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TEE WARNING HAND
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hour "raising" that check to five thousand dollars — the least sum that could benefit me. This would probably ruin our good friend, but
I had risen to hurry to the bank.
Suddenly my hands had seemed to become locked together. I sank back in the chair in terror. Closer scrutiny disclosed steel cuffs on my wrists, with a chain fastened to them. My eyes followed the chain. They came to the warning hand in the picture, which grasped firmly the other end of the chain !
I sprang to my feet and grasped the handcuffs, and tugged away frantically till they disappeared. Eealizing what I might yet escape, I seized the check and tore it into small pieces.
Then I fell back in what proved to be a swoon. I was roused this time by my wife and the children kicking frantically at the door.
Bracing up, I moved forward and opened it. Grace had a telegram in her hand, but her solicitude
"Jack, dear, dont you think you ight say good-night to the children
— and ask your friends in to dinner ? Mr. Ward has come in, too, to join us. ' '
All three men had turned, as tho struck by an electric shock.
There, in the doorway, stood the faithful wife, a tall boy and two small girls, the picture of happiness.
The two strangers rose and seized each one of Jack's hands warmly.
A few minutes later, the happiest party in all the State sat down to dinner. Frank sat on Grace 's right, Jim on her left. Jack's son, Harold, and Mr. Ward sat on either side of him.
It was that kind of happiness that bubbles into tears, sweet and clear from a brimful heart.
"But you had not quite finished your story, Jack, ' ' suggested Frank.
"Yes; you left yourself in poverty, ' ' laughed Jim.
' That 's so, ' ' agreed Jack. He rose and took from the wall a framed telegram.
The two guests read it :
John Bly — A new and profitable vein has just been discovered in the "Lady Grace Mine." If you desire to sell your holdings, we can get $500,000 for them.
Jones & Co.
CHARACTER OF AN EAST SIDE, NEW YORK CITY, AUDIENCE