The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-08
Our. Daily Sbcrt Story

perhaps the prince would set him up
 In business on a corner with a real
 stand to sell papers and their fortuna would be everlastingly made. And %
 they had scrimped and saved mora
 than ever. to provide q proper offerina
 walked the ten miles out, while Grace
 rode, because 1t cost 10 cents. | The story. told with boyish ardor not wholly subdued by the violent efforts of the girl, Bentley found it necessary to flick cinder or two from his eyes with his handkerchief, and he found
 also that his voice was husky. In fact
 greatest plays by the finest actors for many years,
 And you are going to walk back to
 town this afternocn?" he asked the boy.
 aoh, yes. sir" replied Archie. "but
 I don't mind. I will whistle all the
 way because Grace is going to be we'll"
 Bentley smiled. more human ana, 1 face for years.
 Now. look here.' he said. T don't want to butt in. but I am out here all l alone and my carriage is built for four. Suppose we all go in together. and I'll feel that I've some part in the pleasure | tof the miracle"
 s'Bullyr shouted the boy. but Bent
 ley was quick to see the flush on the girls face.
 Really" he hastened to add. q would esteem it a great favor. The l story has interested a poor, forlorn old
 bachelor. who hasn't been interested
 for years--aud he wants to pay for the | emotion"
 | And so they rode In together and Archie couldn't rest until he was per- mitted to ride with the driver and then most glorious of all--was given the reins for a whole mile. while the driver
 looked on with apprehension and dis- approval.
 | On that ride Bentley learned some of the details of the girls misfortune. Land thought long and deeply on ths
 matter over his cigar at the club that
 night.
 why not9" he demanded vehemently. l bringing his fist down on the table
 with bang that brought three walt
 CTS to him on the run. Tt will be a
 new sensation and Heaven knows ! have done little enough for my kind"
 l And so 1t happened on the following | day that great surgeon climbed the stairs to the attic occupied by tha two | orphans and told the girl that he had l | understood that 1t was a very excep- tional case and begged for the oppor- ltunity to make an examination. And after the examination he told her 1t twas an exceptional ease and that an | operation might prove effective and there was a fund provided in the great hospital with which he was connected. 1 for experiments with unusual cases, and if she would consent 1t would all l hal nd ha l she would be well woman after tt l was over. e She could not decide until Archie | came home, because what would be- come of him during all these weeks.
 but when Archie burst in with the
 news that a. newspaper had given him
 a stand and one of the best corners in the town--why. he could not dream he brushed her objection aside and shouted:
 1Bentley," said pr. Paauin that night I at the club. T wouldn't climb those
 stairs and smell all those smells again | for twice the fee"
 Make 1t double if you cure the girl" replied Bentley, contentedly. When Grace began to convalesce,
 after successful operation, Bentley
 dropped in at the hospital one day with l the surgeon.
 "HulIo. you here?' he exclaimed. in apparent surprise, as he saw her. 'I | thought the relics were going to cure you"
 And so they are.' she replied seri- ously. & kh Bentley was surprised at the differ
 ence in the appearances Of the giri.
 after these weeks of good food and air and care. Indeed. she was quite beau tifuI. He found further occasion to
 visit the hospital and one day he came around with his carriage--and Archie I-ahd' took her for a drive, And-but why prolong it-you cannot fail to see
 how 1t all ended.
 Don't you honestly believe 1t was the relics2' said the bride. as they stood on the deck of the steamer bound I for Europe for their honeymoon. and
 waved adieux to a bright-eyed boy on the deck who had got a holiday from
 the best private school in New York to l see them of.
 I 'T know it." replied the groom. fer vently, as he devoured the queenly young woman with his eyes