The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-07

Hse1s.V s.VSaiJk.., boys fen desperately in love and con- stantiy left inciosnres of nuts and ap- ples at the waxworxs door.
 The lady of the caravan was not slow to see, this, and boing q kind person by nature. she exerted herself to make little Nell comfortable and happy task in which she would have succeeded had 1t not been for the girls anxiety about her grandfather. The old mans mind seemed to have become quite vacant except for one thing. When he heard the name of cards or saw anybody playing he would flush and tremble. and his eyes would gleam with q erased desire. One day Nell came on hitn in the act of stealing her poor little hoard of pennies that she had saved from the offerings of visitors. which Mrs. Jarley allowed her. Co keep. He hnr-
 ried away and returned that evening
 hagsard and shivsring. te beg for more. 'f
 His rawlings showed her that he was doing 1t all for her: thak he wanted to win money to make her secure
 from want. When. he lay. asleep. ct
 last snS stooRsa ped aSa s,a.. Kissed hi~
 poor. grandfatheri On. they would
 indeed shut you up If they found you now. You have only me to save youi" Her resodution was taken at once. | If his poor, crazed brain would impel
 him to rob her. 1t would lead him to rob their benefactresB. They must | flee again. She aroused the old man
 before dawn, and he. startled by the out protest. She did not rest til they had put many miles between them
 selves and the town.
 Now followed long. weary days of | wandering on endless roads; days of dust and heat and hunger, nights
 spent in open fieidB or under hedges,
 rain end suffering and pFtvatation. was the child and and the child the guide and guardian.
 At last they came cut of fields and country places into a region where paths of ashes and einders, palla ok l smoke. dirty streams and ditches.
 staring hoveis and black lapes show
 cd that . manufacturing town was ahead of them.
 In a pouring rain they entered itH din and tumult, and stood among the beating noises and the busy crowds
 as strange and confused as if they had ! lived q thousand years before and were raised from the dead and placed
 there by some miracle. They wandered up and down all ] day but the child dared not appeal | to any of the hurrying people. Shiv-
 body and sick in spirit she tried to soothe the cumplaintB of the old man beside her and looked for some arch
 way where they might spend the | night.
 A missrably clad man, hurryins by,
 stopped and asked them if they need
 ed shelter, and led them to . great building. where he tended a furnace. ] There Bleeptng on pile of ashes, Nell
 and her grandfather passed the night.
 The next morning their poor friend l shared his breakfast of dry bread and
 coffee with them. and they set forth once more.
 For two days and two nights they passed through land where coal dust ana factory smoke Killed the vegeta- ton and blackened the streets and houses and men: where all humanity. man and women and child. worked l slavishly to feed gRsptng engines; ! where everywhere, behind and ahead
 to right and to left. was the same in- | termtnable perspective of huge ehim- neys blasting ali things alive and l dead with thsiF black smoke.
 | With less and less of hope and
 strength she compelled herself to pro- ceed. She had asked humbiy for help at a few doors and had been repuls- | cd. so that she dared not ask again. I It was twenty.four hours since they khad last tasted bread when at last
 they came to an open road. After some miles the country became beau tiful and cheerful again. and they reached a picturesque and posperous- | looking village, Here suddenly Lit-
 tie NelPs strength left her, and she fell in e swoom.
 Providence had guided her to a safe haven through hard and cruel
 ways. A pale simpie.looking old l gentleman came out of his cottage to 1 guccor her. He was the schoolmaster days, while Little Nell was slowly recovering. he and the old clergyman
 ntted out the adjoining cottage and appointed her grandfather to the post of caretAker of the church.
 While Little Nell and her grand father were toiling over the long
 roads in their unreasoning fiig1t QuiIp and his legal adviser. Mfr. Brass were striving eagerly but vaintly to discover whithsr they had gone. Mir. Quilp was not actuAted by any mo- tives of philanthropy. NeIl's proai- gate brother had proclaimed bitterly that the old man had fied with ( se- cret hoard. and outlp furious ct the thought that any of 1t has escaped his hands. was bent on finding the fugitives:T
 He was convinced that Kit knew where they were and Kits sturdy end contemptuous refusal to tell the ugly dwarf anything about his beautiful Miss Nell confirmed the savage It, tie monster in his belief.
 Poor kit had obtained 6 position as servant and coachman for . comfort able old couple. who gave him the en- ormous sum Of thirty pounds a year payable quarterly Cult unconscious of the bitter and dangerous enemy he was making. he spent his time in planning how to lay out this vast wealth to the best advantage of his widowed mother and his remarkable brother. little Jacob, who ss Kit of- ten told his employers. the GArlands, was one Of the most extraordinary infants that ever lived.
 Ills mind waa occupied soon by skn-