The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-11-18

Amy took the reproof meekly, for
she felt that it was not undeserved.
Miss Keziah, as she herself had re-
marked, had now the thOroughly mer-
tied reputation Of being a good bust
ness woman If she declared that
money had been paid her. then it had.
and there was no more to be said on
that phase Of the subject. Still. Miss
Keziah had undoubtedly been com
pletely upset by Robert Armstrong;
avowal, and possibly hev practical wits
were not as alert as usual Yet, with
this admitted, even by Miss KeZiah
herself. Amy was no nearer the sOlu-
ton Of the problem than before, for
Miss Howard could swear TO the pay
ment of the money, to placing it on
the table after Robert Armstrong en-
tered and To the fact that no one eX-
cept himself had entered the room,
while she had not left it.
1T is certainly worse than Chinese
puzzle" Amy declared, Indignantly.
Rob is coming this afternoon to take
me driving, and I shall just tell him
the whole story, and perhaps he can
throw some light on It."
Miss Keziah fairly gasped with sur
prise. What Shall you tell him
that you think he must take the
money!"
of course not" Amy rejoined in
dignantly That would not be the
truth, so why should I say it2 But I
would like to know if Rob saw the
money, ana if he noticed anything
about it. And I shall ask him.
o G. o
And ask him she did that very day.
It was an annoying little episode,
and if possible she did not want the
early days of her engagement to be
troubled any more by it. So she told
her lover all about the mysterious dis
appearance Of the bill, and begged him
to search his memory and see if he
could recall anything at all about It.
Of course Amy said not a word about
her aunt's suspicious.
why, yes. dear" Armstrong said
promptly I do remember all about
it. Miss Howard laid the note on the
table just as she told you she had
done. After / had told her my little
story. she took it up in her hands,
and. after twisting it around in her
fingers a few moments, she put IT
into her pocket. I thought that she
was not half conscious of what she
was doing at the time. Naturally 1
I had upset her considerably
Amy laughed in sheer relief. Poor
aunt hELlaNs SHt iuuSt nave DCcll us
turbed. indeed, TO forget what she
was doing in that fashion. 1 presume
she even forgot that she had a
pocket. In fact, that is the only pocket
she possesses, and she had a great
fight to get that. You must know,
my dear, that fashion nowadays does
not allow us poor women to have
pockets, and Aunty's dressmakeT was
Indignant when she insisted on having
one"
Poor Miss Keziah was overwhelmed
with modification when Amy told her
I tale. and the missing bill was found
safely, even as Armstrong had said,
in the one solitary pocket that she
/ possessed.
"WiH he ever forgive me, ANY,
/ she cried, plaintively.
He doesn't know that he has any
/ thing to forgive, and we viii not en-
/ tighten him, Aunty," Amy said, add
/ ing, maliciOusly: His financial trou-
! bles have all vanished, now, Aunt Ke-
/ ziah. He found a letter after he left
YOU this morning, telling him that
! those people who have been trying to
steal his mines out in Arizona have
/ given up the fight So, you see, Rob
! doesn't need your five hundred dol
| lars" MABEL CRONISE JONES.