THE TIMES, NEW BLOOM FIELD, PA., AlltlL 30, 1878. A SINGULAR FRAUD. LILIAN WALDIION nt the time our utory begins waa seventeen, and was budding Into lovely womanhood. Ever hinee she could remember she had lived at Green l'olnt, In sight of New York aud although she had often entreated her father's permission, he hnd always lefused his consent for her to visit that city. This refusal only made her desire tlie stronger, and so one fine Juno day, meeting a young friend who was on her way there, she mwptwl (he Invitation to uueomnany her. A short, pleasant sail brought them to the New York shore, aud they soon were i t such a rushing crowd, as can only be fmntl at a New York ferry. Lilian wus soon separated by the pres sure from her companion and drifted helplessly along with the multitude un til reaching Broadway, when the con tinuous roar of the omnibuses and the fist hurrying crowd, made her pause ii mazed and bewildered. She could see nothing of her friend, and shrinking behind an apple stand, she tried to col lect her thoughts and remember her way back to the ferry. The apple vender a pale, pleasant-faced woman with the ap pearance of having seen better days, ob served the beautiful but perplexed face of the young girl with evident curiosity while her features seemed to work as though Lilian "s appearance had aroused Hume painful thoughts. At last she asked : " have you lost j ourself ?" while her voice though pleas ant had a slight accent, which betrayed rish descent. " Yes, please," answered Lilian, Irre sistibly drawn towards the kind, moth erly voice and the sad, pale face." " Where do you live V" asked the wo 1 lan, with heightened interest. " Over at Green Point," answered Lil ian. " Though I have lived there all my life, strange to say I have never visited New York before to-dny. I came over with a companion ; we got separated In tlie crowd ; and I really do not know which way to turn to reach the ferry again." " O, you are not fur out of the way," cried the woman, pleasantly. " Walk htraight down this street, and it will bring you to the ferry." "How singular," said the woman, ab sently. " What is so singular asked Lilian, in surprise. " Your face," answered the woman, gazing at her with a long, yearning look. " In what way 5"' asked Lilian, curi ously. " The resemblance so like something I have seen, I can scarcely say where. It w one of the faint memories of my early life, when times were different. Ah I yes my little one, my Lily, as we used to cull her, with her blue eyes, and golden hair." "Lily I" exclaimed her hearer; "why that is my name. Did you have a little girl called Lilian V" " No,not Lilian Lily ; we never call ed her anything else." " Did she die ?" asked Lilian, quietly. " We never knew what became of her," answered the woman, mournfully; "that was the worst of it. She wander ed out in the street one day when she was three years old, and we never saw her again. We lived near the water then, and we think she must have got down ou the pier, fell overboard, and was swept away by the tide. Poor John! it was a sad blow to him he took to drink, and went from bad to worse till he got badly hurt unloading a vessel,one day. He was taken to the hospital, and died there. You see what I've come to lu order to get a living. Somehow I often think It would have been different if our Lily had lived." " You think she is dead, then ?" said Lilian. " O, yes ; or we should have heard something of her before now. Had she lived and grown up she would have been the very image of you, only she would have been plainer dressed, and without the genteel air that you have. Ah 1 she would have been a beauty just like you I" Lilian blushed at the woman's home ly compliment, she knew it was honest and outspoken, and such words are not unpleasant to hear. " Tell me your name," continued the woman, earnestly. " Lilian Waldron," answered the girl, readily. " My father is John Waldron, and he has an office somewhere on Wall Street." " O, yes, I know where it is," said the woman : " Do you want to go to his office V" "O, no," answered Lilian, quickly. " Very well, then go straight down the street till you come to the water ,and then any one can point out the ferry to you." Lilian thanked her and then commit ted herself once more to the human tide, As she came in view of the water and waa looking about for the ferry, a man In the garb of a sailor, suddenly accost ed her. " Why, holloa, Nance 1" he cried, ex tending his huge hand in a very friend ly manner. How are youV Give us your hand!" " Mr!" cried Lilian, In bewilderment. " I don't know you nor is my name Nance." " No, by Jingo 1" he returned, evident ly astonished himself; "you can't be her for she must be forty by this time, and you are not twenty. I was forgetting how time hag slipped away, but you are the very Image of what she was when she married John Burke. That wbh the worst cut I ever had It drove me to sea and a wandering life. Why, I've been round the world in these last ten years. "Oh," he contin ued, with a sudden thought ; "you're her daughter the one that was lost and she found you again V" Lilian was very much embarrassed by this persistent recollection of the un couth stranger. " I do not know what you meon," she exclaimed, hastily ; " I am not the per son you take me for my name is Lilian Waldron, my father is a broker on Wall Street we live at Green Point." A young gentleman coming down the street, observing the annoyance aud alarm depicted upon her face, approach ed her, and sold : " If I can be of any assistance, pray command me." The one shy glance that Lilian cast Into the frank, manly fuce was enough to assure her of the character of its owner. "O," she cried, " If you would be so kind as to show me the woy to the Green Point ferry." " With pleasure," returned the geu tleman. " This way, if you please." He offered his arm, she accepted It with a glad sense of protection, and they passed ou together. Thus began Lilian Waldron 's acquaintance with Sidney Gray. We shall see what that acquaint ance led to. Upon such trifle? does a life's destiny turn. The sailor touched his hat with a mumbled "Beg pardon, rulss, if 1 offend ed you," and watched them until they Were out of sight, talking to himself all the time. " A queer reckoning this," so his words ran ; " first day in port too, after a five years' cruise. I wus just think ing of hunting up John and Nance, see ing If they still lived, when across my very bows comes this trim cutter with Nance's figure-head, just as she looked twenty years ago. How I loved that woman ! and she preferred that snip of a John Burke to me because he was honest, she said, and she was afraid I wasn't, but what's the odds, I had the most money, and that's what makes things slide easy, no matter how you come by it. What did the gal say her name was '( O-ah-Lily-yan Waldron lives at Green Point. "Let me see I remember something odd that happened at Green Point going on fourteen years now. I remember what I found buried there, on that gen tleman's grounds. He don't know it ; though thought I might turn it to ac count some day I wonder who he was? I had to cut and run just then, and couldn't stop to find out. I've been in tending to look it up for some time there may be money iii it. I've been gone so long that there can't be anybody on the lookout for me now. I'll fix up a bit and then take soundings." All this indistinctly to himself, as he proceeded on his way. Sidney Gray and Lilian Waldron were not long in becoming intimate. She was as Ingenious and simple as a child of six, instead of seventeen, and what could he do but return her confidence. There was a charm in this very simplicity that attracted him towards her, for though but twenty-two, Gray, from his position in life, being the only son of a wealthy merchant, had seen much of the world's society. He was a student of Yale.home for the vacation. His residence was in Brooklyn. He not only escorted Lilian to the ferry, but accompanied her on the boat and bore her company to her very door, leaving her there with a reluctance he he could not conquer. He declined to enter, as he had promised to he home at dinner to meet some relatives, but a glance at the handsome mansion and grounds showed him that Lilian's father possessed wealth and position. Promls ing to call on the next day and be Intro duced to Mr. Waldron, he tore himself away from those blue eyes and sunny tresses. " My time's come," he confessed to himself, as he strode buoyantly away. " I'll marry that girl if she'll only have me." A safe reservation ; but do you think be had doubt of it t When Mr. Waldron came home to dinner, Lilian, much as she dreaded his displeasure, could not refrain from re counting her day's adventure. The cir cumstance of the two strange recogni tions had much perplexed her mind. The resemblance which had been recog nized by two Individuals so dissimilar puzzled her exceedingly. But If it had surprised her, the effect of her narration upon her father was still more surpris ing; he actually grew livid at her words. Never had she seen him In such an ex cited state, for he had ever been grave, sedate and gentle In his manner towards her. Ho reprimanded her almost fierce ly, for her indiscretion, as he termed It. " Why, child," he exclalml,passlon alely, "this act, trifling as It may appear to you, might have caused my ruin !" He paused abruptly, conscious (hat IiIb emotion had made him utter Incautious words. " How caused your ruin, father V" she asked, terrified by his wordB, which seemed to hint at some unknown and hidden danger. "How can that be pos sible V" " No matter you are too young to comprehend," was the unsatisfactory reply. He was silent for a few moments, and then suddenly began to question her eagerly about the apple-woman what she said, how she looked, her dress, her manner, extruding every Item that Lil ian could give him In the way of Infor mation with the ardor and keenness of a cross-examining lawyer. Having gleaned that subject threadbare, he com menced upon 'the man in precisely the same manner, until the poor girl's bruin was quite bewildered, and she almost began to fancy that she had, uncon sciously, committed Bome great crime. " I can understand about the womau," he said, musingly, and unconsciously uttering his thoughts in an audible tone of voice; " but the man is beyond my comprehension." " They ore both beyond my compre hension," remarked Lilian; "but the fright they have occasioned me lias taught me a lesson, and I shall never venture Into New York again without a proper escort, I can assure you." This simple assurance Beemed to grat ify Mr. Waldron greatly, and the cloud of care began to slowly fude from his face. "Right, my child," he cried, pleas antly. "After all, it was but a stupid afliiir. A poor woman, who lost a child years ago, fancies she traces a resem blance to her lost darling In your fuce, because, possibly, your eyes and hair are of the same color. History has many records of strange resemblances, and stranger impostures resulting therefrom. Do not let these circumstances bewilder your mind ; remember that you are my daughter, Lilian Farrell Waldron ; that your mother, daughter of Judge Farrell, died when you were but three years old." " Who doubts it, futherV" asked Lil ian, in surprise at his earnestness. " My child, there are people in this world who are silly enough to doubt anything and everything, even the ex istence of the Supreme Ruler of the universe." There the conversation dropped, and John Waldron never referred to the sub ject again with his daughter. The day after this conversation a man neatly dressed, paused in front of the Waldron mansion, and took a careful survey of the premises. You would scarcely have recognized In this clean shaven and respectable looking person the sailor who had so frightened Lilian the day before. A broad grin flushed his swarthy features as his glance fol lowed the fence down to the water's edge. " The very place.by jingo !" he chuck led, and then Indulged in a low whistle of satisfaction. " I begin to understand the resemblance now but why, why ? That's what beats me. I'd like to In quire into the early history of Mr. John Waldron. There was a grocery store at the corner ; perhaps the man may have kept here for years let s try him." He sauntered on leisurely to the cor ner, and went in. His keen eye selected the proprietor at once, a little, plump Englishman. Our cosmopolite detected the accent at once, as he asked for a good cigar, and the grocery-man replied that he could sell him as good a one as he could get in New York. The sailor lit it and puffed away leisurely. "A real Havana," he said. "Ah I you know a good cigar when you get one," cried the shopman. "O ! I've smoked the real article in Havana itself !" "Ah 1 you've been there thought you had a kind of seufuring look." " You're an Englishman. I've been there, too." The shopman looked gratified. " I'm proud to say I am. Can't dis guise the fact, you know, though I've been twenty years in this country ; nat uralized, too, and got my papers." It was a warm, dull afternoon, and the bhopman was disposed to be sociable. The sailor, leaning against the counter lazily smoking his cigar, commenced to extract the information he sought " Kept this shop long?" "About five years." The sailor shifted from one leg to the other; he began to fear, as he would have expressed It. that he was on the "wrong tack." "Ah I thought you'd been here some time." " So I ave," answered the other, "but not in this shop. I kept one near er the ferry, thirteen years, until I mov. ed here." " Know about everybody hi the place, eh?" "O, yes." The sailor became quite absorbed In his cigar for a few moments. " Nice place thatabove here beautiful house and grounds." "Oh, yes; you mean the Farrel es tate?" The sailor took his cigar out of his mouth, aud knocked the white ash off the end. " No," he said, " I don't mean that- I mean where Mr. John Waldron lives." " Why, bless you! that la the Farrell estate." "Ah, indeed!" ejaculated the sailor, absently. uO, yes. It belonged to old Judge Farrell; Mr. Waldron married his only daughter, and so came into the estate. That Is to say, it belongs to Miss Lilian who Inherited It from her mother, her father being her guardian." "By Jingo!" cried the sailor, "I've got soundings now." "Eh?" asked the stranger, In sur prise. " Oh, I see how It 1b," he con tinued, "you've heard something of this before or maybe, you've been away a long time at sea, and don't know what has happened since you've been gone." " Just so," affirmed the sailor, anx ious to wipe away the Impression of the unguarded exclamation Into which he had been betrayed. " It's quite a little romance," contin ued the shopman,who was only too anx ious to tell all he knew. " Judge Far rell, you must know, was one of our richest men ; in fuct, that very estate had been in his family since the first settlement of the country or rather since we came over and conquered the Dutchmen, who had it first, you know and he was very proud of it. They say he took it much to heart when his two sons died, one after the other, leav ing only a puny girl to Inherit the fami ly acres. She was the apple of the old Judge's eye he fairly doted on her, and spoilt her, as always happens In such cases. She was a beauty Miss Lilian is not a bit like her, strange to say it has often been remarked though she Is as handsome as her mother was ; but then it Is a different style of beauty. Lilian Farrell mother and daughter, both named alike, you see was queenly, proud and haughty, with gray eye and dark brown hair, while Lilian Waldron Is-" "I've seen her," lnterpolater the sailor. "Ah! then I needn't tell you what she is like. Lilian Farrell had suitors in abundance wealthy ones, too but with the caprlclousness of her nature, and contrary to her father's wishes, she passed them all to bestow her hand upon John Waldron, who was then only a poor clerk in a broker's office but he was a splendid looking fellow, a fine looking man to this day, sir and she loved him, and wouldn't have anybody else, and so the old Judge was at last obliged to give bis consent; hecouldn refuse her anything ; but it went very much against his grain, though, and he did It very reluctantly. He always had the idea, and he never got over it to his dying day, sir, that Waldron had taken tlie advantage of his good looks to win his daughter's heart, not for herself, but for her money ; But I think the judge wronged him there, for there never was a better or more devoted husband than he made. The old Judge made his will, and settled the estate upon Lilian and her children, and tied it up in such way that Waldron could never get hold of it, even if his wife wished to pass it over to him ; but for all his doubts, he set him up In business and took him home, for be could not bear the idea of being separated from his daughter. They bad a very happy household, and the old man must have seen that his daugh ter never regretted her choice ; but he was quite old going on seventy and only two years after the marriage just long enough to fondle his grandchild a little. They do say, but I will not vouch for the truth of this, that when he was sinking fast, he called Mr. Waldron to his bedside and thus addressed him "It may be John, that I have wronged you I am going now where all will be made clear to me. Wealth is a great temptation ; men will do most anything for money. Treat her well, for without her you will have nothing. It all goes to Lilian and her children." So the old man died with his prejudice against Mr. Waldron unchanged." " Didn't he feel annoyed at this ? asked the sailor. To be continued. (Gf If a man is without enemies, wouldn't give-ten cents for his friends The man who can please everybody has not got sense enough to displease any body. VBGETINE ron CHILLS, SHARES, FEVEH & AGUE. ,,. Tarboro,N.C.,1878. Dr. It. It. Btnven Dear Hlr, 1 lee ypry emtetnl for what your valuable medicine, Venetlne,his done In my fam ily, i Winn n express my maims by Informing you of the wonderful cure ol my soni also, to let you know that Venetlne Is the bent medicine 1 ever saw for C'hlllH, Hhaken, Kevnr mid Ague. My aim wan slek with measles in 1K73, which left hlin with Hip-Joint disease. My son suffered a great deal of pain, all of the time; the pain was so treat lie did nothing Ontory. The doctors did not help lilm a particle, he could not lift his foot from the noor, ne coum noi move without crutches. 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