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XV. begin tn under.iand a thing
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attitude toward It had been «.tab
ll.hed by a learned man
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Zelda Dameron
MEREDITH
NICHOLSON
CwrVH IBM. bv TM MBAi Mieli C«,
CHAPTER X VIII —(( „ntlnuml )
11. ««ftrd, to atudy hl. ground a
Itttl., and h. glanc*-l at I Dighton, a.
though to mak. .uro that th. ywuu.
man had not doaartad him.
"Father t. a llttl. fvrg.tful vm*
tlmca, " aald Z«1da. "H. Isn't a young
man, you mu.t remanitrnr -* Th. .ym-
pathy with which ah. ap<>k.
ma.i.
Merriam uncomfortabl.; and l«etghton
moved unea.lly. It wa. not a plea,
ant taak that of tailing a young worn
an that her father waa a rwavaL
"But whll. th. order of court can b.
procured and Injury to th. purvhaaer
prevented, (her. I. another eld. of th.
matter that w. mu.t eon.lder “
"Y»A uncle" and .he .tnlied a little
forlornly
Hh. knew that ah. .houid
meet th. blow brav.ly when It fall,
but It hurt h.r now to fa.1 bar uncle,
ktudneaa
"It hurt, m*- Zelda. It
hurts mu
mor. than I can t.ll you. to hav. to
•ay that all la not quit, clear about
thl. tranaaetion. 5’our fath.r haa Boll
at an .xtraorulnary prim
I fear that
h. ta tn dlffleultlea In thia r«l Batata
matter you hav. your remedy
It ta of
this that I wi.h to apeak particularly
It la only right that I should protect
you If I can '
"You are very kind, you are alwwye
good to m«. Uncle Rodney.“
The failure to get the court's ap
proval of the sale of the real eetale
make. It |u»Mlb). for us to sav. 1»
thia on. piece, maybe, though nearly
all ah. re.t I. gone to get It back, per
haps Th. .ttuatlon ta not agreeable.
Your fath.r received th. money and I
am afraid ho haa maile III use of It
1 It poaxllde to set thio
■al. a.td., <>r g.t an additional .uui
from tn. purchaser------ “
Merriam wa. looking Intently al th«
floor as h. spoke these sentences. H.
was suddenly awar. that Zelda had
rteen end <rc.ed th. ro- m until ah.
et<«>d before him. with flaming cheek,
and flashing eye.
He unconaclouao
roe. and drew away from her It « mih -
ed to lAtghton that th. air tn the room
grew leti.e
Th. girl stood between
th. two m.n, her ttps parted, one hand
on th. tack of a chair
“Uncle Rodney, I never thought that
you would In.uit me In your own
house— under th. pretenre ot
kind-
neaa: I should ilk. to know what you
g.ntl.m.n mean, and what you think 1
am that I .houlil llaten to such thing,
from you! To think that I .houid be
welling to take advantage of th. law to
defraud some one, on the theory that
my father was defrauding mo steal
ing from me. 1 .uppoa. you mean!“
"Zee. on. moment
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"No, air! 1 .hull hear no more from
you. I never want to
you again—
•Ith.r of yuu!~ fl ha had apoken brok
enly. and ths last three word, came
a'owly. with a kind of htaa "Hut be
fore t go. I wtah to say something to
you. to eat. your feeling, of pity for
ma
ft was by my request- snd iy
my order—that father sold that prop
erty; and he gave me the money - do
you under.tend? gave me the money
f • It—and I have spent II—all of It'“
Rhe was gone so quickly that the
front door clammed on her laat wor-1.
a. though to add IO the contempt that
It carried.
CHAPTER XIX
Zelda had carried in her heart for
weeks the fear of some euch dteclosure
aa that which she had Juat heard from
her uncle
In her Ignorance of t>u.t-
neea. ahe had not svep vaguely gues.-
ed what had taken an strong a hold
upon her father !le had acted strange
ly during the long summer, but ah.
had attributed hla vagaries to ths I >•
flrtnlly of yeara
Z*lda went at once to the living
room w here her fa Rier usually
.at
with ht. newspaper, but h. had not
com. horn.; And ah. went up to h.r
own room, glad of a reaptt.
Hhe had
act.d h.r part so long; ah. had d.-
f.nded him In h.r own heart and by
h.r own sets; ah. had even sought tn
clothe him In h.r thoughts with som.-
thing of th. dignity, th. nobility .ven.
of honorable age, but this ws. now at
an and.
It was clear that a crista
had been reached; and while the pure
ly bu.lnee. aspect of the .ttuatlon dll
not trouble her at all. »he felt that h <r
relations with h.r father could never
again Vs ths sama Rhe had been
ahteldtng him. not from the contempt
of h.r kindred, but from h«-r own dia-
trust a* well; and now that thl. wa.
at aft .nd. ah. w.nt slowly to her ro.. n
with a n.w feeling of Isolation In her
heart.
Hh. mad. a light and put said, her
b-t and coat with th. studied care that
we give to little thing. In our perplex-
It tea
Then she unlocked the draw r
of her desk In which ahe kept her
mother's boob. It opened at the page
that had meant »o much to her, that
had been her guld* and her command,
ap,! ahe pondered the eenteneea anew
When she heard her father come In
.he went down tn her street droaa. with
the llttla bwk tn her pocket, slowly
and with no plan formed.
He stood with hla back to ths flama
hts hands behind him, and ragardel
Zelda warily. In a way that had grown
habitual of lata
"ivh.re have you been. ZeeN* ho
asked.
*1 went down ts Zimmer's to look ot
•■wie oldures they are sbowtA» “ wv
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“Ah. yea; y -ir Uncl.
Rodn.y
I
haven't reen him since h. came h>«me"
He did not rot the evening paper
irtth hie wonted eagerness wh.n they
returned to th. sitting-room after din
ner. but continued talking.
"There are some bu.tn«.. matt«-,
that I should Ilk. to speak of to-night.
Zee -
"X’ery weH. father“
“Aa to your affaire, the tni.teeshlp
Mtabllahed by your dear mother to
nearly at an end
tt expires by the
limitations of ynur mother's «HI on
your twenty Aral birthday, that la to
morrow."
"Yea; I believe that la so."
Ho looked at her quickly ; he found
her ootnposure dloioletlng
Perha'i.
Rodney Merriam had been giving her
oounsell
"Aa we have Juat ..Id and I w»»
giad to And you agreeing with me -a
woman does well to let business alon*
Th«r. I. an immense amount of detail
connected with an estate—even a com
paratively small on«, ilk. your moth
er's Th.re ar. many accounts to keep.
I have kept them for year. In my own
way. I am not an .Xpert accountant,
but I hope that my work I. accurst.«
At any time that > -j w -uld Ilk. to ex
amine the t-oulis 1 should be glad .0
•14 you------ ”
“Thank ym» yea of couree," .aid
Zel-la, hurriedly
Hh. had bean think
ing of other things. !>ut ahe now flx •-!
her attention ut«>n what her father wa.
say tn*
"I have thought. Zee that perhap.
you w-«ul4 like to continue this trjx-
tee .hip
N<> on. slro understand, the
nature of the property so well si I. I
have given the beat years of my Ilf» t-»
•tudytng tt The burden 1« a consid
erable one for my years 1 am nearing
Tt»—but If you would like to have me
go <>«. I should be willing to do ao.
Your dear mother gave me h«r entire
oonfldence, tt would please me If I
oould fe«l that your own trust tn me
waa equally great “
"I suppose there ta no hurry about
It father It would be Just aa well tor
ma to go over the whole matter nt the
Ume of the change" Rhe spoke car«
loa.ly but a bltlert.es. had begun to
creep Into her heart The contempt
that .h<- had smother*! ' r a year i w
ceased to be a smoldering vmber and
leaped Into flame
"I wished to propose that myself,"
ho replied, smiling.
"And I will tell
you now what I had expected to con
ceal until your birthday, of a little gift
I am making you
1 have placed two
thousand dollars to your credit at the
bank. It ts subject to your check. It
ts from my own estate, of course. I
should hardly make you a present -f
your own money."
"Tou are very kind; tt ta a hand-
•'>m. gtrt. but I think we’d better pnt
It Into th. new trustweahlp.
Then I
•hall not te tempted Into extrava
gances "
He had expected some exuberant ex-
pre..lon <>f pleasure; but
.h.
ha I
spoken coldly, and her manner trou
bled htm
it. took from the tabl. a
brown paper parcel and opened ;t.
oarefully untying th. knot In th. tape
which Xastrned tt
”1 think you have never seen a copy
of your mother', will. Zee- unless per.
hap. your Uncl. Rodney has shown It
to you "
"No; I hava never .een It" ah. an
swered.
It. unfolded a copy of th. last will
and testament of Margaret Dameron
carefully, and then refolded tt length
wise to remove th. ere .«, .'or greater
convenience In .xamlnltig It. He pr >.
cewded with an exaggerated d.llbera-
tlon A man like, to mystify a worn tn
about busln... matter, hla own wis
dom grows refulgent In th. dark re
cesses of her tgnoranc*
I>am«ron
read
hla wife',
will
through, and Zelda listened attentive
ly. though f.w of the term, meant
anything to her. and the numb.ni of
lota and th. name, of addition* divis
ion. and subdivisions were .»nly rigm>-
rola Her father paused now and then
to make s*>m. comment on an Item, .a-
plaining mor. fully what was meant
Zither her uncl. had dec.tv«l her i r
her father was lying; and sh. knew
that h.r uncl. had told the truth. The
situation cleared for h.r slowly. >|t.
request for a continuation of th. true-
teeahlp veiled hie wish to keep her af
fairs In hla own hands,
without a
break. It was a clever plan and In an
Impersonal way ah. admired his au
dacity.
"You understand." her father contin
ued. “that th. personal property- -that
means stock«, bond, and ao on -w i.
to b. sold and th. proceed, reinvested
as ! mw lib It wa. nc-wssary to
change mo.t of It—I had no option ’n
ths matter.
Your grandfather,
z,»
had !*«n ons of the early
railroad
builders In thta part of th. country,
and th. original
small tndap.nd.nl
Uno. hav. all been merged Into great
system*
It should bo a matter
vt
pride to you that your grandfather was
a man oo far-seeing and progressive
But now. hla children and their chil
dren derive th. bMiellt. I recall that a
repreMntatlv. In Congrea. from our
Stat, was d.fwt^l for rw-Mwitton back
tn ths 'A0* for voting an appropria
tion to aid Mors, tn hla sgp.rltn.ata
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Thsy charged hies
with wasting th. p.vpl.'. m -n.y, H it
till.«. Chang* and men change
with
them"
It .lgheai. and the thin I mvm of hla
copy of the will rustled In hla Hn«-ro
a. he sought the plan, where he had
dropped hts reading
Ho lingered ov >r
the words that described th. nature of
th. trust
They were very sweet to
htm. because the» were at one a Ju»-
tlflcatloa .f himself and a refutation
of th. slander, of hl. wtf.'. family,
H. knew, too. that th.y gave emphasis
to th. .usgMtlon that h. was now
making to Zelda. that eh. renew th.
tru.teeahlp
He wished to put thl.
a. mu. h as ; ■solid. In th. light of «
favor to the girl.
"I am very a--rry that my friend and
e-un.el, Mr Carr, I. atwent.
aa
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sho Hd Ilk. to have him prepare th.
new <ir«d of trust He Is a man of ths
highest probity. H. Io the ablest law
yer at our bar
In Mr. Carr's abs.no«
I hav. not thought It wl.« to tak. an
other attorney Into our coufldenc* I
ha«'« prepared a deed of trust myself.
Khali I read the deed T"
"Ye* pieaaa." said Zeid*. "1 .houid
like to hear It"
He had. a. he aald. copied the form
of a trust deed that was well-known
among Io* al lawyers. As a trust (lead
It was absolutely above
reproach,
MV. only that neither the property as
d.eerti-«-d nor any equivalent for th.
bulk of it was any longer tn existence
BS a |>art of ths eslata of Margarst
Merriam Itameron.
Z.lda sat Inert, listening to the re
cital. as hsr father read with d«llb.c-
atlon and with du« regard for the so
norous legai phrw.«».
He even read
through the notarial certlflcnte; and
then be drew off ht. glaa.e. and set
tled hack In his chair with a »atl.fl-d
air.
II. hoped that Zelda would dis
cuss . -m. of the provision* or ask
questions, so that he might be aasur -d
that she suspected nothing.
Zelda .»Id nothing II. rose and fum
bled with the pen and Ink that lay on
the table by the tnk.tand, while h.
waited for her to speak. The allenes
grew oppressive; the girl had always
resi>onded quickly In their talk.
He
turned, holding the pen In hla hand.
"I suggest That you look the paper
over bafore signing. Zee.'.'
He held th« pafcr toward her. but
she shook her head.
"Very well. I have read It to you
carefully; and you can. of course, hav.
a copy at any time.
It !. perfectly
projwr for you to sign to-night—tn.
day before your birthday, you can ac
knowledge It before a notary to-mor
row."
He was smiling, but he held the pen
toward her with a hand that shook
perceptibly. R.pulslon and pity strug
gled for th. maatcry aa sh« pondered,
looking away from him into the Are.
Hh. felt that .he could never meet hl.
eye. again; but .he seemed to
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them tn the flame* the »mall gray
that were so full of cunning and avar
ice
It waa hla deceit, hl. effort to
play upon her credulity, that stung her
now Into a fierce cont.mpt. She rose
and turned toward him.
"I wish you would not lie to me. La
ra Dameron." she said, quietly, with
•v.n the suggestion of a caress upon
the ayllable. of hla name.
(To be continued.)
SIMPLE LANGUAGE THE BEST.
Two U m A l.l-inpl1*« That Whoul. Im«
preee Tbereewlvee I poa «»«» Mlwd.
Benjamin Franklin once decided :o
rewrit. the Bible
He got aa far a»
the allegory of Job He erased the pa*
sag«.. Doth Job fear God for naught!"
a question supposed to have been put
to th. Almighty by Satan
This 1«
how Benjamin, who was bent upon
making th. Bible dignified, academic
and scholastic, transformed that pas-
I sags:
Ikies your
Majesty
knagins
that JOb'g good conduct 1« the effect
of personal attachment and nffcctlon!”
Improving u; n th«> simplicity of
simple English always ha. Just that st-
feet.
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By way of contract between this pom-
pous fiollshnes. and the writing of a
gifted man with a sens, of hutnor, I
note that Mark Twain in "tnnoreoco
Al >ad'‘ tells how he left a room
night when he waa a boy, having found
a corpse uj>on the floor.:
"I went away from there. I do mH
»ay that 1 w.nt away In any sort of
hurry, but I simply went—that Is suf
ficient. I went out at ths window anj
1 carried the sash along with me
I
did not leave the «ash, but It was han
dler to take It than It waa to leave ft,
ao 1 took It—I was not scared, but I
waa considerably agitated “
Young men who ar«- cneditatfng a lit
erary or Journalistic career, as well as
young men who think of writing for a
living, will do well to atudy
Mark
Twain. Then they can pick np the
thousand legged I*tln derivatives aa
they ar. needed from the writings of
Burke and the speech«, of college pre»
Identa and profsasors - Hyracua. Port-
Standard.
• h* Wond»r«4.
The first time that Lyaand.r John
Appleton went off to work without
kissing hla wtf. good-by ahe wondered
that ha did hla work well enough to
hold bls Job. “Hla heart ts cold,” she
explained to her neighbor*—Ate bison
(Kan.) Glob*
Bayeey Mayme.
IMys^r Maym. A ppi Gon baa a heart
that responds quickly to .very appeal
for charity. "Tbs prises I won at card
partlas," .ba .»plains, "com. In handy
in giving to tha sickly sod t>Mdy.“—
Atchison (Kan.) Glob*