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Show whose interest '.;ad revived wonderfuV ly, didn't give her time to answer. Use it for? she cried. Do ou spose Meta would spend that mciu,) Think ox the poor woman who lost it! Woman, indeed! retorted Meta. Uncle Mae doesn't think thn. I! says there's a little pocket just inside the waistband of his trousers where he keeps a wad of bills whenever he has one and that its the easiest the world to slip the money in back of the pocket instead of into it. And I r.sked him if that ever happened to him. You ought to have seen how guilty he looked when he said : Once but dont tell Ellen! Thats my aunt, you know. Well, we think Uncle Mac and I that some rich club fellow lost it, and that hed put it to some extravagant use V thirin even if he had it again. But 1 cant help thinking about some poor old washerwoman who hadnt another cent in the world, mur-mud u he innocent. Washerwomen without another cent are so likely to go strewing $S0 rolls around.! said Meta. More likely twas a school-teachwith her months salary and teaching is such nervous work! suggested Lilian. woman clerk, add-eOr a fagged-ou- t Georgia. Well, I wouldnt take it from a woman any sooner than you would, declared Meta. Of course I wouldnt mind so much if it belonged to a man. But I intend to adveriise it, anyway. Certainly! exclaimed. Julian as if shed been thinking of that all the time. Thats the proper thing to do, innocent added: I and blue-eye- d should just use that money for advertising every day in every paper until thexe wasnt a cent left. Meta pursed her lips. Well, Im taking Uncle Macs advice about this, she He says to study the papers & said. two and see if the loser adverday or tises. Then, after that, he says to advertise: Found Sum of money, such a place, at such a time. Not word tu give a false claimant any help in identifying the bills, you see. But he doesnt think Ill ever find the owner, and, say, girls., if he shouldnt turn rt blue-eye- er d ONE YEARS SUBSCRIPTION shaky, itvoie hand to explain that the reason he vas carrying it was because he couldn't trust the banks; and then another girl, who told about an pockutbook containing a latchl-:- . and a time ovt - :he Ci& Mackinac road. ncinnati, Jackson When I showed thattoUnclc Mac afterward he said that road was a regular joke, because it didnt run to anyof the places irentioned in its name, ami he just houted over the pass, because it had expired September 30. 1807. But it wasnt funny to xne. 1 thought the ar over it! Youd think hed lost a gold mine. And he was so sure twas his money I'd found poor fellow! Thee, a woman poured out a whole sheeiful of her heart, and drew a picture of the purse shed lost, and to.-- me how the money in it belonged to her sister, who was in the hospital and who needed it dreadfully, and how Id be blessed forever if I only restored it. 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I just made up my mind to wait a week and then, if no one maimed that to send for all those forlorn pay them what thty had lost ptopL out of what 1 had found. I didnt dare tell' Uncle Mac the scheme until the week had passed and I had really written notifying them all to be at his office at ten oclock this morning. Then I just gave him the news all in one piece. I dont believe in breaking things, especially when youve set your heart on doing them. Oh. he thought I was crazy, of course, and wished hed answered my ad. himself and maimeS the money. Said he could have done it through some one else so I would never have suspected, and then could have kept the money for me until this fit of sentimental foolishness had passed off and all that sort of talk. But the end of it was that he took a chair over by the window in his office and let me have things all my own way with the people I had sens for. They all came, mind you. and of ail the surprised-lookin- g Each beings! one was expecting to find the identical purse he had lost, and at first everyone looked suspicious of everyone else. They couldnt seem to grasp the situa$80, and tion: 1 had the money, all changed int the right amounts and lying in tempting little heaps on Uncle Macs desk. First I made a little speech and thee up, what do you say to a lake trip together or some kind of a regular spree 1 served gold and silver refreshments. with this money? . It took every cent of the money, and I couldnt enjoy it, said the right- I had to put in a dollar besides, sc eous Lilian. there goes errr gum, but you Not unless you gave half to a hos- wouldnt grudge it if Georgia; been there. youd Such larks! I never felt so much lil pital, amended another. Oh, I dont know, dissented Geor- a beneficent fairy in my life. Oh, dear gia. I think my conscience would take fun! Vaudevilles are nowhere and. in a trip to Mackinac. say, the man who lost the pawn ticket Good for you! replied Meta, as she will never get over his grudge against rolled up her wealth and put on her hat me because I couldnt give that back Well spend it all for gum if. we want He thinks Ive lost him a fortune! But to, Georgia; and we wont treat them, the rest were more than sweet. Girla either see if we do! Ive been blessed and hugged, and the They didnt see her again for three old man with the two $20 gold pieces weeks, and them she came fly ing int actually kissed my hand. Think of that luncheon at Lilians with a look in her will yon? And the woman with the eyes as if shed just fallen heirtoamik sister in the hospital was so happy; lion in gold. And I cried. Me crying can you see Ive had the loveliest experience ir it? And Uncle Mac neednt pretend You rethe world! she announced. ,he wasnt wiping his own eyes, either! I member that money found? Well, 1 But when they were gone he squared waited a few days, as Uncle Mac said, around at me. stern as stern, and said, and no one advertised the loss; so Iput in a disgusted way: one ni myself. Told them to address X, Well, of all the girly-girl- y perthe newspaper office, you know the formances! I looked straight back at him anS way they do. Next morning I went down to get the returns. There were just said: How would you have a girl. nine answers, andi of all the patbebt Uncle Mac, if not girly? Do you want things! Not one of the people who me manny? And honest fact, he wrote had lost their money on the day didnt know a single thing what tc or at the place I found mine, but they say. 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