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come here? Let me go home
They'll be wondering what has be
come of me-"
Then she remembered something
of what had happened. "The young
lady" she said, twas she drowned.
mo-" said the doctor, "you saved
her, but you mustn't talk any more
yet awhile. You shall know all
about it presently"
Flows missus?"
Gas well as can be expected, and
SOS the baby"
That's all right" said Mary, with
a deep sigh, and then the wicked
girl" closed her eyes and dropped of
to sleep again.
When Mary had quite recovered
from the excitement and terror OF
the nights adventure and was able
to get up, the doctor told her all
about it.
The young lady she had seen CON-
ing out of his house was q young
lady patient who had been staying
with him and his wife for the benefit
of her health. She had had q love
disappointment and had given way
to mclancholia.
The night that the doctor was call
ed out the young lady was awakened
by the ringing of the bell. The ifurse,
who had been suffering from nell
rnlgia, had taken an opiate to make
her sleep, and the young lady must
have opened the door and crept down
stairs noiselessly in her night dress,
and walked on into the street.
Then she saw the sea, and the idea
of suicide came into her poor, wan
dering mind.
But for Mary's lost latch key hav-
ing brought her back to the spot, the
young lady's body would probably
have been found the next day on the
beach, or perhaps picked up at sea.
When Mary got back to Prospect
Mansion, missus, of course, was up
s.airs in bed, but cook received her
and tossed her head, and said it was
n nice thing for respectable servant
gals to go a-roaming the street at
night and jumping into the sea, and
she never heard of such things"
She wanted to call Mary q wicked
gal, " but she didn't quite see how to
do it.
ME-. Perkins seemed very much up
set, and looked more scared and
dazed than usual. The affair had
made q great deal of commotion in
Hastings, and people called at the
house to make inquiries about it.
1t had got into the papers. too, and
this Mr.. Perkins, on his wife's behalf,
resented.
Mary went about her work ms
though nothing had happened, simp-
ly grateful that she hadn't been dis
charged Tor her carelessness in losing
the latch key and her wickedness in
rescuing young women from the ocean
instead OF hurrying home to wait on
her missus.
But instead of being punished for
her wickedness she was rewarded. A
few days after she had resumed her
domestic duties, and just as she was
settling down into her old wicked
habits ofleaving the bucket on the
stairs and the dustpan on the draw
lng-room sofa, and answering the
front door with q dirty apron on,
and stopping the gravy from the
joint on the stair carpet, the doctor
arrived with an old gentleman and
requested to see Mary Jones.
Mary came up into the hall, cook
listened at the top of the kitchen
stairs, the missus had the bedroom
door wide open to catch what she
could, and master hung SO far over
the banisters on the drawing room
floor that he was in imminent danger
once or twice OF falling bodily into
the hall below.
And this is what they heard: The
old gentleman was the father of the
young lady. To show his gratitude
for Mary Jones bravery, in pIung-
ing into the sea to save the lie of
his unfortunate daughter, he had
come to make her an advantageous
offer.
He would pay into bank for her
sum OF money sufficient to enable
her to start in any little business
she chose, or, ii she was engaged to
be married, he would start her and
her husband in nice little lodging
house, or any business they might
wish to buy.
WAS Mary engaged?"
Mary blushed.
She wasn't exactly engaged, but
she walked out when she had q Sun
day Oh-which wasn't often in the
season-with the bakers young man,
and some day they had thought of
getting married.
1.-The bakers young maxwell,
neverP' exclaimed cook on the top of
the kitchen stairs.
THAT accounts for her being so
long taking the bread in" growled
Mrs. Perkins, as she gripped the cur
tains off her bed and sat upright to
hear more.
VERY well, my girl" replied the
old gentleman. II leave the rest in
my friends the doctors, hands. You
understand that anything can do
for you will"
A month afterwards chat wicked
girl'' married the baker young man,
and the young lady's father took
and furnished for them q charming
little house in Hastings, where they
have made an excellent beginning
George X. Sims in Detroit News.
A Hustling Farmer.