Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-29
PRUDENCE
OF THE PARSONAGE
THE FAMOUS STORY OF A HAPPY FAMILY
- ByAzbe/A1esf 70 ,ssss
CHAPTER X. tContinued.)
THE FAMOUS STORY OFAHAPP'


IN CHAPTER X. tContinued.)
We've just been reading about
Fl girls, SIR said the clerk respect
! "It's a pretty nervy little
You must be proud of them!'
NV girls!" calculated Mr.. Starr.
gayen't you seen the morning pa
3 You're Mr.. Starr, the Methodist
eSter at Mount Mark, aren't your
Fam! But what has happened to
#girls? Is anything wrong? Give
Hthe paper!" r. r..
III Starr was greatly agitated. He
led it, - 49, r....
Et the clerk could not lose this OPP
anity to create a sensation. 1t
8as chance of a lifetime. why,
irglar got in the parsonage last
he began, almost licking his
with satisfaction. The twins
I'D him at their dresser and when
&tepped into the closet they locked
In there, and yelled for the rest
No family. But he broke away from
and went downstairs and climbed
the dungeon to get the money.
Prudence, she ran downstairs
~ in the dark and locked him in
dungeon-pushed him downstairs
6mething like that, l believe-and
telephoned for the police. And
kStayed on guard outside the dun
until the police got there, so he
INIT get away And the police got
sand found it was Limber-Limb
III, famous gentleman thief, and
girls are going to get five hun
dollars reward for catching him.
I've minutes later, Mr. Starr and
slGuit case were in a taixcab speed
s. howard union station, and within
&2t minutes he was en- route for
Int Mark-white in the face, shaky
IA knees, but tremendously proud
brit.
\ (fiving at Mount Mark he was in
&xtly surrounded by an explanatory
IA Of station loungers Ride, sir :
to take you home for nothing"
INA Harvey Reel. Mount Mark was
lying more notoriety than ever be-
4 Ia the two hundred years Of it's
Hence. The name of Prudence was
avery tongue and her father heard
18th satisfaction. In the parsonage
q sOund at least two-thirds of the
Hos Aid society, the trustees and
Sunday school superintendent,
N II with miscellaneous assortment
jfdinary members, mixed up with
ybyterians, Baptists and few I'm
htded outsiders. And Prudence
" fthe center Of attraction.
N te was telling the whole story"
Il perhaps the fifteenth time that
hing but she broke off when her
~ hurried in and flung her arms
sst him. ooh, papa she cried,
N mustn't praise me. I had no
there was burglar in the house
Il ran down the stairs, and if
Il ut been careless and left the dun
6 unlocked the money would have
In no danger, and if the twins
N wakened me / wouldn't have
y Nm there was burglar about the
4 and if Fairy hadn't kept me
rushing out to the dungeon to
df the money was safe, he would
got away, and-it took the po-
sInen to get him out. Oh, l know
lis not very grammatical, father,
Hts just as true as if it were! And
nestly can't see that much credit
Ihe me-"
ii Mount Mark did not take it so
4 lily. And as for the Methodist
ich-well, the Presbyterian people
Ito say there was mo living with
lie Methodists since the girls
sht burglar in the parsonage. -
sourse, it was important, from the
hodist point Of view. Pictures OF
] parsonage and the church were in
The papers for miles around, and
heir very next meeting the trus.
i decided to get the piano the Sun.
school had been needing for the
hundred years!
hen the five hundred dollars ar
d from Chicago, Prudence fell
| personally she had no real right
he money eve must divide it.
Insisted, "for | didn't earn it a BIZ
| b than any of the others. But it is
Nectly glorious to have five hun
dollars, isn't it? Did you ever
five hundred dollars before? Jus
n A.jf father and ycp If fny. xuho touo,