Five Hundred Dollars; or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret

ot the other held her up. "You here," she exclaimed

ruel exile. We have b

een these last te

t eight year

did not w

y track. I have heard from you now and t

t would have been easier to

had no money to send you. Misfortune has pursued me, and I have only been able to support mysel

o you refe

bert M

ow is he responsible

it was he who stole the bonds, th

f this?" asked Mary Barton eagerly. "The

rowing suspicion upon me. You remember that it was a bond for f

es

he same establishment. We were on a

es

an," added Simeon B

ered worth thirty

ey that gave him his s

ss for himself for more tha

ada, and with the proceeds started in as a manufacturer. How otherwise could he have done so? He was only

where he obtained mon

there is any my

equences of his wrong-doing while he has been

kedness often flourishes in this world. We

ever be able to prove y

an live together again. But tell me, before I go a

iefly. She did not care to add to her husband

ive you, but I only had enoug

n object i

since-it is not necessary to explain how-that he could throw light on the long unsolved mystery-that he knew the real

could!" exclaimed Mrs. Ba

try, at a

ld not be well to c

epeated Simeon B

e has returned from Californ

you se

nt a week at

give the particulars

ome but five hundred dollars, but he is lucky enough to be employ

head an honest man, without a stain-an undes

call upon him, for I am subject to arrest on the old charge, as you know, and the New York detective

es

ill call him?-he still thinks

ed it so,

be revealed to him. I may disclose myself to Unc

of men. I wish, he could h

visit

ned at his hou

well r

d him rich. When he found he had but five hundred doll

t must have hurt the

t he only seemed amuse

hat he probably expected it. The ol

till, though he is sixty-five, and was as gay and cheerful as a

ing mean about

men as he, who would make so good use

Albert Marlo

es

cult to make out. Where are you going to sta

n't k

u to the house where you

sh so

live. Perhaps I might introduce y

o. He would not speak of

old him not

y own eyes how he is looking at fifteen. And it would be a comfort to rest once

Simeon. I must introduc

is the name I have bor

heard from a l

me, being alarmed by my long a

have you been so long? I g

d in talking with him I forgot how time was p

s hand rested for a moment in the hand of

father, Herbert?" aske

died when I was q

ong time since," murmure

-night. It is long since I have seen him and we may n

inly,

. Mrs. Barton prepared some tea,

s he looked wistfully at the wife and son from whom he had bee

usin, Albert Marlowe?" aske

now him some

upon him? He is

I never-lik

lau

is a cold, selfish man. He is

"you need not mention Mr. Robinson's

ther! I'll bea