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Southern republican.
VOLUME 11.
The Southern Republican
JOSEPH LcBLANC, Managing Editor. ,
NEW ORLEANS, : : LOUISIANA.
THE PROMISE OF THE PAST.
*Tis hut of fleeting years a score,
Since fa’her used to call—
“My«son, ’tis time you got to bed:
Come, say good night to ail.”
Ah 1 how unwe iconic were t he words,
And how they spoiled the fun'.
I wasn't tired, why, not a bit!
Our game was not half done.
But time has flown, and I'm a man,
And heavy loads I bear;
For wearily the lagging hours
Drag on. held back by care!
Too long, too long, are now the days,
And things are different quite:
How gladly would I now respond
To father’s call each night!
Somehow the thought occurs to me
■ T hat this same ru’f may hold
When I shall find my race is run,
* And life’® bright fir-grow cold;
May not tn- somber messenger.
Whose call 1 now would dread.
Come at tho last, a welcome friend,
To hid me to my bed?
—Kansas City Independent.
Copyright, r3gB, by S. S. McClure.)
Cll A I ’ T EII V - <' ( > X TIM - F. D.
“Your brother died three years ago."
he said. “and your son was a passenger
with me to 'Frisco this winter, lie was
coming to the mines, he said. lie was
killed a couple of weeks ago one night
when he was coming down Io the ves
sel. (apt. Coffin took charge of the
body. It was the day before I left town.
1 nad my ticket till bought andeouldn t
wait for the funeral.”
‘■Did you see the body yourself?”
“No." said the mate, hesitatingly,
“but I heard the second mate say he
was dead."
“Do they know who did it?”
“No.”
“IJow did it all happen?”
The stalwart miter’s voice trembled
as he spoke, but he controlled himself
by a superhuman effort and Rider
re plied:
“He was picked up dead on the water
•front one night. He was on his way
down to the vessel and they supposed
some one hit him from behind. 1 hey
went through the poor chap’s clothes
and left him on the sidewalk, the scoun
drels! The second mate found him
there the same night long toward
morning. 1 had my ticket on an excur
sion train that day and 1 couldn't wait.
1 had lots to do get ting ready.”
“Wasthere no clew to the murderer?"
“No, they said there warn't nochance
of ever finding out w ho doi>e it. No one
was 'round to see the feller do it and he
got clean off."
“Then you don't know where he was
to be buried?*’
“No, but Cap'n Coffin would see that
he was taken care of all ship shape aiwl
snug.”
“Who is this Capt. Collin?"
“Skipper of the Seabird."
“Was that the croft you came out in?"
The mate replied in the affirmative,
and the unhappy father went on:
“God bless him for his big heart if he
does that! Money is r.o object to me
now. I've frozen and sweltered all these
years to get gold, and now I'm alone in
the world. Von haven't told me how
my brother died. When was that .'
The mate gave him all the detai's,
this lime truthfully, for he had heard
them all at Merrivale. Winn he had
finished. Capt. Scott said:
“Did you never hear Tom speak o f
me? Why did he never write? When I
left the ship in your charge I gave you
a letter to mail to him. telling him that
I wa< going up in Alaska alter gold,
and giving him an address in Seattle
where he could write, and I would get
IfoK Fknow? or if'he did it was
never forwarded to me. For over three
years I have been buried where no let
ters could reach me. and now 1 was on
my way Io Seattle and then for home.
It'S an aXvful blow. Rider!"
The mate was silent, and the stricken
man continued:
“What did the owners say when you
turned over the vessel and accounts?"
The other's face was ashy pale, but
he made a great effort, and replied.
“O. it was all right."
“Accounts were all straight?"
Rider’s agitation was so great thak
the other must have noticed it but for
bis own great grief, but Le maraged to
say:
“All straight, cap'n."
Tom's father was silent a moment,
and Obed Rider's thoughts were any
thing but pleasant Bis brain was in a
whirl, and he feared that any moment
his tongue might betray him to the man
he had wronged so deeply. He was at
his wit’s end for the best course to
pursue, when suddenly his companion
settled the matter at once by exclaim
ing:
“f have c-nly one thing lef* to Eve for
®owt I have mob ujoney than I know
what to do with. and I’ll see that lay
poor hoy is buried properly in ’Frisco.
Then I’ll do the square thing by every
body that was good tc him there and
then —"
He broke off suddenly and set his
teeth hard.
“Then I'll put s2(hoob reward up for
ihe wretch who killed him!
Rider shuddered involuntarily as the
captain spoke, but he made no reply.
The belt about his waist seemed tr> fair
ly burn his flesh as> the father went on,
and he dared not meet the speaker’s
gaze:
“What will he do if he finds his whelp
alive and bears what I.told about his
skipping out?'* he thought. “He will
murder me! I must be out of this be
fore he gets back here, and he will never
think of looking for me on the Dalton
trail! Besides, if he’s rich the chances
are that they’ll go“east at once and I
can work my little scheme without
anyone to hinder me. Perhaps it’s the
best thing after all that I met him. If
tl'.e youngster is dead the old man will
never hear what 1 told about him un
less he goes to Merrivale. and he ain’t
likely to go there now he has no folks
there. He won’t go near no shipping
firms to hear it, not if he s rich.
He was beginning to feel more easy in
his mind when he was interrupted by
Capt. Scott, who said:
“What brought you out here. Rider?"
“O. 1 got the gold fever like tin rest. ’
“Going to the Klondike region ?"
“Yes, 1 suppose so.’’
“Take my advice and con 1. Its on
Canadian ground, and you can’t do
well. I’ll give you a tip that is worth
a fortune to you. Go to the Copper river
and you won’t regret it. 111 give you
the lay of the ground and a note to a
good ebum there who will set you right.
How afe you fixed for money ?”
Rider hesitated. Scoundrel as he was.
he could not find his tongue for a mo
ment in reply, and the miner saved him
the trouble by adding:
“Never mind. Rider. I see how it is
but you needn’t In* bashful. 1 11 see that
you have enough to start in with the
best of them. A good outfit is half the
battle up there, and you want all the
grub you can take in. I’m going to
make a rush for that steamer now be
fore I get left. Til see you again if
there is time before the boat leaves. 1
guess my partner will go. to.’’
He wrung Rider's hand heartily, dis
appeared into his tent. and came out
with a plump bag of gold, which he laid
by Rider's side without further com
ment. then started for the beach with
long, swinging strides, that took him
to the water's edge in very few mo
ments. while the mate looked at the
bag with glistening eyes and said to
himself:
* “He’s got a heart big as an ox, but
I’m in too deep to back out now. and 1 11
need all I can get Th keep out of his
clutches if he ever finds out the truth!"
The steamer sailed the following
morning, but before he left the return
ing miner saw that Rider wanted for
nothing. He gave him the benefit of
his experience in ihe wilderness, made
c. list of the necessary articles of out
fit and paid a penniless unfortunate to
look after the mate and his horses until
the former was able to do it himself.
T'hie return voyage went well tor two
day s. then the steamer broke down and
i; was nearly a week before she was
able to-proceed. The following night
s’ e ran on a small island, causing an
other week's- delay. It was over three
weeks before Capt. Scott reached San
Francisco and was driven to the dock
where the Seabird still lay.
Old ( apt. Coflin was on deck and
Tom'- fat her accosted him at once:
“is this Capt. Seth Coffin?”
“That's my name.”
“Well my name is Scott. My son
came out with you and ”
"What? Are you his father?” inter
rupted the old skipper. “Yes. I can see
the look! Give us your flipp; r! Won't
he be disappointed? It’s too bad!”
His visitor's weather-beaten face
turned ghastly pale and he gasped:
"Disappointed! WhtM do you mean?
Is he not —”
■ “Aboard? No. confound it. he start
ed up north a week or ten days ago.”
CHAPTER VI.
When Tom Scott opened his eyes to
an understanding of what was* pass
ing around-him he gazed curiously
around his poorly furnished room.
Then as his eyes fell upon the second
mate of the Seabird reading by the win
dow he said in a faint whisper:
"Mr. Green!"
Down went the paper and the hon
est sai'or hastened to his side, ex
claiming:
“He’s come to at last! You mustn’t
ask any questions. Mr. Scott! The doc
tor gave me my orders just now. You 11
be all right in a dWy or two."
“But where am —”
“Belay!" w|s th? firm response, as
the watcher placed his broad hand
gently on Tom's mouth. "I ain't go
ing against orders. Lay right still and
don't talk. Here, take this stuff You
was to have it as so<»n as y ou got your
reckoning."
As he spoke he held a glass to Tom’s
lips with one hand, raising the patijnt
tenderly with the other with a deft
ness that told of considerable practice.
Tom was too weak to resist, and swal
lowed the medicine as he was bid. Then
he was about to try to speak again,
when hi* nui.-e Lis hand warn-
of
NEW ORLEANS, LA., SATURDAY, SEPT. 2, 1899.
ingly. Tom would have trind« another
effort, but he felt an overpowering
sense of drowsiness, and a moment
later he was forced to yield. His
head fell back and he dropped into a
restful slumber.
When he again awoke the second
mate was dozing in his chair. Tom s
bead was clear now and he felt
stronger. As he watched the sleeping
man the events of the fateful night
began to come back to him. and, as he
remembered his loss, he could not help
muttering an exclamation of despair.
“Aye. aye, sir! ’’
It was the watcher who replied, and
as he spoke he came auickly to the
bedside, saying:
•‘I must have dropped off a minute
How do you feel now?” -4Mg
“Pretty weak,” was the faint re
sponse. “and I’m hungry.”
“Good! You’ll do! Youll be all
right in a week. I’ll soon fix that!”
As he spoke a portly man entered the
room, and the sailor added: *
“Here’s the doctor now. I'll leave
him to see you while I run down to the
vessel and tell Cap’n Coffin you’re all
right aloft.”
When the doctor left Torn he said
briskly;
“You are all right now. young man.
I-Lat all you want and you'll be able to
travel in a week or two. It’s only weak
ness now. and that is soon wended. ’
He proved a reliable prophet, and
Tom felt his strength return each day.
In a day or two he was out. and at the
expiration of the week he felt perfectly
well, with the exception of a slight
languor which still remained.
He said nothing about the loss of
papers at first, but when he learned.,
from ( apt. Coffin how the second mate
had offered to spend his hard-earned
savings and give up his cherished plan
of going to the mines, he determined to
make him his confidant, and offer to
share with him if they could find the
parties to whom he had been directed.
After carefully thinking the matter
over he was convinced that the robber
would probably place no reliance on the
rude will, even if he took the trouble
to read it. It was more than probable
that he had thrown both papers away
when he rifled the belt, paying atten
tion only to the tidy sum he had se
cured by his crime.
In this case it would only be neces
sary to find the old miner’s friends and
“No, be started up north a week or ten ' j
days ago.”
tell the truth, to which the second mate .
could certify. There was another pte- t
caution, too. which might be taken.and j
that was to obtain a sworn statement ,
from the captain of the Seabird as to -
the identity of both Tom and the 7c-
1 nd officer, together with the j
John Avery was the former’s roorr,s>.iate
and had died at sea. ]
Tom easily obtained this in writing <
and he then told his secret to Green. .
who listened in open-mouthed amaze- 1
ment. but with a kindling face that 1
showed he had no doubt of the absolute
truth of what he heard.
“Now." concluded Tom. “that’s the
whole story. It may be a wild goose
chase, but there it is. Will you go in
with me and share and share alike? I '
‘!!. e rars> b <i<- h wboV < I I Ji ,H rW V
What do you say ?"
"Say? Why. what would any man
say? I’m with you as long as I have a
drop of blood left! Of course I’ll go.
but I have hanged little mon —’’
“Don’t talk money to me!" interrupt
ed Tom. quickly. “I know what you did
for me before you knew I had a cent. I i
have $4,000 left, and the first thing is for ,
you to take half of it. I’ll feel safer
then.”
"Don't you think anyone knew you
had them papers?” asked his new com
rade after awhile. "Sure you never
mentioned them or showed them?”
“Sure." replied Tom. “I did not men
tion them 10 a single person, and theyj
were never out of the belt except whey
I was looking at them alone by vedp
self.” af
"Was the money you lost in thejalclt.
too?”
“Yes—no. come to think of U. had it
111 my pocket that night. lucky
I put the most of it in the that
very day."
“What made you do that?”
“Capt. Coffin advised me to.”
Tom. a little surprised at the
ency of his friend’*ow-Yoning. “Why f
do you ask?” I
tell
cou
Iwt." wn ; the thought fra xeply,
■Otting up how many folka could
|jw; have seen those papers*”
Kp you—” t /
BJy a bit I” broke in Green. “Let
Kish my calculation. Two heads
r«ter’n oue. The old man gave the
Ivioyou aboard ship, in your state-
I itodded. and the other went on.
I x who could; have seen their.
[ they was- in your room? Let’s
whip. The cap’n. the mate and rue
pnes that had any eha nee.
no one else is allowed in the
leeside the cook. The cook went
tejoiigago. which h A wouldn’t done
Shad any money to buy inm nor
"*» 'i papers as llitjm iimii ( s pocket.
C-ow Cap’n CC*in didn’t slug you,
S' ain’t that kind, and if he was he
?dn’t have told you to put your
ly in the safe and fell so bad over
i hurt.”
that are you driving at?” asked
I rather amused at the businesslike
Lin which the sailor was cheeking
Is points on the ends of his fingers.
Lien there’s the mate!”
pen paused and looked triumphant-
L Tom.
jhe mate's room was next to yourn.
Light have seen them, lie was in
room when you came out and said
lid man was dying. He skipped out
kame day you was hurt and give no
pe. He never come nigh you at all
that do you n-ean?” demanded
I. starting to his feet, as for the first.
I the other's meaning began to
y. upon him.
ie hated you like poison, and —”
>es! Yes! I see it all!” cried Tom,
thing his fists. “I see why he left
luddeuly. 1 had a ticket in my
tet by an excursion train for Seat*
\ It was only good that day,! He is
Jobber. I could swear to it! How
v ill come to think of it so quick?”
Cause the chap that did it would
- taken your money out of your
cet. and lit out. He wouldn't have
,no chances hunting for a belt un-
th
th
di
lesfc knew there was one there. I see
it some one that knew of the
papf TS - and (hen the rest was easy.
Nq.JgT come down aboard and we'll see if
we P rove ’b”
’jJw >m followed him to the Seabird, and
soon stood in the. mate’s state
rooJßn.
here!”
T>.®£jsgeond officer pointed as he spoke
fc*? crack in An- parfHlou which
sf >p<Jlrated it from Tom's room. It need
ed W>ut a glance to show that it had
beew l recently enlarged.
“WTiat’s what did the business." he
coj itinued. “and he's off for that gold
in i ie. He’s got a big start, and what’s
to irevent his passing himself off as Mr.
Toi 1 Scott on those people?"
“ Ie couldn’t do that!" exclaimed
Tor :l -
“ >Vhy not? Was there any descrip
tior - of you Hie paper the old man
gav e you? How are they to know?"
“ hit I’ve got a statement in mj
p OC ket from Capt. Coffin, telling who wo
are and all about it!" insisted Tom.
d \Vhat good is that when the mate in
on; the spot, perhaps, with his docu
md Hs. and how can you make anyone
be| ieve you are the right chap? Look
heWe. Scott, there's only one tiling to
cdH We’ve got to go after that son of a
SC J cook - and take the law in our own
hSids. Something will turn up to help
usfl nit. After alk 1 dont know but that
t'Xjre is something in what you say. All
hflcould tell about Avery was what he
on board the vessel. He never
I JHl<ed any with him. and don t knew
all thing about his family or business
• f dare- say the old chap told you a
g|l)d many things about himself, didn’t
■j'Yes." replied Tom. eagerly, “he told
mi all about his family, and I can goon
co ivince anyone that the mate is lying
if he claims to be me. I've got the cap
tai n’s statement, you know, sworn to
bt 'ore a justice of the peace, and all wit
nessed. The mate will have a hard time
to get round that."
• ‘Mebbe so." was the doubtful reply,
“b ll f H’s a wild country where we’re
go ing. and I don't believe papers .vill be.
of milch account there. We're two to
.e. anvhow, and if we overhaul the
ra nnu svmv „
•Jqßuare with him.”
■“The sooner we start the better.
th»n.” decided Toni. “Come on. let's be
Ofw- and see about it at once.”
Bt did not take the tw o friends long to
jJike their simple "preparations. The
remaining in the captain's safe
equally divided between them and
belts. Tickets to Seattle were
procured, and the following day. after
a Ihearty farewell to the big-hearted
slßipper. the two young men started on
thleir adventurous trip.
[TO BE CONTINUED 1
y The Washerwoman’s Revenge.
X iMr. De Sharp (anxiously)—l inadver
f tently sent my cuff buttons to the wash
- last week. Did you find them?
Washerwoman—Sure. Oi saw a couple
j n th’ tub. but I have no time to be fish
in' kipund fur brass cuff buttons, an’
t Oi t'Vew thim away.
v Mr. De Sharp (in horrified accents)—
t Threw them away! Those buttons
were pure gold.
Washerwoman —Moy! Moy! Ihat’a
3 too bad. Oi.niver thought that a young
man wot was always beat in’ down a
wipoor washerwoman's prices cud afford
It® wear gold.—N Y. Weekly.
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Bldg., Chicago.
J. L. EDMONDSON,
So. Pass. Agt., Chattanooga, Venn.
W. L. DANLEY.
Gen. Pass, and Ticket AgL, Nashville. Trur.