Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-11-20

this paragraph" he said. touching the
top of column of city news, ''but l
could not help it,
Maumee took the paper, and I'M mo-
ment mastered the account of Phillips
arrest.
Mr.. Harley, can you not be mista-
ken?" she asked, when she looked up
from the paper with palIid face.
"So, Maumee; the proofs are con-
vincing against him." he beanswered and
then, while the fair girls head lay on
her bosom, and her eyes, swimming
with tears, fell to the floor, be left his
chair and came to her side.
''Girl :" he said, lis Phillip Lee any
thing to you?'
Maumee quickly drew her hand from
his grasp and started to her feet.
''He is something to me-" she cried,
facing the merchant, through whose
scheming she seemed to have seen in
stantly. she is much to me-and
more, Andreas Harley, he never robbed
your safe,'
The merchant for some moments did
not know what 10 say, but at last he
found his tongue.
''GIrl. he is guilty, greatly regret
to say; but you can save him."
"How, Mr.. Harley?"
'By becoming my wife. can liber-
ate him, and on such conditions the
doors of the Jail shall be open to him :"
Fire flashed in Maumee Martins dark
eyes.
"Andreas Harley.,' she said, "yonder
is the door tnat leads into the street."
and with quivering finger she pointed
TO the portal.
''This house is mine
81 care not"
81 can turn you out into the snow"
''There is the door. l wish to live
under such bounty as yours nolonger.'
Il will not go until YOU promise to
be lhy wife," said the merchant stern
".
At that moment the widow entered
the room, and Maumee sprung into the
chamber which her mother had just
vacated.
An instant later she reappeared,
bearing a musket OF quaint and clumsy
workmanship.
go, Andreas Harley." she cried, in
a determined tone. "Mother, please
open the door for the plotter."
Wondering what had transpired to
mar the friendship existing between
Maumee and the merchant, Mrs. Mar
tin opened the parlor door and Andreas
Harley with clenched hands and yenge-
full visage, strobe from the room
No sooner had he departed than Maui
NEE dropped the gun and threw her
self into her mothers arms.
"Oh. mother, mother.' she cried,
show swiftly one misfortune follows
another. But" and she lifted her
head, "Phillip shall not be condemned. |.
He shall not fall the victim of a con-
spiracy-never
Yet that day the Martins were driven
| from beneath the roof which had shell
tered them since their first great mis-
fortune, and they found u temporary
abode with Phillip Lees widowed
mother.
Maumee soon learned the particulars
of her lovers arrest and preliminary
examination, and the following day
she purchased pistol with portion
of her musical earnings.
When night came she made her way
to Theodore Mason's chamber, and star
tied the clerk with her abrupt appear
apce. The young mans face assumed
deathly hue, and Maumee's mental
ejaculation was:
"I've found the right man."
She knew much of Theodore MasOn's
habits, and she judged him TO be the
robber of the merchants safe. At the
first he denied the charge, but when he
saw the pistol clutched by the girls
fair, white hands, he changed his tone.
He wrote his confession on paper.
and Maumee called a young lawyer
into the room TO witness the signature.
The confession implicated Andreas
Harley. The clerk had been detected
! in his crime by the merchant, who had
promised to pardon him if he would aid
him to convict Phillip, who, IN time,
welded Maumee Martin.
Young Mason was permitted to es-
cape, and when Harley heard of the
confession he hastily disposed of his
store and followed him. The guilty
| clerk left behind him the skeleton keys
with which he had opened the safe,
and they still hang in the luxurious
home of Phillip Lee. now one of Chi
cago's merchant princes.