The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-03
ON GOVERNMENT ORDERS.
Continued for PAGE z.

After some time they called to me.
Between the two of them they explained
everything. They had long been lovers
and, with the aversion that lovers have
for the Gathering of village gossips'
merciless tongues. they had succeeded
in keeping their attachment a secret
They had been engaged for some time.
and it was their custom to meet at the
nome of kindly old widow lady of an
evening. she alone knowing of their en-
gagement On the night Of the robbery
they had spent the evening together al
the widows. Miss Lundy had never set
the date for the wedding because she
had not had the means with which 10
buy her necessary outfit of clothing.
She had been waiting for the return of
her guardian from abroad so that she
might secure from him the few hundred
dollars that remained Of her small pat
rimony. She was an orphan and ha-i
lived in New York city with her guard
ian until the illness of one of his daug.a-
ters had taken him abroad. She h.G
come TO the village to seek the seciusion
in which she might finish the writing of
a novel on which she had been work
ing She met the postmaster and. her
means being of the slenderest, had ac-
eepted the position as his assistar.
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bent Of that post. On the day of tr7
robbery she had received registered
packet from her guardian containing
s5V0, and that evening she had set the
date for the ceremony which was to
make her Mrs. Mason.
She and Mason had left the widows
about 10 O'Clock, and Mason had left
her at the gate. After leaving her. Ma
son had taken long stroll and. about
midnight, had passed the postoffice in
returning home. As he approached the
building he had seen a lady leaving it.
closing and locking the door after her.
he had stopped in bewilderment. as he
knew that only Miss Lundv. besides
himself, had a key to the office and, in
the uncertain light, he thought that he
recognized her. 1t never occurred to him
to follow the woman, but he had al
lowed her to turn the nearest corner
and then he had let himself into the
postoft1ce. His hasty examination
failed to show anything amiss. on the
floor, directly in front of the safe. he
had found a tube-Tose blossom. Miss
Lundy had worn such a bud that even
ing, and although ne had inportunsd
her for it she. with a woman's way
wardness- perhaps just to tease him.
had refused to give him the flower.
Next morning, when ne opened the
safe he discovered the robbery. His
suspicion of Miss Lundy had then come
upon him. There were many facts
against her, as he saw it. She had Te-
ceived a sum of money for which she
had been waiting, and which alone had
caused their marriage TO be so long
postponed; he had seen her leave the
postoffice at an hour of night when she
could have had no business .here and
at which, even had she felt some neces-
sity for visiting the office, proDrfstv
would have prevented her doing il. she
had wern the very tube-rcse blossom
that he had found in the Office. AL
though these circumstances seemed IL
fix guilt upon his assistant beyond
doubt, Mason had thought only of
shielding her. He had endeavored to
figure out some plan and had conceived
the idea of the tramps and the broken
window. Immediately he had smashed
the glass Of the back window with the
stick that was employed in fastening
il, Miss Lundy had arrived at this in
ODpOrtune time and had seen Mason
strike the blow. In her excitement over
the robbery, she had forgotten the Incl
dent, nor did she remember il or attach
any importance to it until Mason had
showed it to me as the place where the
tramps had gained entrance. Miss