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Full Title	Street and Smith's New York Weekly : a journal of useful knowledge, romance, amusement, &c., v. 60, no. 18, February 11, 1905.
Contributor	Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs., 1843-1926.
Date Added	10 November 2021
Format	Newspaper
Language	English
Publish Date	1905-02-11
Publisher	New York : Street & Smith
Alternate Title	New York Weekly. The golden key; or, Her only heritage / by Mrs. Georgie Sheldon. Her only heritage
Topic	New York (N.Y.) > Newspapers. Popular literature > United States > 19th century > Periodicals
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OCR ——— = PIQUANT-AND ,PICTURESQUE TORY ERK ame “DOCTOR JACH’S TALISMAN,” “srcins Next WEEK. - qe ae Farnese Entered According to Act of Congress, in the year 1993, by Street & Smith, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. G Entered at the Post Office, New York, as Second Class Matter, Vol 60. 96 qin BEB yore New York, February 11, 1905. Tareo Dollars Por Year No. 18, Two Copies Five Dollars, ~ EE Lge. Aer et Only Heritage - ee a ‘ t ‘ t 4 5 ‘ = 7 > "But what will Adam say? It will be a terrible blow!” With a deep sigh of ‘satisfaction. she. slipped away. . “This is an unusual case. You will have to go!” 3 . of its-mad rioting and ruthless pruning, all nature| dainty dress—an oddly fashioned trinket, the| Then, closing both doors after her, she: passed came forth fresh and radiant trom the deluge. thumb-ploce ornamented witha small pansy, ia the| upstairs to the sick. foou—romoving hor. bonbet . About five o'clock Miss, Portor went downstaire| heart of which there flashed tiny but flawless| and wrap as she wont “when she dismissed Sarah @ | inio’the Kitchen where her, servant was quictly diamond. to her interrupted work in the kitchen below and engaged with her domestia dutios, ‘| for once I have had a genuine adventu t down to rest and await the awaking of 9 | _,'sarah, I'm going in town to, see Dr. Bowman,” | in Biv plodding practical ite f*tho woman mute | the te i sleeper upon the bed. she remarked, rd tong, an onxios| tered to hervelt.” “Everything about this, child i later, Miss Porter suddenly ‘appeared in ’ inher mild, ‘gray water | Shows tbat ate a of 8 wealthy mother —| her right, eheertul kitchen, bearing a bonntitul oR, teepin, 50. “sit by her | some iri, ey name was| babe in her arms, while 2 tender expression see very long, and i more to her than tho life and welfare of her ow wa| to have softened ‘and iilumined her usually gr e her two teaspoontuls of the m almpost austere tace. FL em “Goodness sakes, alive!” exolaimed Sarab, er ~w Heritage. 2 enaneed cprogtrts sot oct Tania Sem ad we oné, preparatory to eves fastened upon the tnfant. : 8, i “Hush!” said Miss authoritatively. anyone comes. in.” pursued Miss Por- fogs of glossy, brown hair on the malt head, tho “Hag anyone been here since T tote home? ™ ‘felt theta. hothinn; 7. yaa | Gelicate, egulae features of ot the litle face, and the a soul”"oald the girl, but with still gap Am out, and dirs. Brewster is tying dainty, "per ts | ing eyes . want ‘any gossip started.. Til tell) gently’ heaving brea Boor little wait! what Goo turned tho mistress, in a satiefed By Mrs. GEORGIE SHELDON, my, ow ry las . ' all T do with you" ‘he concluded: with a lone" o Ae on you are 1 remember that ” ” fe oe jarab,,again, and her mis- Oran, Fegretful "ae Stab kr; rl was bora here on Monday night, Author of “Esther, ie © Brion, “Karle Wayne's Nobility,” “The Forsaken Bride,’ treas ‘burried away mae Eeroat ouddenly erect, her face becoming | tover No" oue eave Youvand “wed” Mew ownie’s Triumph,” “Queen Bess,” etc., ete. Sie’ was just Ix time to: catch tho Sve-twenty| almost as rigid as thet Of & statue, while shel Brewster kuow of the fact ay yots but I shall have " xpress for ‘town, where she arrived just on the] scarcely seomed to Dreathe, so absorbed had she| It recorded fe-morrow morning, when letter will stroke of six,;when roceaded directly to the| become in her own startled refections, also be mall fr. Brewster, announcing that iting To leave ‘Ror: waterproof aod, ume ney. Porter, I wonder it you could manage] be has # fine ie daughter Trelia ‘with the'womeq in charge tere while she| it?-~“t' wonder if Fou dare do it?” she: breathed, at Sarah, ‘looking dazed and PROLOGUE. suburban towns of Boston, where sha lived with} made a visit to her physician. last, with lips in which there was not an atom of| troubled. " a | ber one trusty maid in quiet, resttul, w She did not find her fa, the outer room, and so| color.” ‘Alice would never survive another such| “There are no “buts,” Sarah,”” curtly interposed "A GOLDEN KEY UNLOCKS A RESPONSIVE, AEaRT.”| her services were not in demai here. ent on into the ladies! private sitting room, whlct | tax upon her delirate constitution; Adam, Brewster he last forty-elght hours must be- ‘ ieee Tewas into this peaceful home that she found to bee jwite an unusual’ occur-| would never be content without’ an heir to bis are to know nothing, except, cannot ¢ give way to such} Sister had come, about a month Fence, although doubtless: the: recent tempest was| great. fortune. Well, I'm golag to try it, and this: month my ‘gave exeeimie BOE, ES? VAY Saa‘gor| until, the retura of her busband. “who had been| the reason why so few people were abron Save her heart from breaking.” bi r Hletle girl, and that both ment wil very called abroad upon urgent busin ‘At least: Miss. Porter thought the place was| With a resolute gleam in her gray ¢ mo! doing well," T ams Dut what will Aa 2 It will be a terrible} - Adam, Brewster was a woalthy banker of New empty, until a faint sound grested her ear, when| tied purpose in every line of eta “trong” honest ud Ywomaa, looking the givt toe ebat wil Adam say? | Tt will bo a terrible] york City. she started forward and peered around a corner| face, she began to wrap the child in the soft, 85. ts hopes, and nm * upon the Culfliment fo Was several years older than sweet Allce| to nd only anvaniinated bundle. ‘wrapped in a geay| warin shawl which she bad partially removed, pay-| "Yes, marm,’” was the meek responso, and Misa ee and DONT completed the sentence Shaw! ying ‘upon the stoate square table standing | Ing. ho attention, to the. womaa. in charge—who| Porter ‘knew that. torture would. never’ elfelt- the af tt erokea "wail completed the sentence a8| fa had been his | there, at that moment came Into the room and bexan to with betrayal of her secret attor thal promise Hlows of ‘an old-fashioned canopied bed. toy “Its a baby. muttered:Miss Porter, in aston-| busily brandish a great feather duster—aithough given face with her delicate bande aad folk to sob- ishment, “but where-on-earth is the mother?” mfortably that she was hat {6 right,” she sald, briskly, the stora lin fer fee with hor delicate hands and fell to sob; Prompted by! both curios" aud terest, sho| being” regarded witha Curious, questioning glance | ot ter "face elsxing. anal vr, you. Th frame from bea: Went to the -cbild, and, partiag the shawl, which| | But Mise Nancy Porter had run many, & a dificult tags the baby while I prepare Jou tailke Yor her? ume from, bead to (00k. jam will come home tol ™ yal] was clossly wrapped about it. discovered ‘an in-| gantlet, and faced many emergencies, during her ‘ @ next af (But oe. there appeared in a cor i : , e| fant, which her practiced eye told her could uot be] checkered life, er stanch heat rave| tain Golumn of the Boston ranscript the - Bad hat De has lost both wife and ebild if you do) nome geet & week old, if, indeed, it had seen as many|| front did not tail her OW ag about her ch ing pa n jays as that, Having arranged everything about her, char “rue later speaker, a tai muccular woman, with Her frat thought was, that the mother, or who. |to her tatistactiog, she aroee, and dnlinerately "r eet golden key bas unlocked a re- a.tbiy but eool até faco, when Derpoie a stron grec had the ‘chiid in char walked, fro) room, ‘passed out of then spons “ tharacter, as well art, knelt beside toilet room and left it just: door of eo ‘one “beyond, and, joining the ‘puctying Three weeks later a fair, sweet woman might {he bed, and Jaid her cheek against the colorless upon the tabl hen, su crow ras surging towsrd tho outward-bound | have been seen driving through, the strosta of the pillow with motherly tenderness and which set every ne Gains—cwitbout, giving another thought to the. er- in an elegant, carriage, which, with coach ‘upathy. “But her appealing words only se row 2'paintul thrlily went througt her rand which had brought ver To tows Acad here] man and footman, had beea to Increase the violence of the invalld’s grief, and, rs after the birth and death of her little} sight of a note. that bad een planed to tho Ane self just In season to board a return local to F—-] York, while by het side there aes “baxom oor tilda look of anxiety sweeping over her coun“ bone, Pfallce Brewster had tata tn of uncon-| fannel blanket that was wrapped about the infant dot seo in the caf a person whom oho| Aatured nurse. with Ing, baby on her’ lap. {wean Woman arose, after a moment, when, | sciousness, which caused the hea art jot her faithful und: aves know. a clteumstance for which ebe Wao ve “What lovely child ‘the tribute of every- ease atew drops from @ bottle into a spdon, shé| nurse and sister to quake with foal 3 she] “Good ‘heavens! it isan abandoned bab thankful, ‘and yet, knowing that there might be| one! who saw the dainty, Diue-oyed litte girl, who | riety informed her charge that t was time for] had rarely Yaown u¥ing hor long experience as 8| breathed, ‘so she. mechanteally: but tenderly. gavh: | aequalutances. on the tealtr she decided to leave it] now "bore the, Allison Porter nurse. eat eet eteoue mena ered es DUE | Ae ene sation two miles below Wer own town. | and then wondered to eo ithe grave, searatay woman meckly swallowed the po-| ‘The tempest without had raged so violently it} upon her breast, at about § mite ends Balt tron hot home, watck | that involuntartiy” came” into ‘the. yo bough, ber ,bovom continued to heave, with| had been impossible to send for a physician, and) | Hividently, ‘the child had eon, drugged, for. it| was located betweon the two villages, tyes, ‘oven while. Wer ips. amited” a nd tears still rained over her hueless cheeks. | the nearest neighbors war a quarter of a mile} dropped off to sloep almost immediately, and thea) "Tt was she alighted, and it was with| bestowed upon her darling. ‘ “ companion sat down near her, an. expres-| away thus the woman had been th ntirely| Miss. Porter, with trembling fingers aad tw a dcop sigh of satiotaction that sho Slipped away is pretty, and, best of all, sho isn't a botite baby.” fon of patient endurance oo Ber face, and in the] upon “her, own reso this. critical. time,| let spots upon. her cheeks, denoting great montal| In the gleom, outstripping a hackman’ ‘who was| Miss Porter was often heard to in : course of fifteen or tw utes wherein” both nerve and Protocfonal Knowledge| excitement, detached the ‘uote from the blanket, | hurrying ater her to profer his services, and | of in tense ‘satisfaction, especially. whenever here t fared by aces The invalid fall into © profousd and skill had been tested to the utmost. and, opening it, read: slarted ow upon her Jong, dismal walk at a swing-| came a visitor who had beon obliged (7), to bring; je fought her battle bravely, however, and|* wy; ace. up ner ol ” "che muttered, at last, with a] nally hod. the Satisfaction of Knowing. thst He] ig ciWill some Kind woman take this child, o see] INE Pace, meet a single person on th wi ‘Meantiine, ‘messages of love and gratitude, to- a, ef ie “hore wu, be an interval’ of rest,| bad won a signal SE ee ee ee aera oer Rg well it was a Jonely | ond, with only a fow ‘seattsred gether. lt costly ait had come across the ocean dat I dread the But, when onstia jousness Felurad, and, eect Sao i ell and hearty bans | farmhouses sed and arrived at bey jer own: ther, Who was all impatience to ; uke Nancy ‘Porter wi Anster, upward of| youthful mother called for her little andonment:. § in sat an atts y, born. | oor just. as ‘ne dtd fashioned clock. 9 igus return to ule treasures, i forts, and one of those shanch, ‘enable women wig was obliged to tell, "hor that she. was ehtiaiess, her foe Jen “kindred. liareshaped golden ‘Key, | Seneration sta nding in the hall solemnly “folied| Another ‘month passed, and the Brewstors wore Always seem like a bulwark of steggth and equal] heart, almost failed her again, in view of the’ bit- her own Kindred.” A peculiar-shaped golden. key. | off the hour of el ts once more settled im their elegant city home, where: ay emergency. ter disappointment and v1 folent, sorrow whlch once ip fhe form ot aay aston neovee rosea to glance In at ‘fhe on window as she passed} each succeeding week only served to develop the nehe,ta®, by profosston, a trained nurse, hay-| more threatened to snap the slender thread which | {JS 3 eal Nneeet in nan 2a Ty inde af the Boctes Phad (Gia ber that Saran ras atl upstatrs with ber charms of the lieete heiress and to endear ‘tor tot ig. Dany yours previous, served ‘her time in the| Hod her info bark moored t hhores of time. | this, apne: gs nt In an early Issue of the Boston Pat nt” asa, “passing Hortly gharme of wy ses Memsehunetta General Hospital, of Boston, after 88 could only t rily “quell these outbursts | 7ra78 7, the ead of personals, the ofl; | door, which’ she nolselessly opened. wi with’ inthe ‘Barly the. slow ae spring Miss Nancy Porter's ‘hyr experience was wide and varied. win- fet by ‘administering powerful nareotles, to sf; Beart, vand Zujden Rey Eas unlock Key,’ she walked through the “best room” to the} faithful Saral stricken, with fever, ack Rog for herself encomiums from both swyxeons. hates sleep and oblivion, with the hope that calm- or'a pone ve ton elieve te writer of this eearlon, bedroom," where che laid her charge upon| proved to Dea Toag ‘and’ tedious Hinees, tad hysiclans, and the unbounded contdem® of | ness and. resignation would come with returning] Of © heavy the ha Ghe ald her charge upon) proved te oe a en a ediut stetehlldre tog who ‘were fortunate enough to secure ber rene Hm!" ejaculated Miss Porter, as she refolded wih ‘sat held its senses locked in slumber, and| and some dreadtul secret which oppresned itt ervices In the room, afternoon of tho third day the storm tne Tote and began to look for the woldon Key, Glad to have her aching arme relieved of ‘their| Miss Porter was unremitting in her care of the. : i Bhe'bad her own omé in F—, one of hel brose, ‘and, in spite off the numberiess tudications | "She foumd. te’ pinaed co: the yoke “ot the ‘evitd's| Eon trusty girl; she allowed no.one to share her ear, « ; w 4 pe S 2 itinn S

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