The daily Alaskan., 1905-06-29

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 where did they come fromT
 "Arncsw called a Querulous voice from below.
 "Poor mother" said the girl her eN- prcsslvc face turning from delight Co sympathy. she Is much depressed at losing me. must go down and com. fort her Meanwhile you may count our treasure. Coming mother. And she ran downstairs.
 When tl.e young bride rcturned Co her room the money was lying on the table just as she had left it but her husband was nowhere Co he seen.
 oI.conaulw she called 'Iconorh dear! Where arc youF
 There was no reply, and, thinking he was playCully hiding from her, she scarrhci for him. but her husband was not to hc found, There was a back staIrcasc. by which he might have de. sccudc,L and she went down opened n door at It's foot and called There was no answer
 Agnes spent thc night In an agony ot dread. She thought she could not on durc another such night but she did, and many morn, for her husband did not return Co her. Slowly she became moro hardened Co her sorrow, but when four wears had passed she had become no more rcconcIlcd Co lt than thc night her husband had forsakcn her Mean while the money she had so joyrulE turned over Co him had oll been used In buying comforts for her mother
 One day she received through the mall an envelope poStmarkcd at a min- ne town on the Pacific coast In it was a certificate ot deposit n bank payahlc to her orlcr for Sl,Ooo Ac- compauying this wns a bit ot tadcl yellow papcr on which was written m mans handwriting though unknown to her:
 Dcarest AgrCs-Rcplying Co your last letter saving that you arc wilIiDg Co ar- cgpt a stated sum. couscntinC at Che same tfuC Co my expected marriage, | send it Co you with this After the honeymoon i-l | hope Iu measure Co resume my rr'1- tons with you. Your loving R.
 In vain did Agnes puzzle over these two singular inClosures. She could fath- om neither. The money she would not use: the note ste would have consider ed an insult had she not believed it was Intended for some one else. She finally determined to send both back through the bank on which tho certificate was drawn. She wrote a note calling the cashiers attention Co the mistake ask. inC him 10 forward It to the depositor.
 Exactly twelve days from the day she mailed her note with Its iuClosurC there was a knock at the door, and, opening it. 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, ''I fear ! have done you a great wrong
 Why did you leave mey she moan. cd throwing her arms about his neck as if fearful to lose him again.
 Then he told her that when she had gone down Co her mother be had Shak | cu the stocking to make sure that uoth ing more remained in it, and the not, she had received by mail had fallcr l out. Taking tt as evidence Of her guilt he had fed, resolved never to sec hel again. He had gone west and mad, money. Wishing that she. notwith standing her sin, should share In hi' good fortune, he had sent her the ST, | 600 and to explain the cause or his hay Ing left her had inclosed the note. He reply had come to him through th, bank where he had deposited the mon ey.
 Then Agnes saw through the riddlu and gave him the solution. The moncl she had given her husband had come c her as a legacy from on aunt for whom she had been named. She had hear strange stories about this aunt in he | youth that were now confirmed by th letter which had evidently been kep with the money in the stocking
 -Four years of misery" said Leon ard mournfully, that might have beel years of happiness gone out Of ou lives through my blunderlng stupid iy."
 But" said the practical woman "after all, Providence may have turne my aunfs sin Into a benefit for n: Your going away under misundel standing has enabled you 10 concer trate your efforts in a better field tha here and untrammeled by the cares a a family"
 The honeymoon which had been lr terrupted four years before at Its b' ginning was begun again, to last thi time through their lives. The hushan considered hiNself indebted Co his vii for a great reparation and with this view made a VOW that his bearing C ward his wife should never be diderer from the first day Of their reunion. R kept his VOW. MORRIS WINNIE.