The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-12
Our Daily $bcrt Story

not result from anything the captain | had said to her in the railway car- l riage.
 In the morning the development came Mrs. Clark beheld Captain Bascom and Miss Milford talking ear- nestly in the parlor and Miss Nit ford was wiping tears from her eyes. A conference was held. Again were Janes plump shoulders shrugged and again Lydia's pretty nose upturned. The flat was pronounced. Miss Nit ford was to go. In the evening Jane came breathlessly upstairs. She was passing the parlor and had overheard the captain say to Miss Milford. Say yes, my dear" That was all, but it was enough and Mrs. Clark felt that the whole edifice she had so carefully built about those two thousand pounds was toppling to the ground. Miss Milford left early the next morning. What Mrs. Clark said to her man knoweth not. but a woman can get rid of a woman when she so de- sires in a way that is not chronicled. Mrs. Clark saw her go and drew a breath of relief.
 But the house Mrs. Clark had builded about those two thousand pounds rested on the sand. That evening Captain Bascom announced that he was going to London the next morning.
 When he goes. I'll go too," said Mrs. Clark; there was fight in Mrs. Clark.
 Captain Bascom took the a. m.. train for London. Mrs. Clark took the 10 a. m.. train. and on her arrival in London was driven directly to the docks. where lay me captains steam CT.
 You've just missed 'im," said the mate, in answer to her enquiry for the captain. "E's took a cab and gone habout half hour ago."
 He, however, remembered the ad- dress given by the captain to the cab driver, and Mrs. Clark re-entered her cab.
 Hes taken lodging in Southwark. my dear's," she said, with set face.
 He wants to be near that designing baggage. I'll break up her game" It was an unpretentious house in Southwark at which the cab stopped and Mrs. Clark finding the captain was within, entered.
 Els upstairs said the girl who opened the door. You can walk hup."
 Plainly there was a woman's voice coming from the room which was uesignated as containing the captain and Mrs. Clark shuddered and glanced at her daughters. It was too late. for the captain himself opened the door and beckoned them in.
 Miss Milford knelt by the bed and A. thin, emanciated man held her hand That's her lover" whispered the captain to Mrs. Clark, the fellow who cut and run the day he was to marry her. It seems there was some money missing in banking house where he was clerk and they suspected him. Ills uncle proud old stick. made tho JOSS good and told him to leave Eng land. He went to Africa, up the Haut congo and saw nothing but niggers and malaria for ten years. Well. after ned gone they found the robber but they never found the lover. He was among the niggers. He was brought down to London to die and took him on my steamer so he could get a breath of Gods air. He told me inc whole story and when I met Miss Nit 1ord In the railway carriage I remep- bered the name and I found out she was the woman. I managed to get her to come to see him and it's ali right
 His uncle's dead and left his mon ey so they can get married when ba gets well. ''o Mrs. Clark walked over to Miss Nit ford. '--' Dearest Mollie," she said. Eve will take him out to Pugsford. He,II get well quickly in that fresh air"
 Shes a sweet woman" said Mrs Clark as she and her daughters left the house. There's nothing design l ing about Mollie"