The Argosy, June 1904 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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THE FOOL'S POCKET. and see if she would not help me to my desire. But I believe she is watched pretty closely by the family. Ichave not forgotten * the ‘wolden egg” matter. On the other hand, L would tackle Jackson Hawley if I really knew where he stood in the matter. lf I could once learn his exact place on the board I could then move properly. But until then I shall throw myself upon Miss Ilaw- ley’s imerey. No harm can come of that, for I believe her to be too good and pure a woman to be a party to any wrong: doing, even of her own father. T shall send this by post to-night. You will get it in a few days. Before you re- ceive it the matter of whether or no we obtain our rights in the Fool’s Pocket will be settled for all time, I suppose. Then followed a message to Miss Lillian and the letter closed. It sound- ed rather hopeless towards the end, and T feared that it was more than the ex- pected loss of the Fool’s Pocket that troubled Lynn’s soul. He was desperately in love with this Enelish girl, and he feared he had sac- rificed all chance of winning her esteem by his deceit. The letter left both his sister and myself much perturbed. And it was the last written word we received from him for many a long day. Livin could no more keep away “from ithe Hawley premises until the hour which Miss Bertha had set for their interview than he could have kept from thinking of the young lady herself. And all the afternoon his mind passed like a shuttlecock from hope to despair. But he wandered about the outskirts of the Hawley grounds for another rea- son, too. It had become a settled con- vietion in his mind that there was a fourth person who might be able to ex- plain a part of the mystery which troubled him. He put the situation to himself this way: Mary Shaw had been sent to England and viven over to the care of the family of Jethro Haw ley forty odd years be- fore, when she was little more than a child. At cnat time Jackson Tlawley was a baby (his sisters were all older than he), and his mother doubtless took the responsibility of the Shaw girl’s care. Preston Shaw’s BA s money sent Mary to PRODUCED BY UNZ.ORG AQT this home, and Preston Shaw’s money put the Hawleys on the road to afflu- ence. Bertha might think that her erandfather was the founder of the family fortunes; but Lynn doubted it. The older. Hawley children had mar- ried, and in time the wife of Jethro died. The care of Mary Shaw had de- scended like a legacy to the son, and well had he fulfilled the trust. And, it appeared by the sly remark which the old jady had made, Jackson Jawley profited well by this legacy. Preston Shaw would be an old man now 1f he were alive. Yetif not alive, Lynn had come to believe that he had left a trust fund, the interest of which only was paid into Hawley’s bands at stated periods, and those payments con- tinued only as long as the Pebbleton smith continued to give Mary Shaw the very best of treatment. Then he came down to this Captain Inglebock’s connection with the case. The old men at Padstow had first told him of the captain and his ship. As they related the story, the ship had been coming to Padstow for many years, but the present captain was the son of the man who was first skipper of the Susannah. The Susannah seemed to arrive at stated intervals, and she entered the harbor for the sole purpose that her eaptam might visit Jackson Hawley. Ti seemed to “Ly nn that these Englebocks must be the means of communication between Hawley and the source of his great financial supply. In other words, they must have oriv- inally brought the money for Mary Shaw’s care from Preston Shaw, and now, if Shaw was dead, they must still disburse the trust fund which was ex- pended for the old lady by Hawley. For Lynn could not conceive that Hawley would care for Mary Shaw in such magnificence if the supply of her brothers gold was now shut off. Ife was not that sort of a man. Therefore Englebock must know a good deal about the affairs of both the Shaws and the Hawleys which would benefit Lynn at this time. Onee let him get the real set of the wind and he would know how to approach Jackson Hawley. C@ Ss} ClOOO© < S C@ = ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED