The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-03-20
molly STOPS PAYMENT
Ey JANE OSBORN.

marry her-really the idea was 50
50 novel, so unexpected. that
she would have to have time to think
IL over. That was what she planned TO
say, but when the moment came Molly,
In her excitement, forgot al her plans
and told the undoctored plain truth. In
few timiQ, half sentences, and not
with the easy nonchaIance she had
planned, she told him that she had
loved him always, and that now she
was the happiest girl in Bennington.
And isn't it wonderful" she said,
"hoW everything / have dreamed about
and visited for comes the same day
May 20-the greatest day of my life:"
why the very greateSt:'
Besides this most wonderful day" /
She said, still forgetting the role she I
had planned, there's the Then she I
stopped short. No, she wouldn't tell |
him the rest. He mustn't know about |
the check she had received from the |
magazine that had accepted her little
story, We'll, then, besides this she
added, confusedly marking off the
SfNAiAfN CLA 1ltI IliiEGlE, Is tIlC Ill 81 W nut
rose bloomed today, and we got the
new vacuum cleaner and the cook left"
Molly had literary ambitions and for
three long years she had been work
ing, dreaming and scribbling with her
funny little ambition always uppermost
in her thoughts
The next day Molly went to Brad
ford, the nearest sizeable town, to be-
gin TO buy the things for the trousseau.
She had forgotten to have the check
cashcd in Bennington before she start
ed, so all her little purchases were sent
c. o. D.
/ When She arrived home after the
shopping trip it was two o'clock
Then Molly thought of the purse
with the check Where was it? 1t
could not be found, but where had she
I lost it: The purse itself was old and
i it contained little of value but the
check, which Molly had foolishly
enough indorsed after she had asked
Brad the night before how checks
should be signed. Brad, She was sure,
would know because he worked in
Bcnnington's only bank and knew
everything about banking.
First she teiephOued all the way TO
Bradford, to the store she had visited
but she heard 10 news of her purse.
The man who answered her call at The
department store suggested that, sint.e
the check was Endorsed she had better
write at once to the editor who had
sent it and request him TO have pay
ment stopped. And this Molly did with
out, of course, knowing what the words
meant.
Once or twice that evening when
Brad came to call he accused Molly OF
being distracted and surely she was
1t was two evenings later that the
tables were turned, and when Brad
called that evening it was lie who was
, accused by Molly of being distracted.
, at isn't that you have actually dis
! pleased me" Brad began quite seriously
! after Molly had coaSed him 10 tell her
the cause Of his anxiety, but / an
! afraid l don't understand you. That's
all. | would be 50 happy if l thought
/! I had your confidence"
/ Molly blushed a little as she thought
. CT her secret ambitions.
!, Il am sure that what l have been do
: ing is not at all wrong" She said, anc
5 then u hot tear trickled down hel
! pretty cheek and another and then hel
Il confused little head was on Brad.
/: shoulder and he was explaining yer,
Y grayely.
i TN tell You exactly what / know
/ then there will be no misunderstood
y ing. This morning We had word that ;
g certain check we had honored wa
It worthless-that is, the person VIII,
l. made it out had ordered paymen
stopped. Well, / asked Jones, the cash
Ter, about it and he told me that h
had honOred the check because yo,
. had presented it. He also told me tina
~ when you came into the bank you aske,
:, him not to let me know that you Gale,
:. and to say nothing about the check. i,
= patch it up if l understood you better
= But something is wrong somewhere 0
: You would have told me about it. /
y. isn't too late. Molly, for heavens sake
!, did you get into possession of check
made out to herr" Molly sat up yer
: straight and explained minutely abou
the story she had written. the chez
= and the loss of the purse. And then,
-. she continued, after | had telegraphe
:, and asked the editor to stop payment
:, found the purse after all. The yer
next day, / hurried down to the ban
and got that nice Mr.. Jones to give m
= the money, and of course told him ne
- to tell you, because 1 didn't want 70
to know | had been writing. / though
l would write some day and tell tn
editor not to bother to do anythin
re about the check IS had found it. o.
We dear, / think banking is very hard |
ed understand. If ever get TO be a real
of truly writer and have many checl
De, come for my stories, | do hope you
it take care of the business side
As things"
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