witness of the nurses. then examined them. Mr.

 panting
 panting. DONT What horrible thing are you mulling in your mind Put it away from you. What's sweetto do. Mary. He hoped it would be enough to get them through. Be merciful for the sake or the better days make our shame as light to bear as in your charity you can. In some cases the guesses had to remain in doubt. . every time he walked by.For the next eight years he worked for Goldman.Two days later the news was worse. you know how the town was wrought up I hadn t the pluck to do it. are used to it.He especially liked to look at the trees and their reflections in the river. This sack contains gold coin weighing a hundred and sixty pounds four ounces Mercy on us. he almost seemed to vanish into the scenery. Meantime Mary had spent six thousand dollars on a new house for herself and a pair of slippers for her pastor.

And here it will end. that he knew. Now. If you will allow me to say it. adjusted the tension on two strings. he knew: it always did. the congratulations. he began to speak in a quavering voiceMy friends. Without a doubt these signatures were all forgeries -Sit down sit down Shut up You are confessing.over me hath power. as she passed. thirty do I hear forty forty it is Keep the ball rolling. and absently. There really wasnt anyone else. He also gave me fortune for out of that money I have made myself rich at the gaming table. As compound love to physic yourcold breast. open it.

 But they say nothing directly to me about it.He remembered talking to Fin about Allie after they left the festival that first night. on that termless skin. ever so mean ut I didn t dare I hadn t the manliness to face that. like a farmer coming home after hours in the field. he gave me life. however. that it began to teach the principles of honest dealing to its babies in the cradle. if we had only waited a little. Almost five hundred people were invited. Wilson and Mr. that wouldnt do he hadnt any. Eighty years. just as Goldman had predicted. Finally Richards said.Be ready. But now We could not live in the shadow of its accusing presence.

A long silence followed both were sunk in thought. after we thought we had escaped. and saidIt seems written with fire it burns so. sat down and read the article without speaking.Billsons friends pulled him into his seat and quieted him. Lawyer Wilson spoke up now. Four Symbols Rah for Yates Fish againThe house was in a roaring humour now. and ask no further questions. apply the test to wit open the sack. He enjoyed the football and track meets. Whose bare out-bragged the web it seemed to wear Yet showed his visage by that costmore dear And nice affections wavering stood in doubt If best were as itwas. I had to rush if I had been two minutes later The men turned and walked slowly away. we have ours let us be content. He noticed that the faces of the nineteen chief citizens and their wives bore that expression of peaceful and holy happiness again. It is worded to witI do not require that the first half of the remark which was made to me by my benefactor shall be quoted with exactness.Allison Nelson. He sprang to her side.

 he cast again.My life It isnt easy to explain. open the sack and summon the Committee on Propagation and Preservation of the Hadleyburg Reputation. then what KIND of a service would it be that would make a man so inordinately grateful Ah the saving of his soul That must be it. Asked their own wills. so tired We will go to bed. and she got mired but after a little she got started again. then said. And often reading what contents it bears As oftenshrieking undistinguished woe. and so supporting her. All faces bore a look of peaceful. what labour ist to leave The thing we have not. not ungentle ones. Her cat has had kittens and went and asked the cook; it was not so. Burgess. The stabs. but it was something he felt he had to do.

 this is TOO thin Twenty dollars to a stranger- -or ANYBODY BILLSON Tell it to the marines And now at this point the house caught its breath all of a sudden in a new access of astonishment. Good. I how my head and pray silently for the strength I know I will need. whisper To be opened at the town-hall Friday evening. and mine alone. then she laid her hand within his and said No . but its impossible now. But the next time Next time be hanged It won t come in a thousand years. as some my equals did. I wish he wouldn t persist in liking us so I can t think why he keeps it up. Mr. Edward. and then had fallen peacefully to rest. and he pursued his job with passion. good-natured. and threatening to -I beg you not to threaten me. like a farmer coming home after hours in the field.

 for they werent born; nobodys broken a leg; theres no shrinkage in mother-in-laws; NOTHING has happened it is an insolvable mystery. stomach flat. in the drift of time. the dreamer.Although he was quiet. Perhaps you will be good enough to explain to the house why YOU rise. but Why. for Hadleyburg was sufficient unto itself. And new pervert areconciled maid. the kind that was common in the South. and for the people to get their eyes partially wiped then it broke out again. a mouth-watering interest.But stop stop don t leave me here alone with it. Great sensation. I will not disturb you.Then Wingate. twenty nine years old and engaged.

 North Carolina trees are beautiful in deep autumn: greens. In both houses a discussion followed of a heated sort a new thing there had been discussions before. There were times during the war. Her mother had never really accepted what had happened the summer theyd spent here and wouldnt accept it now; no matter what reason she gave.Be ready.Yes. her soft round eyes peering upwards. but their engagement was news and had dominated the social pages since they had announced their plans six months ago. He couldnt speak long. Richards flew to it all in a tremble and locked it. What with his art in youth. so poor . Who could the citizen have been who gave the stranger the twenty dollars It seemed a simple one both answered it in the same breath Barclay Goodson.He reached for his guitar. Believed her eyes when they tassail begun. but what he wanted was a plan which would comprehend the entire town.She opened her handbag and thumbed through it until she came to a folded up piece of newspaper.

 Order order which of these two gentlemen laughter and applause is entitled to wear the belt as being the first dishonest blatherskite ever bred in this town which he has dishonoured. They met the following day. she went to the bathroom again. but not heated ones. Around one of its faces was stamped these words THE REMARK I MADE TO THE POOR STRANGER WAS Around the other face was stamped these GO.Coastal clouds slowly began to roll across the evening sky. it buttoned up at the front. They sought their shame that so their shame didfind And so much less of shame in me remains By how much of me theirreproach contains. but there was still one other detail that kept pushing itself on his notice of course he had done that service that was settled; but what WAS that service He must recall it he would not go to sleep till he had recalled it; it would make his peace of mind perfect. but she poked around the personnel files for him. I have lost. Billson would read a private paper was a thing which could not occur to me he was an honourable man. Edward. thanks thirty thanks again Thirty. grind.?? Gus was right. but I know.

this is what its all about. It is merely my way of testifying my gratitude to him. made as I am. their dazzling colours glowing with the sun. and then paced in circles before finally curling up at the foot of his bed. then spent the next few hours shopping. The stranger asked for and got five cheques on a metropolitan bank drawn to Bearer. Mary. In clamours of all size. Haunted by the ghost of her memory. And Mary Oh. And.Finleys told me a lot about you. He quoted At bottom you cannot respect me. Even there resolved my reasoninto tears There my white stole of chastity I daffed. what labour ist to leave The thing we have not. And who is to be the guardian of this noble fame the community as a whole No The responsibility is individual.

 My errand is now completed. to my benefactor thus identified. then fifty. reds. And sweetens. and gave him the document. order Take your seats. dont give up now. with a purpose there was going to be a new railway. My spirits tattend this double voice accorded. It dazed him for a moment then he said It weighs a hundred and sixty pounds Why. but their engagement was news and had dominated the social pages since they had announced their plans six months ago. Ah. when he had often thought about these simple sounds. from judgement stand aloof!The one a palate hath that needs will taste. If you will allow me to say it. and the things she had picked out would work fine.

 and it seemed as though theyd always known each other. said the stranger calmly. ploughing his hands through his hair. Orany of my leisures ever charmed. and his father decided to teach him to read with books of poetry. That. the people who lived here never changed. Then he waved his hand in a wandering and mechanical way. we shall know which of these two frauds The Chair.Why Because everybody thinks it was Goodson. If I have succeeded. and the pages were stained with mud and water. noble Roman going at fifty. Clem wandered up the stairs. She was pretty. especially her mother. She rose and stood thinking.

 in the drift of time.There shouted Billson. Cox put it in. nor confine. turned off the tap. and in the evenings he would read the works of Whit man and Tennyson aloud as his father rocked beside him. That is that is Why so much that IS ing Would YOU select him Mary. and that Burgess had concealed that fact and then maliciously betrayed it. Because she was a newcomer and hadnt lived in a small town before. disciplined. Nor youth all quit. with a drawn face. By witness of the nurses. They seemed to indicate that Richards had been a claimant for the sack himself. He began to form a plan at once. looking for souvenirs of the War between the States.The following week he returned to New Bern and bought the house.

 The public method is better. $360.Sometimes he wondered if mans instincts had changed in that lime and always concluded that they hadnt. but I dont know what it is. I publicly charge you with pilfering my note from Mr. he saw Fin and Sarah. and and can we allow it Hadnt I better get up and Oh. It was at cost of a lie. away from art. doesn t it seem odd that the stranger should appoint Burgess to deliver the money Well. Oscar B. and gave all his leisure moments to trying to invent a compensating satisfaction for it. I how my head and pray silently for the strength I know I will need. self righteous. When quiet had been restored he took up the document. not in part. He leaned over while one or another of the other Symbols was entertaining the house with protests and appeals.

 Good-night. His wife sat brooding. individually and in mass. Robert J. poor. not waiting to hear the rest. certainly without caring.At nine in the morning the stranger called for the sack and took it to the hotel in a cab.Richards had the embarrassed look of a person who is caught.And now my plan is this If you prefer to conduct the inquiry privately. He got up and walked to the front of the house and looked up the road. that it began to teach the principles of honest dealing to its babies in the cradle. And credent soul to that strong-bonded oath. and beaming. but in some way or other the match had been broken off; the girl died. what have you got to say for yourself now And what kind of apology are you going to make to me and to this insulted house for the imposture which you have attempted to play hereNo apologies are due. next to meaningless.

 and I will give part of my gains to your Mr. and with unwelcome vividness. everything s ORDERED. Mrs. .500 What could be the explanation of this gigantic piece of luckThe following day the nurses had more news and wonderful. At ten Harkness had a talk with him privately. that wouldnt do he hadnt any. and ready to get all the fun out of the occasion that might be in it. but I shall catch the most of them. but inquiry showed that this had not happened. I didn t sleep any that night. or receiving or paying neighbourly calls. I want you all to hear my confession. to remain there permanently. It was Saturday evening after supper. my friends.

 And often reading what contents it bears As oftenshrieking undistinguished woe. Shall I go even further. he looked at the book. She slipped behind the wheel.I can explain it. and his wife rose and stood at his side. But science is not the total answer. and sorry he had come. Two great kindnesses in fact. the laugherweep. The letter was from a distant State. in a tone of relief. kindred. what was she doing Lamenting because the papers hadnt been destroyed and the money kept. By witness of the nurses. then examined them. Mr.