The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-18
HOW HE WAS SAVED.

| From the New York Journal
What had MiIy Martin done7 Why, hid.
| den an escaped convict in the cellar of her
! house Just because he looked so miserable and
repentant and hungry. His pitiful face had
| moved her kind heart, and after she had talked
| to him for a while she gave him something 10
| eat and vowed she would save him.
What would her father say when no heard
| of this, and what would Larry JONES' her
| lover, think if he saw her talking to a strange
| man2
But her sense of mercy triumphed in the
| end, and she did all she could for the poor
wretch who had asked her for shelter in his
! despair.
Scarcely an hour had elapsed after sho had
| slowed the convict away before q posse of
officers rode up to the door. She met them
with her sewing in hand and the most limo
cent OF dimpled girlish faces.
"IIad any one been there that day?' Why,
Of course--Larry Jones, the guide, had been
there "Any ono else?" Who else should
Gomez There wasn't such deal of company
around Lonely Lake that she had so many Wis
themselves visitors?" "In that caGe"-with a
toss OF tho sunny brown braids-"they were
certainly unlimited ones"
There was general laugh at Millys sharp
tongue.
''l3ut this won't do" said the constable.
1.-THE premises must be searched. Every house
must be searched until we find the slippery
rascal
"Well, search it, then" said Milly, indiffer-
emily, seating herself in the window. '1'm
not a smuggler, and l don't keep any contra
band goods; so I've no objection to your
search, only be SO good as to make it as brief
as possible, if you please"
1t was brief business-ike, and, as may prob
ably be coniectured, unsuccessful. On the
threshold the commander Of the little posse
naused.
"Is there cellar to the house?" he asked.
Milly nodded.
you'll find the door outside just under tho
south window" said she, carelessly, and the
men hurried around.
"Its Just like the pretty little vixen to send
us here" said they. Look at the tall weeds
growing in the doorway and the eobwebs
woven across the lock. If he's hidden any,
whore it isn't there"
And touching their caps to Milly, with some
laughing message of detention, they sprang
on their horses and rode away.
Not until the clink of tho iron-shod feet
along the road had long since died into silence
did Milly venture to release her captive. He
was very pale, and big drops of sweat stood on
his brow.
81 am very thankful to you, lady," was all
that he said.
He silent in the barn that night, and was
supplied with breakfast of bread and ham,
boiled eggs, and milk warm from the COW
before daylight next morning by Milly's own
hands, And then he went away, and she saw
him no more until twelve years afterward
when a party of tourists came to Lily Point
where the little hotel was now kept by Mr.
and Mrs. Larry Jones. and enc Of them-a tall,
sunburned man of forty-pointed with his
whip-handle over to the old house on the oppo-
site shore of the lake.
THAT seems to be very odd place." said
he.
"My wife used to live there before her
father died" said Larry who was speeding
the preparations for dinner. at is all shut up
now and gone TO ruin"
Indeed" said the stout man. at looks
as If there might be all sorts of curious hiding
places about it-corner cupboards, trap-doors,
cellar-ways, and all that sort of thing.
Mrs. Jones looked up suddenly from the
trout she was cooking in cream and met his
eyes Then she resumed her work in silence.
After he was gone she asked her husband
who he was.
1.-The stout, short one, do you mean? ' said
Larry. "IIe is the mayor of Bigginville,
rich, Wholesale corn merchant, and one of the
most rising citizens there. He has promised
me to send all his friends here. And, what's
strange, they tell me he used to be exceedingly
wild when he was young man"
"Look!' said Mrs. Jones. "See what he
gave little Nlilly, whensshe was playing in the
pebbles"
ITO put in her savings bank" he said.
1t was n twenty dollar gold piece.
And then, for the first time, Mrs. Jones told
her husband all about the bank burglar.
did do right, Larry?" said she.
According TO tho law, no." said Larry
Jones According to common sense and
humanity, yes. Give me a kiss, my girl. And
let this secret die with us two'
And they never saw the mayor of Biggin-
willie again