The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-02

but when she had fini lhsd her story, Aunt Sarah said: M 4 t eYou have done just the right thins That young man needs lesson You are going to stay tight here for the rest of the summev, and he may write, telephone and telegraph unxiI he is sray-headed and it won't do him no any one to walk oyer them. and they lare not going tb begin now If you don't make him get down on his knees and ask your pardon xhousand times oyer. you are no true Graz"
 Molly went to her room, greatly dis satisfied. She had had q quarrel with Arthur Blakely. hut there were lots
 of things to be said in hls favor. and II was real mean Of Aunt Sarah to pitch l into him as she had. The young lady presently found herself arguing that she had c perfect right to feel hurt ! and injured and be d week getting over 1t. She had brought along his notes and letters. of course. They made quite large bundle. She l selected three or four and read them over. and then she had good cry. Aunt sarah had said that the com lversatlon would be resumed next day Molly woke up with a determination 1 that nothing further should De said. After, breakfast she took her book ana hied herself to the hickory grove down in the meadow and there she ! remained till the horn blew for dinner l she read little. she cried little and 1 had the hefty bundle Of Arthurs iet- ters with her she might have cried more, but she had careiesiy left It behind her, and did not wish to go back for fear Of Aunt Sarah. As she
 reached the house she ran upstairs to look over just one letter. and 8 minute
 later scream resounded through halls and rooms.
 ~what on earth i'd itY' demanded the
 cunt from the foot of the stnirs. ] .My--my letters are gone!''
 l What letters7'
 l "Arthur's letters to me. left them on the floor beside my trunk.
 l Then youth never see them again. 1 A tin peddfer came along about 10 o'clock and wanted to scare up enough
 paper rags to buy dipper picked iip what could find. and as thought the bundle was something you had thrown away I ci1ucked it in."
 There were other screafns. followed | by exclamatious, tears and close ap- proach to hysteria, and the result was | that a quarter of an hour later aunt and xiece drove up the dusty highway as fast as the old horse could gallon.
 They were looking far ahead in hopes of catching eight of the tin peddler.
 These letters must De recovered at all I hazards Failure apparently meant \ one case of suicide and one of lifelong Meanwhile, things had been happen ing elsewhere. Arthur Blakely had finally decided to send that bouquet. 1 and to follow 1t In person several hours later, only to find that Molly had departed for the country It wasn't q case where he could go into court
 and argue 1t out, but . case of hustle | About the time that Aunt Sarah was I picking up paper7raGs to make her deal with the peddier. the young law l yer was leaving the city on the ex- | press and preparing bis argument for l the jury of one There was, of course no one at the depot to meet him, and he stepped out In a lively way for the half-mile walk As he did so tin- | peddler came driving along. and one l of lie wheels of his wagon struck a | stone and slewed the vehicle around l and upset it in the ditch. The bags of paper-rags on top were thrown to the I ground, and one of them busting open Il shot a bundle Of letters te the feet oi she lover. He recognized his stationary and his handwriting at q glance. sher- lock Homes could not have invented a yf
 ssViIlaln. where did you you get
 thesel'' Arthur finally demanded of the
 Sviilain yourselff what in thunder
 aiis your '
 s'You have robbed housel You l have stolen these letters from girlF'
 Come Of You are crazy" x Il sIearrest yout You are my prisoner. i Here is evidence to convict .youP' I There Is a differen1e between the Illegal business and the constabulary
 business, and young Blakely soon dis I covered this. He had only taken the
 man of tinware by the collar, when 4 he was seized himself in return: and 'as Aunt sarah and Molly drove up the men were rolling over and over on the I ground.
 There were ejaculations. exclamat- ,l ions, explanations and introductions. I MT. BlakeIy hunted for shis hat and I,misssne coat buttons and begged par l don. Molly reguarded him with what | she intended to be a cold stare. but I which had a 'Tll-forgiye-yo look l mingled with it. The peddAer swore 1 frankly and picturesquetly and said
 somebody had to pay for his skinned | nose Aunt Sarah, bless her heart. was I equal to the emergency. She felt the sting of conscience for having laid her sacrilegious hands on those love I letters. She suggested that a five l dollar bill was the right sort of plaster for a skinned nose and MT Blal<eiy | handed 1t over Under other circum- Il stances, being in the law. he would not
 have given 1t up until Judgment had