The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-05-17


be collected by law, and that a note
was worthless after a certain number
of years.
"Ifyour father has written 'outlawed'
on the note, it is of no value,' con-
cluded Mr.. Marston.
But promise to pay ought to be
good at any time,' said Martha.
at ought to be, but unfortunately
it isn't good in the written law. The
moral law Is another matter" said MIR.
Marston.
When Martha went back home she
took the note from the drawer in which
she had placed it, and read it again.
A few minutes later she busted herself
with some kitchen duties. Her pantry
shelves needed clean papers on them.
Martha removed the things from the
shelves, and took several papers from
a bundle Mrs. Marston had given her.
She was cutting a strip from a news
paper, when her eye fell Oh this para
graph:
"Mr. Justin D. Gye, who has within
the past FIVE years realized fortune
of fully million dollars from the in
| vestments in western mines and real
estate, proposes to erect magnificent
house on Gaynor Hill"
Martha looked at the title of the pa
per and read, the Louisborough Gazette.
"It's the town where father lived be-
fore he and mother were married. l
am sure that this Justin D. Gye and
the man who signed his name to that
note are the same. And he is worth a
million dollars!'
She took her scissors and cut out
tue lines she had read. Then she got
an old atlas and looked up the city Of
Louisborough.
1T must be long distance from
here" she said, with a sigh. IF 1t
were only nearer, l do believe I'd 60
and remind Mr.. Gye of his promise to
pay and ask him if he thought it had
been 'outlawed' in the sight of God"
All day she pondcred over what she
had read. Toward evening she had to
go down to one of the village stores
She was passing the railroad station
when an idea suggested itself to her.
"I'll 60 in and ask the agent if be
can tell me how far it is to Louisbor.
ough, and how much it would cost tc
go there"
The information she received was
discouraging. 1t would cost at least
twenty dollars.
"And that is every dollar we have
in the world" said Martha. "I'll have
to give it up"
But the more she thought about il
the less willing she felt to give it up
On the morning of the third day she
SAID to her sister:
"Ann, do you think you and the lit.
tie boys could get along without me
for two or three days and nights if ]
got Jane Lewis, the seamstrcss, to
come in and stay nights with your
I'D rather have her than any one
else, but where are you goiag?"
I'm going to place called Louis
borough on a matter of business" SAID
Martha, with sense of Importance.
She would have liked to keep hel
going secret, but this was impossible
in little town like Osborne. BY the
time she was ready to start, the entire
village knew where she was going and
with what purpose. The general opin
ion was that it was "a fools errand, ,
but Martha was not to be moved.
| 1t took her day and a night to ge
to Louisborough. She had never beer
in such large city and the hurry anG
hustle confused her. Some one in
Osborne had told her to ask a police
man how to find Mr.. eyes house, ano
when she saw a bluecoated officer al
the end of the station platform, she
went up to him and said:
Can you tell me where Mr.. justin
D. Gye lives?"
"He lives three or four miles from
here, miss, but his place of business
isn't more than five minutes walk
IL don't think that want to 90 te
his house. want to see him on-on
business"
"Then you'd better go to his office
Go right up this street until you come
to X street. Half block down tha,
you'll come to a big marble front build
ing. Take the elevator and the eleva
tor boy win show you where it is"
Martha's timid, forlorn appearance
appealed to this big guardian of the
law, and moved him to he thus ex
plicit. 1t was well for Martha that
she did not hear him say, as he moved
away:
What can she want with old Gye!
If she's on begging errand, she'd
better save her breath"
Martha easily found the marble
building and her heart began to flutter
little when she saw shining brass
plate at the side Of the door with the
name Justin d. Gye on it in black let.
t rs. Below the plate she read
"Rooms ~ and 26.'
She did not take the elevator, but
climbed the marble stairway, and at