The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-04-24

and many more, for her husband did
not return to her. Slowly she becaile
more hardened to her sorrow, but when
four years had passed she had become
no more reconciled to 1t than the night
her husband had forsaken her. Mean
while the money she had so joyfuliy
turned over to him had all been used
in buying comforts for her mother.
One day she received through the
mail an envelope postmarked at min
ing town on the Pacific coast III It
was certificate Of deposit in bank
payable to her order for 81 600. Ac-
companying this was bit Of faded
yellow paper on which was written IN
mans handwriting, though unknown
to her:
Dearest Agnes Replying to your last
letter saying that you are willing to ac-
cept a stated sim, consenting at the same
time 10 my expected marriage. l send it.
to you with this. After the honeymoon 90
l hope In a measure to resume my rela-
lions with you. Your loving b
In vain did Agnes puzzle over these
two singular Enclosures. She could faith
ON neither. The money she would not
use: the note she would have consider
cd an insult had she not believed 1t was
intended for some one else. She finally
determined to send both back through
the bank on which the certificate was
drawn. She wrote a note calling the
cashiers attention to the mistake, ask
Ing him to forward 1t to the depositor.
Exactly twelve days from the day
she mailed her note with its Enclosure
there was a knock at the door, and,
opening 1t. there stood her husband.
She fell in swoon, and he caught her
| In his arms.
When she revived she was lying on a
sofa, while Leonard bent over her.
"Oh. sweetheart" he said Il fear
have done you great wrong"
why did you leave meg' she moan
ed, throwing her arms about his neck
as If fearful to lose him again,
Then he told her that when she had
| gone down to her mother he had shak-
| en- the stocking to make sure that moth
| Ing more remained in it. and the note
she had received by mail had fallen
out Taking it as evidence of her guilt,
\ he had fled, resolved never TO see her
again He had gone west and made
money. Wishing that she. notwith-
standing her sin, should share in his
good fortune, he had sent her the ST.
600 and to explain the cause of his hav-
ing left her had inclosed the note Her
reply had come to him through the
bank where he had deposited the mon
! ey.
Then Agnes saw through the riddlS
and gave him the solution. The money
she had given her husband had come t
her as a legacy from an aunt for WHOM
she had been named. She had hearC
strange stories about this aunt in hel
youth that were now confirmed by tht
letter which had evidently been KEEP
with the money in the stocking.
-Four years Of misery" said Leon
ard mournfully 'that might have beer
years of happiness gone out of on
lives through my laundering stupid
ity.r
But, SAID the pracIcal woman
'after all, Providence may have turned
my aunt's sin into benefit for us
Your going away under a misundeE
standing has enabled You to concen
trate your efforts in a better field thar
here and untrammeled by the cares o
b a family"
D The honeymoon which had been in
terrupted four years before at its be
ginning was begun again, to last thi
:. time through their lives. The husban
considered himself indebted to his wifi
for a great PREPARATION and with this 1
view made d VOW that his bearing {
y ward his wife should never be diferen
from the first day Of their reunion. II
. kept his VOW. MORRIS WYNNE