The Press., 1913-04-16

nnding out more auouL ner. usNeu her for her name and address, telling her that wished 1t that might mail her my book circulars. She hesitated, as though she did not wish to give them, but finally did so. lost no time in walking past the number she gave and found the space occupied by a liv- cry stable. She had given me wrong address.
 It is needless to say that this deep ened my interest in her.
 Some time passed before saw any. thing more of my mystery" as now began to call her. Then one day she came in, and the moment saw her knew that there had been a great change in her. The sad expression had left her face and had been replac- ed by one that I could only interpret as newly acquired hope. She pre- tended that she came in to look for more books, but could see by the way she picked them up and immediately laid them down that she was not in- terested in them. I determined on a bold stroke.
 "You don't wish to buy any books today" I said. "You have come in here with an entirely different object. You have been using my stock for some especial purpose. That purpose has been either successful or partially so. You have known from the first that you have had my sympathy. As sured of this. 1t has been hard for you not to trust me- Something has Oc cured that you wish to tell me, but you have not quite made up your mind to give me your confidence. Do so, and promise you that you will not repent the act"
 ''How in the world did you ever di vine that?" she asked, with mingled surprise and pleasure in her expres- sion.
 "A little bird told me-"
 There is no reason why l should not now explain everything. I would have been a fcol before this to trust any one This Is the story: My father has suffered great wrong. He was boOkkeeper and cashier for a mercan- tile firm. Certain funds were embeZ- Zled by a member of the firm who con- trived to cover up his tracks by man. ufacturing certain evidence against my father, who was arrested; tried, convicted and sentenced to state prison for twenty years.
 "Our only hope was to enable him to escape, and 1 took that work upon Tod kn vii h in prison, and he told me that he had laid out plan by which he might re- gain his liberty. but 1t required saw with which to remove steel bars. l at- tempted to smuggle one in to him, but was detected. Since then have never been permitted to visit him without some one watching me while near him. But l communicated with him through others. When l carried the books away with me from your store I took one, Christian Advice to Young Men, with very thick covers. Then 1 removed enough of the interior of the covers to enable me to insert several thin steel saws,'
 "Ah." l exclaimed, II see 1t all! But go on with your story"
 'I dare not be implicated in sending the book to my father. so learned of society organized to furnish reading matter to prisoners and got a friend to recommend it and tell where copy could be bought. Before returning the volume to you I placed in it mark on the one hundredth page which my father had been instructed to look for to designate a book with saws in the cover"
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 "Well, to shorten a long story, my father obtained the saws, cut the bars of his cell and escaped. He has gono where he is not likely to be found. One thing his tailers found to let them know how he got his tOols-'Christian Advice to Young Men, from the GOV CTS of which the saws had been taken"
 Thus ends the first and by far the most imnortant cha Vto~ oF now ~-&~ The second has to do with something different from the subject matter of the first. I helped the book buyer to gain evidence that finally convicted the man of the crime for which her father was sent to prison, and the latter re- turned from hiding to appear again in his accustomed haunts. His daughter has long been my wife and says that from the first she felt that if discov- cred anything wrong in the book she cOntrived to send from my store to the prison I would never give her away.
 In this she was right. but 1t is to be
 
 portunity to expose her. The volume with the saws concealed in it's cover was on my shelf for number of days. but knew nothing of their presence there.