The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21

Manasseh. the wido wof . West Indian tobacco planter who had left her with three children and an immense fortune. He hunted up Dobble. who tried to avoid introducing him; but Captain | Stubbs bridled and thundered and 1 Dobble timidly yielded. Within week he had supplanted his comrade in arms and was the favored friend of the rich American.
 Look at that woman. sir" said a stranger who sat at the table with him one day and evidently did not know that he was acquainted with her. "She is ugly, but all the men are after her. | because she has money. Well, I don't blame them--cne hundred and forty thousand pounds. as Ishappen to know. | for knew her husband."S
 | Captain stubbs fell hie weary heart give great bound of renewed love and sensibility. This time he was deter
 mined that nothing should interpose.
 and so we'll did he press his suit that
 within month he led her to the altar.
 Mrs stubbs told her husband that she had bought a great house in Berke- | ley square,. which was then being
 painted While they were waiting.
 they lived in a hotel. Captain Stubbs paid the bills, but he did not object,
 for he kept a close accounting and calculated on compensating himself later. t~
 On the third day, just after break fast, he was called down stairs and
 served with a notice of arrest for a | small debt by Mrs. Stubbs of 150 pounds, and taken to. the spunsing house. Furiously he sent for her and found out that she had nothing. He deter | mined at once to pay she debt, get out of the house. draw his 5000 pounds from his bankers and flee to the conti-
 nent. anywhere to escape the swind- Hing wodow with her three children. He sent for the keeper of the place and gave him check. asking him to | present 1t at his bankers and get it cashed. The gentlemen returned in a | very minutes with a note from the | bankers saying that the entire ac- count of Captain 6tubbs had been attached in Q suit against the widow for another debt. You see, Stubbs." said the keeper, grinning. 'there was two debts. So they arrested you for the little one and attached your money for the big one"
 Captain Stubbs broke down at this news and cried like a child It was but natural. He had lived prudently and always with care for his future he had not squandered his money: he had been business-like: yet here he was in the horrible piace--and what Is more, he stayed there seven months. In all that time none of his old friends came near him. Even his sis ters ignored him and would not answer his letters. He wrote to his mother exclaining that if she sold her furni- ture she could help him a little. but, as he afterward found. that scoundrei Waters had not permitted her to see the letters. When he went through the court at last for the relief of insolvent debtors the revengeful Stinelkind put in his claim for pair of boots, produced them in court and told the whole story. to the huge delight of an unfeeiing mob.
 The commissioner. lawyers and spec tators laughed again when he told his tale. They explained to him that the rich widow was a notorious swindler, who had married three men in the same way. Captain Stubbs also dis covered that the man who had at- tached and obtained his money was the very same one who had told him about the widows wealth. With this final blow and amid the jeers of the court he was freed to walk the streets penniless.
 For awhile he polished boots for MT. 6tluSikluup WnOs nhNiHB ndu ms revenge vas willing to give him shelter and lodging. Then the bootmak CT obtained for him a place as letter carrier.
 Robert stubbs, Esquire. late ensign of the North Bungay Fencibles, sub mitted to the degrading necessity for three years or more. He often thought of Stinelkind, and could not help but despise him for having showed a gentle man into such an inferior and low pur- suit. But he had to do something to live.
 One day he was assigned to a new district Among the letters he had to deliver was one addressed, "Mrs. Stubbs." An elderly lady came to the door. screamed and cried.l My son My sonr'
 He found that that fellow Waters had married his sister Lucy and had fitted up house for lodgings for his mother and sister Eliza. They were doing well. having an income of nearly 200 pounds a year over expenses, This fortunate state of affairs enabled him to escape the hated work of postman and live like a gentleman again, though 1t Is true that fate was still niggardly, for his mother could not allow him more than 50 pounds a year, and even then, thought, for @ little while that