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THE PEOPLE’S HOME J OURNAL.
“go. I decided not to attend where I usually
: . went, So I went far arey, from there; I did not
; - ” know the name of the cler; Srgyman T did not
ornination of those
was Tose form and
y than mn used to, 0, but | the
words I heard spoken were Wats sol
am ig hard to ‘to for et t
— The love of money is the root
Strangely enough, I_ had hain
church where Chester Frost he
ont hero ew where hi
there knew of the death he
tore kno of the
‘3 minister 6 only knew
that “Choate Frost was missing, as 80 many men
into the
ded. No
mi
ister. ‘wid a few
sermon W was done,
and there were many—some of them men who
had never known him, I doubt not—who shed
tears, But I did not; how could My & e8
mee. as dry as though there had been lust in
For it know who No. 13 was, I know
I wonder whether I want to kil “he
3 cruel creatarg for it? I wonder, if I
wn 18, ‘whether Twould pray
tous; lam ten
than I might have been;
o for my ahare of the devil’s mone
fntehes am glad I did not. A man like me
does not need three thousand six hundred and
fifty dollar: A year is a very short time.
That isa very large amount of mon:
ono believe what I a
elf? Is this one
dollars 8 Poorer O-ni|
than an hour? Am I living in the nineteenth
century 4
Alas, it ia t I came here with the treas-
urer of the’ society this morning. We sat down
by the grave of the man who has 80 Wromiged
—s0 won| ed humanity—one of us on one side"
of it, the other on the other.
7 ‘he fi roasuror is 8 vel old man. Hehas held
his office for years, @ has never dra
nor has the ¢ dreadfni 1 fallen to his lot. I won-
der whether I shall live so long and be so for-
=~ bunal
He told
hero, and
me much of the man who lies buried
whose tombstone records more vir-
1n I have time or patience to write in my
00k.
He had a atrange history. He was arrested
and acquitte The treasurer thinks he Prien
nocent ; it is a legend of the Bocioty of Thirtee:
- that ho wa cae But his neighbors
6 lost office, employment in his
profession, friends, influence; he had only for-
une came to New York with that,
dac coterie of desperate characters
a ‘ange revels in the then
Sears a now ours ; his relatives
him, _.+-u0 tangibl rime was ever
Je fastened upon him or his new-found friends.
. He died. There was & suspicion of. ‘suicide;
the facts were insufficient to prove it. Some
whispered murder ; but the friends who were
6 died Proved themsa lyes
strong and Heluential to make it quite safe to
more than whisper it when “there was nothing
in the way of evidence to 0!
The man died on a 18th of Taly. He ordered
“ toat there should be 8 banquet when he was
sone. His orders were carries
t his will left ite house “and
hist money rio to ths Society of Thirteen. His rela-
tives tri - to prove that he had been mad, They
failed.
“And so,” the treasurer said to me, “
ciety has kept the m
ue through 1]
than
~ not lose t their rights to the money,
given heavy bail sometimes in or
ee Tere te pa giana enn ee mi
Be EN
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con-
at his ee would not oceur until
alter ris dat 0 for the banquet.”
2? he ask
“ Welln ison before ly 13th of
a dit pri
said ‘the treasurer, signific:
be treasurer is gone now. I am
ed,
lone, The
ave learned a new depth o
acgrdation to which the members of ‘the Spojoty
f Thi can descend. went, last
ina dre ney, too, Ye! not one, exeep x
the treasurer ‘and myself, had been near the
Brave that
treat be otherwise v asked the
ient
you before the year ia out.”
t Avausr 18rg. Tt ig a month since L have writ-
a ayy ret heaven! did time ever go 80
qui
i ‘ot visit the ve of the dead toda: .
! wok id ta Tmade mysol Ifaliar, It in
| the treasurer wi was’. ono, for he emited
strangely at me. Ob, well! What do Tcare?
It is Jong since I blamed any one for 80 little a
dishon 4 lie ia; it must be a whole lon
put ‘the record ‘of such foolis
{
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1
i
i
t
i
day again.
ri I touched the | m
knob on the ‘vase last night. How easily it
Another week is gor ‘one, Ihave
I lay among the tall grasses
wn 13; | tl
“the so- | allo’
ember that a single month or week or day
may bring graye—or to something
worse,
But I will ‘write that ister -
I took two books with m day. One would
have laughed to see 80 rrellaresced and well-
kepta man *s I Spo g | over a book on psychol-
88%, Why with no care zor needs
for the lonrows food or raiment—tre
self If rogarding the scie science of, mind or othe
envy him! It is ao hard
for me to forget that I am a Gualdino.
I have studied hard to-day. I have read.
have pondered. jy nen have been ag
izing. Let questions hore,
Perhaps I can tuewer {hom #
more time—more rest—rest—rest
wadlgW Jong will this hideous compact of crime
will the socie' ‘old its ban-
to h eath, that others 1 ey y be
d from this dreadful bondage?
I—I_—brave enough to m: ako this thin;
horror of the past instead of a menare for tl °
fature? I do not know. it sleep—an
wake to thinl’s ain.
I must not forget to write what I started to
m ) put d Wh some ago. Itis this: Ten a
ers drew balls Tat night, | They are all ha,
for all the balls we: +» Fool—fool! ey
f fiat I not draw before? ? as have only myself to
‘A white ball; the black ball of death ; the red
pall of murder; those are the ones which are
*The man who killed Chester Frost; a woman ;
myself ; those are the ones to draw the balls.
add me to his victim:
too ? Can I kill him, and over ‘know peace after-
ard ? Tf he had killed for love or revenge, I—
at no doubt his dat was a torture, b his crime
its ¢ own punishim Wat a
iterday shall 1 today have
bean rerentful, nutrangely eventful. I must write
for murder, they, say, in some other State, tried oft {hom
‘day mornin; theres ras a letter from ™}
- was prou
other. L pad ors some of my pride. I
opened this
‘My father ii is ‘on his death-bed. The dishon-
ored woman for wl he ca
home and friends has found deeper dey Behe. of
shame than I ever knew or guessed. She has
fled. ot one in Italy knows whether she is liv-
or dead.
of silence. sa
and ¢ die a true ang orth aldi
80TH. Gouried it. T havo failed.
I a my. peceege Dea I was going aboard
the sip in _Dhey bight me back.
oN g member of the Thirteen will be
‘twas the treas-
urer who said them. He is a greedy wolf at
heart.
I came back. I wonder if I had better have
ied.
Icannot sleep to-night. My brain seems on
ire. I must 0 to the 10 druggist and get some-
thing which five m ‘ont.
AvousT jist, wo of the Thirteen wore killed
day. How happy Iam! And how it
seems to piite d iown that death has ycausod ne
happiness!
i { was an accident. - saw it all, I shall
I neve
n-
other een who belonged to the Thirteen, came
slow. down the crowded street. Ateam d
vy truck took fright they went crashing
town the. street. And then—the treasurer and
his companion were amo: g the wreckage of
their carriage deaddoad dona ! Yes, thank
‘od, dea
Andt Married away to the building which we
I pressed the knob in the vase.
a
death and the time when I cai
find myself wondering whether the
have been the same if there had
or the white bal
Thee until July 1sth, 18654, at least. Almost
tre years, at least. When I think of what ike
Aid me 8 have been, two years is almost
yoLY 1 1, 1883, . We held our bangiiet last
chi (—I fear I am a little the worse this
morning for the liquor I drank.
I
think memory is not cat me this morn-
ing. if it is not, my ¢ ancesca—the
woman for whose foul sake my given, in
silence and pride ruin —was one of the
new members. cannot tell why. I de
know whether sghe has followed me, madly ae
i 6 in spite of what she has
been and ‘8, or Wi S hether shoe has sunk 80 low
a the same sort of aceidont which made me &
r has also made her 9) of the Thirteen,
God. help her! God pity her Pox woman must
have sinned and suffere oeod to have fallon
from the height which belong od to to Fran
My | Gualdino one
‘What shall I Tey rot the other. new member?
What shal ic sat next her last
ay can
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mei that she did not i know it hi
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power seen her before, and I talked with her a
if it had not been for the hot eyes ¢ of Francesca,
ow the rest of her mame. She told
until—un!
Can it be that tho wine is im ny head yet?
I gota letter from Italy this Porning. It tells
me my father is dead. tt tells me another has
the and the houses and the lands which
should have been ine. No
content hero-per
rt ofa we ct an is Alice? Purity’s self!
A doauty t that i is f° ae a grace that fascinates ;
e868 she he is a nameless child of
wad I-La Gualdino—t, proud of the name I
have been’ eo weak as to Qishonor—I love thia
white flower whi ch bas grown upward toward
God’a blue sky al sunlight from the very
mouth of the pit which is bottomless,
I muet be caroful. I know Francesca’s nature.
I must be patient. I know Alice’s delicate
ae unless the wine has lasted Jonger than
neal, a Jove her—I love her—I love
am foeeed "he last,
blessed. ‘Deyond wy jus t deserts, blessed be-
$
8
night, quite by Jecident, of course, for I had
of her om tects told mo she loved me,
Perhaps I said more than I should have done | will
matter ; I shall be | #!
01
Alice loves me! Alice loves me. We will find
a way for rising higher and growing better. We
ive to Taugh over over the daye when the power
shadowed our lives.
m She does not know my name,
history, my family. She loves mE; she has
ta her kisses upon my lips. My months of pa
ent t persiston ce have given me the
ARY 2D. oes the man ‘ho
chewer Frost look on sweetheart as he
does? Was it t not enough for him to rob me of
m; dearest fr
Saxe I have done it. I feared I
y him the life he has
wish ho had not looked into my eyes, Wh
cout he not have died without doin that?
shall never forgct his louk of scorn. Ishut my
‘ay?
led eince, if that dia hs id hay
eyes, and I se
There has Deen an inquest. No one knows
anything abont it; no on cts—unless it is
8
Francesca, Another year ration atta “13”
for some one of us.
Why did I kill him? Taenot 4
It might have. een justice to fave avenged a
ernel deed he
Pou 7 kill him because he murdered Chester
Did Ip purder him ecause se ho loved Alice ?
® | yond an an. thing which I had re: rally ‘dared imag. Juxx lirn, 1 light is in the
5, Pe arl, my eky, but I have not been t in bed since the ban-
pesrtoa tr steamtro, for the Priceline blessing of | que
lov ‘ed for a NewYear’s present ‘have so much to write, e0 much of which I
I
must think,
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