The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-10-06

E Good for you y replied Meta, a:
she rolled up her wealth and put or
her hat. "We'll spend it all fol
gum if we want to, Georgia, and we
won't treat them, either-see if we
dol
They didn't see her again for three
weeks, and then she came flying in tc
luncheon at Lilian's with a look in
her eyes as if she'd just fallen heir tc
a million in gold.
"Ive had the loveliest experience
in the world - she announced. "You
remember that money / found? Well,
/ waited few days as Uncle Mac
said, and no one advertised the loss
SO l put one in myself. Told them
to address x, the newspaper Office,
you know-the way they do. Next
morning 1 went down to get the re-
turns. There were nine answers, and
and of all the pathetic things p Not
zone Of the people who wrote had lost
their money on the day or at the
place Ifound mine, but they actually
made me feel responsible for their
losses.
First their was man who had
dropped small, fiat, black book,
with a pawn ticket, laundry bill
and two So bills i'll it. And distress.
ed over it ! You'd think he'd lost a
gold mine. And he was so sure
twas his money l had found--poor
fellow Then a woman poured out
a whole sheetful of her heart, and
drew picture Of the purse she'd lost,
and told me how the money in it be-
longed to her sister, who was in the
hospital and who needed it dreadful
ly, and how I'd be blessed forever if
1 only restored it. Next there was
an old man who had dropped two
$40 bills, and he went on in a shaky,
feeble hand to explain that the reason
he was carrying it was because he
couldn't trust the banks and then
another girl, who told about an ALI
gator skin pocketbook containing a
latchkey and a time pass over the
Cincinnati, Jackson and Mackinac
road. When I showed that to Uncle
Mac afterward he said that road was
a regular joke, because it didn't run
to any of the places mentioned in its
name, and he just shouted over the
pass, because it had expired Sept. 80,
1897. But it WASH t funny to me. I
thought the girl must be in a sad way
to be hanging on to an expired pass
over a road like that for three whole
years. Besides, she mentioned in a
postscript that there was a S. bill in
her purse.
II got awfully worked up over
these letters. Then, suddenly, 1 had
brilliant idea. 1 just made up my
mind to wait week and then, if no
one claimed that $50, to send for all
those forlorn people and pay them
what they lost out of what 1 had
found. 1 didn't dare tell Uncle Mac
the scheme until the week had pass
ed and / had really written notifying
them alto be at his office at 10 o clock
this morning. Then just gave him
the news all in one piece. 1 don't
believe in breaking things, especially
when you've set your heart on doing
them.
"Oh, he thought I was crazy, of
course, and wished he'd answered my
'ad.' himself and claimed the money.
Said he could have done it through
some one else so I would never have
suspected, and then could have kept
the money, for me until this fit of
sentimental foolishness had passed off
.-and all that sort of talk. But the
end of it was that he took a chair
over by the window in his office and
let me have things all my own way
with the people had sent for. They
all came, mind you, and of all the
surprised looking beings Each one
was expected to find the identical
purse he had lost, and at first every
one looked suspicious of every one
else. They couldn't seem to grasp
the situation.
II had the money all changed into
the right amounts and lying i'll tempt
ing little heaps on Uncle Macs desk.
First I made little speech and then
l served gold and silver refreshments.
1t took every cent of the money, and
l had to put in dollar besides, so
there goes our gum, Georgia. But
you wouldn't grudge it if you'd been
there. Such larks I never felt so
much like a bene6cent fairy in my
life. Oh, dear, fun Vaudevilles
are nowhere. And say, the man who
lost the pawn ticket will never get
over his grudge against me because 1
couldn't give that back. He thinks
Pve lost him fotune But the rest
were more than sweet. Girls, I've
been blessed and hugged, and the old
man with the two $40 goldpieces ac-
tually kissed my hand. Think of
that, will you? And the woman
with the sister in the hospital was so
happy And 1 cried. Me crying
can you see it? And Uncle Mac
needn't pretend he wasn't wiping his
own eyes either. But when they
were gone he squared around at me,
stern as stern, and said in a disgust
ed way:
Well, of all the girly girly per-
formances =
II looked straight back at him and
just said: How would you have a
girl, Uncle Mac, if not girly? Do
you want the money! And, honest
fact, he didn't know a thing what to
say"
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