Show PUZZLE A very satisfactory and roman tic solution lk nobody at kingsboro Kin knew what to nalce nake of it deacon turner the oldest ailia inhabitant bitant said that during r his earthly pilgrimage U 01 he had sojourned sojourn ed at numerous mun crous towns but in no one of them had any young youn man who dressed nicely and did no work turned out well capt brown who worked liard hard lut ina managed CP so badly that he was luver r out of debt glared savagely chenever he never lie saw handsome joe mallion with his hands in the pockets of his neatly fitting coat and took acension ao to remark to the first person he mot that lie he wished the old days in chic which h people who had no visible means CUlls of support were prosecuted would return nain IN squire who kept the post admitted admit tid to tl cert certain LID astute questioners that jo I 1 Malli malloon ion never received letters letter so it was impossible that any one waa sending him dui money with which to su support aport himself in idleness 1 suspicion even ran so high that bill Bri direr who was the ony only apothecary aud candy seller at I 1 and who had jo al allison ifor or quite a steady customer made anad u it a rule to examine v va ry carefully ully every banknote ban v knote that hat t jo offered olf tred in payment lest haply tho the handsome hand somi do bothin nothing 9 might inight be cincu dicing counterfeits counter the married worn wom vii ca at kingsboro Kina Kings boro loro who had to work as himl hara ua as almost almo A always do in in bew new towns town a in young stat states escare carefully fully pom pointed tel ontjo out jo to their sons as un an ex X ampie to ic be shunned except so far as personal neatness waa concerned but tile the gitig kingsboro boro girls differ differed td from tho rest of tho the community in thelt eai esti nation of jo ho might ca bo be indolent iii fact th y know knew lie he was wa for lie he might almo alino t always be seen scon on tho the mum main street of the vit village lame sauntering rinar along alona 0 wilde other nion men were at work but lie ho was h and some and lie he dressed with real taste und and his breath nuver never aled of liquor or tobacco arid he va wa s always polite and lie never was awkward or ill at case or presuming v lien in the society of ladies anti and lie he seemed to understand till all his fair cona com so well in all these respects lie in was us quite different diate rent from most of the aing buru boys so that when good woth rs NN drued their daughters I 1 arr nain liaa young in men inen who could only t give ive line words in proof of affection the damsels experienced strong misgiving ib i to what thy thoy would say if jo malli ion bun were to propose but jo saved them the necessity of deciding elding uny any such question ile he proposed tu to colody no body lody he be made love to nobody lie he seemed to io have no special favorites among the girls of kingsboro lie uever nev r even flirted ile he seemed to heur heartily tily enjoy himself wh ahn with ladles ladies aud and to express his gratitude tio so deftly as to leave no one a word upon inch to base ft a suspicion f any uron L trouper cr sentiments and lie he did not I 1 lop with conquer conqueror wr 93 the hearts of all I 1 lie H kings engsi bore oro girls without any t caming intention to do so lie he won the hearts of a few of the eldora elderly y women lil ii the LOW they did not moan mean to five ive countenance to a showy idler but somehow when jo 30 would coax some bud bad or fretful child to take a walk with him and then send the child hoew I 1 with a licad head full of bible stories and a mouthful of pretty songs the mother of f the child would adroit admit that the lundemo lun bindom uin dom domo young do nothing aid have a u roul real good heart V it there was not at Kingi kingsboro boro ff k club that institution so indus industriously trio Y lifted by all good women but there was u gathering place which fulfilled fulli Hed U 1 thu the requirements of a club aud and that was thu post office the mail starre stage was nominally due ut at seven in the evening so that half the male inhabitants congregated col 1 tod in bill burths saddle hop giop which formed the ante rosi r of the post po st office immediately after supper 11 er und they usually 4 adly diio eai joyed y ed a two hour bour season of convers conversation aaion before the I 1 armil and distribution of the mail piave them a hint to go homo home subjects for conversation wore not very numer us ut kingsboro and as tho the fw f xv native characters with any halbent points had been if thoroughly dis cus cubed ed during durina the many ta sessions of the wen who waited for tho the mail the arrival cojo f jo bi allison Alu llison was a perfect godsend nd it id ia hardly necessary to SUY say that jo found but few companions compani ofis lanona the kingsboro men deft the young I 1 uen men hutor him for estranging a the their ir awe and each of the older ader men til that lut jo might marry his daughter 0 und and come under the paternal I 1 loot for suo support port 1 one luul cool night 1 several 1 weeks after jos appearance at king kingsboro boro the opposing theorists as to jos character h iu a many inan y and very 1 vely duel it was during a ra 0 when atmospheric cluan chany s made most of the Kingsl ioro poo iroll bilious othera otherwise isa the bit bitterness ternes v which the conversation finally camo to be charae teriz 0 d would have been in explicable so forgot t lit 1 years and dignity 0 of ehara character ct r as to call hill bill burth his bis temporary host a fool for holding that 3 jo 0 could be ba noth im ing lotse than a well to do young 1114 man enjoying himself while bill not with standing landing tho the in kindliness i of spirit which was p proper ro pe r to a in man an wh who 0 w was as a methodist M e til 0 class leader called tile the t quire a liar both men were on their feet in clining slightly forward toward ez cadi other and looking words which should never bo be sp spoken olcen when suddenly tile the mail drew up with a crash at tile the door the tor threw a last parting glare tit at the alic squire and carried out ali the e mall mail bags while the whole party fol lowed to see who might be in the stage the light streamed throw through 1 I the open door into the stage and the flie villa villagers gors saw inside a single passenger whom they recognized as a cincinnati salesman through whom some of the kingsboro merchants occasionally purchased goods they were about to turn away in mingled disappio disappointment i I 1 and resignation when suddenly jo iq mallison it ison who had 3 just arrived at tho the office sprang into the stame stage M and throw threw himself upon the passenger while the stage tv turned quickly the driver whipped up tip furlo furiously and started for the hotel stares which passed around the party of spectators were simply appalling ang in in their blankness at last 8 quoc quare pi lupson apson recovered breath enough to gasp elective t bauch V thing scouted bill burth clr the delivery window its ts J uy tho the poor noor little laule fellow ti li b owr an and d bes been waiting for him wee weeks acs ics longer than he expected to A derisive amilea played over the hills and valleys of the squires face and lie he wa about to say something when the reader of the new york romancer abandoned his theory of the disguised print printe e and suggested sug rested that jo was a highwayman that ho kaw traveling 1 sales salesmen carried lou of money that ho he was robbing the salesman tho driver was in leaggo wl with ith him and lik enough they a toile mile from town by this time instead I 1 of going goin r to the hotel jack sheppard was a little jj fellow loW said the theorist bt in in evidence rm im going to ta the hotel said tho the s squire quire starting for the door androl lowed by the whole party A moment later the door of the post postmaster maters inner sanctum was heard to slam mam and bill 11 burth U rth came running to join the crowd sol turner who carried crute crutches hus and ancl WB soon 14 1 ft t alx lx behind haud shouted appeal I 1 a to them to do nothing un until til ho got there to see but no encouraging answer was wafred wafted back to liim him the hotel waa gained and we staga stag atgood bedora bo fore the door but the con c quant failure of the theory of the rs reader could not stop the impetuous pettous 3 rush of the villagers they I 1 crowded crowde 1 I 1 nto into i the bublic room of tile hotel but neither jo nor the stranger L ava waa 11 1 0 there in a moin moment nt however a door opened and good mrs butler the landlady appeared with avith n u smile on her lic r face luid and a tar in each eye eve 1 I know what you men ni on are after she said ever talk about wom an ans s curiosity again ral tile the whole story is this jo alfalla malchon oa i is s it a woman an and C mr fr 1 brown rown wits was her h er lover they iad some sort of a lovers loved quarrel and parted angry she made up lier her mind blawas in in the wrong az but IT by that time lie had started on another trip she know linov where to avri write to to him but she once heard him say lie he never missed going to kingsboro so slie came hero in a suit of her brothers cris clothes and has been waiting vai ting for hini him ever since poor girl and made up and are ever 56 so happy and are going to be married tomorrow to morrow and ive known mcdowl about it III all tile the time and an it fd have done just what she did if pd id have bave been her this last el clause auge of mrs butlers bric speech eeli was enough to set kt jo mallison right in iii s eyes for mra butler 4 was as dh one i c of those women women who are arc trusted tru 1 L cd by b 7 everyone on questions of propriety prolific iric ty but it i doubtful doubtful whether r her lio tr ers on thi bartic particular talar occa occasion gion remembered this portion of mrs butlers 14 jr s 1 wonderful 1 adar address i e ss until it was re call edby some t 41 remark made by to whom the story was vas told 1 fit secondhand second hand the men inen sall nothing to each other for several moments then nil bill burth went 1 meekly up to squire I 1 lipson ipson and whispered 41 t I 1 wag was it a fool squire tifa 1 I y was f another A ik icy T the 11 squire r q i 1 the int interested rosted parties jil bal deter r wilned to have blab alie w 0 dlin 70 co ce evini bony 0 n y per 10 I 1 rm e with the gr greatest t at va y but someone learned I 1 arson araon jsn tile hour at which the sc c NY as t tc s J fc r UL d be performed d and the news spread rali ly ami the took t alje ac I 1 matt matter c r I 1 in i their 1 own hands they dressed in their best and bes besieged eged tho the hotel and atten the bride saw them through alie of lier her window blinds lier her sense of fun moved hor her to that t licy should bv be admit admitted teJ so i r as ab th the I 1 capacity pa deiy of the ilie lar largest grest room in the hoel would allow chils th us etwas discovered discover od that the bride had directly ii freetly re etly brought a krunk ful of lier her own civi proper apparel with lier her aud and eliat t la 1 lic he looked lo 10 0 iced simply charming 0 in i 1 a 1 neat walking 1 0 suit and bonnet I 1 ili mado made 1 ylan man and wife of hubert li lbrown aal josephil Josep josephine lil i ne M allison ap and alien 1130 jo kissed and w war lis eissed ed by ail the kim aari girl 3 a and n 1 by in any in tron irons i ilip 0 4 sedi seemed L to grow younger as they looked into lier happy lace I As for the api mn iii hoy towy as 11 1 aa ti I 1 they desera de acci to but they had it new 4 subject for conversation and it h lasted the post 01 oace ice coterie i for or a f full ti 11 ll NY daily ne ws 1 |