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The Inexplicable Infant

(Continued from page 7.)

Then he sank heavily to his chair. "Let them foreclose it, if they will," he said: "I am past caring?"

The woman looked sadly into the fire.

Ah, if only her son Henry had been here. Henry, who had left them three years agone, and whose bright letters still brought from time to time the gleam of hope to the stricken farmhouse.

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line safely to bed in the best room, and returned to her seat beside the fire.

The old clock struck twenty minutes

· Consignees of Cargo are hereby las past eight.

formed that all-Goods' ara belog land- Again

a knock sounded at the door, ed at their riak into the hazardous There catered the familiar Agure of and/or extra hasardona Godowns of the village lawyer. His antrachan coat Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and boots which reached no higher than from the wharves delivery may be ob- of yellow dogskin, his celluloid collar, and Godown Co., Ltd, whence and/or the ankle, contrasted with the

rude tamed. surroundings of the little room."

"Enderby," he said, "ean you pay?" "Lawyer Perkins," said the farmer, give me Ave years more and I will clear "give me time and I will; so help me, this debt to the last cent.”

لله

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and Goods remaining undelivered after feet to rent.-- the 1st February, 1934, will be sub-

Henry was in Sing-Sing. His letters brought news to his mother

All claims against the sisamar mus of his steady success: first in the spite of his rough (dogskin) exterior or before the 15th February, 1933, or

"John," said the lawyer, touched In

bo presented to the Undersigned on baseball nine of the prison, a couldn't, if I would. These things they will not be recognised. favourite with his wardens and the are not what they were. It's a big New chaplain, the beat bridge player of York corporation, Pinchem and Com-Goods are to be left in the Godowns, All broken, chated, and damaged the corridor. Henry was pushing pany, that makes these loana now, and where they will be examined on the his way to the front with the old-they tak tole money on the day, or 31st January, 1933, at 10a.m. by they sell you up. I can't help it. Bo time spirit of the Enderby."

Messrs. Goddard & Douglas. there's your notice, John, and I am

To Hla mother had hoped that he sorry! No.. I'll take no buttermilk, comply with the General Bond

ed Warehouse Regulations consignonn might have been with her at Xmas, I must keep a clear head to work,” and bat Henry had written that it was with that be hurried out into the snowust have a Revenue Officer in attend

ance when damaged dotiable gooda | again. practically Impossible for him to John sat brooding in his chair.

Jare examined. leave Sing-Sing. He could not see The old clock struck half-past eight, his way out. The authorities were then it half struck a quarter to nine. arranging a dance and sleighing then slowly it struck striking.

Presently Enderby rose, picked a lan-j party for the Xmas celebrations.tern from its hook. "Mortgage or no He had some hope, he said, of slip | mortgage," he said, "I must see to the ping away unnoticed, but his doing so might excite attention.

Of the trouble at home Anna had told her son nothing.

He passed out of the house, and standing in the yard, kooked over the NDOW to the cedar swamp beyond with the snow winding through in, far in the distance the lights of the village far away.

No Fire Insurance has been effect-

Bill of Lading will be countersign- nd by,

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO. LTD. Agenta. Hong Kong, 25th January, 1033.

gold pieces--In all, 1,125,465 dollars and a quarter."

The father and, son looked at one another.

"I see your idea," said Enderby sternly,

"We'll choke him," said Henry,

"Or club him," said the former, "and pay the mortgage."

Anna looked from one to the other,

No, Henry could not come. There was no help there. And William,

Down in the swamp, two miles away, the other, son, ten years older than could he but have seen it, there moved Henry Alas! William had gone a sleigh, and in it a man dressed in forth from the old homestead to sealskin coat and silk hat, whose face

beamed in fight his way In the great city.ed to and fro and stared at each ob-joy and hope struggling with the sorrow

in the moonlight as he turn- "Mother," he had said, "when 1 feet by the roadride as at an old fami-in her face. "Henry, my Henry" she make a million dollars I'll come liar scene. Round his waist was a belt said proudly, "I knew he would find a home. Till then good-bye," and he containing a million dollars in gold way." had gone.

and sa coln.

he halted his horse in an

"Come on," said Henry; "bring the opening of the road he unstrapped the lamp, mother, take the club, father,” How Anna's heart had beat for belt and counted the

and gaily, but with hushed voices, the him. Would he make that million bushes at the dark edge of the swamp

Beside him there crouched in the three atole' up the stairs, dollars? Would she ever live to road, with eyes that watched.

The stranger Isy sunk in sleep. The every back of his head was turned to them no see it? And as the years passed glitter of the coins, and a hand that they came in. she and John had often sat in the grasped a heavy cudgel of black-thorn, "Now, mother," said the farmer evenings picturing William at home hard-lined face belonged nowhere but Just behind the ear, I think, Henry

man whose close-cropped hair and firmly hold the lamp a little nearer; again, bringing with him a million within the walls of

ging

"No," said Henry, rolling back his dollars, or picturing the million dol When the aleigh started again the sleeve and speaking with the quick lars sent by express with love. But man in the bushes followed doggedly authority that snt well upon him,

track. the years had passed. William

the jaw, father, it's quicker and came not. He did not come.

Sing

Meantime John Enderby had made neater Meantime

Well, well," said the farmer, smil-

the rounds of his outbuildings. He bedded the fat cattle that blinked in the ing proudly, have your own way, lad; flashing light of the lantern. He you know best.” stood a moment among his hoga, and,

Henry raised the club,

Anna started from her musing. What was that at the door? The sound of a soft and timid rapping, and through the glass of the dour-pape, a farmar as he was, forgot his troubles But as he did so stay, what tace, a woman's face looking into the a moment to speak to each, calling them swamp the deep booming of the bell of that?. Far away behind the endar fire-lit room with pleading eyes. What by name. It smote trim to think how

Was

Was it she bure in her arms, the little at times he had been tempted to sell the village church began to strike out burdle that she held tight to her breast one of the hogs or even to sell the midnight. One, two, three, its tones to shield dt from the falling now? Can cattle to clear the mortgage off the came clear across the crisp air. Almost You guess, reader Try three guesses place. Thank God, however, he had at the same moment the clock below be and . Right you are. That's what put that temptation behind him.

with deep strokes to niark the

mid iL'ILE.

As he reached the house a sleigh was night bour; from the farmyard chic The farmer's wife went hastily to standing on the roadway. Anna mat ken coop a rooster began to crow twelve the door.

him at the door. "John

while the loud lowing of the

she said times the soft coving of the hogs

"there was a stranger came whlie you

"Lord's mercy!" she cried. "What are you doing out on such a night? were in the barn, and wanted a lodged to usher in the morning of Come in, child, to the fire!"

ing for the night; a city man, reckon, Christmas with its massage of peaco The woman entered, carrying the by his clothes. I hated to refuse him and goodwill- little bundle with her, and looking and I put him in Willie's room. We'll inch and a half across) at Enderby andy, we can't refuse." with wide eyes (they were at least an never want it again, and he's gone to his wife. Anna could see that there

The club fell from Henry's hand-and rattled on the door.

was no wedding-ring on her hand." -- John Enderby took out the horse too had guessed it was you.

"Your name?" sald the farmer's the barn and then returned to his vigil wife.

with Anna beside the fre.

The fumes of the buttermilk had died My name is Caroline," the girl whis-out of his brain. He was thinking, as pered "I want shelter," she, paused he sat there, of midnight, and what it "I want you to take the child."

Anna took the baby and laid it care- fully on the top shelf of the cupboard, sealskin cont had thrown himself down, In the room above the man in the then she hastened to bring a glass of clothes, and all, upon the bed, tired with water and daugh-nut, and set it be- fore the half-frozen girl.

his drive,

"Eat," She said, "and warm your- self.”

John rose from his sent.

would bring.

The aloeper woke and sat up. "Father! Mother!" he creid. "My son, my son," sobbed the father. We had come to wake you.*. to his parents "and I have brought “Yes, it is: 1" szid William, smiling the million dostrapped the belt from his waist and laid a a million dollars on

with that he

the table.

Thank Heaven!" cried Anna, "our troubles are at an end. This money greed of Pinchern and Co. cannot harm will help clear the mortgage-and the

us How

"How it all comes back to me," he muttered as he fell asleep. The same room, nothing changed except "I'll have no child of that.sort here."

then-how worn they look, and a tear

The farm was mortgaged;" sald He said.

started to his eyes. He thought of his

Wihast leaving his home fifteen years ago, of to men who have no conscience, whose said the farmer, “mortgaged "John, John," ploaded Anna. "Re-his struggle in the great city, of the member what the Good Book says: great idea he had conceived of making they adhes overly bras sad, ny Things which are equal to the same money, and of the Far Investment Com-boy and he pointed to Anna...

the grave. See how she has aged, my thing are equal to one another, " John sank back in his chair.

pany he had

instituted the simple system And why had Caroline no wedding-power of capital to exact the atter and Co. Heaven help me! I see it now. "Father," said William, is deep of

applying the · cenahing :

18 tones of contrition. "I am, Panchem uth Feb. ring? Ah, reader, can you not guess.

Well

you can't. It wasn't what you now here he was back again, true to fortune was made.

mort penny from the farm loans. And

I see at what expense of suffering my all; so there. Caroline had no his word, with a milion dollars in his all, these million dollars, to those

I will restora it wedding-ring because she had throw belt. To-morrow," he had murmur have wronged."

as she tramped

ed, "I I will tell them. It will be Xmas.""

think

at

it away the great city. "Why," Then William-yes, reader, it was Wil-repent, dear son, with true Christian ||

the streets of she cried, "should the wife of a man in

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It was the old and story.

Bha had taken the baby and laid it

@riga.

I beg

"You

You

"No," said his mother softly. am see (line 603 above) had fallen repentance. That is enough. saicep.

The hours passed, and kept passing.

may keep the money. We will look upon it as a trust, a sacred trust, and It was 11.30.

every time we spend a dollar of it on Then suddenly Anne started from her ourselves we will think of it as 鲁 place

"Henry?" she cried as the door open-

trust

| Lenderly, gently-an'a seat in the park. Then she walked rapidly RY. A

Yes," said the farmer softly, “Your few minutes after a man lad-chased and a man entered. He advanced mother is right, the money is a traat, after Caroline with the little bandie in gladly to meet her, and in a moment and we will restock the farm with it hemother and son were folded in a close by out the Jones's property, and re- |said, panting, werker pardon,","embrace. It was Henry, the man from ward the whole thing as a trust

think you have left your baby in the park. Carolina Sing Sing. True to his word, he had At this moment

ent the door of the room thanked him.

clipped away unostentatiously at the opened. A woman's form appeared. Feb. Next she took the baby to the Grand beight of the festivities, 13th Feb. Central Waiting-room: kissed it tan- Alse, Henry," said the mother after derly, and laid it on a shelf behind the the warmth of the first greetings had lunch-counter:

passed, you come at az moincky hour." few minutes later an official, beam. They told him of the mortgage on the then, as she caught sight of Henry, she

gave a great cry. ing with satisfaction, had brought it farm back to here

yes the ruin of his home

"My busband!" said" Anne," "not even a bed y wife, Bald Henry, and foldedj ****Yours, I think, madame," he said, as to offer you," and she spoke of the her to his heart. At

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It was Caroline, robed in one of An- na's directoire night-gowns,

I heard your voices," she said. And

Caroline, with Joy,

he handed it to her, Caroline thanked strangers, who had arrived of the "You have left Sing Sing" cried

woman and the child, and the rich man in the reelskin cost who had asked for a night's shelter.

"Yes, Caroline, kald Henry

Henry listened intently while they shall never go back."

Gaily the reunited family descended.

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told him of the man, and a sudden Anna carried the lamp, Henry carried Then Caroline had taken the child toght of intelligence flashed into his the club. William carried the millios

eye. 9th Feb.the country. At first she thought to

loave it on the wayside, and she had “By Heaven, father, I have it!” he}.” The buttermilk cireniated from hand put it down in the snow and standing criod. Then, dropping his rolce, he to hand. William and Henry told and A little distance of, had thrown mal-kaid, "Speak low, father. This :: man retold the story of their adventures, lein stalks at it, bet anmething in the upstairs, he had a way the little bundle lay covered in mil hath sealskin cost and The first streak of the Christmas mark

fell through the doorpane

Jahn Enderby, "Al, my sons said snow appealed to the mother's

sald Henry, "I saw a

Henceforth

let us

stick to las marrom Anne, with trop, woman (anked no questions. She put the Baby He had money in hie hat er and he says: “A straight line is that which, lisa. carefully away by a trunk, saw Caro- counted 12. and chuckled."-five dollar evenly between Ihr extreme points. –

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