The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-04-21
SISTERS SABLE MUFF
BY CLAUDINE SISSON.

Here, pussy. pussy, pussy!"
But pussy did not respond with a
meow or reproach that she had been
kicked.
my soul, but it's a muff!"
So 1t was, and OF the latest style
and very expensive one. OF course,
someone who had passed that way
had lost It,
The next morning Miss Lysle asked
the car conductor, but he could not
help her out, She was carrying the
muff to the Office with her, and on
the car with her was a hatchet-faced
young man who was given to Undue
whose outfit did not cost over $35,
and yet she was carrying a sable
muff that must have cost hundreds.
When Miss Lysle left the suburban
car in the city the young man crowd
ed forward and lifted his hat and
said:
1T is about the muff wish to speak
to you"
"O-h-h!"
My sister will be so glad!"
Then 1t was your sister who"
II was about to advertise the loss
OF the fur" suavely observed the
young man.
A young man who didn't like the
look of the hatchet-faced one at all
had halted within hearing distance,
and he now stepped forward and said
to Miss Lysle:
II beg your pardon, but Is that
young man annoying your"
He claims that his sister lost this
NUT, and I don't believe him"
You found it, did your"
Eyes, sir"
Better advertise for an owner. AS
for this fellow here, If he doesn't take
himself off I'll call an officer. He's
fraud and swindle Good morning."
The young man took himself off,
but he rode down town On the same
car with Miss Lysle, just the same,
and followed her to the Office where
she was employed. If he could get
hold of that muff it would be $50 in
his pocket
Miss Lysle's brother Ben, the rising
young lawyer, had advised her to adj
vertise her find. At the office she was
advised to wait day and let the loser
advertise. She adopted this plan.
When she started for home In the
evening she carried the muff with
her.
The hatchet-faced young man was
waiting to follow her. That sable
muff was great temptation to him.
Mr.. Clyde Melton, the young sculp-
tor, came along just as the girl step
ped to the walk and he followed on
not because he was seeking f1irta-
tion-not because he identified her as
the girl of the morning whose part
he had taken against hatchet-face, but
because he had received a message
from his sister in the same suburb
Miss Lylse lived in stating that some
thing awful had happened and he
must come as soon as ever he could.
And so the trio rode on until the
All out!" of the conductor was shout
ed. Then there was a scramble, and
Miss Lysle hurried away, the thief fol-
lowed, and the sculptor almost ran.
The thief was too precipitate. He at
tackled the girl while the sculptor was
yet within hearing. Her screams as
she fought with one hand and held
on to the muff with the other brought
Mr.. Melton back, and he recognized
the assailant at once.
Right and justice seldom triumph,
but this was one of the exceptions.
The thief was knocked down. He was
punched. He was battered. He was
choked. He had his eyes BACKED and
his nose skinned. He was jerked to
his feet and kicked around the cor
ner, and the sculptor turned to re-
ceive the thanks of the girl with the
sable mutt.
She had disappeared!
Ten minutes later his sister was
weepingly saying to him:
"Oh, Clyde, it's awful-just awful"
Baby dead?"
mo. I've lost that new sable muff
that I bought the other day!"
Sable muir"
Yes. I lost 1t on the street COM
ing from the car"
But you have advertised it,"
mo. Fred is away, you know, and
I didn't know how to get an advertise
ment to the city papers. What on
earth shall I dor
Cease to weep and I'll find your
mun."
The sculptor went back to the spot.
He didn't look for the girls tracks
He walked two blocks down q side
street and then rang bell. Luck had
been a good guide. It was Miss Lysle
Teller that came to the door In an
swer.
1t took Just two hours to straighten
out the tangle OF that sable muff, and
then followed another. Brother Ben,
the rising young lawyer, didn't have
anything to say about this latter tan
gle for several months, and then 1t
was in very serious tone that he
said:
Mother, didn't / say that unless
this case was handled right there
would be serious complications?
Mercy on me, but what's hap
pened?"
1.-THE hero and heroine are engaged
to be married! Both admit their
guilt"