The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17
Bcyv the |tl11udskoWski'' Went
BY CHARLES BATTELL LOOMS.

side out and there was nothing in it. So she turned the other glove inside out and then she tainted then and there.
 Painted right on a hard wood f1oor although she was no fainter. She knew a thousand dollar bill when she saw one and that was what was in | the second glove.
 | If the minister had been left to him | self he would have chucked the gloves I right into the, rag bag, and they his wife happy. But I'd rather see a struggling minister happy than a rag man happy because hate those bells. That's the kind of man Reggy was and when I received a letter from him postmarked Ardley, New Hampshire | (his native place). I felt sure that it would say Climb to the top of the obelisk. and see what you will find. ' Two known Reggie ever since he was poor. When he was struggling ar | tist he used to say that If ho ever struck oil (not oils). he would do fairy stories all the while.
 Now many men forget their promis- es when they become rich but Reggy is just as generous and just as whim- | sical as he used to be when he was the pet of the Latin quarter and show | cred centimes on the Parisian gamins l whenever he sold sketch to "Le Rire.'
 Here's the letter. (sorry to have kept you waiting)
 | Dear Buck. Gle always calls me Buck. Don't know why.)
 If you will so to tho store where l left the bill in a copy of your fniser. able book you are welcome to it--if you find it. told you not to write that story as 1t was not worthy of you. and know you will need to be
 helped until you have done some thing worth while. The book will new CT sell, so you need not hurry about looking up that particular copy. but will say that 1t was in a store above Eighth street and below Forty-Sec- ond.
 Regular Christmas weather up here and sleighing superb
 1 Reggie"
 You can imagine how I felt; Me down to twenty dollars and no pres ents bought and there the very day before I had been to all the leading stores and had bothered them about my new books. But I knew perfectly | well that there would be at least a hundred dollars in the book. when found it, and so I started out.
 No, first I went over to my book case and searched through the miser- able book I'd bought the day before But 1t was not there.
 I felt it was only too true that the book would not sell. I had written 1t to please a publisher and not to please myself, and such books ought not to sell
 l knew it was only question of searching and if necessary buying the fifteen or twenty books and that would take up all my money. Still I'd be at least eighty dollars to the good
 Tried to find the book without bothering a clerk, but they'd relegated it to an obscure corner again and at last l had to ask a younger woman for 1t, and she spent five minutes hunting for 1t. and when she handled it to me, and I hastily looked it through and saw there was no money in it. she asked me in such a tired way. if she should have it wrapped up that just went and bought 1t although I didn't need It.
 Of course I wanted to sec the other copy. but she hadn't brought that. so after the package had come to me unwrapped 1t and made believe there was smudse on it--althoush. hated