i . • x.-- .■ ''i l ' I .njirTT^rtTlt^ xnrrii (----iy .T-TIT ■■■-,. - ,« -JJ B *” the criminal—and working in Knickerbocker will be than be the result safe FOREVER. of spent you worse « upon error; may an widow. He tired and he direct bank proof whatever have for case. was no we “I dare not ask forgiveness for the of light golden beam your Every with And, perplexed; for, all is his unflagging defaulter. Arbogast that was a for trouble I bringing sight; I the shadow to am upon you; Leaves a quick intelligence and his interesting when it then, realize to all clearly the of the the energy, extent too dewdrop comes jour rose Every on I have done But I feel irresistibly he ocean's bosom plodding- had wrong description of the alleged shooting his the you. To goes. perseverance, come impelled lay their shone to before in all that Every you star ever his investigation. standstill The Arbogast, it strikes that of to in a me nakedness, I do thrown. before conseience, gladness has Somewhere as my own a had Evening Tempest appeared with entirely carried by no your the circumstances are away which led you have forever, to that lives All my goes on the mention of Quinlan in description further downfall. for, A knowledge these enthusiasm; of minute and I case, may perhaps Forever ore ver. your enable understand, in to perfunctory of you with only and report a measure, of the path of the bullet, at a friendship’s chain link tn Every the temptation which I have to succumbed; having cab attempt the mystery, angle, of which certain no you seem another link again; Forged a although I hard myself, find it the made connect two, for Sturgis love has to throb that cost, the almost the been Every know to to that all is measure realize how I now to over, came lost. and heaven not Made his yield was would- consent to to it. publish to a not second, overlook fraction of several a you look and Every tone every “Perhaps he remember celebration you may until he complete of evidence important things. Two shots was sure seed in Has sown. memory a of fiftieth anniversary. We my undertaking. in his oh tired yesterday in the forever. that lives success All near or were having goes enjoyable evening most in were a approached the house forever. and the Forever As he Knickerbocker bank. In, the of the friends reporter whom had say you, company you invited participate in his and to in the festivities, light window, with is revolver because here two saw a word a spoken Never yet a when caller announced. I obliged a was was visitor awaiting inferred that heard; cartridge shells; here is echo it But in was a empty was a leave to in order guests receive him to our thought living Never Mr. Dunlap, who, a coming. It was his which have been mark, black was in the library. may This lost time in man no wrought. magic it has But some striding and stating the pale his ricochet of bullet, nature of business with produced by the was nervously careworn, me. a done deed And ever no was l\\\ His Thomas Chatham; he name and forth in the with was back was shapeless piece of lead, ami here is under room, has died from That sun. a expert who accountant, had been an employed forever. behind his back head hands and All that lives his his As, however, that bullet. goes on which be may the Knickerbocker at bank to examine and forever. Forever his breast. forward bent bullet for account cannot upon the books, and he cooily informed one that at last!” he had just “Ah, there discovered farewell serious me there's shots, forced So. O soul, at to are exclaimed a you no two once you are in books—one that had dwell; enabled together error my sou's Where eagerly; the banker, have once “I Chatham has carried that J&v£ assume depositor to overdraw his beating heart! account by O a fears, Have no for hour.” waiting been for in the palm of the second you over an away one large amount. At part. first I refused believe such word a to There is as no up?” something "Has turned ingenious. him, his hand. This is ingenious, although he clasp new and closely submitted copies Hands that meet very from the books showing exactly how the feel the Sturgis. asked Shall forever grasp. but—” blunder had been made. When he forever, intimated lives All that on goes that.” read “Yes; telephone “His blood is the receiver,” on that it only rested with whether the and forever. Forever me time Dunlap handed the At the Sturgis, quietly. observed same should Independent. be reported N. Y. the Kohn, in to bank, I error —Annette indignantly letter. refused reporter to listen him. He “Blood!" exclaimed Dunlap; “why. to Decidedly. Partly Qualified. Most a remained perfectly unruffled during madam," tell about it first. After our “What asking “Let is his occupation?” asked the “Pardon for imagined with the that have you you. me me you carnage interview and left at last with the me this morning I the mak leaving warden of the penitentiary, referring said Rev. Dr. Goodman, went to of a here, there should be "? you oceans statement that he would wait 24 hours | before | had family to the latest arrival. friendly call the who WAGER around handing STURGIS blood. Here is running in his report the upon THE to presi-. a man. dent. neighborhood, “He regular occupation?” lately moved into the hand, who wounded leaves with any a a “My first reaching step the bank i on said STORY. the subordinate. “He is nothing “but have church DETECTIVE connections?” A k- blood the telephone few drops of you any 9 on the day next verify Chatham's to statements. was but ward heeler.” nowhere else. And here a receiver, and Alas! they only too There true. were “All right,” rejoined the warden. “My. yes!” the smiling answered the terrible k blunder MORETTE. staring in the 9 EDGAR shot through the was By is another me man. face. I could ; 1 not understand how I had “Put department.”—Chicago Baptist him in the shoemaking “Two of cousins matron. Co. Frederick A. Stokes through are right, by’ the my SCopy 1890, lungs upper —excuse me. make it; there i? ■ i to but it and Pi come was, I married Tribune. preachers, and aunt a ’ I*>' V. does i left lung—-who my lobe of the not nothing could explain it had I hoped away. Chicago Methodist leader.” class bleed all. And where is he now? against hope this at to time; I up now saw Their First Quarrel. Tribune. clearly that I ruined XL— Continued. was a PT ER him man. CI 1A Such wound have given as you a “Well,” said Mrs. Cornwallis West “There only honorable was one course I take it, be fatal, inwKr-'l/ must. at or. any Sturgis, continued meantime,” “In the The after they fairly Old Man’s Secret. to frankly started their me—to confess open my responsibility were on serious. Yet here is dead rate, for the blunder a or, and take the They already tell I handsome yet, whom 1 have ‘X,’ honeymoon, consequences, “we for life me am " to partners are whatever they dying calmly walking might the ladies, them, least, be. I And bless at say: man, a Exchange waiting in alluded, aren’t dear?” was now, we, hesitated, and I “Do the old boy lost. look him; dear at was had fallen the curtain off if—as if as had cab. where Chatham “Yes, place, darling,” re-plied, “and he a day.” you Really “I hesitated because I felt that grows younger every position my drama, the end of and the at your pistol shot he the Upon hearing when “How the senior aren’t And asked: at partner, too, age, at stake. Would your not are was my error — had hurried off his dressing-room.” to Are free from ills?” inexcusable corpse the officers you accountant’s assistance, to the so the appear of why, lovey, what’s matter? the There, to went My the always is bank, since I answer same— could find palliation for it no office, which he this there, lie passed into little girl, don't cry!”—Chicago bills.” " Because I promptly in pay my eyes? I 50 old. I my own was years something "You have forgotten Chatham Times-Herald. reached in time probably to —Chicago Daily News. see shrank from the necessity of beginning else.” suggested the smiling. reporter, secretary’s rush in from the again the foot the at of ladder which I NO MOON IN S looked him questioningly. Dunlap jhl had His at laboriously climbed Blank Despair. after lifetime so closely followed by Arbogast. a room, of conscientious u plodding.. It would “Speaking wasn’t it the of be the “Yes; have forgotten the pistol races, yoy the there in ‘X’ seized that chair over for find matter to another no easy me position. two-mile dash Binks free-for-all that replaced in the drawer after Arbogast hunted the and between V corner sprang • • ,r lost all his on?” and the doors of the bank shot, money was latter and his the “The I thought the the matter pursuer as more over, man “Yes. Why?” fill carefully locked.” I became convinced that there might more raised his fire. Our to anonymous arm be another “Nothing, he of only remember used out trouble. Was I elaborate “True. No, dear sir; way my your my probably of friend is a man it probable that not the depositor who had about two-mile dash expressing in theory will bear instant’s a not an with blow of strength; for great profited by one mistake had done innocently? my so himself after it over.”—Chicago examination.” calm was If chair he broke the bookkeeper’s would he be willing the not to so, '..■pW Tribune. I rejoined Sturgis, “my “And yet,” the amount overdrawn? At the repay conclusions, SHE WAS LABORING UNDER A The hammer fell, but the wrist if he should worst, refuse do this, might to absolutely far they STRONG EMOTION. as as go, are deflected and the bullet, weapon was An Experienced it be Architect. possible for not to together me scrape objection which Every correct. instead of reaching its intended victim, and borrow enough make the Architect to good deficiency? —About what size house the body. and You morgue saw were is raise plausible enough when In this you I could the lobe passed through the correct way would upper like? you Arbogast’s. right; it is I had been blunder and would be the considered by itself; but have wiser for no not one we and Arbogast’s left lung of at out Gottrich—lt need We be large. not only half convinced by evidence; it. But what of that Chatham?'Would your man isolated deal with lot of facts, to a degrees. the back angle of about 60 at have few friends. an his not betray report me? I recalled his I that probably but now saw you were of connected with series but events, a The bookkeeper standing intimation that the of his nature Architect—Ah, report but will have was you inductions, right in all other and your depends and of which each depended What myself. did he upon supports far from the mantelpiece yonder. upon mean not plenty of friends when your new I became anxious learn something to that? by Probably he would set price finish all the others. Let a me my broad Do that black line is done.—N. house Y. Weekly. on you see his silence. This definite concerning the of would add considerably Arbogast’s amount upon and think will then be I story, you hearth? That made by the the was the to I should have amount to defalcation. As I could not what admit that prepared to seems Abdominal ? raise; but bullet. direction and the would Its angle this be better, after not all, reach the books for time, I called some flight of fancy than the loss of position? Miss Brown—What’s the to At matter rate, on my you now my a any it enabled that to must at me once see Mrs. Arbogast, thinking I might I should be not the off for listening upon exposition is nothing but sober any worse husband? part, with Some stomach a have ricochetted into the fireplace; your his to proposal, whatever it might be able learn something from her. to unvarnished facts.” plain, of it? trouble, isn’t don’t like Girl —Oh, I Little and there, enough. I found it in be. mamma. sure You had been her, had you?” not to see deprecating Dunlap, with gesture, [To Continued.] Mrs. Malaprop—Oh, worse’n that! Be a shining sleep with the the the bend the in of chimney. to to soot moon go “No,” answered' Sturgis, gravely, “I settled back into his chair The doctor didn’t specificate. He just once more. in face. Here it is.” my did think it likely she knew not as the “We left Arbogast shot through said it “severe abominable POLITE TO A CUSTOMER. all right, dearie —Oh, that’s was Mamma Dunlap had listened this some to narrative much about this do, and matter as we lung—fatally wounded, left complaint.”—Philadelphia Press. you as head the froni that’s papa’s with evident interest. But your on now. I shrank from the ordeal of revealing remarked. lie probably fell just have porch.—Chicago Daily News. The Obliging Hibernian Clerk recovering from the spell of Sturgis’ Gave her her the fact of husband’s crime to Envious Admiration. weak while Chatham, from like log; a Him Precisely What He persuasive conviction, his skepticism gits little riled I listen by Mandy and tragic death. I wished, When rate, at a Mistake. A door jamb any leaned against the shock, Asked For. regained the ascendancy for a moment. the hour. blinking him exhaust all other How oft of obtaining to we see means had probably stanched his yonder. lie admiration her of oratorio In steady power. With sublime— assurance so information before resorting to hand he wound with his free language, lofty Apropos of Ef I'd her gift of heights the ready comprehension ran; as thinks he’s thinking The who “Mr. Sturgis, have missed man you your this one.” reach, I’d surely unable find 1 I have been to trace he’s killing time. When only and native wit attributed any to the vocation,” he said, laughing good Cause I wouldn’t git stage-frightened every course,” “Of of said Dunlap, —Washington Star. telephone and course, blood the of between of Erin, Patrick’s compliance sons I speech. naturedly; time made “you ought have been I a to impatiently; somewhat “the is jamb, however, woman the door this On spot. with —Washington Star. the customer’s wish stands out The Evolution in Literature. playwright. You have most a a convincing pitied; but I could naturally be to not stain which has the blood left not in bold apposition, read the Chicago boys a Jones—A few of presenting both says years ago ▲ SEASHORE way your EPISODE. allow sentimental consideration to which any completely wiped and been out Post. Patrick of life, ideas clerk in suburban Indian stories, false got facts and was a theories. While a your you stand in the discharge of the of Chatham’s way judge of enabled to It from home busy and then to me store. grocery away was ran speaking, is ready admit a to are one duty depositors.” to of the our the only my height. ‘X’ changed all one and the redskins. This is was waiting fight season the grocer plausibility of was statement every her?” “What did learn from about you what he at trio who knew was three two the customers at upon make. or now. But that have finished. you now you asked the ■ reporter. genuine admiration I have this time. read the Smith —Yes; they time. He a in hurry, and now same I have hard-headed was a become a “When I reached the house the maid of ‘X;’ he be for must and when they man marvelous magazines, a everything had could monthly be where he to banker and I beg submit to once more, told that Mrs. Arbogast had spent panicstricken me flying Instead of they the from home nerve. it without much trouble to he get go run away facts—since or two one or we are previous evening the her sister’s at the from any ordinary the girl in the corset scene, as would city be delayed and to probably lose marry seeking facts —which it to seems me house in the and had country not yet he done, criminal would have —Judge. advertisement. when he found that the money, so enough demolish all elaborate to are your back. I about leave, intending to his come was proceeded retreat calmly protect to pound weight he bothered. was structure.” gone was Finder. in ' Fault to later the evening, Not return systematically a trail. his and to cover V Iffl “Go on.” said ’ Sturgis; “it without these who goes of “You not when the lady herself arrived. Upon men one are Wall lock the His first step to was “Patrick,” he called “where's out, I that saying theory is worth- home?” any with the cooking fault at find learning who I she seemed inside Quinlan was door. somewhat and the gate street the pound weight?” “I answered Mr. Meekton; I “No,” surprised, but‘invited As in. doubtless pulled the outer me had “The pound weight, is it?” said Patrick, * ■Ma but occasionally find fault, don’t exactlj’ passed into maid the parlor the ‘X’ that we he door to away, so ran as complacently.. “Sure, it’s an' ' JI called apologize for I do feel to handed her mistress letter, stating on He locked. a thought this also probably Misther pound Jones has the weight.” when Henrietta things taste the that had it by the morning’s way Chatham's assistance, come with then, II “Mr. Jones has it? What do you club. Y’ou I the home from Mrs. gets mail. Arbogast glanced the see, at Arbogast, who yet helped not was by saying that Mr. Jones has mean good coffee.” could learn make to did envelope, but it. not At never this time, by open my and who perhaps dead, the pound weight? thought the I —Washington Star. cautious questions first she seemed to the consciousness, into regained had pound stayed weight in the store. be much surprised. Arbogast had very by in Exchange waiting which cab near was Picked Them Out. Have May How did Mr. it?” Jones get I announced her by telegram to the bloodstains found the where I previous place, Victoria keeps always “Queen on tell “An’ shure, didn’t to yez me day that he would be obliged to will curb, the remember. of cigars for her as you on hand box guests, perlite customers?” a be the rigular to W/z/J of out for few days business. town starting off his go a two After on accomplices permitted latter to but the / never are course.” “Of He allowed her infer he to that returned cab. he to in the of her majesty." in the smoke presence “Well, Jones thin, Misther Why Miss decided Le Grande not to comes would and that business return, his pistol in its soon the bank, the put majesty her knows how “Perhaps away into pound the for of tay. store bathe. —Harlem Life. a connected with the of affairs the he was place, which, by hundred.’’—Chicago way, cigars much the cost proper a An’, he, whin I asked him what says the bank. She could understand not washed and known, have to Times-Herald. up Poor Economy. seems quality of wud ‘Whativer he have: tw-S tay it how happened that I knew nothing There nearly all the blood stains. all losing flesh, but because I find I'm not or give me,’ ‘give he, yez me says The Sauey Thing. trip. ‘But,’ said of this she, just ‘I have overworked breaking nature's laws; I’m sink or and bucket under the is a sponge weight.’ So the pound the I put little pelf— It is that I “Have learned.” he asked. save a received may you letter from him, will which used clerks’ which a the in were room, shave myself. I've just begun "To flirt with fan?” weight the package with the to try to in tay, a doubtless explain matters.’ evidently She thought, After, he this operation. in —Judge. as “No,” the maiden said, perlite it’s himself that’s like, an’ knew nothing of her husband's of “I prefer man.” obliterating all traces completely a Had His Doubts. with it.” gone —Chicago Times-Herald. peculation. Thereupon she opened the walked off by tragedy, he quietly the said landlady, “They say,” the “that envelope and took this I out letter. locked Exchange place the entrance, Character Reading. ASKING dropped TOO MICH. of steak into liquid piece a observed her closely. At first the threw the key. and the door anything about the “Do know away be broken with hammer.” air you a can words I her cheeks blanch and Policeman Flynn saw this, while a All moved into the house just ]ady who was this?” “Steak like asked the sandywhiskered look of her features that'X,’ pass over You will agony chasing Quinlan. note street?” the xx boarder, in mild of tone across a instinctively she pressed, her hand to nothing Quinlan episode, as knowing of the Cayenne, “Well,” answered Miss astonishment.—lndianapolis Press. her heart. I knew then that letter the justified in believing quite husband the “her to was races every goes contained important revelation, For Instance. HE BROKE THE BOOKKEEPER’S had failed some shots that the to attract night.” theater day and the to every Sally—These WRIST Aunt boarders WITH ONE BLOW. and I became anxious obtain to summer bank. outside of the attention wife.” speaking of his “But I any was of all into the possession'of it. When she puts sorts had I done. nonsense disturbed by the Very likely he remark “Yes. I just about to was was less unless it takes into and account heads. people’s could that she laboring under Quinlan; young see was the policeman and of return best she be of the that must one explains existing fact. If there Hannah—That’s so! All every Aunt the emotion; but she strong controlled a otherwise for his having I account cannot natured economical and of most women.”—Washington in this which have village are gals in this is worryin’ any case escaped herself, replaced the letter in its young Had had he envelope left the burning. Star. gas contingency which is their freckles.—Puck. me—a said, about and merely: ‘This does with the time, I feel confident that, quite possible, for have I pretension tell no husband’s not whereabouts; the Real Thing. WnntM me my thoroughness, he would his customary Touched. infallibilty—l shall to be glad to but I shall doubtless have further Newriche is terribly Jack —Old turned it minute news worried have out. to I’aivon As The —Don’t think I my you hear about them; and, naturally, if of him in the of few that daughter his. days.’ I about of pretty course of wounds, there a Arbogast’s descript ion touched them rather deeply this conclusions do tally not with the my that she Does attempting shield Tom—What’s the matter? she to saw was know remarkable in that. 1 is nothing morning? facts, the conclusions be altered, must him in the supposition foreign nobleman? that still he want to ‘X’ marry some that the used by don’t was The Deacon—l know. I was yonder weapon since facts absolute.” alive. I therefore just are broke Jack —No; that’s the trouble. the of of chair, because I found particles news haven’t counted yet.—lndianapolis up “Well, then,” said Dunlap, “assuming. death his American her She is engaged of these to gently to could. I as one the bookkeeper's epidermis as Press. upon one for the gentleman sake of the The first shock chappies, and the old argument, seemed to utterly considerably lessened the which of legs, unnerve was Even. Got that these various marks which her; but after he is rich enough afford the real awhile to she you became says the blow’. But I know exactly by Guest—Hi, his uncle The maid there! out. proprietor! there's He cut have called trails made by the somewhat thing, and doesn’t cheap calmer. ‘After want all, better were it is any I wounds the because what were, Was willing. chicken in this egg! feet of a three different people; admitting so.’ imitations.—Town Topics. she said, last. at she Then that examined them. I told the rich old fellow laughed have But to scoff. you Proprietor—Sorry if you’re disappointed, that of these individuals handed this letter. subsequently him even There And cut off one me yesterday.” Arbogast had no I was seen Feminine Electioneering. but times hard, and With shilling. we are Arbogast, often further a who for withholding was Bead it. reason “What!” exclaimed Dunlap; “you “I thought said Tribune. —Chicago can’t afford the you you never again canvas-back ducks in here after banking stays hours, do it now.” I he wounded?” after mean was would elect her president of sir.—Chicago Chronicle. your eggs, that not have ‘ established by It is postmarked Crusty Bachelor. see the The you at general post “his body is “Yes,” replied Sturgis; club,” he suggested, after she bad satisfactory evidence Friend —Where going? office five o’clock,” any at are you said Sturgis; “it your assumption call the You might Power.” at “O! Wad Some morgue now. of result the told him al! about the that Bachelor —To Crusty the other therefore so-called tea. mailed before a during was I I identify if have self-esteem, know it, this afternoon there to or some club election. —Informal? trails those Chatham Friend of and Chatham’s It Is than visit meet. the are to bank. no more a considered. Jt choose; but, everything may you “Well, didn't intend to.” she replied, Crusty’ we all neighbors But should show why my For Bachelor —No; stranger. aught infernal.— I know have been the mailed to by Arbogast before make might be well it not to as conceit? broke down and “but when she Such asinine they have Herald. contrary, Syracuse been the made scrubbing done, may by perhaps was identification public until —Philadelphia Press. the or are we it.”—Chicago cried just couldn’t help we by of the bank employes in the the chufewoman some when she the left and track Chatham well the of our on Post. Often the Case. Industrious Commentator. The discharge of their regular duties. bank ‘X.’ ” friend Askington—Fricklesmith is —Don’t think Browning's Cora a very you Chatham’s coat have caught The drew reporter the may letter its Awnkened. on from isn’t he? versatile chap, condensed? is poetry very nail in the telephone closet last envelope a CHAPTER XII. and read: between understand it’s all “I over Teller—Oh, yes! He makes different —Apparently. It Merritt takes about a week, while he here in his legitimate "The Knickerbocker May." was and BOOKKEEPER'S CONFESSION. Jack THE Bank. kind of fool of himself day volumes of three notes explain to each every New capacity York. of Dec. 1898. 31, accountant. that evening Sturgis expert Late they’re married.” —Philadel- “Yes; same returned in week. —Puck. the volume poetry.—Judge of "My Darling Wife: When receive The change of you the combination of the lodgings, day his after busy American. to phia North a thia letter shall I be far disgraced awav-n ■. . ,