The west shore., December 21, 1889, Page 463, Image 15

WEST SHORE.
TW1XT GOLD AND SINEW.
BOOK TWO PAKT VIII.
BY C. J. MESSBR.
pNTERINO Hawkes & Co.'s, Mr. Grillis craned his
V neck to look into the private office. The hanker
was at his desk, glancing through a huge pile of
documents.
" Busy? " asked Mr. Grillis.
" Not to you," answered Hawkes. " How are you?"
shaking the outstretched hand. "You should have
gone with me. I thought of you a hundred times."
" Did you, though?" looking pleased. "Well, I
wish I had gono."
" Saved money, wouldn't you?" slyly. " Now, confess-how
much did Burrows get out of you?"
" Not a"
" Come, I mean straight."
" How did you know it?" wonderingly.
Hawkes laughed.
" A man just left here who saw you on the street,
Mowing Burrows sky high."
" I was too hard on him, I guess," sheepishly.
" You've ruined his business for a time,' said
Hawkes. " How much did you lose? "
" Four hundred." ,
" Well," quietly, "really, you lost nothing. H
would have cost you all that, and more, to have gone
" Now, that ain't a had way to put it, said Mr.
Grillis, brightening, "but you were gono a thundering
time longer than you said. How'd you make out?
" It was a most satisfactory trip. I placed tlie
bonds. The last week, though, I ran about for pleas
ure. But how are you coming on? Uu don t loo
just hearty. I hope Burrows' four hundred hasnt
made you lose sleep?" , ..
" No, that only made me mad. I vc Wn in a dot 1
of a moss. You hadn't heen gono a week before Gold
thurst came in with a yam about his Inn able to pay
the rest of the notes. His daughter was goin to mar
ry young Pattern, and the husband was goin Into the
concern of Goldthurst A Pattern. V ell, I spludgcd
round as usual, went down to Millbury, and told the,
men we were goin' to start up. H ;h-w don
there had a column about Br.ghan. & Co. a enterprise,
and how they had the suffering of the men at boa ,
and so on. The next thing. Goldthurst'i daughter ru
away on the very day of the marriage, and am t been
seen since." , , ,, . . i
"Well, that's a strange thing all round, Mid
Hawkes, who was greatly interested ' " ,j
thought Alice would have married Pattern gladly.
IIe" SI dlT after she ran off, Goldthurst cleared out
himself, and no one'i soon him since. Iw PjM"
up all idea of starting the mills. I can t run on the
C8,oSlillying.ndput.n.tta:tet
on Goldthurstl" sii Hawkes. vehemently T I. t
the only thing you can do. You won t get u h, but
he must have something."
Mr. Grillis whistled and hesitated.
cipiktt w
" What aro you hanging off for? lo you think
you can make anything by so doing?"
" Well, it's just here, Hawkes," drawing up his
chair, "Goldthurst'i got some proerty in Essex. You
know that time wo were down to Essex, years Ago?'
in a still lower voice, "and that old man tollin us the
story of the Marshfield proerty?"
" I remember every word of it," Hawkei replied,
catching some of Mr. Grillis' excitement.
" Well, Goldthurst was the old man Marshtlold t
friend, t'nwswlck his real name is. He's got all
the papers to prove everythin', an' ho can make his
claim in less V a year. Tho conditions of the will
are met and declared outlawed. After ho como and
told me about ho and Pattern goin' In together, I used
to call on him a good deal, and one day ho let all thii
out, and said ho bad always intended to fix Ingham
and mo all right. I didn't let on I hud heard alnmt
the property, and I ain't told i " hilt llrsjlmm. (
"No Goldthurst was old Marshllold'i friend? It I
the most singular affair I ever heard of. IVrhani
you'd heller wait nwhilo. Ifi a most romarkablo
thing "
" Almost liko a story, ain't It?" said Mr. Grillis,
who had suddenly recovered his spirits.
" Well, it's hardly sure enough for you to do busi
ness on," said Hawkes, who had Uvti thinking In
tently, " but it will lear watching."
"'I'll get a deed to a portion of it from Goldthurstl
said Mr. (irillis, In aomn excitement.
" A deed would amount to nothing. alt till It I
" nUunt him up an' get some kind of n 'f."
obstinately. "He's a slippy cuss, if ho is a donoon
Well, secure yourself if you can," sa d Ilawies,
turning to his mers. "How's everybody that I in
iiiU'rcMcd In? Ilow'i Krel?" ...
" Oh, Klpi.'s all right. Ilo'i pretty busy, In- ween
his mills and Kittle. I told him t'other day 1 d j-r-w
um to Kittio for him, if he wanted mo to. I told
jiim he didn't seem to have courage, and I ho dangled
after her much longer his business would be u nod.
Mr. (irillis laughed so heartily that ho choked.
" Fred took it dead earnest;' ho continued, and
thanked mo as polite M a daneln' inaidor; said hewai
only waitin' fur a favorable opx.rlunity.
Mr. Grillis stopped, bis face growing thoughtful.
He common 1 to whistle,
" What is It?" Hawkes asked,
" I didn't tell yon all the news," slowly. Uw
rememU-r that little girl at Palbrn's-Mario, they
fBlVrememlcr l.-r," Hawkes said, In ft peculiar
tone, as ho turned his ry. s on the griuly f.
Hho run away with the Uoldlhumt girl.
Hawkes sudd.-i.ly whaled round ',iV- w"
n.e i-couds l-fore bo moved, then ho ighted hi el
gr. clasjl his hands behind bis head, leam-I back,
nd sfknl In his usual tone:
" How do you know?" umi
How do I know?" In astonishment. "Well,
more calmly. on eoiisi.I.raiion, -1 am i """
only know th.y went away tho same day. ... hud.,
the? of 'em has U h. ard from since. ' M . Gr ills
thought he noticed something unnatural In Hawk',,
ftieo, which h attribut-d to remorse. I dn t tnlui