The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-29
THE ADVERTISERS
 DAILY SHORT STORY

1 moon was soft and the chickens had beer to roost q very long time.
 One day she went into more specific de ! tails. She asked him if he had eve known Lieutenan Ewing. Did he know Ewing? The question fairly took hi, breath away. Was 1t possible that she re. ally knew who he was-that he was sail ing under a false name. But he did mol permit his mental perturbation to betray him.
 Why; certainly" he replied. T know how quite well."- They say he is handsome; that he is bright, and that he made gallant TO acknowledge possessing these gifts and that afterwards he should tell her h, was Ewing would be an act of vainglori- ousness that might operate against him Well don't know so much about his brightness. Neither would I swear that he is handsome; and for his department in Cuba think he did no more than the other members of his regiment. Still. he is not bad fellow" Having delivered he was treading on dangerous ground and he knew 1t. He wished the converse ton might change.
 ..Ah. but what fiirt he is., was Miss better than cad. Two years ago he paid the most devoted attention to Mollie Sherman. The neighbors. her friends. all those who knew them both were sure they were engaged. and that their marriage was but a little way oil; have never I am told that Molie has simply wept over his perfidy until her reason Is we'll nigh dethroned. I wish"
 "Perfdy.' the man exclaimed. You happen to know something about that case. I know of a certainty that they were never engaged: that he never asked her to marry him. I know moreover"
 "Ah, you seem to be one of his friends truly enough"
 Well. I have a right to bel ought to be. and I am. Listen: happen to know that all this talk about his failure to escort her everywhere, to be constantly at her side since his return from Cuba Is because she had. in a measure. tired of him, and he in measure had tired of her. Where did you get all this wild information about his playing dog in the manager act. Somebody's been playing vi with you: She never told you anything
 "No but some of her friends hays been more communicative. By the way I am expecting her here tomorrow. Now. that was something that set Ew- ings mind thinking pidly enough. Sure enough, he had never been engaged to Miss Sherman. but it was tacitly under stood that he wanted to be and could he if he were to say the right thing. And she coming where he was and finding that
 
 There was dilemma
 If he was going to say anything to Miss Dickinson. with whom he was now really in love. now was the time: and so he told her of the entire affair: of how in a spirit of fun he had registered under an as- sumed name: of his love for her from the moment he first saw her. and of his earnest desire to make her his wife.
 "Well. I patched the coat I tore with my arrow. See there" as she pointed to the place" one can scarcely perceive that it ever needed a darning Maybe I can heal the broken heart you have been talking about. At all events am willing to try. I have known by that intuition peculiarly the gift of woman that you were in love with me from the first time we met. and it was a good arrow that has given light and love to both our hearts. wasn't it. dear?'
 And the next day. hand in hand they went to the train to welcome Miss Sher- man.
 LAH," by Mrs Moses P Mandy.