The Holbrook news., 1914-08-14

from the district school trustees ex actly a week previous. The name oi her new post of duty was Fairville
 Hawkins picked up a piece of addi tional information that spurred him on magically. A young lady, stran ger, had visited the school teacher al Ferndale the day she left for her new school charge, In fact they had gone away together.
 Miss Markley," decided Hawkins promptly. I'm on the right trail"
 But when he arrived at Fairville he found himself mistaken Miss Doug. las had arrived there a week previous, had delivered her credentials and was teaching at a little corner schoolhouse four miles from town. She had come to Fairville alone. Every morning the hired man of the house where she boarded drove her to her post of duty and every afternoon back home.
 Well. my only play to get ac quainted with the school teacher" de cided Hawkins, watch her and try to find out where the heiress has gone" :"
 Pursuant to this plan Hawkins strolled down towards the little red schooihouse the following day. About two miles progressed, he was merged into an incident of unusual excitement, A buggy came tearing down the road. The driver, man, was thrown out as the animal attached to 1t swung around sharp curve in the highway. The other occupant, a young lady, shrank back in the seat, terrified and helpless.
 Hawkins did his duty. At some risk he halted the runaway. Of course he was thanked, and of course this led to just what he hoped-a close acquain- tance with the grateful attractive school marm."
 In the course of few days the cub reporter made a momentous discov- cry. He was in love. Every evening he was with his. charming new ac- quaintance and her eyes frightened at his coming. Love seemed to daunt his journalistic ardor. He cared little now whether he ever discovered the missing heiress or not. His manliness, however, made him vince when he analysed his former motives in trac- ing down Miss Douglas. Hawkins looked pretty serious one evening as he said to her:
 Miss Douglas, have confession to make. I have, learned to love you. And am a cad-that's right, and deserve no consideration from you I came here to wilfulIy sneak into your confidence, to lure you to betray a dear friend. I deserve to be punished, and suppose when you hear what villain I was you will tell me to go. All right, I'll be man and confess the truth" and he blurted out his story.
 Miss Douglas regarded him with startled, wonder-flled eyes. They did not lose their softness, however. The poor ingenious fellow was so earnest, so pathetic. so contrite.
 And you really care for me-a poor homeless schoolteacher? she mur- mured.
 T shall never love anybody else" declared Hawkins. Say you forgive mel Say that after am gone away you won't quite think me the wretched sneak T have been."
 Why go away?" asked Mary naive ly. Why, you never asked me a word about Miss Markley." =
 NO, was too ashamed to think of such thing" C.
 ''I certainly forgive you," said Mary with a fond smile. Now for my con fession: am not Mary Douglas. but Evelyn Markley."
 Hawkins was thunderstruck He. listened like one in a dream as thel young lady told how her tired out friend had been sent by her on a pleas ure journey, how she herself had sought a quiet humble life, where she could be with nature and real friends.
 There was a quiet marriage. Flaw kins did not write up the finding of the missing heiTess. He simply sent to the Eagle the wedding cards and a made a full column of the mystery that had turned out to be a hrst-class romance.
 Copyright. 1914. by .W.. G.. Chapman.)