For Love or Gold? The Story of a Great Department Store — page 154: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XXX. THE UNEXPECTED FORTUNE. The next act of Faith’s was one of noble heroism. In - that moment of misery she forced herself to think only of © z1er mother, thus ignoring her own position in the matter entirely. _ Without a word she walked back into the kitchen, leav- ing brother and sister together, and taking little Dick in her lap, tried to think the matter over as calmly as possible, It was an embarrassing position, look at it as she would, but not so much for herself as for the man whom she now knew to be her own uncle. As the moments passed she heard her mother’s voice grow more and more pleading, and although she could not hear what was being said, she conjectured rightly that she was urging her brother to accede to something, while he as steadily refused the accession. Finally the hall door closed and Faith heard him de- scending the stairs. In an instant she hurried to join her mother in the parlor. “Oh, Faith!’ cried her mother, “can you believe it, dear, it was brother Charles, alive and well, when I had e given him up for dead over and over again! And, Faith, vou will never have to work another day, for we are al- most rich, dear brother says. He has fifty thousand dol- _ lars.in trust for me from my father’s estate, which has only lately been settled!” 7 “Oh, mother, is it possible?” cried Faith in surprise; “but why did he leave so soon? You had surely not fin- ished talking !” Mrs. Marvin shook her head in a very perplexed manner. “He seems sadly changed,.Faith. I don’t know what ails him. I begged him to wait and see my daughter, but — he refused almost angrily.” __ comichboo S.com *)