are tho two most popular persons in all that county. Of their aunt they see littlo, hut from time to time they see no tices in tho papers that thero is a focus of light in Denver, whero mighty thun- ; derbolts are being forged which will ono | day bring tho dominant sex upon their I knees. The admiral and his wife still I livo at No. 1, whilo Harold and Clara j havo taken No. 2, whero Dr. Walker con tinues to reside. j y#j 'mm !" m' "01 1, you naughty little pussies." AH to tho business, it hail been recon structed, and tho energy and ability of tho junior partner had soon made up for all the ill that had been dono by his sen ior. Yet with his sweet and refined homo atmosphere ho is ablo to realize his wish and to keep himself free from tho sordid aims and base ambitions which drag down tho man whose busi ness lies too exclusively in tho money market of the vast Babylon. As ho goes back every evening from tho crowds of Tlirogmorton street to tho tree lined, peaceful avenues of Norwood, so ho has found it possible in spirit also to do one's duties amid tho babel of the city and yet to livo beyond it. THE END. Mention is made of lnnds sold for $277,- 000 that were bought of aborigines for a jug of whisky. It might he useful to complete the list of all tho lands worth $277,000 that havo been sold for a jug of whisky and not by red aborigines either. Tho doorkeeper of the British house of commons retired tho other day after a servico of 87 years and was succeeded by his first assistant. The place is a val uable one, both because of its salary, ita permunence and its dignity. Monaco is reported as planning to hold a universal exposition next year. Mona co has a territory of eight square miles and a standing army of 120 men. GEMS IN VERSE. * The Hidden Hoard. There is not a word thou hast ever said. There is not a glance of thine, There is not a fear thou has chanced to shed. That I have not by stealth mode mine And hoarded away for the wintry day When thy lovo shall have ceased to shine! Now that I bask in thy smiles galore. And song in thy least breath find, I never need gaze on that furtive store Deep down in my heart enshrined, But summer's delight will ono day take flight. And then, for the bleak, bleak wind! In the season of sorrow and waste and wreck. When all shall seem doomed to wane, That long cherished hoard shall my heart not lack, Though naught beside it remain. But with glamour lit eyes, poring over euch prize, I shall dream that thou lov'st again! —William Toynbec. The Convict's Dream. Tho moon looked in on his lonely cell, The barren floor, and tho untouched faro, And its holy veil on his wan face fell And covered tho pain and sin marks there. And a smile, tho first for many a day, Tho first for many a weary year. Crept over Ilia lips as he sleeping lay And banished tho look of haunted fear. Ho dreamed that, a boy again, he strayed Afar in tho glowing, dying wood; Tho goldon sunlight around hJm played, And tho ripe nuts fell with a pleasant thud. Again a squirrel in fearsome fright Sought shelter up in a whispering tree. And a rabbit, wild In its eager flight, Dashed into tho bushes tromblingly. And again, grown weary of wand'ring play, 110 turns his steps to his welcome home, Whore a foco us sweet as a sweet Juno day Is smiling a greeting to her son. "My bovl My boy!" and tho Hps close meet. And she listens with earnest, lovelit eyes, Whilo ho tolls of the day's work, sad and sweet. And his wonderful hopo that in future lios. But the moonlight fades—and ho wakes. For a moment a blank—and then a sob From tho white, drawn Hps in anguish breaks And tears his heart with a mighty throb. His boyhood isfwvst— tho mother sleeps Where his sob no answering lovo can wako— And ho thinks of his life and weeps and weeps Till it seems if tho bursting heart must break. God pity him there! And pity the men Who languish behind tho prison wall, Who look on tho post through the eyes of sin. And long for tho lovo beyond recall. Lot thy lovo, liko the moonlight., sweet and still, Steal over them—bid their anguish cease— And speak that word with a holy thrill: "Behold, I forgive thee, brother. Peace!" —Philadelphia Ledger. Requiem. Let her rest; tho weary night Never brought her dreams like this. Lot her sleep; tho morning light Shall not wako her from her bliss. Glad was she to end tho fight; Death had conquered with a kiss. Tired eyes need watch no more; Flagging feet, the race is run; Hands that heavy burdens bore, Bet them down, the day is done; Heart, be still—through anguish sore, Everlasting pcaco is won. —Chambers* Journal. Chemistry of Character. John and Peter and Robert and Paul- God in his wisdom created them all. John was a statesman and Peter a slave, Robert a preacher, and Paul was a knave. Evil or good, as the case may be, Wliito or colored or bond or free, John and Peter and Robert and Paul- God In his wisdom created them nil. Out of earth's eloments, mingled with flame, Out of lifo's compounds of glory and shame, Fashioned and shaped by no will of their own And holplossly Into life's history thrown; Born by tho law that compels man to bo, Born to conditions thoy could not foresee— John and Peter and Robert and Paul- God in his wisdom created them ail. John was tho head and heart of his state. Was trusted and honored, was noble and great. Peter was made 'neath life's burden to groan And never once dreamed that his soul was his own. Robert great glory and honor received For zealously prenching what no one believed, Whilo Paul of tho pleasures of sin took his fill And gave up his life in tho service of ill. It chanced that theso men, in their passing away From earth and its conflicts, all died the same day. John was mourned through tho length and the breadth of tho land; Peter fell 'neath tho lash In a merciless hand; Robort died with tho praiso of tho Lord on his tonguo, Whilo Paul was convicted of murder and hung. John and Poter and Robert and Paul— The purpose of life was fulfilled in them all. Men said of tho statesman, "How noble and brave!" But of Poter, alas, "110 is only u slave!" Of Robert, " Tis well with Ids soul; it is welll" While Paul they consigned to tho torments of hell. Born by ono law, through all nature tho same. What made thorn different, and who was to blame? John and Peter and Robert and Paul- God In his wisdom created them aIL Out in that region of infinite light, Whero tho soul of tho black man is pure as tho white; Oat whore tho spirit, through sorrow mod# wise, No longer resorts to deception and lies; Out whero tho flesh can no longer control Tho freedom and faith of tho God given soul. Who shall determine what change may befall John and PtAer and Robert and Paul? John may In wisdom and goodness increase; Poter rejoico in an infinite pcaco; Robort may learn that tho truths of the Lord Arc more in the spirit and less in the word, And Paul may bo blessed with a holier birth Than tho patieuce of man had allowed hlra on earth. John aiul Peter and Robert and Paul- God in his mercy will care for them all. —Burlington Hawkeys. Enormous Loss of Power. At tho olectrio light convention in St. Louis Mr. L. B. 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