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Tom O’Connor was speaking. His auditors were Mrs, Atnberleigh and the daughter whom it seemed as if she would never let for a mo- ment out of her arms, Capt. Gunnison, and the Gentleman from Pike. “Yez see, ma’am,” he was sayi ** Musther Mairkham was a pardner of mine. I knowed he was wrong in the upper shtory. Sometimes he had the b’atin’ o’the divil in ’um—oeggin’ yer pardon, ma’am. But only that he was what ye’d call a moneymaniac—” ‘“*Monomaniac,” suggested the Gentleman from Pike. ‘That's it, sir. Thank yez. It’s the twist o’ the tongue I’m lackin’. Only fur that, as I was sayin’ e was all right. ' Well, whin he come to his last legs, his mind cleared, en’ he gives me these papers. ‘** A marriage certificate an’ an acknowledg- ment ez mind, Tom,’ sayshe. ‘It'll undoa wrong that in me delusion’—whativer that is, I dunno— it'll undo a wrong that in me delu- sion,’ says he, ‘1 have done me darlin’ woife. Hunt her up, Tom, an’ take a thousand dollars over and above all yer expinses out o’ me pile, vin’ the rest to her an’ the child,’ says he. ’ yez’w’d have but to seo him to know that he was that grieved he was ready to break his heart. ‘Well, I promised; and thin we laid him away. An’ would yez belave it?—that week the Injuns cleaned out our eamp; fur that was a thrick they did more than wanst in thim dey $. I got off wid me life but niver a cint o’ gold. An’ from that day to this I’ve niver had enougy together to go to the States an’ hunt up yer ladyship: ur, b’lave me, I’d ’a’ done it! ‘* Av Misthress Lilian, here, had had her fa- ther’s handle, wouldn’t I have given her the pers long ago? But how would I know that Riisthress Amberleigk was Musther Mairk- ham’s daughter?” Such was the story which told Mrs. Amber- leigh and her daughter that the husband and father had injured them when mental: aberra- tion made him irresponsible, This, the only es- sential was strictly true. They mourned him with a sense of gratitude that now no re- | proach clouded his memory, Was it not wisest so? Surrounded by the grand old peaks of the Sierras, domed by the star-gemmed heavens, Capt. Gunnison stood in the peaceful night, with his arms about the woman he had loved so long, her head pillowed on his shoulder, her lips p warm to bis ! ‘One question, dear Will, before we bury the subject forever. Why have you never punished him for the wrongs he has inflicted on you?” The voice of the Gentleman*from Pike was deep and constrained, as he replied :— ‘“‘He was my half-brother! Whenever I raised my hand against him, be looked at me with my mother’s eyes! I could not look into them and strike! “ But the past is dead! Let us look into the glowing future!” A great flood of hap: e His manner changed. ness banished the shadows trom his face, as clasped to his heart the woman whose love compensatcd all—all / THE END. 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