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big sacrifice preparatory to extensive alterations which wo purpose making in our store during the coming month we will sell the balance of our winter stock at cost and below in order to clear the goods out of our way ur own rnces and gents fur mens cargdian jackets shirts and drawers acy top shirts sealette velvet cloth cord and heavy knit caps cloves aud jlitts mufflers mens youths and lioys overcoats c the whole to be cleared ai v as we want and must have the room now is the lime to buy the above lines and get full benefit of the use of them for the balance of the season the following are special lines that we carry in large variety that cannot be got elsewhere in stoufiville gents waterpoof coats ladies and gents furs gents white dress shirts collars cuffs and ties gents fine kid gloves lined and urlmed gents cuff buttons scarf plus collar buttons sir fine ordered clothing special also the correct thing no mistake we have been too long in the business to allow mistakes to cccur as we know too well the cost of such ijw the palace furnishing house south side main st stouttviilc a tale oft by edgar fawcctt- icoptiuoht 183li chapter l about seventyfive years njo in now york tho people who kept their privato carriages could almost have beeu counted on th fidjjcrs of ono hand hence when old myndherst van doren drove out in his cumbrous vehicle with a hammercloth and yellow wheels peo ple would staro and wink atono another in high diversion and dismay surely such luxury was almost without prece dent in the peaceful and unostentatious little seaport town of 1s15- hut what mado it all tho odder and funnier was tho fact that for many past years old van doren had been accounted the most miserly of men ho had a wide house- facing on tho battery in which ho lived entirely alone except for two old servants a man and his wife van doren had onco had a wife himself but that was years back when ho lad just entered tho shipping business on south street from which ho had long ago brought away a jhandsomo fortune two hundred thou sand dollars if a cent old peter van zandt fellowmerchant had declared him possessed of on his retiremont and the enormity of such a fortune thrilled at that period all who heard of its be- jing possibly owned by any one single man it was still whispered that young mrs van doren had died of a broken heart her husband having treated her with sternest parsimony and neglect he had a sister too and she had mar ried against his will a southern gentle man of literary tastes and precarious income though ralph stanfields birth and social rank had both been ex cellent tho brother of martha van doren had never pardoned what ho chose to denounce as her gross misal liance ho had known nothing of her for many years and at the time our lit tlo chronicle opens he had received tho card of a young man who announced i would stop it and insist on bpeak- ino with him himself as his nephew alfred stnnflcld on the day that he sought to visit h li uncle stanfleld was met by old samuel the servant with a sad but firm an nouncement that mr van doren could not be seen then the young man had written his kinsman quite a long letter in which he told of his orphanage his poverty and his desiro to win some sort of clerkship here in new york tho letter was not answered after three weeks of waiting stanficld began to grind his teeth with wrath at his uncles heartless behavior and to say of that gentleman the very bitterestthings ho said these things toa person whom he had not mentioned in his letter that person was his young wife mar tha whom ho had married just before shaking the dust of charleston from his feet thclrunionhadbcenanclopemcnt nnd they wcro now living on a some what slonder legacy which martha had inherited when a child nor father and several relatives wens all furious at her for hnving married stanflold they admitted that ho was a gentleman but i declared that his family was broken down and that a daughter of tho haughty house of rollaston should never have chosen so ineligiblo a lord these rail as tons were then what wo call leading people in charleston which nt that time was a town filled with fashionable pretension but martha had mado her choice and though she felt sure that it would al ways bo sneenngly regarded by her j kindred as an imprudence aliko desper ate and unpardonahlo she soothed her perturbed soul with thoughts of how sho had won tho husband of her maid- only choice trouble now seemed low ering in gloomiest threat over tho tor- tunc of the young pair ileforo long marthas legacy would be spent to its last dollar as it was she and stanficld wcro living in rather inferior apartments on catharine street what was to be done j they had como from charleston with 1 tho hope of ultimately nnd perhaps promptly winning van doren over tidings had drifted to him that mynd- herst van doren would never havo dreamed of setting up for himself this private equipage if he had not become a martyr to rheumatism not gout not a bit of it stanfields informant had added hes altogether too plain a liver for that and now as the slow massive car riage passed himstaufield glanced with in it and discerned though somewhat faintly a thiu hardfaced man leaning against its back cushions just after this glimpse of his unknown uncle had been offered him ho started as he per ceived n large dray drawn by two mad dened runaway horses come dashing up the street at first there seemed no danger to mr van dbrens carriage though tho coachman brought it to an abrupt standstill and watched the hur rying bulk with anxious eyes as it sped nearer however the headlong reg ularity of its progress changed the driver was gone having rashly jumped from his seat some little time ago the horses now began a plunging course and several other wagons narrowly es caped collision not so mr van dorens vehicle towards that the wild crea tures now swerved and hi another in stant they wore rearing furiously and yet still galloping onward with their own wheels locked in the heavy yellow one it was a horrible moment for stanfield young strong with urgently humane impulses he saw the carriage of the old man violently overturned and tho coachman flung from his box there is no doubt that lie now acted with a splendid promptness and courage for in a trice he had darted fleet of foot after the whole hurtled commingleinent of horses and woodwork the van doren team had net yet taken fright and were pulling stolidly against their terrified brothers this gave sta field a chance and he leaped with great dar ing and nimbi eness upon the shafts of the dragging coach still greater was his act in springing thence upon the dray itself he happened to have a large claspknife in his pocket a me mento of a shooting trip in the south carolina wilderness taken but a short time before his romantic marriage he remembered afterwards that while get ting himself over the dashboard of the dray and clinging to it with one hand as he cut the traces with the other it flashed through his mind how he was almost giving his life one chance out of twenty but a few lunges of that stout steel blade so far unfettered the furious horses that within the next twenty sec onds they had quite rid themselves of every restriction and were scamparing uptown with a now and horrid liberty stanficld fct dazed after his magnifi cent work still clinging to the dash board with the knife in his hand he fancied himself for tho first time in his sturdy young life on the verge of a positive swoon then somebody caught him and he opened his eyes without realizing that he had closed them a crowd had collected nnd plaudits rang to him from every side the most heroic thing i ever saw said a man who had the speech and ap pearance of a gentleman im proud to shake hands with you sir perhaps you dont know whom you saved from a horrible death he continued while holding stanfields hand lvfi mr van doren the retired shipping merchant van doren faltered stanficld who now began to feci himself again his brief faintness vanishing as a scrap of mist is blown nwny from a nigged hill side do you mean mr myndhcrst van doren yes said another voiec before the gentleman could respond here he comes now its n wonder he wasnt killed by the carriago upsetting ns it did nothing could more clearly have ex pressed the provincialism of now york at that period than what now followed from another member of the throng oh hes so gouty or rheumatic or whatever it is that he keeps his carriage all padded inside just like a babys hushl hero ho comes murmured the gentleman aud soon mr van doren moved up to stanficld with an extended hand his rheumatism made him limp a little but he had sustained no injury his greeting of the young man who had certainly saved his ufo was civil but by no means gracious the face which his nephew looked upon rising clean shaved and sharp- featured from its ainplo stock was almost frigid and lifeless enough to have been carved from some sort of grayish marble i thank you young sir i than yoti very much very much he was hold ing stanfields hand while ho thus spoke but on a sudden dropped it and fumbled in n side pocket of his coat which was cut like tho evening swallowtail coat of the present soon ho produced a wallet and drew from it a card which ho handed stan- field thcrel and then he tared fixedly at ills preserver for an instant flnilly giving a helpless littlo shrug of tost of old van down with tones of respect for bis dauntless young savior- just like the selfish om miser was the last comment that stan field beard but perhaps this handsome young hap is rich inm and dont want any reward dont want any rewardl thought the hero of the hour as he remembered bis own and marthas dwindling purse what would they say if they knew bo was my mothers brother j wonder what he will say when he hears and he never even asked me my name well well we snail see tomorrow what we shall see when ho reached home and began his story to martha she broke into little cries of horror and alarm ucforo he bad snuoied she was at his feet kissing bis baud and gazing up with wild wist- fulness into his face and youre not tho least bit in jured she at length exclaimed ob you noble glorious alfred but im an gry at you she broke off rising you should never have put your life into such awful peril never while she wept and trembled at the deed he had done stanficld threw bis arms about her and kissed each ivory lid of her sweet gray eyes each dimple at the corners of her arched pink lips think martha he said think what may come of itl thcro ho was my actual undo myndhcrst and i never dreamed of such a thing miser or no miser hell bo forced to help us now not that i want his money oh no it isu t that but by lifting a finger ha can get me something to do theres the joyful part of it theres where tho very hand of providence itself seems to havo been stretched forth in our behalf yours end roluel oh it docs look as though our trou bles were over said martha wiping her eyes but then alfred to think of your doing so awfully reckless a thing promise me youll never think of risking your dear life like that again not even to get millions and mil lions i wont ho laughed onco more kissing her ill draw tho lino as re gards my future deed of valor precisely at one million chapter ii with great punctuality stanfleld pre sented himself the next morning at his uncles house in state street the building had by no means a cheerful look as ha rapped with the bright brass knocker on the whitepaintod door its blinds were tightly closed and it seemed to drouse in an apathy of oblivion but this was not his first ascent of that slimrailed stoop ho was prepared for the sallow stooping butler who pres ently admitted him withouta word but with an air of having expected him soon ho was shown into a parlor so dark that he almost stumbled against a small but heavy mahogany tabic on which was a friendships keepsake in crimson andgold binding and ono or two onorraous grinning roselipped eoncb shells after a little whilo old samuel made it lighter and then mr van doren came into tho room it is possible that the old man had never treated anyone more cordially in all his hard austere life than he now treated stanfield you did a very fine thing sir ho said you saved my life beyond a doubt yes i grant it you see i grant it then he rubbed one hand aguinst the other as though in spite of grati tude he were washing away from thera all material obligation of a remunera tive kind and with his shrewd beady eyes ambushed below their gray slants of shaggy eyebrow he glanced round hlra at the threadbare carpets the mir rors in their tarnished frames and the haircloth furniture whose edges here and there betrayed tho tawny buck ram below them but he doubtless do- scried nono of these or other signs all glaring enough to attest his own ava rice he was very probably refreshing his memory concerning the littlo busi nesslike offer which ho had resolved to makci this handsome stalwart young gentleman in tho way of recognition and recompense but stanfleld had now made up his mind to speak and prompt ly did so he told myndherst van doren who he was and at length add ed not sir until i had been the means of your rescue did i learn of our relationship you did not ask me for my name nor did your servant seek it of me this morning but since i have already mado this name known to yon in my efforts to gain your kindly notice i feel sure that alfred stanficld will not strike so very unfamiliarly on your cars as he finished speaking the young man placed a card which bore his present address on the shelladorned table near which he sat he did not proffer it to elude bis peaceable overtures and then of the library with a sudden curt briskness concluded very often iu gree that you and i shall turn over an entirely new leaf flushed and stern stanfield had lis tened and here be glanced at martha who was not far away and who gave htm a little nod suggesting propitiation van dorens hand was now slightly lifted 1iu nephew gnawed bis lips for a moment and then went forward and tookit- 1 will do as you say sir he replied and 1 promise that the new leaf shall not be soiled by any misconduct of my j 3p tat lairs and that ncre j poor martha went away heary-heart- of reading any of j ed what was to be done the chil- tbe books on jhi adjacent shelves dren must not be brought up like pau- books which aiv tad long- ago ceased pern though already they were not from tho horrible extravagance of pur chasing he wotjd sit crouchingly be side his fcreecshadcd lamp for hours and hours of an evening arranging the iirunmy winning tun iorcu over i r but here as it were tho old fellow in- i tho shoulders and disclosing ashattercd visibly scoffed at them fortrcsscd in such impregnable manner against their approaches that he might as well havo been the emperor of china onco and for all v they told yon ho drove abroad in his own carnage said martha ono day if i were you alfred id just stop it and insist on speaking with him those word of his wife ns after wards remembered by stanficld wcro fraught with a queer prophetic humor for a few days after tho strange occa sion came to him of indeed stopping mr van dorens carriage it nil happened ilka a flash ns such things are so wont to happen ono morning stanficld was strolling on broadway when ho saw tho clumsy though somewhat aristocratic convey ance of his uncle come tnmneling along past rector street fie had no idea who owned the vehicle with ttscockaded driv er and two ponderous roans though he had seen it several times before during prevons strolls already however ho had heard as wo know that hi rich j uncle committed the monstrous new vork extravagance of driving- out in jju own coach then again the cjnlo pair of spectacles which ho had thus far kept in his drooled left hand i cant see anybody very well without these he pursued but ill be able to look j at you better if youll call upon me como tomorrow nt eleven oclock in the morning will you irn a littlo shaken up yon know though i aint hurt he said this with a sort of gen- erally challenging grin to the crowd nn expression which his nephew no i sooner saw than ho greatly disliked and then he was helped away by some one who knew well enough to offer him nn arm though ho hnd no actual i friend in new york throughout whoso limited community his wealth nnd his avarice had both quite notoriously tran spired stanficld moved away in another di rection he began to feel a little stiff in ctrtain muclcs and realized now that it was all over tho tremendons risk which ho had ran the dispersing nsscmmage called gay words after him half gnuul story half satiric some voices assured him that he was in for a thousand dollars snrc on tho mor row and others mockingly donbtcd such an amount of guerdon while at its ux a thick van doren though perhaps if ho had done so that gentleman would havo hurled ft aside lu disdain for his nephew had scarcely onded before he rose pale and tremulous with wrath i sec i seel ho exclaimed its all a trick a miserable trick 1 yeur mother threw herself away on a penniless lover and now youve watched your chanco to steal into my good graces to get money from me tho money pvo mado by hard work sir nnd mean to keep with a tight hand i can toll youl at this point the speaker agitatedly rose samuell hn called samuel in a shrill falsetto voice and tho old serv ant who had lately gono from the room now reappeared with strange promptitude show this this person to tho doorl fumed van doren then wralhfully to his nephew your scheme has mis carried sir completely mlscariedl and hurrying to a pair of heavy fold- ingdoors which wcro partly divided ho passed through the aperture closing it behind him an instant later in noisy and savage fashion stanficld ns he quitted the house laughed aloud a laugh of tho heartiest scorn was there ever such an old beast he said to ills wife after reach ing homo and telling her how ho had been treated no wonder ho acted to my poor mother as ho did upon my word when i think his conduct over iniutruc con temptible colors i wonder that ever his ago nnd kinship prevented mo from giving him tho soundest of thrashings hut before evening all had changed myndherst van doren presented him self at tho lodgings of stanficld that afternoon and harshly begged his nephews pardon ho performed this duty with much awkwardness but em phatically ho performed it nevertheless of course you saved my life ho said and i played a very shabby part to yon this morning in speaking as i did i beg you to forgive an old man for letting his bitter tonguo run away with him i know im crabbed and surly and all that what you said about being my nephew surprised mo a good deal but 1 dont mean that such sur prise was the slightest excuse now there will you lo kind enough to nc- own- martha who had been secretly quiv ering with nervous dread ucro struck in a gentle laugh and said as she joined her husbands side please let me be counted in too for all alfreds friends are mine and if you will receive him as your real nephew at last you must let me become your real niece be- sides this little speech was given with much grace and winsoraencis but it seemingly had no effect upon van doren ills manner grew indeed somewhat grimmer now that bis apology had been made and accepted a f tcr having seated himself at the request of hu host he bluntly said im not going to beat round the bush whats the use ive got a pret- j ty fair pile of money that it took inu a lot of time and trouble to make i shouldnt be surprised if im what peo ple would call a miser i let vm talk as they choose now of course it isnt going to be very pleasant for a man whos as fond of lis dollars as i am to give you many of cm down i wont do anything of that kind 1 cant and i wont hero stanfield and his wife exchanged glances and tho eyes of tho former seemed to say oh the un speakable old skinflint i but ill tell you what i will do van doren soon resumed with a keen though sidelong look at his nephew iimcave yon all ive got when im dono with it that oughtnt to be so long cither ill reach sixtyeight my next birthday my father died at fiftysix and both my brothers went at ages un der thirty he now gave a husky lit tle laugh about as joyless as the turn ing of a rusted key in its lock so you see the chances are against your waiting very long 111 send for a law yer tomorrow and by next thursday the will can be fully drawn up i in tended giving it nil to charities but in stead of that ill leave every dime of it to the nephew that saved my life at tho risk of his own now what do you think of this arrangement does it satisfy you because if doesnt fin ished van doren rising im afraid its altogether tho best i can do his own face had soured as ho watched the expression wrought by these words on the face of his nephew but stanfields reply though very frank was quite free from illfeeling naturally came his answer i do not wish to concern myself with any compact that bears relation to your death still if yon are willing to make mo your heir i can but thank you for having so decided and yet he con tinued i would ask you sir for some immediate help our needs are grow ing urgent though they arc not at all excessive my wife and i could live on a very moderate annuity if you would consent to aid us with a certain month ly sum i could perhaps indeed most probably succeed in getting a clerk ship here in new york that would swell the amount donated until it be came an actual competence mmycs yes muttered van doren strolling his bare sharp shaven chin you want in other words more than im willing to give i thought my terms very fair very fair and ho looked both stanfield and martha full in the eyes for a irioment with a gaze that seemed to both of them positively vulpine but tho young wife whatever may have been her furtive repulsion now drew nearer to the obdurate old man jand addressed him rth a simple and lovely eloquence of pleading sho spoko of their marriage aud the deep mutual love that had caused it of alfreds great willingness to work and of her own eager desire to fill their little homo with happiness and thrift there were tears of entreaty in her voice though none in her tenderly beseeching eyes but possibly a light was there that somehow crept with whatever faint ness down into the sullen gloom of that unnatural heart before the inter view was over martha and not her hus band had gained a victory stanfield was to receive everything at his unclec death and meanwhile until that high ly uncertain event occurred ho was to get a small monthly allowance but besides this as van doren gravely con ceded before his departure efforts would be used towards securing for his nephew tho desired mercantile clerk ship that last promise like the former one was faithfully carried out the old man in spite of his detested stingi ness retained a certain distinct busi ness influence ho recommended stan field to a firm of some importance and here in a prim office overlooking tho throngs of masts at tho docks of water street marthas husband soon found himself seated beforo a ledgerladen j desk it was tiresome work ho had as tho phrase goes a head for figures and by nature ho was not one to whom the gid dy pleasures of cities offered tempting lures but it began gradually to bore him with increasing keenness that ho could not gratify in tho cautions and conservative atmosphere of messrs van vcckten fc co his longings for quickly acquired riches i despise money merely in itself ho would say to martha but what it will bring ah i thats another affair think you and i might go round tho world together nrm in arm as it were if that old fellow would only consent to let us and so wo shall some day no doubt whispered martha with lips against his check hush ho said almost pushing her away from him i hate to count on anyones death even his yesyouro right dear said martha forgive me nevertheless ho did count on his uncles death harshly us it first went against his nature to do so during tho next five years two children were born to martha and himself a boy and a girl tho littlo family had just enough to supply its wants nnd not a dime mne martha with her babies and her domes tic cares kept up her spirits in blithest fashion but tho change in alfred wor ried her sho saw that his office work was growing u mora nnd more leaden task to him and that tho yearning for myndhcrst van doren to die hnd become gold pieces into piles of a certain height making of these piles medal lions and then altering the latter with a slow bat incessant variance until his freakish manipulations reminded you of nothing so much as the sluggish revo lution of a kaleidoscope talk like this keenly interested stan field now and then be would refer to samuels gossipy confidence during stanfleld could scarcely conceal the strange wildness of bis joy- there wo no use la striving toksepthe truth of b saltation from a red and gertrude on a social level with other children of tb wcto n thcjr read their like parentage and position but soon father but too clearly in the pathos of there dawned a way out of the diulcul- his monomania ty though scarcely one that might be after the funeral martha went to her said to beam with relief- old samuel husband and said suddenly died and his wife stricken i now alfred things will chaage by the shock of his loss hardly cur- 1 we eon hv as other people live your rived him a month van doren was hng waiting has ended let us begin now quite alone and at times marked- once ly feeble lie consented that tan- 1 begin what be muttered and field and his family should come and e turned away from her then he sud- live with lim in state ttreet which denly veered round again and shot out they at length did to wring from the these words each one stabbing her to old man money enough for even a fm- the soul as the heard them talks with his wife as time went on j gal household wherewithal was hard i l g used to the waiting now i place one further uptown though cheaper and more modest than that which they had formerly held martha protected a littlo nt this theres no use alfred she said in our reducing expenses we dont want to save you know by this time they had got lato the way of speaking quite freely to one another regarding van do rens expected demise no he replied not to save of course not but money is money my dear aud we need not squander it squander it faltered marthx sho could not understand the change in her husband he tad lost a good deal of his old bonhomie ho was given to fits of brooding that puzzled her and sometimes ho would start from one of these nnd suddeuly ask her how much a certain grocers bill had been or just what amount she had paid for young al freds last pair of shoes for young ger trudes newest dozeu of hose at last poor gejiie martha waked up and gave her lord a grand scolding ho listened to it very patiently and told her with a sort of dazed smile which she somehow detested that ho had thought so much of inonoy lately as to find himself caring about it watching its expenditure in a really pe culiar way you think altogether too much on the subject of money said martha with reproachful heat are we not quite comfortable as we are and if a certain thing doesnt happen within tho next five years or so why on earth should you care for a good while yet vo can send the children to public schools that certaiuli is far better than not educating them at all weve no reason to bother ourselves about money none in tho least of course you might have advanced yourself more with van vcckten co now alfred i dont mean to say anything unpleas ant but you know dear that you your self told me not long ago youd got to be a sort of machiue there in water street neither earing for promotion nor using an effort to secure it true replied stanficld i must pull myself together i must show thera what ira worth aud demand a better salary but he did neither he was always waiting waiting for his uncle to die the van vcckten arm found no fault with him but they jiad got to regard him in the light of a merely plodding and unambitious worker perhaps they suspected the truth that old van doren hnd mado him his heir and that ho had seen tho old misers will and that he realized how any hour might make him rich as it was they trusted him com- of time this was an achievement be- nc it isnt what money will bring its yond human suasion dignity and dis- j what the mere having and holding it tinction had been ciphers before now i wu bring i like that best pvo in the stanficld family circle but now they were worse than nonexistent they had been brought to life again ia the sense of travesty aud parody jt got about that this dismal viinasc had been formed and pitiless jests ensued luckily martlia heard none of them perhaps if stanfield had heard them he would not havo greatly earcl marthas life had now become a mar tyrdom she blessed the public school for its wholesome helping of her bo and her girl they 1mb became far more her children than their fathers all that was sweetest in the womanly wisdom and hardihood of her charade sho lavished upon these two again and again sho found herself hoping 1uji the bright innocent faces of alfred and gertrude would move the mulish tenaci ty of their great uncle but no van doren doled out just so much each week for expenses and no more the grown in all these years martha to like that best you neednt argue with me it will do no good ive got it at lait and 1 mean to keep it tight tight tight he laughed and lifted one hand in the air clinching it as though his augers closed on some viewless money bag martha turned from him shocked to tho souh that night she brought her son to the door of n big dim room where his fa ther sat beside a table under the light of a greenshaded lamp now and then pletely gave him certain work to do and satisfied themselves that he did it with a certain stolid apathy he was not useless to them he was hi a way quite useful but his employers had a sense of abilities partially dormant chapter iii and so another five years ivcnton myndherst van doren was now seventy eight there seemed no change in his bodily vigor however rheumatism attacked him at certain periods but never sojovercly that ho was unable to walk now and then ho could not icavo tho housf but such periods of immure ment were rare as for driving out ho had given up keeping a carriago since his perilous accident ho is waiting for a dead mans shoes martha would think of her hus band thcro is that fortuno coming to him and ho cannot keep his mind from it all his old vigor of character has gone from him he might havo dono so much for himself during these ten years but this wretched suspense has crept like a poison through all his nerves the children as they grew older were sent to a public school new york had now grcatened in nn eastward direction and the stanflold homo was in kssox- street but a stones throw from east broadway stanfield was a fitfully affectionate father and by no means a good one his children feared him more than they loved him attimes ho would overwhelm them with kind ness but they never knew just when his intcuso irritability would break fortlu martha as tho next decado began strove to console herself with tho ex pectation that van dorcns fortune might now at nny moment become theirs discovering that her husband was placated by such words as oh to morrow wo may be wealthy she used them with an increasing abandonment of good breeding it was like doubling and tripling the doses of opium for a painstung patient formerly tho modo of eonsolemcnt that sho now used would havo seemed to her brutal and in the most shameless taste but today icw iik ilkfuskd with ati awfli svfek and through a series of morrows tho vulgarity of tho process clad itself in cakusness their very children got into the habit of saying aloud and fear lessly any day wo may bo rich or when undo myndherst dies wo shall have thousands and thousands of dol lars but tho years dragged themselves hko a cancer that slowly eats deeper along nnd still undo myndherst did not and deeper into tho flesh dio ono day however tho head of tho when their firstchild was born they vftn vcckten firm died and as thero the same time mixing their cjnle d i m utxzt lh i old man nel hcsiuijng how tocon- wns no successor of the name and as tho two partners were well along in years tho firm underwent dissolution tills was a blow to martha for sho feared that her husband would refuse xbraxgixq tub ooid 1ieces into illks meals thero in stato street were almost like those in some private prison where five convicts daily assembled at tho board everybodys clothes grew rusty and pathetic tho big house though kept passably clean assumed an aspect of dingier desuetude as for stanfield his features his walk his voice had all notably altered though unconscious of it his drawn countenance betrayed a look of constant mingled weariness and expectancy to his wife he was like a man whom somo stealthy insanity keeps enslaving with subtle and threatening thraldom often he would show by his eyes a hungry eagerness which was like nothing so much as that of an eavesdropper crouched at the keyhole of a door when he hopes to hear tidings of tremondous import and now to martha a new nnd distressing quality became manifest in his behavior this was a seeming sym pathy with his uncles deplorable mean ness as the months amassed them selves into years he showed a tendency to talk with van doren on the subject of investments in bonds and mortgages and rents all day ho would cither aimlessly wander the streets or else hold converse with his kinsman of just this coldly mercenary kind in vain martha remonstrated in vain she tried to rouse him from the in toxication of his hard materialism ho would soften towards her for a few minutes dont get out of patienco with me he would say in a littlo while now youll find me such a differ ent man he cant last much longer dont you see he hardly cats any thing as it is he scarcely ever even stirs out of doors why its touch-and- go with him a fool could see that martha would shudder touch-and- gol and he was now long past eighty stanfleld himself had become a middle- aged man she his wife was no longer young the children wcro ceasing to bo children ono day in his eightyfourth year van doren was taken violently ill it was winter and many cases of pneu- moniainfloramationof the lungsthey still called it then in tho year 1830 had broken out and proved fatal against liis will a physician was summoned and tho verdict given his nephew was against his living twenufour hours longer martha attended him with all the skill of a trained nurse at this time her husbands conduct horrified her ho hung about tho door of the sick chamber with that eager look nc- ccntuated in his wan face there was one day when it seemed as if van doren might at any instant breathe his last during this period fits of delirium as sailed him in which ho raved of money money nothing except money on tho morrow ho was surprisingly better soon afterwards ho began to recover and within a fortnight his health was more vigorous than beforo tho seizure occurred for days after wards it tortured martha to observe her husbands face and this sho thought was the strong clearheaded high principled roan i married whoever first said that money was a curse hit on tho most pregnant of truths tho years went on at cightyelght van doren was fecblo bowed in figure very dim of sight nnd yet mentally as keen and nlcrt as he had ever been perhaps ho hugged his money a littlo closer and made thoso about him a lit tlo moro discomforted in consequence martha felt only too acutely now tho ghastly contagion that her husband had caught ho still waited but his wait ing had become a hideous mockery what could ho do with tho money now even if ho survived his undo nothing except hoard it as van doren was do ing ho had grown old before his time ho was prematurely wrinkled and into his features had crept n strin gency of pallor a covert fierceness which meant insatiable greed night after night ho now did what to his wifo was a revolting thing tho gamoof solitaire which van doren had been wont to play with his gold coins had now become a game in which his nephew joined they would sit to gether for hours and move tho littlo yellow piles to and fro on tho tablo be fore them in somo curious manner which they alone understood they would laugh and joke together as this queer amusement progressed stan fields laugh had grown crocked nnd thin like his uncis martha would turn sick ns sho watched them some- z the came a faint hollow cl1ckino sound there came a faint hollow clicking sound as his pale wasted fingers moved and paused the lamp rays glittered nt times on the little yellow cubes of coin it seemed almost as if ho wore playing that same weird game again with the ghost of his dead uncle for at intervals he would raise his haggard eyes and stare across tho small circuit of the tables where stood an empty chair look my son look my darling al fred martha whispered this is what money can do with asoul that drifts into loving it too well onco your father was young and handsomo and full of goodness like yourself see him now is it not too terrible if it wore not for you for you and gertrude this thing would be my death but i live for you i live in the hope that you will wipe away this sor row of mine you must wait my boy as he waited but differently and with a far wiser nobler spirit promise me that you will wait in this way alfred the young man threw his arms about his mothers neck and murmured to her certain words of cheer which ended thus thanks to you my mother i shall never be what he has become though i should- wait just as long as he waited yes and even longer still my darling my consolation my hope martha murmured back they turned away slowly and softly while that faint clicking sound went on in the big dim room below the dreamy lamp and the ravaged face that it lighted t tire end when baby was sick vre gave lior castorla when she wns n child she cried for cfistoria when ho became miss she clung to cnstoria when sho had child ron alio save llicin castorla c c rlclmrng co ociitlemcji in riving ovftr the moun tains i loi a eevcri cold which settled in my luck and kidneys caiihina mc many pics nights nf pain tdc iini upplica- slecplcs nights f mill tdc iint tionof minapds liniment o relieved mo that i fell into a deep sleep and complete recovery shortly followed john s mcxeod annapolis miiiards llploient cures garget ia cows somo symptoms of worms are fever colic variable appetite restlessness weak ness and convulsions the unfailing remedy is dr lows worm srup oxevst help for men pay no more money to quacks a iitrtr from emir flfvotith nervous debility and lot visor was ruicrcd to health in nuch a mnaikiuc manner after nil ruc 11 fij that he will send ilc nirh f cure fkkk to all tlfow iuf- fcrern ailjr trith timp mti cdvvard mrttn frrc tcr i4d r take care that your drafts on your physical endurance don i come j back to you some day marked wj funds take 5 ofpuroccdllveroiihypophosphites to increase your cxerty and so tnahj good your txceourt at the bank of health it cures consumption scrofula bronchitis coughs colds j and all forms of wasting diseases 6 almcal as palatable as sfhk v sure p yougt the genuine as there arepocriwi fattens t prpsr- by zeew ft roivn fxtoss i giiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiimiiiimitiiiiiiitiiiiiiiic brought it to tho old miser but ho car essed it in only a languid and perfunc tory way tho truth was ho could caress nothing with any real pleasuru save dollars and theso ho actually did fondle and slip through his fingers in eek other employment now that a times through a crevice in the doorway their most captivating golden form cortnn hnglelaycd event seemed on s kept her boy nnd girl from witness- for stanfield who now nnd then would tic roof happening nnd in that caso tho fl hu th nnj ids mental ftato would surely not profit obc hcr ww t wq9 horrulo by tho change sho was right ho mere- j hfip that tl fihould mc thc fathcr ly said she must get along without any it cant bo so very icompiefemaniioou and how to attain it i meet the old butler had it directly from samuel himself one day that there was a pot of actual gold coin in the cabinet tho plain truth is nod nr ngh fr hood i sirkipuillt no need of em bel iwli meat or e mat ioni sin iiooru cures vori need not cough ol night and liislurb your frknds there in no wrewioft for yon running the ride of contracting inflamma tion of the inng or con tun pi ion while yon cn gt bi-u- antifjonvimpiivc syrup tin medicine curot connimi intlunriti hon of the lung and all throat and chct trouble it iromotcn a f rco and rosy pectoral ton which immediately relievra the throat and lungs from viscid phlegm salary after this long now still it would bo very hard to get on without tho salary martha concluded even if only for a year or six months and so in secret she went down to tho old statestreet houso and begged van doren to increase tho allowance ho was making them he refused with an ire ful sneer he looked indeed tho typi cal miser that day wrth his bent form clad in a faded ragged dressinggown so depraved as this if it had not been for her children martha often told herself that she would go mad thero was just food enough to cat and no more tho houso was sinking to ruin in ono room tlie plaster hod fallen from the celling in another tho paper was hanging loose on no walls not till his ninetyfifth yor did myndherst van doren die and then they found hlra dead in his bed ono and the shabbiest of littlo black w js 7i wltt h caps on his bvd bead m swfl f h had paid tbfidebt cnatnro in tcstv reluctance work that tells the causes describes the xvocctp z points the 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harmless as the purest hilk tliis wonderful nervino tonic has only recently been introduced into this country by the proprietors and manufacturers of tho great south american nervine tonic and yet its great value a3 a curative agent has longbeen known by a few of the most learned physicians who have not brought its merits and value to the knowledge of tho general public this medicine has completely solved the problem of the cure of indi gestion dyspepsia and diseases of the general nervous system it is also of the greatest value in the cure of all forms of failing health from whatever cause it performs this by the great nervine tonic qualities which it possesses and by its great curative powers upon the digestive organs the stomach tho liver and the bowels no remedy compares with this wonderfully valuable nervino tonic as a builder and strength- cner of the life forces of the human body and as a great rcnewer of a brokendown constitution it is also of moro real permanent value in the treatment and cure of diseases of tho lungs than any consumption remedy ever used on this continent it is a marvelous euro for nerv ousness of females of all ages ladies who are approaching tho critical period known as change in life should not fail to use this great nervine tonic almost constantly for the space of two or three years it will carry them safely over the danger thi3 great strcngthener and cura tive is of inestimable value to the aged and infirm because its great energizing properties will give them a new hold on life it will add ten or fifteen years to tho lives of many of thoso who will use a half dozen ijottlcs of the remedy each year it is a great remedy for the cure of nervousness nervous prostration nervou3 headache sick headache female weakness nervous chills paralysis nervous paroxysms and nervous choking hot flashes palpitation of tho heart mental despondency ilecplessness st vitus dance nervousness of females nervousness of old age neuralgia pains in tho heart pains in tho back failing health broken constitution debility of old age indigestion and dyspepsia heartburn and sour stomach weight and tenderness in stomach loss of appetite frightful dreams dizziness and ringing in the ears weakness of extremities and fainting impure and impoverished blood- boils and carbuncles scrofula scrofulous swellings and ulcers consumption of the lungs catarrh of the lungs bronchitis and chronic cough liver complaint chronic diarrhoea delicate and scrofulous children summer complaint of infants all these and many other complaints cured by this wonderful nervine tonic as a cure for every class of nervous diseases no remedy has been able to compare with tho nervine tonic which is very pleasant and harmless in all its effects upon the youngest child or the oldest and most delicate individual ninetenths of all tho ailments to which the human family is heir are dependent on nervous exhaustion and impaired diges tion when thero is an insufficient supply of nerve food in the blood a general state of debility of the brain spinal marrow and nerves is tho result starved nerves like starved muscles become strong when the right kind of food is supplied and a thousand weaknesses and ailments disappear as tho nerves recover as the nervous system must supply all the power by which tho vital forces of the body are carried on it is tho first to suffer for want of perfect nutrition ordinary food does not con tain n sufficient quantity of tho kind of nutriment necessary to repair the wear our present modo of living and labor imposes upon the nerves for this reason it becomes necessary that a nerve food be supplied this south american nervino has been found by analysis to contain tho essential elements out of which nervo tissue is formed this accounts for its universal adaptability to the cure of all forms of nervous de rangement ciuwfordanrle isd ads 20 8 to the grtat south a merican jfedieine co dean gents i desiro to bay to you tbat i tneillclno i could bear of but nothtoj done mo nny appreciable good until i was advised to try your great south american nervine tonic nnd stomach and liver cure nnd mncc uslnt ncrernl bottles ol it i must say that i nm sur prised at its wonderful powers to cum the stom ach nnd general nervous system ii everyone kom the value ol this remedy no idoyou would not be able to supply tbo demand j a iiakdee extrca montgomery co rebeoca wilkisbos or brownsralley ind soys i bad been in a distressed condition for three years from nervousness weakness of th stomach dyspepsia and indigestion unui my health was gone i bad been doctoring con stantly with no relief i bought one botueof south american nervine which done me mors good than nny m worth of doctoring i over did la my life i would advise every weakly per son to use thl valuable and lovely remedy a few bottles of it has cured mo completely i consider it the grandest medicine in the world a sworn cure for st vitas dance or chorea crawf0rdsviue ind june 22 1887 my daughter eleven years old was severely afflicted with st vitus dance or chorea wo gavo hcr threo and onehalf bottles of south american ner vine and sho is completely restored i believe it will cure every caso of st vitus dance i havo kept it in my family for two years and am sure it ii the rrcatoat remedy in tho world for indigestion nnd dyspepsia and for all forms of nervous disorders and falling health from whatever cause slate of indiana john t misir montgomery county subscribed and sworn o beforo me this juno 22 1887 ciias v wkioiit notary public indigestion and dyspepsia the great south american nervine tonic which wo now ofter you islhc only absolutely unfailing remedy ever discovered for tho euro of indigestion dyspepsia and the vast train of symptoms and horrors which nro tho result of diseaso and debility of tho human stomach no person can afford to pass by this jewel of incal culable value who is affected by diseaso of tho stomach because tho ex perience and testimony of many go to prove that this is the one and only one groat euro in tho world for this universal destroyer there is no case of unmalignant disease of tho stomach whtchcan resist tho wonderful curative powers of tho south american netvine tonic iizliltiisil nsffjrstfs t elljl m knr ito indlii s33 wws -iotpbmhiowtti- ttioroccuor nnrihtuttcri tomiirh iddlgvatlon tn tonic my iyttra m completely bat- nmoim iroitctlon and n grnfrnl atinttrrrd tcml appctlto gone vu couching and iplttldc coniuion or ray nholo nyfttctn hnd riven up up mood nm or i wn in the fleet tore 4 2pb5gx cs on telik do rrllrf the flrnt bolue ol the nerr through ncveral cencruona i began tailor infonlcliuproycdme the ncclne tonlct nnd con inied f fo rsl month nn1 enuly cured it i bcllece it la the bet medrine in tbo world i i the grandct remedy lor ncrca7lomaeb nd can not recommend it too highly j et a so remedy compare with sorrn avimck nutnxi a n cure for th nerve no remedy com cnarl h mach no rcmedtwutatau z 7i ft vrioe a 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