Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-07-06

l~A.stice, who was her friend, looked at
Der with pity in his face. The inspector
stared into vacancy a moment, and
then his mind was made up.
MARY, have you a tel-dollar bill in
your trunk" he asked.
"I-I"-she stammered.
Have you or have you notl"
Yes, but-but'-
Then you took the letter."
ooh, | couldn't have done It'll never
did it, she walled.
Then where did the bill come from? 2"
Il can't tell you. Please don't ask me
anything more. | didn't take the Pen
field letter, but IL can't tell your
Poor girl sighed the Justice as he
walked across to the hotel with the in
spector.
rive got a duty to do,"was the reply.
When the inspector had reached his
room he sat down and wrote out his
resignation, to take immediate effect.
Some n else would have to arrest
Mary Williams. 1t was the hardest
blow of his life. He had been thinking
of her for a month past as his wife.
1t seemed impossible that she could be
guilty. and yet the inspector sent on
to take his place must arrest her on
her own showing. The man was feeling
more sore at heart than eve before in
his life when he heard two female
voices In the next room. There was a
vacant stovepipe hole just above his
head that let every word float through.
The women were the in~nkeeper's wife
and his daughter, and he heard the
mother say:
"Tillie, where did you get that ten
dollar bill changed 2"
AT the Butchers" was the reply.
And what did you do with the let
teri"
Burned it up. Don't you 20 to fret
ting over things. They say that Mary
will lose her place, but nothing else
will happen. l want to get Mr.. Gran
forth in the parlor tonight and sing and
play for him"
Ten minutes later the inspector was
at the butchers, asking questions. He
went from there to the postoffice for a
few minutes talk with the accused
girl. When he had asked a question
or two she remembered that on a GER
tain date when she had half a dozen
letters in her hand she had peer called
into the grocery part in a hurry and
had left the letters on the counter for
a moment beside the innkeeper's
daughter.
And now about searching your
trunk" asked the inspector.
She handed him the key in a shame
faced way and said:
Il don't want you to, but if you must
then you will find the bill in a letter.
Read the letter"
The Justice was taken along. The
letter and money were found, and both
read the letter and replaced it and
went out of the room almost on tiptoe.
Mary even had a beau. The letter
proved that she was engaged to q
young man in a neighboring town, and
be had sent her the money to save up
with more against their wedding.
why didn't you tell me this be-
fore?" asked the inspector of the girl
that evening.
II didn't want to hurt you" she
replied.
Hurt me how"
81 knew you were falling in love
with me, and you are so old, you know,
and I'd have to say no, you see
II understand" he finished, with a
sigh, and. going into his own room, he
tore up his resignation and sat down
and figured it all out and said to him
self:
THE girl is right. The man of fifty
who has a romance is an old fool".
He was not entertained in the inn
parlor that evening. He never stops
there now. The thing was somehow
fixed up between the landlord and old
Pentield and the government. but it Is
whispered around that 1t cost the for
mer a thousand dollars and that Title
is likely to die an old maid.