Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-05-13
lib MAN THAT
* MARRIED MARY.


in-law. Probably, had she come, Amy
would have despised Peter as much as
Mary did. for not to every one is it
given to see the deeper meanings and
to hear the hidden music in the COM
mon things Of life-least of all to such
frivolous little souls as those of the
sisters Mills.
After Mary had been dead for some
years general feeling spread through
CheritOn that the man that married
Mary was becoming a miser. He made
very good income, and as there We're
no children, had only himself to sup
port now that Mary was gone, and yet
he saved and screwed at every point,
which brought him into disrepute at
Cheliton. The char-wonfan who clean
ed his house told thrilling tales of a
tin box, securely locked, which had it's
abode under Peters chest of drawers,
and into this box the Imagination Of
Cheriton transferred all the savings
which Peter so carefully boarded.
One day the rector's eldest son, Jack,
now at Oxford, rushed into his fathers
STUDY, crying:
II say, dad, what do you think? The
man that married Mary has been rob-
bed of all his savings"
The rector pushed up his spectacles
and gazed benignly at Jack from I'M
der them.
thingv' he murmured. "HoW much
money has been stolen?''
"Nobody knows. But the tin box out
Of his bedroom has gone and the poor
man is demented.'
"No wonder" said the kind old rect
Or
''The thief evidently climbed through
the window while Dunn was out, as
the door was locked"
did he take anything besides the
| tin box?" asked the rector.
NO." answered Jack, "for the very
good reason that there was nothing
else inside the house worth the car
rage. There must be pretty pot
! of money in that box, dad; for never d
| pipe in the whole village bursts with
| out the man that married Mary being
| we'll paid for mending it, and he is re-
| Enumerated for his pew-opening du-
| ties, too; and yet he hardly has enough
to eat, l hear, and there is nothing in
his house worth a half-crown piece.
The savings in that old tin box must
| tot up to pretty sum-"
Dear me, dear me! 1t is very sad
Jack, my boy, when the love of money
/ thus takes hold of a man-very sad
indeed
''Well, the old boy is punished for it
now, anyway" said Jack, with the I'M
tempered justice of the very young
and inexperienced, land am glad OF
| it,
| I'm not sighed the rector. Il sup
pose punishments do good, but am al
ways sorry when there is necessity
for them. If poor Mary had lived
Dunn would never have got into these
mean ways; she was such a bright
pretty, superior girl
| Which remark showed that the dis
pensations of providence are wiser
/ after all than the reasoning Of the
most charitable old rectors-
Later on in the day Jack Levett
caught sight of dark object lying
| i'm a ditch. He pulled it out and found
it to be tin box, with the lock pried
open. In it there was nothing but q
! packet of letters in Mary Dunn's pref
tv old-fashioned writing and some fad
ed roses, brown and crisp with age
/ The former he was too much Of a gen
/ tleman to read, but lac concluded they
i were love letters, as they Were address
/ ed ito Peter Dunn, but as there was nc
/. money in the box he conjectured thai
the thief had taken what was .yalu
..ble and thrown the Rubbish away. Sc
i he took it straight to Dunn, with many
4 condolences.
!; 81 have found this box of yours in q
4 ditch. Dunn he said, @bnt / fear al
4 fine waluables have been taken out OF
lit.
i Peter seized the box and examined
4 it's contents.
mo. it's all right. Master Jack" he
\ s,riesa with excitement; Fifteen letters
! and ten roses and not one missing. o.
! how can l thank you enough, sir, fol
| restoring them to me? shall never
forget your kindness as long as live!
| Jack looked puzzled. but WASN'T
there anything else in the b0x~ he
asked.
mo. sir; this is all, and It is all
have on earth that is of any value to
me. Fifteen letters that my Mary
| wrote to me while we were courting,
and ten roses that she gave me at diff
ferent times. Ard to think that they
are all safe, and not one missing! !
| shall never cease TO bless you, Master
| Jack. for what you have done for me
this day-neyer.'
81 thought there must have been
money in the box, you seemed in such
a way about it"
ssBless you. sir, | shouldn't have
made all that fuss if it had only been
money. But, you see, these letters are
a,i that I have left of my Mary, and
I refd them over and over again. She
was d. rare scholar. my Mary was"
.AndSso pretty, too" said Jack. kind