Ruby's Reward — page 63: what you’re looking at

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‘Well, for Henven’s sake, don’t let ‘hor know that you aro anything to me,” was: the irritable rejoinder ; ‘and if you'll take }my advice, youll make yourself scarce as quickly as possible.” “ But the young lady is going to give me a book, She'd think it very unhandsome of me to leave before she comes back,” “objected Mr Ruggles. “Tl make your excuses to her, and if she is very anxious for you to have the book, I will send it to you by mail.” ‘© F guess I shan’t go till she comes,” replied the man, doggedly ; ‘and I take it as rather hard, Edmund, shat my brother's son should be ashamed of ic, and say such cutting things to me.” “My father was not your brother,” was tho hiughty retort to this claiin of rele- tionship. “Well, we were brought up together ‘dike brothers, if we did not have the same father, and L am sure J leved him like one. By the way, where is your brother, Walter ?” “ZT have no brother, Walter Richard- son hecame apprentice to a carpenter after my father’s death,” “What! Didn’t he have any of the pro- perty 2” “Why should he? He had no legal claim upon any of us.” “Then there was no will, I heard so, but I couldn't believe it, for I know that Ralph loved the boy, and it was not like hits to leave him) wnprovided for. We didn't get your letier in season to come to the funeral, so ve never had the chance to Icarn how matters were settled ; bub I sup- pose you will see him well started in the world.” comiebooks.com aie 8 ax 2 ke | 6