The Press., 1917-01-18

"Anu may l not return lnIneudIe1N after that supper to that club of Old Hickory for conversation with you and my uncle. the General Robnrt?" I ask ed. with eagerness.
 Boy. by the time you have eaten that fatted calf and danced at least portion of it off your system I'll be be burning the midnight oil going over the papers in the case of Timms. I want to weigh all the testimony care fully in the case given in court about his own and his brothers relations with the woman Mary Brown. AS long as I am the governor of the state of Harpeth no honest man is going to swing for protecting a good woman from the Outrages of brute. And yet TimmS confessed the crime and denied the motive Cross examination failed to get the statement from the woman that would justify my reprieving or pardoning him. cannot even seem | to dishonOr the pro eedings of the courts of the state. and, boy. I'm just plain-up-against- Here we are at my own side door. Good night and
 make a lightning toilet if you want to get to that dinner on time. Good
 night againn And with those words,
 which explained his very deep trouble
 to me, my GOuverneur Faulkner de-
 scended from the seat beside me in the l Cherry to the pavement beside his mansion and bade me hurry from him.
 All of those very gay and nice babes and sucklings'' which the GOuverneur Faulkner had mentioned were with me
 at the table with very much laughter and merriment, also much conversation | And in that conversation were very
 many jokes upon my Buzz because he had been transported to the capitol by my uncle, the General Robert. and giv- en hard labor until almost the time to arrive for that nice supper which he was eating with much hunger. Well. it's not my fault that Timms up and biffed his brother into eternity all for buZZing pretty Mary Brown, | and l don't see why 1 had to be rung in to sort out of d million sheets of | trial evidence the lies he told about it for poor old Governor Bill to mOil over all night I say when Il man wants to be hanged as badly as that he ought to get what he's crying for and not butt in on A perfectly innocent mans afternoon fox trOt." was that MT. Buzz Clendenning's wailing to all of the company. Look the other way, Sue, so as not to turn this muffin cold until
 get it buttered.'
 "I told my washwOman. who Is
 Mary's sister, that Mary ought to be made to tell just what did happen. and then it could all be arranged so that the poor man could be saved to her. think 1t is hard on Mary to lose both lovers,' said that very intelligent MIL dred Summers,
 They live just over beyond the back gate. Suppose we all go and put 1t up to the attractive Mary to speak up and keep Buzz from the danger of ovel- work a second time" said nice young gentleman with what considered great intelligence. but which caused much laughter
 And at that suggestion which caused the much merriment that daredevil within Roberta, marQuise of Greg and l Bye. again arose and commanded me
 to attention.
 "Go, Robert CarruthcrS. and obtain that paper of statement from thai | Mary. so that your chief, that good Gonverneur Faulkner does not work ! in the night. which is for rest, and that your beloved Buzz may not again have
 to work fin his afternoon, which is for | dancing. Go and find that Mary as | soon as this dinner is at an end.
 And what was it possibl" for me to do but to answer the command of the daredevil person within me? All of which I did I made excuse of my
 self on account of lie which involved my attendance on my uncle, the Gen. eral Robert, and departed after l had had but one nice slide with the lovely Sue, but had obtained a promise of one from Mile. Belle if I found 1t pos sible to return by the hour of 10 o'clock
 After many inquiries in small streets was at last led to the home of the Mary Brown. All was Cark within
 he very small house. but upon the