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reflection, "and now I'll show you
how to get even with Mr. David
Nugent."
It was daybreak before Lemuel
left the house. Mr. Stnith, with
whom ho now seemed to be on
familiar terms, seeing hint to the
door and watching him as he set off
toward Sixth avenue with an amused
grin. The hang -dog air Lemuel
had waru when he entered the
grimy old house had vanished. He
walked with head erect, aud, a keen
observer would have said,buoyed up
with the consciousness of power.
"%Yell, "we'll see if I am to be
thrown aside like a worn-out glove."
CHAPTER VII,
LEMUEL STRANGE BALANCES THE
BOOMS.
The next morning the junior
clerks—there were not many of
them—iu Mr. Nugent'a office were
struel: dumb with amazement when
9 o'clock came and Mr. Strange did
not, as had been his custom as long
as the oldest of them could remem-
ber, walk in on the last . stroke of
the cluck, aud pass lulu the private
office. At noon they were seriously
considering the advisability of send-
ing word to the police, when Mr.
Strange, as if it were the most
ordinary thing in the world to be so
late, marched in, and nodding to
the astonished clerks shut himself
up in his own room.' As he had
expected, Mr. Nugent had neither
been there himself nor hall he sent
word, but towards afternoon a tele-
gram came from him, addressed to
Lemuel, which contained the in-
formation that he was suffering from
severs indispasition but that he
might he expected at 10 o'clock the
following day.
This was the information tender-
ed to Mr. Houston when that gen-
tleman, arrived in metaphorical
purple and find linen, called at the
office and he required to see Mr.
Nugent, and it took hint up towu
as fast as the elevated could carry
him to the house of his lady love.
He found Grace had returued home,
and he had the pleasure of lunch-
ing with her, aud as Mr. Nugent
was confined to his room there was
no one to play propriety, so the two
young people behaved as foolishly
as young people usually do under
such c,ircumotances. On one point
Grace was very decided; • however,
and that was that the first intima-
tion of the state of affairs should be
made to her father by Jack himself ;
so before long she packed him off
and bade him not to fail to be at
Mr. Nugent's office early next morn-
ing. Jack repairedito his club—the
"Alma Mater"—and here he found
his friend Proudfoot, to whom he
iwparted,with an amount of dignity
which made the elder man etnile to
himself, the startling information
that he, Jack, was the happiest man
in the world. He had no secrets
from Proudfoot, so he told hits,
dealing with the father, whom he
had never seen, as tenderly as he
could, the sad story which Mrs.
Vauderveer had related the evening
before, aud Prounfoot listened very
gravely and shook his head once
or twice during the course of the
tale,
Next morning David Nugent,
who had so profited by his day in
bed that only a lump on the back
of his head now remained to remind
him of his midnight adventure,
kissed his daughter, and, looking
mighty well fed and respectable,
took himself down -town :o his office,
feeling not in the best of tempera ;
for, though lie had quite made up
his mind to part With Strange, he
did not relish, now that his anger
was cooled, the task of actually dis-
missing him.
lin walked into his office, there-
fore, with a scowl on his ruddy face
and a manner which the clerks, who
but seldom saw hire, still recognized
as ominous and which caused them
to. put on a sudden appearance of
intense devotion to the tasks on
which they were engaged, which
had its amusing side. When he
entered the private office he saw
Strange sitting in:a revolving office
chair trimming hie nails with a fine
air of unconcern. As his employer
came in Lemuel wheeled round and
calmly said "Good morning," with-
out condescending to rise. Nugent
glared on him, and, sitting down
heavily in bis own chair, looked
out of the window for a few mo-
ments without speaking. Appar-
ently he did not derive much satisfac
tion from what he saw over the way,
which indeed consisted only in the
huge plate -glass windows of the
bank building which occupied the
other corner of the , narrow side
street.
"Well, Mr. Strange," he grunted
at length. "I suppose you have
got the books already to show me."
"No, I haven't !" said Lemuel
coolly.
Nugent shot a suspicious look at
him from under his shaggy gray
eyebrows, "What do you meant"
he caked.
"Just what I say, I have a mne-
ruoraudufn here which will show
how we stand, but it would be
useless to bother you with the books.
You would not understand them.
anyhow."
"Are you aware Mr. Strange, that
this is very extraordinary conduct
on your part? Haw ani I to tell
that your statement in correct?"
"Here it first, and then form
your owu conclusion."
"Well, read it and then I'll see.
But mark ate, Strange, I sin a busi-
ness man, and, of course, I shall
have the books subjected to an ex-
port's exautivation before you fival-
ly leave."
"1'm sure I've no objoctiou, but
I defy auy oue to balance them: in
any other way than that which gives
the results I have here."
"And those results—"
"Are briefly these : I am indeb-
ted to you in the sutn of seventy-
three_ thousand two hundred and
four dollars end thirty-nine cents.
"What !" alnsost shouted Nugent.
"You are indebted to me 1"
"Precisely."
"Then, by 0—, you are a swind-
ler !"
"Not exactly, Mr. Nugent ; I
have ouly borrowed the money, and
shall probably be able to repay
you."
"Borrcwed 1" with a speer.
"That game is played ont. Bor-
rowed, indeed ! V1re'll see about
that." And Mr. Nugent turned to
his desk, hastily scribbled a note in
his large ungainly writing and
touched an electric button. One of
the clerks appeared at the door.
"Take this note at onee,"" said
Nugent, his•. voice (Lufvering with
rage.. "Take a cub and tell tho man
to drive like h—1 !" aud the clerk
obediently vanished.
"\Vhat was that furl" asked
Strauge, who still inaintaiued his
unconcerned attitude.
"It was a request to the Captain
of the precinct to send a policeman
here in plain clothes immediately."
"What for?" in a tone of innocent
wonderment.
"What for 1 You infernal scoun-
drel ! Why to arrest you for em-
bezzlement !" and Mr. Nugent`
looked as though he were about to
have a fit, so purplish grew his face
and so swollen the veius on his fore-
head.
"Dear ine." restorted Strange,
with an air of provoking calmness,
"you are putting. yourself to a great
deal of unnecessary trouble. I
don't think you'll need a policeman
for any such purpose as that."
. "And why not, pray1" asked
Nugent, in a tone which he vainly
endeavored to keep calm.
"Because you are not going to
give me into custody, and you are
not going to prosecute roe. Do you
know what you are going to do,
David Nugent?" with 'a sudden
change of tone.
Nugent began to think that his
embezzling clerk had lost control of
his wits, and said nothing. '
"I'll tell you what you are going
to do. you are going to write me a
little document which will testify
that you have examined your books
and find that up to date they are
correctly balanced. You are further
going to give me an interest, not a
large one—for I am a man of mod-
erate ideas—but still an interest, in
yaur business and in the 'Lucky
Shot' Mine; and, lastly, Mr. Nu-
gent"—and for the first time since
the interview began, the speaker's
voice trembled alightly with excite-
tbent—" "t are going to allow me
to pay air ,ldreesesto your daugh-
ter, Miss Grace, and to do alt in
your power to persuade her to
marry me;" Ind he stopped.
"WVh t what in God's name—"
began Nugent, preparing to "wither -
his presumptuous confidential clerk
with a'tornado of indignation, when
he was interrupted by the lad he
had sent with the note to the police
station. "If you please, sir, the
person you sent for is here, lie said
as ho entered with a preparatory
tap at the door: "Tell him to come
in," roared Nugent.
"Stay," said Strange ; •'tell' him
to wait for the present, Henry,"
and the young Lnan discreetly with-
drew.
"Now," said Lemuel, with his
hand on the door knob. "Shall I
tell the policeman to come in or
not 1 If he does, refnelnber I shall
tell him to arrest you on the spot.
"Arrest me. You must be mad 1
What could ho•arrest me ,for 1"
Lemuel's voice sank but hie words
were as distinct as though he had
shouted them:
"For the murder of'Dandy Dave,"
alias John Houston, in the year
1865. Now shall I tell him to
come in?"
Nugent dropped into hie chair as
though , stricken with paralysis.
Hie face tvae blanched in an instant
and he stared at Lemuel as a rabbit
stares at a snake, in whose cage he
has been placed. He moistened
his lips with his tongue once or
twice and then said slowly :
"No. Tell Henry to send the
man back where he came from, for
I shall nut want him to day'"
CHAPTER VILL
LEMJEL FELLS A STORY.
For a few minutes there was a
dead silence in the room. only eti I
further accentuated by the faint
roar which Jose front the busy
thoroughfare below, and the two
men eyed each other after the fas-
hion of gladiators in some old
Roman arena. Thou Strange said:
"I want to tell you a little story I
heard not long ago." Nugent mere-
ly inclined his head, and the other
went on.
"About twenty-five years ago a.
young man was sitting on a pile of
tuntber and swinging his legs over
the water of San Francisco harbor.
He was a mighty wretched young
follow as he sat there, and petliaps
he was thinking that no harm would
be done to himself or any one else
if he were to tumble in and let the
waters close over his head for good
and all. You see the young loan
was hungry, he was thirsty, he had
no money no work, besides which
he was just getting over the effects
of the prolonged spree which had
emptied his pockets so effectually.
'While he sat there, the picture
of despondency and misery, he was
approached by a man of about his
own age, but of very different ap-
pearance ; for he was well if not
richly dressed, and seemed on good
terms with himnself and the world,
Ile noticed the woe begoua figure
with the bloodshot eyes and shabbily
dirty cluthiug sitting on the lumber
pile and spoke to hint kindly and
geu.tly. They were the first kind
words the poor watch. had heard
fur many a Clay, aud his uerves
being iu, a poor couditiun anyhow,
ho bloke duwu completely and cried
like a child. .Then ei couraged by
his new fiiend, John Julies—as we
may call him—he told his story bit
by bit. There was nothing original
about it, and it was such as might
have been told by auy impecunious,
foolish young mai', without strongth
of mind enough to free himself
from bad habits and worse compan-
ions. Such as it was the stranger
heard it in grave silence and then
offered the young bcatap iinutltor
chance. _.
"Ile was himself, he said, a strau-
ger in 'Frisco, hut had made up his
mind to Spend a roving life fur the
next few years. If Junes cared to
snake a fresh start in lit'o he might
come with him and share his
adventures and fortunes. I need
not say that Junes hesitated not a
moment, and two weeks later the
young men sot out from the city
equipped with all that was necessary
for the life they were going to lead.
"You will notice," continued
Strange, who told his story with an
evident enjoyment of, the manuer
iu which he made his points, but
somehow with the suggestion
,of a school boy repeating a lesson
learned by rote, "you will notice'
that the rich young man, whom for
the sake of argumout I will christen
Smith, found the other in a con-
dition of absolute. destiution, char-
acterless and starving. He took
him at first, intending to make a
servant of him; even that was char-
ity of a high order, but he went
further—he made him a friend and
companion, to sit at the same board
and on more thea one occasion
literally to sleep iu the same bed.
Ho got, it is true, the value of
Jones' (slid I not call the- young
pauper Jones?) ex.perionce of the
country and of life, but practically
he gave with both hands and with
no thought of exacting any recom•
pence, What was hie return, I will
tell you.
"Shortly after aettiug out the
prospectors heard the first nvttter-
ings of the war•burst which was
soon to overwhelm tho land, and
naturally the adventure -seeking
Smith—who had told his compan-
ion ho had left the East only be-
cause his domestic relations were so
unhappy that life had become in-
supportable—desired nothing better
than active service. Jones was not
so much iu love,wiih martial glory
but he followed where the other
led. For four years they marched,
fought, and underwent the vicissi-
tudes of a soldier's life side by side,
Smith more than once stepping in
between his comrade and death,and
thou they returned to the wild, free
life of early California days.
"They had a hard time of it for
some months, these two young men,
young in years. but prematurely
aged, as were all their generation,
by that strife of brother againts
brother, but at last their turn in
life's lottery carne. Worn out by
many days' fruitlessi:prospecting
they were lying down on the banks
of a stream almost broad and rapid
enough to'be dignified by the name
of river. Their fare had been
somewhat stinted of late, for Jones,
who carried the one gun they owned
between them, an old army musket,
had had poor luck for days past,
and had missed more than he
had hit. As they lay there supinely
stretched out, Jones, who wad the
grumbler of the twain, cursing their
stare 'that they had been fools
enough to think that a speck of
gold could be found within a hunt_
dred miles of where they now were,
suddenly Smith, who was lying on
his back listening to the others dia•
tribe with a gently cynical ensile,
Sprang to hie l't=ot, re.it"e"i the old
musket, turned .quickly nreultd, anal
tired at the ?slily tlirectly behind
him. As the echoes of the shot
wont hurtling down the narrow
ravine, thruugh which the strewn
ran a frightened bird fled with them
and a mass of shattered reek fell
clattering down instead of the din-
ner the sportsman bad hoped to
gain.
"There was an oath from hie
companion, a pettish exclamation of
disgust from himself, followed by a
cry of astonishment as he bunt over
a lump of fractured quartz at his
feet. "Our fortune has come at
last,' he quietly said, as he finished
his examination, and so it had.
Smith's lucky shot had lost them a
dinner but had gained thein a gold
mine. Running through the cliff
was a rich ledge of auriferous quartz
and there was enough in eight to
render the working of the rest no
problematical venture. Though by
right of discovery the mine belonged
to Smith, he hesitated not a moment
but made his comrade an equal
sharer aud partner.
"Thus from first to last Jones
owed everything, even life itself to
Smith, and now I'll tell you how
he discharged the debt. It will not
take many words. He murdered
his benefactor while he slept and
threw the body into the swift 1•un-
niug stream; he jou eyed to San
Francisco alone, and, rrived there,
drew out of the bank the last rem-
nants of Isis friend's store, rigidly
kept intact for just such au emer-
gency. This he did by summing
his victim's name, which his posses-
sion of all his papers and letters,
and his intimate acquaintance with
all his affairs, eaaily euabled him to
do. With the Looney so obtaiued
he took the first step towat;ds the
developniueut of the mine, and
eventually mauaged lo secure com-
plete soutrool u`f it, years after, secure
in the fancied couscionsness that no
one knew him for aught but what
he claimed to bo. In this he was
mistaken. There was a man who
lived within sight of the big house
he had built for himself in 'Frisco
who not only know him to be an
impostor, but who also knew hitn
for a murderer, and had in Isis
possession the written story of the
crime, signed by the victim and
witnessed by two reputable citizens
who are still living, Mr. David
Nugent—who are still living," and
Strange, repeating the last words,
rolled them on his tongue as though
he enjoyed their• taste.
To be continued' .
_ IS I'1'FAITII CURE'-'
A well authenticated case of faith
cure eoines from : the village of
Plattsville. Miss Emma, Leader, a
young woman, who has been for
four year confined to the house
through severe illness, her tongue
and lower• parts of the body being
entirely paralysed, after trying
everything that could be, done by
the doctors, was visited by her
minister, the Rev. Mr. Coiling, and
his wife, who earnestly prayed for
her recovery. The patient also
prayed and exercised faith. After
they left her pains ceased, and we
are told that she iinmediately got
up, dressed, and walked .out to the
parlor and began talking most
cheerfully. IIer tougue had' been
for many days paralysed so that she
could not articulate a single syllable.
After eating a good meal she went
out for a ride, and returning enter-
tained her numerous friends, who
ever since had been pouring in to
congratulate her. This cure is by
her and many others pronounced a
cure by filth and faith alone. The
euro ha produced a deepsensa-
tion, many believing it to be a
faith cure, and many others dis-
believing. However, once she was
speechless, now she talks ; once she
was helpless, now she walks ; and,
this great change was effected in an
instant, apparently, and without
the aid of medicine.
COINING A WORD.
Certainly, if any is entitled to
coin a word under the circumstances
narrated below it is the happy
father. He was a Connecticut man,
and was already the father of six
children, all daughters.
Then three little boys were born
to hits at the same time.
Radiant with happinees,the proud
father set out to spread the news
abroad. He stopped firstat the house
of his nearest neighbor whom he
hailed with :
"Sa-ay, Zed Knapp, ye don't
know .what I got over tete my
house 1"
"No, I can't say that I do," re-
plied Zed.
"Well, what'd ye say if I told ye
I had a tootle boy over there 1"
"I should say I was glad overit,"
said Zed, heartily.
. "Well neow,what'd yejsay if I told
yo I had two -little boys, hey 1"
"Better still'," replied Zed. "So
you have twin boatel"
"Twins? Why, bless you, Zed,
I've got thrins 1 Yea, sir, thrin
boys 1" and off ho rode to proclaim
the arrival of the "thrine" at every
house in the ne(jghborhood.
U1NiE�'t . QI R CTORY
!cuti ti..
G. H. COOK,
Licentiate or Dental. Surgery, Honor Gra .uate
of the Toronto School of Dentistry.
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xtractioa teeth.
Office—Over Jackson's Clothing Store, next to
Poet OSlee, Clinton.
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P. Lu.
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and one-half per vent on two -third margin. Hay-
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in Swartz' hotel bloOt, opposite 12,1vision Court
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J. E. BLACKALL, Veterinary
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old Royal Hotel, Ontario street. Residence—
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HURON STREET, CLINTON.
Manufacturer of an dealer in ail kinds of
Marble & Granite for Cemetery
Work at figures that defy competition
Alec; manufacturer of the Celebrated
ARTIFICIAL STONE for Building pur-
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Isolated town and village property, as well as
farm buildinire and stock, insured. Insnrances
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INDIGESTION, FLUTTERING
JAUNDICE. OF THE HMCo
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