Williams news., 1916-04-20

ters, financial and social, were going from bad to worse with him. Hope | heard that he had squandered about | all he had and was in desperate straits. | He amazed Nellie with his persistent | wooing whenever he was fortunate enough to find himself alone with her. One evening both Hull and Hope were at the home. The latter noticed that Hull was restless and uneasy. He left the lovers to themselves. He strolled in the garden with the profess sor, and Hope saw him later come out of the library and soon after leave the house.
 The next morning Hope received a frantic telephone call from Nellie Come quick!" she f1uttered-"papa | is in great trouble and needs your | help"
 Hope found the old man fairly pros. trated. His story was that only the day proceeding he had converted near ly all of his liquid means into legotia- | ble securities. An hour previous he | had gone to his desk in the library, to find the lock of special drawer where he always kept his valuable papers broken and the securities gone. "It means beggary!" gasped MT. Ashton desolately.
 Trusty had followed Hope that morning. He moved about the library as though in his quick and intelligent way he surmised that something was wrong and that he was expected to as- sist in fighting it.
 l Suddenly Trusty uttered a sound that suggested a canine challenge. He stood looking inquisitively at his mas ter and then ran his nose along the surface of a rug directly in front of the desk. It was as though he had de- | tected the scent of some unfamiliar footmarks that did not belong there. Then the animal, bristling and eager of eye, leaped towards the door and paused, looking back at his master as though inviting him to follow.
 "Why, how strange Trusty is act ing!" exclaimed Nellie.
 'Wait!" spoke Hope, and, as the dog started from the house, kept pace with him slightly to the rear. l It was patent to Hope that the dog was on trail. Once, when Hope had been to an entertainment with Nellie, he had carried her gloves home with him by mistake. They had fallen out of his pocket and Trusty had instantly seized them, recognized them by the perfume Nellie used and, seizing them, darted for the Ashton home and de- livered them to Nellie.
 The animal proceeded down the street without deviating from a direct line to the business district Trusty reached the one office building in the town and started up that stairs. AS Hope reached the top landing he heard 8 frightful crash, then a wild shriek. Hull had an office in the building, nursing the wreck of a real estate business that he had allowed to go to ruin. The dog had sprung clear through the broad glass top of the door of the office. Through the jagged ruin Hope saw Trusty now. He had sprung at Hull and pinned his shoulder, hold ing him into the chair where he sat, with bulldog ferocity.
 Hope hurried into the room. It was to see upon the desk before the terri l AOo anu So" Oi lL6 II lAC oCSuI ltiCo l that had been taken from the rifled | desk of Professor Ashton.
 "Trusty-here!" he called command. ingly, and it was with reluctance that the animal unloosed his grip on the enemy he hated.
 1 A packed valise showed that Hull had prepared to leave the town. Hope | insisted upon his doing so, but minus the wealth he had planned to carry away with him.
 "Go somewhere and make a man of yourself" he said, "and if you do your part not even the Ashtons shall ever know who stole the bonds."
 Professor Ashton found his securi ties back in his desk, with the mystery of their abstraction never revealed, and Perry Hull drifted out of the sight and memory of the happy united lor ers.