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FINE GOLD (Concluded from preceding page) A sharp cry came from William’s lips. “ No, no. Uncle Jack; tell me you didn’t.” “ O, William. I began wrong. -I took the money, but I didn’t mean to, and didn’t know I did until the day you cabled to me. This is the way it happened. I often tried to remember what book it was that I took from your father’s desk that night before I locked his study, for I knew you thought it might contain a clew, and on that day while thinking it over I remembered Fanny had asked me to look over a box of books in the attic to see what I wanted to keep. Among the books, I found my father’s old copy of “ Fox’s Book of Martyrs,” and all at once it flashed through my mind that that was the book. It was so old with much handling that I had tied a string around it and put it away in a chest of books in the attic as it had been a favorite book of my father’s. Well, I opened it and began to turn the leaves, and there I found some sermon notes in your father’s handwriting, and as I looked further, out dropped a yel lowed envelope containing those twenty thousand-dollar bills. William, it nearly killed me. When Fanny found me she thought I was dead, but I finally came to and had them cable you. I put the money in the bank, and here is your account, Will, and no man can tell you how sorry I am. Can you both forgive me?” Both father and son were weeping, but he knew they bore him no ill will. It was in sheer blessed Joy; the tears were falling. For at last the loved name was cleared. When again they could talk,. William and his father Insisted upon Uncle Jack going shares in the money. Will , Morehouse said it should be divided in three shares or not at all, and so at last it was decided that William, his father and Uncle Jack .should each have a third. “ There are no strings on this money to prevent my spend ing it as I choose?” asked Jack Harmon. He was assured it was his to do with as he chose, and three days later he told them how he would spend it. Little Joyce claimed her grandfather as her own special property’, and he was devoted to her. The little child bridged the gulf in his life more easily than anything else could have done. Jack Harmon suffered from mountain sickness to such an extent that he was unable to stay long, and then it was when he left that he told William and his father that his third of the money was to be given to the mission to buy the farm near Lake Titicaca of which .he had been hearing so long. “ But Uncle Jack, I was going to buy it with my share,” said William. “ And I was going to do it with mine.V said Will More house. “ I spoke first and you will need yours tor all kinds of modern machinery so that you can have the best farm in Peru, with church, orphanage and school and anything else you want as long as your money lasts. I can see Will has his idea about it also. Will told me that he did not expect to leave Peru, and I know you will be together, for Will won’t leave little Joyce.” So it was arranged as speedily as possible. The farm was bought, and William and his father were at last mission aries together, and Will Morehouse’s life held much of Joy and happiness in his remaining years. The End.
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