Might and Main Library. Number 56, 1907-03-16 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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Re office, and handed a “letter ia said Van Green ‘courteously. ie iihselt. of the permission, he did so, read. the : nts and handed the document to Van Green. at Ceesar !”” Ea aed me Ere eat “What do Oo ite. | ee that all the fiends are conspiring to- “What a sweet, confiding nature Spotl 1 have, ’ om ; let “see, you were intended for the pulpit, weren’ a yo “Hang iy Ned, ae know - siete a 2 re <r do. ” “Well, what is it honk) ” ie “Joe Manvers.” “Nothing ee about Joe? as FV eg”? “Not a sneak?” - So “3. 2s Worse. than. that.” oud : ae ae “Ned, Ned, you'll break my Aait ve loved: hee te and if he turned out a bad egg; blow me! on. never trust in human nature again. ae eee “Then you won't, for he has piled us.” “He hasn’t given the snap away?” | 2 “No, I reckon he hasn’t done that, but ae has. asied to cheat us, his comrades. . Haven’t we stuck together all the time, except | those little vacations, when we had = cine from public life?” .— ‘Three men were gathered” around a een stove’ ia back room ‘of a miserable house on Main Street, | in t village kriown: 28 the’ Aigh: -sounding name of” ‘Vent lor-on | _the-hill. | ee The name had hoon iantidetured ih: a view 46 Ts ing summer boarders, and the viaee ‘was Ses a ay rry | wards broke ane the private. asylum of Rich on yesterday afternoon, and, in violation of the law, a most Sete lunatic. A reward is. (offered s 5h) 2 ed: te the porte. oe at Miadlehurs, and _ Ps ae go. with, you.” os We may find your ae ee 1 ‘miserable shanty where we ast saw ; Edwards and Craig there was silence. e ght the two boys had been hard at work trying to in July and August. » 3 iy ‘way out, but without avail. _ . It was wonderful id people who slept in’ ‘clean bed place was strong, although the. cee ‘was ‘cleverly - in airy rooms, at home, would content themselves du a trived to give. an. appearance of being only | a_ loosely the. summer with a_ wretched, ‘dirty cot in a mise > 1 ed hen shanty at. such a place as ‘Ventnor-on. the-hill. p44 h was that some moonshiners, or manufacturers But it sounded well to say they spent the summer in the ‘lg, contrary to the laws of the Ve ‘States, used mountains, and the doctors” encouraged it, for nine-ten ace for storing ohois ers and SO theyshanty had to. of the people came home sick, and so the physician ongly built. the druggist were compensated in the winter | aes the ee d and éxhausted. the. two. lads had given up trying of summer vacations. eee e, and. had fallen asleep. Ventnor, with its hyphenated additions, was one’ were awakened by a cold Pedic passing over ‘their most wretched places on the continent in winter, and w' sed by the opening of the door, the snow was on the ground not a dog put its nose ” exclaimed Craig, as he saw Joe Manvers. oe of doors, unless compelled. s, I am here again. You cannot escape me, and, as — It was this place the three comrades of Joe “Manve friend knows so much, he must be kept as well.” made their headquarters. | Vhat evil have I ever done you?” asked. mine: College men, with a youth spent in comiarh they. hac | indeed sunk low - when they could jest and smile in suc! a place, amid wretched surroundings. . a Ned Wilton had been away for two days, trying to get an advance of money from Joshua Vernon. : He had failed. Vernon ‘had made a bargain, and to that he ‘was willing £ On the day you are getnadledeed the ‘rightful heir of William you must pay. to me fifty thousand delete * to adhere. hat have you to do with it?” He Would pay eighty Aieuasaa dollaré. wher plaeeal it have the documents which will give the. estate. to - absolute possession of Glen William, providing it could b Vernon or to you. ‘The’ pigneN. bidder obtains clearly proven that he had obtained such good luck through | gee the agency, legal or illegal, of the quartet of rascals se whom he had temporarily allied himself. g Hence Ned Wilton failed in his mission. fe ee He had then sought Manvers, thinking that sorma sao ue be made with Vernon Craig through him; but, to his Agr ror, Craig and Manvers had. both disappeared. ae ees The truth dawned upon him at once that Joe. was. going ce to have everything in his own hands, for he had the ia ee pers stolen from Glen | William, and the young claimant oe as well. oe The revelation was a shock to him, and, had he Be oe met Manvers,. most likely blood would have’ been - epilled, ao s When he Fotumned to caine oe the-hill he saw that ha friends were even more likely to blame him than they were _to believe anything against Manvers. coe For half an hour they refused to listen to him, ond cee was only after seeing how thoroughly he was in earnest that ey gave credence to his ay ap I vofise to bay: ” ae will be bei. and. Massa will get a 1 z perience was. never finished, for just then a pistol- t was a -and the ay, was filled with powder- ae CHAPTER XITl. "TREACHERY. 1. ally you Joe Moavers has p! layed | us ll not believe it. . | ri