The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-08


 ence. had taken him by the throat as he once designed to take the world and had stripped him to the bare soul --and . humble. earnest soul it was. having learned charity and being chas- tened by trouble,
 Mark was received raptuousiy by Mrs. Lupin, the ever faithful hostess of the Blue Dragon. who recounted all the news of the place to the home corners. Cherry. Mir. Pecksniffs eid- CT daughter. had, after the marriage of her sister. refused to live longer in her fathers house and was now an inmate of Todgers's. the Commercial Boarding House. where she was en- gagged to Mir. Augustus Moddle, the same who had once declared his life to be b1ighted because of his love for Merry. Tom Pinch also was no longer member of the Peck sniff household. He. too, had heard Mir Pecksniffs GO forth"
 What had occasioned 1t Mrs. Lupin could not tell. But it was this. After the departure of his daughter Mir. Pecksniff had conceived the idea of marrying Mary Graham. old Martins ward. He had made love to her and his advances had been rejected
 Then one day he overheard con- versation between Tom Pinch and Mary which convinced him that Tom was acting as an intermediary for com nlunication between the lovers. Also, stupid as he was in such matters, Pecksniff saw how Toms poor, hope less heart stood. Hence Tom got his Ego forth"
 Going to Pecksnifrs house Martin saw his grandfather in the presence of Pecksniff and Mary. Honestly and stoutly he pleaded his cause before the old man, acknowiedging his faults and begging only that his grandfather some calling in which he could make
 The old man heard him to the end and then said to Peckaniff. You answer him"
 It was a great opportunity for Peck sniff. The architect made one of hts most effective and touching speeches. ending with q .'so forth" Then. some how, the old man was seized with q sudden desire to leave the presence of his grandson, and asked Pecksniff to conduct him out of the roonf Thus Martin and Mary were left alone together for a short space. Short as tt was the moments were dear and precious to the lovers. Then Martin departed. He went to Tom Pinch in London. whom he found comfortably established in lodgings with his pret- ty sister, Ruth, who had been e poor4 ly-paid and much abused governeas until Toms arrival in London, when he had taken her from the employment to keep House for him.
 Tom told Q wonderful story of how he was able to have a home. Soon after his arrival in London. Tom said, e stranger, who, in some mysterious manner seemed to know of him, had told John westlock. who told Tom that there was q possTlon waiting for the sx-pupil of Mfr Pecksniff The man said he was only an agent and could not reveal the name of his principal. The work was the cataioging Of q library in the apartments of a gentlo- man now out of town.
 The task was Con@enial. the pay good and Tom and his sister were happy. home until his fortunes should bright. en and. of course. they both went to see John Westiock, who also offered help. It did not take Martin long to see that John was In love with Toms sister. the pretty Ruth.
 Events now moved rapidly The very day that Martin left Peoksniff's Jonas chuzslewit and Mir. Tigg Montague arrived there to do the little OusinesR of getting the architects money Jonas just before had tried to escape to the Continent. but the watchfuI detective, MT. Naogetr, had managed to get letter to him which had brought him back. It was threatening letter from Tigg which Jonas did not dare Cis- obey. The time to skip had not yet come" said Tigg.
 So they went down to Wiltshire to- gether Tigg and Jonas and Jonas acted in such a peculiar manner on the way that when he started out to return before his companion Tigg left much relieved. He believed that Jonas was only waiting for a favorable oppor- tunity to murder him
 The sparkling Tigg. whose way had been prepared for him by the represen- tations of Jonas as to the great profits to be made in the company, soon hooked Pecksniff. They concluded their business with a dinner at Saliss bury and after Tisg had forwarded his victims draft to London he rode part of the way back to the village with him.
 Now" said he. q will get out here and walk back"
 Mir. Montague Tigg. or Mr. Tigg Mon tague. never arrived in Salisbury. His dead body was found the next morn ing lying in a wood. He had been stabbed to the heart