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Show He Had Stolan Her Heart. Ellen, the cook, was of a suspicious sus-picious nature. She distrusted mankind In general and banks In particular; she never banked her frugal savings. Part of her wages were hoarded In a stocking In some obscure corner of her room. Ellen's "gentleman friend" was the neighboring neigh-boring butcher, and as the friendship friend-ship had proved enduring her mistress mis-tress was not astonished when the girl announced her pending marriage. mar-riage. "And I want to ask yon, mum," said Ellen, "what's the best way to put my money In the bank?" Her mistress regarded her In astonishment "Why, Ellen, I thought you didn't believe In banks 1" "No more I do, mum," replied th girl, "but since I'm going to be married next week I kinder feel the money would be safer In the bank than In the house with a strange man about" The Argonaut |