Middletown transcript., 1907-10-05
|SEL.F=DEF ENSE
BY HESTER GREY

do something for you Jim had
an inspiration on the spot Why,
say, how'd you like an easy little
! Job Of honsebreaking with q
three hundred dollar diamond
brooch at the end of II TIL tell
you just where it is.
What you giving me? ] ain 7
go no pink trading stamps from
your shop. Do they let you run
loose in town
See here, I'm sane, but ln q
| peck Of trouble, and as brother
to brother I ask your kind aid
and attention. Ny wife's kin
gave her q diamond brooch. u
4 settled on her mind and she has
broochitis an operation is very
7 necessary and ] ask you to per.
? form it. Remove the cause OF
this terrible complaint from the
T tray on the dresser in the room
to your LETT as you enter the
e hall, and 5ou'n find 9 dollar on
] the gate-p5st as you go out. !
9 am just going around the corner
It to the postofice. Do this, my
Q friend, and if ever you need any
d diamonds stolen from the bosom
S Of your family, just call on me
!. Now is your chance to regild q
v tarnished reputation by q kind
It deed. Why hesitate ? Shall ]
It add my last years hat? Il you
a really take the brooch ! can
). afford a new hat, you know.
n Well, you're new brand
e How'd I know you won't break
Il out in new spot and have tbs
y police meet me at the corner
4 NoHe fufS me, doubtfully, ye
g iongingly,
e we cans that. I'll give yol
e a signe Statement that I gav'
@ YOU til 5rooch, describing it il
N aunrJ ticular. I'll place thi
e, in an kessed envelope, ant
$. Won are to return this statenen
u to rae when you have dispose,
e Of the brooch without trouble
9 That settles it, doesn't it?
Blamed aueer, but III risk il
y, II I get caught it's jus
Pr Of years, hui il you ge
out, young man, you'y
lot life ahead ol you Say
you want me to send 20
You'll earn it fore 20
e last of this. I amt
man, but travel and OF
ion has earnt me a fel
laughed and grabbed hi
res the statement. I'm o
Good luck to you, an
5 you, my savior.
here was weeping and gnasf
pf teeth in the Sayerses HON
night but finally calm pre-
ed. The diamond brooch be
e thing of the past.
ne day, month later, th
tman handed Bessie a grim
elope, at which she stare
iously, for the Jim Sayers
Jim's clear hand, while Mrs.
S sprawled in ungainly letters
le opened it and read frs
ms clear statement, and the
page of scraWl signed :"
Peacemaker.'
nd I'll fool the young gent a tur
NJ and send this to yoa cause
Is. guess you've come to by thi
De- time and seen your foolishnes
nd I wanted you to know how muc
he your man had stood fore b
mt played this trick-he was droy
sic to it in self-defense. And
ny wanted you to know him and N
i'm risked ourselves for some glas
be diamonds. Your kin was chea
Ter skates, and the only auto 70
as NEEDED to match them gems wa
mp a wheelbarrow. / got fifty cent
se for the pin. I was bad cheate
lat by your man in this job, but b
re- needed help an ] did a good dee
N. and am happy.
rs. Mrs. Sayers, after som
ne thought, klndled the suppe
nd FIRE with these documents. MI
ia Sayers wondered why his Estate
q ment" was never returned, br
is too contented to give it NOR
than passing thought. Th
SIC one era of luxury vanished wit
nd the diamond pin, but an air {
at- solid comfort prevails in th
ne realm Of new garden hose an
er a kitchen cabinet. Bessie ha
ne become cheerfully aware Of th