The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21
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tho doctors savsgs action and cut him on with stingy allowances of pocket money.
 His mother tried to mako up for il by buying him excellent clothes: and this mAde her. too. in sense. an agent responsible for his future troubles. He had q thunder and lightning coat. an embroidered white wAisteoat . lace frill and sisgant. white silk stockings. Now. this suit was quito incomplete mother had bssn too careless to think 'of them when she had chance. and eubqeQuently dared not buy them or send him the m0noy, because hls fath CT had forbidden tt stefn1y.i
 There was nothing for it exeept to get them on credit and depend on the fortune Of war for faising the f3 that they would cost. But to ret credit under the name of stnbbs vas quite out of the Qusstion. Master Steiffel- kind. the bootmAksr. would be sure to and dishonest faculty would without doubt hssitats at nothing to blscken his character.
 Thus. through the injustice of pa- rents and teachers. Master stubbs wal forced to descend to . slight though harmless deviation from the exact truth. He introduced himself to Mas. ter Sti6Alkind as Lord Cornwaliis and had the bopts on hts feet before the daxxiedN artisans brain realised 1t.
 Unfortunately the shoematker came to the school soon afterward and proudly but respectfully asked about lxt~ EnN ta he boys laughed and told him that there was no such swell at their sch ooi. Master StiRenkind. becoming sus- picious. described him as . very fat noblsman who squinted a little. r'It must be Copper N'erchanty' howled the ungratefu1 Bunting.
 Stubbs was studying very hard. with his head buried between his hands. He was so ann 1yed at being Interrupted that 1t required three big boys to drag him to the presence of Master Stiffel. kind.
 Unhappily the wrstched pr. Swish tail appeared at that moment, with his usual malevolsnt faculty for arriving at inopportune Junctures. and he in- sisted with savage joy on hearing the whole story, Stinelkind did not ignore . single detail. He was furious not only because he had been cheated. but because Master Stubbs. compelled by necessity to play . part, had abused and cursed the bootnaker when he bought the boots. that being naturally a, vital element in the role of young noblemen
 The stupid man could not see this fine point and remembered only that he had been called scoundrel and rascal not by . nobleman. but by Stubbs. His, resentment was increased when pr. Swishtaii told him to take the boots and ge. out. accusing him of hay ing charged twice what they were worth. Now 1t is clear to the meanest not in the remotest degree responsible for this overbearing attitude of pr. Swishtail; yet the indignant bootmakeI vowed that he would get satisfaction out of Master Stubbs if he had to wait for years. You shall never hear the end of those boots." said he.
 : And 1t was true. As if they had been changed into serpents. those boots be- gan their venomous work at once. The the society of the other boys and should be packed up neck and heels and sent home. He was too disgusted even to fog him, a remark at which Master Stubbs was just beginning to grin treacherously and then had turned his back on them all in the most ostenta- tious way.
 The next minute he was seized by his fellow pupils. who had so often rev- pump. where they pumped on him till they were tired. Not till he was half dead did the malicious doctor ring the school bell to call the boys in.
 Master Stubbs now remained al home. sacrificing himself to please his mother, who bought clothes for him and gave him pocket money enough to cut a pretty figure. His father wanted him articled to a merchant. but his to be gentleman and not, a trades. man, and that the army was to be his profession. s4s
 His father consented after some strife. Them he attempted, with a most deplorabie lack of parental affection to get commission for his son 4n . marching regiment: and this in the face of the fact that war was on al the time between the English and the French.
 However. his mother, supported Toy. ally by Master Stubbs. convinced his father that the. militia was the only possible field, and he joined the North Bungays and was fairly launched in the world.
 All the men soon hated him con. foundedly. christening him with knock knees" and other nasty titles It was evident to everybody that they the greatest delight whenever he ap- peared and laughed and carried on till the other poor fellows must have felt themselves horribly out of it.
 Stubbs did not let this admiration spoil him. He was neither hot-headed or imprudent, like the other young fel- lows. So he did not permit himself to yield to the blandishments of the young women. Besides. he was. in away. en- their childhood they had been encour- aged to ca1l each other husband and wife, and after they grew up they had come to understand that 1t was a set- tied thing between them.
 Mary, who had lived with her old uncle. pr. Bates. was a fine. tall. plump smiling. peach-cheeked. golden haired. white skinned lass. with half the county dangling after her. Her the fact that her brother. Captain Wa ters. had given her. 5000 pounds and had promised her 5000 more.
 So, although Mir. Robert Stubbs had discovered a lady. Miss Magdaien Crutty, who had twelve thousand pounds against Mary's ten thousand. he remained true to the latter. even though 1t was against his financial interests. But one unfortunate day news came that Mary's brother had lost five thousand pounds at sea-the very sum that he was bringing home to Mary from India.
 That left Mary with only i've thou sand and Mir. Etubbs with uniforms and what not to pay for in an ex-