The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-12
Our Daily Sport Story

volent smile. 'T'm sorry to keep yol waitinR." he said "I sent for you tc talk. matters over a little, or.-rather. tc give yousa littleS pieceeFof news. O course I am naturally inclined to sym pathize with your father in his opposition l to your engagement to Miss" '' q don't want to talk that over at all.
 said the young man, violently. 'Pvt talked it over enough. My mind is made l up, and if you talked a thousand years | 1t wouldn't alter it in the least. A mar
 marries to please himself, not his family I'm not afraid to earn my living and my father can give every cent that he owns to-"
 "Gentlyr said the lawyer. q agree with all that you say. You haven't got to fight me. I've been working for you all the time, and I'm glad to say that your father. after a long talk with me
 has been persuaded to let you have your own way" ...
 You mean that he has consented?'' almost shouted the young man.
 That's exactly what had to tell you | said the lawyer. Here. my arm is just
 flesh and blood, but need 1t and don't
 want to have it shaken off
 You're trump" said the young man | in a voice that quavered with emotion. "I don't know what can ever do to show you how grateful I am. And I thought you were against us all the l time,' he added, innocently.
 Well" said the lawyer. with his most
 benevolent smile, "I believe you can. You can dine with me tonight"
 "1'll dine with you every night from this on, if 1t will please you," said the lamb.
 '"I don't know whether 1t would" smiled la- hut In, am selfish My niece-a charming widow, I hear-but, of course, they are all charm ing-has come to town and is staying at the Imperial I,have to dine with her tonight, but if there's anything in the world hate it's a tete-a-tete with rela- tion. want you to coma with me as a measure of self-defense. You needn't hesitate. I'm told that she Is quite un- conventional, and I know that she is
 good-natured-Tll say that for her. Will you come?" -.-.
 why. of course I will. if you are sure 1 that you want me rto-~and you're quite sure that your niece-"
 'Oh, she will, be delighted" said the
 lawyer. "It's settled, them
 '.. -
 A month later the igolden-haired lady again sat in the lawyers office. This time her possession seemed to have deserted her. She shook from time to time with a convulsive shudder, and her eyes were red with weeping, and her face
 streaked in an unseemly manner with the rouge that was also on the tightly wad- ded ball of a wet handkerchief clenched in her hand. The lawyer was pale and his hand trembled and shook the open newspaper that he held.
 "Tell me, how did you do it?" he de- manded, in a husky voice. ''Did you writer"
 "I wrote" she replied. brokenly; "but
 he got over to the hotel, before I.had a chance to get away. He begged and pleaded and told me that if I. threw him over his life would be ruined, but
 laughed at him and asked him If the girl
 he tilted for me did not have iher. life
 ruined. I had thought of that girl all along when1I felt my courage going-and now I shall have him to think of forever.
 Oh, if I had dreamed of this!'
 The lawyer groaned.
 His father?" she faltered
 'He will not survive his dead son long. ''
 said the lawyer, and the lady with the golden hair pulled her veil over her face and rose to go. "Its a terrible thing" said the lawyer, "hut we acted for the best and"-he held out a slip of paper-.this Is yours" he said awkwardly. You must take It. II was not your fault; 1t was mine-H The lady with the golden hair took the check. tore it across and let it fiutter tc the floor. . The next moment she was gona and the lawyer was staring stupidly at the panels of thel closed door. He threw the. newspaper aside with a curse and thrust his hands deep In his pockets, while his chin dropped on his breast.