The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-01-03

as Billy could judi =. i was precisely
/ n the right spot - 81 th's hypothesis.
/ He put The note iaio his pocket and
( il next moaIcat ~ .s-,-J;:cI Il.
I Sundays paper, cpa-,i0ei =, men
! ion OF the acc.,.cu; to =. ,.b1s,1I.
he city directory cid not contain his
! nHr!e. In Monday mornings lanerS
Biiy paced small advert ..nalt
among the Lost and Found" but
there was no response Al! inquiries
| failed. and in the course of the week
! Billy put the note away IN drawer
of his writing table and forgot il. Far
more pressing matters c.aiiinI his at
| tentiOn. Dorothy was caiict u her
! home in the west. and hlr"1wing
fear tOrmented Billy that. Caspi& the
positive commands that he had laid
upon her. she had gone 10 yet money
for the magazine. Meanwhile the
scheme BOILED.
One afternoon, following Il confer
cnce upon the all important topic. Billy
returned TO his home so crazed with
enthusiasm that, happening To find the
lean, old serving maid busting his
room, he began to deliver an Grafton
to her on the subject of magazine pub
lication. His eloqucncc produced an
| unexpected effect for the woman be-
came wildly excited and finally fell to
the floor in sort of fit. Then Billy
ran for the Iandlady. with whose as
siStance he carried the hyStercal
servant TO her room
Returning tc his own place after this
unusual exercise he sat down to reflect
upon the strange happenings that had
recently varied the nonotony of his OK
iStence and was presently confronted
by one that overtopped the others
topped everything Hc could remember
to have seen outside of drelmland.
There was upon the desk Il paper
weight Of painted porcelain. Il Christ
mas present from Doro:hy and very
beneath It he ROW beheld something
green, and His green substance proved
TO be four bank notes. each of the de-
nomination of 500.
Dear, dear little 81. he said aloud.
and the tears rushed into his eyes.
This was not money any more. it was
her love, and h laid down his head
on these poor counters in the pretty
game of trade and kissed them.
Presently he arose. put The money
into his safest pocket and strobe away
to Dorothy'S house. where he was in
oil I,nt I,.
returned to town. Billy knew better.
He perceived a trick and instantly
formulated one of his own He tele-
graphed to Dorothy in the west Though
he knew she wasn't here, as follows:
I can't take it, Dorothy. but you're the
greatest girl in the world.
In the early evening came this reply:
You must. But how did You find out
about it? DOROTHY.
To which he responded:
1 have the money and Will hold it for
you. / cannot use 1t as you wish.
At O'Clock in the morning the door
bell changed. and Billy received this
telegram:
Impossible. Did rot mail check till to-
day. Can't understand what YOU mean.
DOROTHY.
Billy had not money enough to con
tinue this correspondence by wire with
out breaking one of the $500 bills. so he
wrote a long letter which he mailed
about daybreak. and by the last de-
livery that afternoon he received Dor
0thy's letter. full of subtle persuasion
and inclosing her check for $500
Three days later came Dorothy herself
and in the thrilling conversation which
ensued she denied in the most explicit
manner all knowledge of the larger
sum
1t will be remembered that Louis NJ.
of France had many solemn forms of
adjuration. only one of which he held
to be binding. and he would never tell
which of them it was. Few men have
been so clever as Louis. but nearly all
women are. Protestation with mental
reservation is the natural weapon of
the sex. AS student of human nature
Billy Allenwood knew this and. though
he held Dorothy to be the fawless
pN"ii VI NuIbdiHoutl, ht sun cOulu not
free his mind of the notion that the
four big bank notes had once been
hers. 1t was therefore with an in
defnable disfavor, a sense of some
thing gone from his own soul, that he
at last paid down the $1,000 into the
capital of the great scheme
The $1,000 which was confessedly
Dorothy's was placed in bank but in
the early days, when the scheme
seemed surely winning, Billy lost his
balance wheel. veered to the deluson
that he had foolishly shut Dorothy out
from the greatest opportunity of her
life and at last permitted her TO invest
her money. Then came the later days,
the days of disappointment, of ex-
penses marvelously swollen and re-
celpts miraculously shrunk.
On the blacklist of black days, when
Silly had left the office merely to get
away from it and not because his
work was done, he was aware of Il re-
membered face in the crowd, and a
name !eaped into his mind
Il beg your pardon, sir" said he
Are you Mr.. Mousoud?"
NO" replied the stranger, with