The Crime of Edmund Challoner.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1760, 17 August 1895, Page 3

The Crime of Edmund Challoner.

By JAMES OAPP EEEVE. ,[t - >*; : - ; ; " [continued].- * When Miss Challoner liad finished her reading, she was very pale, but composed. Going at once in search of Abbott, whom, she found sitting idly near the railin the forward part of the vessel, she placed the paper in his hands. “Do you know who I am?” she asked, and as ho nodded slightly in answer she continued: ‘‘Yes.. lam Helen Challoner. It is for us that you have suffered all these years. But, believe me, I never knew un- ■ til now.” Aj : •. ] . *|Abbott read the paper through slowly. T-' “What do you want me to do with this?” ho asked finally. “Why, you ;must use it. Make yourself free. Qlear your name of suspicion.” )-< ; ‘ ‘Have you. thought what that means?” She looked at him with sudden fear in her wide eyes... '.’A ]] ; A' A ■■ ; . A • A’. - .. . .“My.father”^-^; ... . ' Abbott had- been , twisting the paper tightly, in his hands. Now with a sudden movement he attempted to fling it ' from him into the sea. Hut Miss.Qballoner, ae suddenly divining his purpose, grasped his arm and wrenched the paper from him. v'. ’ “No,” she cried, “justice .must be done you at.last.” She turned and saw the captain near them. “This is for you,” she sa,id, giving him the paper. The captain read it through with a lowering face and handed it without comment to the two detectives who had joined him. ' ■ ’ r .’ - \

(“Well, this does not matter much to us,” one of them said; “we shall only have to take the other one, the real thief, and let this one go.” He made as if,he were going at once to the cabin occupied by Mr. Challoner. . “Stop,” said Abbott, springing before him. “.That will profit you nothing. The reward is offered ‘for the arrest and conviction of Frederick Nelson.’ I remember the wording well. lam Frederick Nelson, and, as you see, I am innocent, and there is no reward offered for ♦ any one else.” ; ; A : “We are beaten,” said the man, “and as there is no money in it I don’t care how the job is settled. I for one shall not A trouble the old man.” The balance of the run into port was uneventful, except for a talk between Abbott, Miss Challoner and her father. The latter was weak and childish and begged Abbott’s forgiveness. “I shall gbhome and make restitution to the bank and- take whatever punishment they see fit to give me,” he said. But Abbott, hotifrg his weak condition, thought otherwise. A- - - “He can never stand the journey to Boston;” he felt bound, to tell Helen.“We must make him as comfortable as we can m New Orleans and wait for the -end.’’ "A.- -■>.- - . The end' came .-very soon, and they put him to rest in the beautiful Metaire cein-A-iAetery, avray-'TrOha the tomb Helen said to Abbott: A ’ . ** Jcou will go now ana clear your name?” ; . “And smirch your-father’s? No. Let the dead past remain dead. But you?” *‘i do not know. lam alone in the A *' world!’ 1 -] •••'•'.< - ' ' “Helen,” said Abbott gently, * ‘could you be content' to •he queen of Captiva , and'of my heart?’’ . • ' • . “Oh,” she said, “if you will share your kingdom with me I will bo very glad.” • And so they returned to Captiva,-but if is no longer a place of exile. I was Athere last summer and had from Nelson himself something more of this story. A

“Stem,” said Abbott, springing before :■ i ; AV; 'v MWk .... • ■ - By employing a confidential agent he was able to close up Mr. Challoner’s affairs and reimburse the bant so quietly ‘'that -there was no scandal about the matter. The reward for his own apprehension was withdrawn, and it w,as announced by the bank that he had been , unjustly’ accused. But Helen was so. ■ charmed' with’ Gaptiva that she did • " not care for any other home. So the” little cabin gave way to a roomy low roofed mansioh. - Gardens and groves ; sprang, hpj and. the ‘ island became ■a little earthly paradise. The inlet has . been deepened, and now when, storms blow ships find safe refuge behind the y -reef. And the fame of the king and. queen of Captiya has gone so far abroad that many a pleasure .yacht puts in for the purpose of enjoying their generous, hospitality. And the men Who come away say of Helen Challoner that she is a . queen among women, and the women .. say of her husband that he is every inch a king. • ■ ■ THE END. . A Word Aboni Cnrrjv j- ’ Bow many persons who partake of carry reejiy khow Just what it is? In point of iac* ife -ia a conglomeration of many ingredients such as anise, coriander, cumin; , mustard, poppy allspice, almond, af.!iieti<ii ghee, cardamon seeds, chili ber* ties, ciAamon, doves, cocoanut, cocoanut in life* oil. curds* garfity onion, ginger, lLmo juice, vinegar, mace, mangoes,- nutmeg, pepper, saffron, salt, tamarids and tumeric. are all pottnded together, dried in an ‘ oven or in the sun. When bottled it ip the powder which comes to ns as Indian curry. In the .Undiscovered Con ntry. Shade of Isabella—What troublest thee, Christopher? . . . Shade of Columbus—l have 311st discovered a Columbus half dollar.—Kate Field’s