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Allison's face darkened and his eyes looked stern and hard He said sorily Jane couldn't catch the words, but he drew her close in his arms and held her tenderly: "And were those papers never found, dear?" he asked after a ainst his shoulder, "I found them, after father died"

"You found them?"

"Yes, I found them slipped down behind the chest in the hall It was a heavy oak chest, a great carved affair that had belonged in the fa time, and it was seldom moved It stood below the hat-rack in the alcove in the hall, and I figured it out that the man must have meant to keep those papers hi evidence in father's hands, and that heand started to carry the on his overcoat, he had so it Because they were not all there--two of the Father had described them to me, and three--the most important ones with the eer, and looked like the whole bundle, which explains how he came to think he had them all But the two he had and must have had about him when he was killed would not in theainst him So, my father was arrested----!"

The tears choked Jane's voice and suddenly rained into her sweet eyes as she struggled to recall the whole sorrowful experience

"Oh,her close

"Father was very brave He said it was sure to coh it was offered him by several loyal friends He saw that they suspected hi headlines, 'CHURCH ELDER ARRESTED'"

Allison's voice was deep with loving sympathy as his lips swept her forehead softly and he irl!" but Jane went bravely on

"That was a hard tiood; he didn't let it last long There came an old friend back from abroad who had known father ever since he was a boy, and who happened to have been associated with hiive certain proofs that cleared the whole thing up In a week the case was dismissed so far as father was concerned, and he was back at hoain, and restored to the full confidence of his business associates--that is, those who knew intimately about thewould have been all right, and he would have been able to live down the whole thing, but the trouble had struck him hard, he was so terribly worried for my sake, you know Then he took a little cold which we didn't think anything about, and suddenly, before we realized it, he was doith double pneuone After he died, the papers said beautiful things about his bravery and courage and Christianity, and people tried to be nice, but when it was all over there were still people who looked at ether; and that hter and said that my father had stolen their incoiven up to save thehter o ahere I was not known, although I had several dear beautiful hoht have been a daughter and treated as one of the other children But I thought it was better to go away and make my own life----"