The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-08

iy offered to Mrs. Carey a new and beautiful white gown which she had never worn.
 But Mrs Carey's temper had receiv- ed the last straw. She turned to her husband without seeming to hear Mrs. Leighton. ''You must go alone," she said, and explain to our hostess that am the unlucky victim of jealousy" And then she went Into the house and closed the door.
 Mrs. Leighton and Mfr. Carey parted miserably--+the man making what ex- cuse he could, and the woman protest ing, after the manner of women, that she should have been more tacttul In her desire to help.
 This was apparently the end of all Communication between the neighbors' but Peter grew into beautiful spec imen of ugliness He had his uses, too, which none could deny. The cherry trees and currant bushes "-ere no lon- ger stripped by urchins in the dead or noon when Nora and her mistress rest ed from their labors and lunched. Nor were the Careys' hens disturbed by midnight marauders. MT. Carey knew and appreciated this, petted Pete on the sip and wished that women would be sensible.
 There were many robberies that sum mer. Night after night two or three homes would be entered, and the work was so skillfully done that so far the theft had not been caught. And at last there came a dark windy night while Mir, Carey was away on a trip for his firm. Mrs. Carey, not naturally timid' and unafraid of the mutterings or an approaching storm went to bed as us- ual and to sleep. Her maid-oI- all-worA followed the example of her mistress.
 Some time after midnight, Peter who had been lying motionless in the deep shadow of the front porch, lifted his head and bIinked his red yes. For a moment he heard nothing but the wind, and then 8 window cracked as It was slid cautiously up.
 Peter slunk across the grass and sat down beneath the window. A cat walt ing for mouse could not nave nave peen cen more alert than his white bulk Ills ears caught a tinkle of silver, heard inc soft splutter of "noiseleas" match and he felt rather than heard padded footsteps which after a time stole up- stairs. And then there came the scream of a frightened woman. At that Peter stood up and with bowlegs planted firmly. waited for attention
 Footsteps, and less soft ones than the previous ones, sounded on the stairs a cIinkfns bag was thrust out of the open window, and was followed by the leg of a man. Peter gave little spring and took hold-the man lost his ball ance and fell upon his back with Peter on his chest.
 Three seconds later Mrs. Carey thrust her head out of the open dining-room window to see what had become of the man. When her eyes took In the sit- uation, she gave little cry or Joy Then. realizing that Peter was hardly more than a pup and might not be able to hold out against the struggles of the man. she dashed across the yard and rang the Leightons doorbell furiously- The whole affair had been so noiseless that, though all the windows were up, the Lefghtons had heard nothing. MT. Leighton thrust his head out and de- manded an explanation-and then reached the front door so quickly that his wife said afterward that he must have slid down the banister.
 He was not any too soon, for the bur glar had managed to reach his revolver and as MT. Leighton vaulted the porch railings there was report. Peter growled savagely and took a firmer hold.
 When the man was securely bound with many yards. of clothesline, Peter slowly and with infinite dignity left his post and held up his wounded paw to De bandaged- Mrs. Carey put her arms around his neck and kissed his blunt nose, at which demonstration he was serenely unmoVed.
 Peter now wears a silver collar with an inscription which would make him vain were he an ordinary dog, and, moreover, he hardly knows who are the members of his immediate family, so intimate are the two familiea.