The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-26
CAPT. BUGBEE'S THRIFT
BY J. c. PLUMNKER.

Copyright. 1905. By Daily Story Pub. Co.,
 A man came down the wharf at
 Bonner's Point and beholding Cap
 tain silas Bugbee leaning over the i rail of the schooner Amanda accosted him. Gan I hire this boat to take
 me to Rushton tonight?" he asked. The skipper 8urned his hard blue eye ! on the speaker, whose habiliments You can't" he replied. she's a job for tonight"
 That's bad" responded the pros pective hirer; T am anxious to be in Rushton in time to take the steam
 boat for Baltimore. I'd give ten dol lars for the passage" "...
 The shippers moved uneasily. With the present sou'-west wind run oyer to Rushton wouldn't take more than
 three hours Ten dollars was not to
 be passed by and as matter of fact the shippers expected to spend five dollars that very night.
 When do you want to start?" he asked. :#.+ IT,:
 'IIl be ready at 6 o'clock and I sup pose you can get me in Rushton by nine. The steamboat leaves there at ten.' *.>: Still the skipper pondered. He pro- posed to be married that night and was then preparing to go across the bay for that very important access sorry to a wedding-a clergyman. In { fact, an engagement had already been , made with the reverend gentleman. However, a wedding can be post poned one day and a clergyman is like ly to be at leisure most any evening and then ten dollars . "I'll do it. said the skipper, be here at o'clock" By o'clock Captain Bugbee had overhauled his running rigging and made all ready for his sail to Rush ton. His customer appeared on the hour in a hired wagon which the cap tain knew belonged in Bonner T wonder who the feller is?" he mur mured; T don't know or no strangers here"
 The man assisted another man. curiously muffled for the time of year, out of the wagon. A man very awk- wardly clothed and muTrled as to the neck in a comforter A slouch hat was pulled far over his face. Some thing queer" muttered the skipper, but its no business ot mine
 This is Captain Bugbee, the own CT of the boat" remarked the man who had arranged negotiations to his companion.
 The muffled man emitted a sound very like unto a smoSner laugh and turned his face away from the skip per.
 My friend is sick" said the hirer of the boat. T am anxious to get him to Baltimore. I'll help him up the plank"
 brought over the rail and the sick man went down into the cuddy.
 The skipper cast of and was hold ing the schooner hard against the wind when he was hailed from a skin which had put out from the opposite side of the bay.
 Isn't that Captain Bugbee?" hailed a man in the little craft To an af- firmative answer he went on.
 I'm the Rev. Mir. Glubb and you were coming for me this evening. put out to meet you. captain"
 Now, the captain, before hint ed. intended to Marry Miss Arabella Pitkins that very night. Miss Pit kins had been left the most desirable sum of s5,ooo by her father. in pos session of which she was to come on attaining her twentieth year This event would occur the coming winter and was viewed with apprehension by her uncle. Captain Abel Woods, in whose care she has been committed by her father. It was obvious that girl as attractive as was Arabella and WlIn money lO DOOl hON AOhS unmarried and when she did marry the $500 allowed him annually for her maintenance and schooling ceased. Then Captain Bugbee came on the scene and paid ardent court to Arabella. It is possible that Captain Bugbee had had a regard for his par ents and also as to the future wei fare of his soul, but the one thing he loved was money. Had he been a poet, and happily he was not. his i'm passioned odes would have been ded- icated to dollars rather than to raven tresses or to liquid piue eyes, The very attractive personality of the girl was entirely secondary to the snug sum of money she would inherit and Captain Bugbee determined at all odds to have the money ana as a necessity