Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07

an L. de So0 Lnem Blasoo1 ouO Ao tooA 'em; he didn't s'pose he'd be suspi- cioned. He's calclating to sell 'em soon as he gifts back to the city. Clear case, I consider. He'll git come up with, though. He won't git out town with them glasses"
 ''Ho couldn't havo taken them, Mr. Bennett, said Myra ''He didn't go near the window-silL"
 "How do you know he didn'tT MT. Bennett demanded, tartly. ''Wal, yis, come to recollcct-hanging round you after supper, want hef"
 Myra's cheeks famed, and her lips trembled; Mir. Bonn ett's tone was gruff
 'Yisl' Mr. Bennett got up and went rambling about ths room, agi- tatedly. 'And I don't s'pose you'll hear to reason 10 moren most gals will You're took with good-looking face and smart ways, and you don't see tho rascality behind 'em, nor you won't be made to. You're jest like the hull tarnal set of 'emr'
 ''Mr. Bennettr cried Myra, her tears dropping into the dish-water.
 "Wal, hain't t nothing to say about it. You'll hev to go your own way,' said MT. B,nnett, sternly. "All I hev got to say is, he don't git out O this town with them glasses. I'll hev the law"
 A tall, lowing form ad handsome, smiling face wore at tho door. MT. Goodwin looked in pleasantly at MT. Bennett and Myra. ......=
 "Ohp Myra faltered, hurriedly dry ing her eyes and smiling back at him.
 'I must apologize for bursting in in this way" said tho young man; but his quiet, gentlemanly entrance could hard ly be called burst. ''Aud my errand is hardly of enough importance. l could have waited-'
 Ho looked at Myra, shyly. It was plain that his errand was tho losser at- traction.
 MT. Bennett stood with folded arms and hostile eyes. Myra, trcmulous with apprehension, placed chair for the young man.
 q am sorry to bother you," saii Mir. Goodwin, in a pleasant apology, ''but havo lost my scarf pin somewhere here abouts. Of course there is every chance of it's having fallen out while was at work. Feeding bundles of wheat to a threshing machine is pretty we'll cal- culated to loosen scarf -pina" he said, laughing. 'But possibly may have dropped it herc, either at the dinner or supper I enjoyed 50 hugely" He smiled at Myrs. q am 50 sorry to trouble youl Just . glance over the floor will discover it, if it is here." "Ccrtainlyp said Myra, and opened the west window blinds for more light.
 Mr. Bennett eyed the young man sternly.
 ''Seems to mo it's a pretty good joke you a-coming here after something you've missed" he snapped.
 Mir. Goodwin betrayed his astonish- ment at the remark only by his silence.
 Myra gazod at MT. Bennett in plead ing misery.
 "What I should call good joke," Mr. Bennett repeated, with chuckle. "S'pose you want to search tho house2"
 My dear sir" the young man ejacu- lated in shocked amazsment, 'is it pos sible that you suspect mo of suspccting you9 Believe me, nothing could be further from my thoughtsl How can I persuade you"
 Like to look through my pockets, wouldn't your' MT. Bennett pursued, with grim irony. "Wal, I'll give you chance if you'll let me look through yours fust"
 MT. Bennettl' cried Myra, implor- ingly.
 MT. Good win was distressedly speech loss.
 "Guess we'd better do it. Guess I'd better go after the constable and hev it done square" said MT. B,nnott.
 And ho reached up to the clock-shelf and took down his second best hat which lay there.
 | And then they all saw-the little gold scarf-pin, lying on the spot which the hat had covered. And Myra and Mr. Bennett saw, also. the shining, gold bowed spectaclos, showed to the back oi the shelf.
 MT. Bennett gasped. His honest old face turned from red to white, and his knees trembled SO that he sank to a chair.
 "Wal," he muttered tremulously, and was weakly silent.
 MT. Goodwin went across the room to him hastily.
 'I hope you don't think, MT. Bon. nett that I attach any meaning to this circumstance-that it has reused any suspicion3 Please don't. Indeed it has not. I am certain-of course-it car be explained"
 MT. Bennett looked at Myra confus edly.
 'Fust," he said faintly, q want te , call your attention to them glasses, ! Myry; Irecollect putting 'em up there. Yis, put 'em there.' f Myra stared at them, looked at Mir , Bennett aud at MT. Goodwin, smiled and ended with 8 somewhat hysterica laugh.