Cynthia Wakeham's Money

women. She was of the grand type, with height and a nobility of presence to

nto something like the dewy freshness of heaven-born flowers. Her mouth was mobile, but the passions it expressed were not of the gentlest, whatever might be the language of her eyes, and so it was that her face was in a way a contradiction of itself, which made it a fascinating study to one who cared to watch it, or possessed su

ch surprise that he felt his cheeks flush-"the lawyer w

ing her the low bow her emb

ht you were an elderly man, like our own Mr.

ience," he suggested, with a smile, s

the way she would have ended the sen

s great wish to be of service to her, "that you would prefer tha

hat she was engaged in some secret struggle. "I will tell you my difficulty," she pu

en once relieved from embarrassment, he waited

ch trouble." And with the clearness of a highly cultivated mind, she gave him the facts of a ca

help me?"

w York and swear to these facts before a magistrate,

not go to

matter of th

I do not travel

f the hard streak which there was undoubtedly in her character. Though he longed

sister

as he had expected her to,

does not tr

hment he did not feel

point out the difficulties in the way, to all of which she listened with a sli

ed her hand with

orry me further." Then she looked up at him with a total change of expression, and for the first time the hint of a smile soften

t of a wish to indulge in general con

s town as I had been led to believe. I even begin to fear she neve

said to be new?" she laughed with so

ained, "Harriet Smith,

," she averred. "Would it have

nner, but charmed by her voice, which

e saved me much labor a

matter i

law-busine

proved it so,

the words on her lips. After waiting for her to speak further and waiting in

u will allow me I will then call again and tel

d," she replied, and s

ursued Frank, as he rose to take his de

change in her attitude and expression. It was as if a chill had passed over her, stiffening her l

Sel

n after a year of absence. Have

llick," she added with a vain attempt to be natural. "

seeming sensitiveness. But he was more touched now by the emotion which made her forget herself, for it argued badly for his hopes, and assured hi

" he requested, "of an int

would have appalled most men. But he loved every change in that enigmatical countenance, there was so much character in its grave lines. So with the consideration that was a part of his natu

long she sat with fixed eyes and paling lips in that dreary old parlor where he had left her. As it was, he felt sufficiently disturbed and for a long time hesitated whether or not he should confront Edgar with an accusation of knowing Miss Cavanagh better than he acknowledged. But Sellick's reserve was one that impose

dvisable to have an an inventory made of the personal effects of the deceased, and this day had been set apart for the purpose. To meet this appointment he hurried all the rest, and at the hour set, he found himself before the broken gate and gardens of the ruinous old house in Flatbush. There was a

ects which time and misuse had created in the once stately mansion. Not a crack in plastering or woodwork but stood forth in bold relief that day, nor were the

r?" asked one of the workmen, poisi

g through the empty house, a quick cry as of a creature in pain burst from the staircase without,

ad bounded down the stairs to where they stood and was looking w

e-let's see, she may have hidden something here, there is no knowing." And falling on his knees he thrust his long arm i

d with an excitement which showed itself in alternate starts and sudden breathless gasps, which, taken with the sickly smiles with which he endeavored to hide the frown

ast come to light very near the fireplace, he gav

ears ago, and I could never get her to tell where she had put it. Let me have it, and I will

t, placed it in his pocket, and

und by Huckins, and here they expected to find the rest of her treasures. But beyond a small casket of almost worthless jewelry, nothing new was discovered, and they procee

ckins was seen to tremble. Catchi

backs, piles of greenbacks; I have caught her counting t

verely. "Why do you say they are for you, when you know yo

and you of the law cannot help it. Do I look like a man who will die poor? No, no; but I don't want

said Frank. "No one will rob you

awful with hideous memories to the youn

" and the sea

ame to light and were

e away?" screamed Huck

answe

dismantled and searched. But nothing was found in these places, nor in the st

unning ever since I was a little boy. My mother used to wind it with her own hands.

as nothing in its interior but the works which belonged there, but the frame at its back seemed unusually heavy, and Etheridge consequently had this taken off, when, to the astonishment o

n that box. She tried to make me think it was, and made a great secret of where she had put it, and how it was all to be for me if I only let it

yes fall on him, and b

!" he greedily

ut a list of the papers, which were most of them valuable, and then proceeded to count the loose bills. The result was to make Huck

poor dead sister; I intend to spend what is mine, and have a good time w

these words shuddered as they turned from him; but he did not care for cold shoulders now, or for any expression of