Show sip assy foley was the lest cuss in the colony this was the verdict of the street which the bos stood rea to prove with an number of p tur esque facts Is foley in this deala they would ask cause if he Is it lets me out he s a janah he is jest though it was it began to have its effect on pole he grew discouraged and low sp now when a man loses faith m himself he s in a very bad way courage to dare and do are born of confidence one day something wonderful hap bened dick foley struck the lot tery and won the capital prize the news went the rounds of can unas hotels and restaurants the boys telling it with ahr aling detail where did he get the priced not even stanley his best friend could answer this yet it was stanley next to dick himself who could tell most about it at the hour when the big lottery building caught the blaze of the mid day sun stanley sauntering by on the shady side of the street spied foley he seemed fa nt and leaning beav ly against one of the pillars hello D ck he called out jovial ly don t you know better than to stand m a sun like thise then catching sight of poley s white face why man you look as if ou d seen a ghost so I 1 have sa d D ck and it s brought me 60 look here old chap I 1 believe you re 1 headed this sun and too many copitas will do it sure for answer foley put into stanley s hand a hicl et read this and that pointing so the figures on the board appos te now tell me if the world s topsy and I 1 ve lost my head entirely stanley looked at the ticket then at the board again he read ohp t ck et by the lord harry you ve struck it foley e old chap and tell me how you did it the boys were disappointed in foley it was the unanimous opinion that he d t behave at all like a man just snatched from poverty not a dinner had he given to celebrate the windfall nor strangest of all had he taken up any of the dead sure prop positions ions that had been litera thrown at his feet D ck foley all his hard luck still retained a conscience th s prize ticket had come to him in such an unusual way that he was quietly making an effort to find the rightful owner for three weeks there had appeared in all the spanish papers a carefully worded notice inquiring for a party who had lost a lottery ticket it the boys only 1 new he checkl cd that I 1 am indebted to a lady my fortune yet that is exactly what had happened just how he was not altogether sure himself he had pushed his way into a crowded street car dimly conscious that beside him sat a demure little figure in the conventional dress of the middle class he was blue bluer than ind go so he told the friend whom he met in the car to whom also he tall ed freely of the many hard knoch s fortune had recent iv dealt him suddenly he looked up to find a pair of dark eyes regarding him earn estly his lack of d secretion on annoy ed him then glancing at her dress he felt reassured of course he thought she does not understand a word I 1 ve said what 1 want answered foley more money the lady rose to leave the car As she passed foley a piece of paper ell as it by accident her hand into his lap he called to her but she nas hurrying through the car when he anally reached hia platform she baj aut of sight and n i oae could 9 tell t m in which d she had g e he 1001 ed at the paper it was a awe id et in the lottery dra ving for the next day at one time dick haj squandered a lot of money on the e flinty fakes as he called for all tl at thi a ill ever br ng me I 1 nug t as well throw it into the you hoped that I 1 would never come street now T vo days later jie stop ped to read the drawing it was then stanley had found him foley s 60 was safely depos ted in the bank do ng hm a powerful lot of good grumbled glum bled stanley some folks don t know when they are lucky four weeks had passed since the drawing no one had answered the indu ry in the papers foley began to feel as if it was already his A few daas later in wr ting to a fr end he I 1 arted that brighter prospects were ahead best not say too much then added aloud but I 1 tell you what it Is my lady give ou just avent four hours more if ou dont come forward then sou must forever hold your peace every centavo will go into the best copper proposition in this republic at atiat moment there came a gen tie rap on the door it was opened and there stood before him the mys ter ous lady the room swam he clutched the table to keep from tal ng he tried to speak his voice was hoarse and faint surely fate conlu not have dealt a man a crueler blow the dark eyes seemed to read bis secret thoughts when she spoke it was in english with a decided span accent you hoped that I 1 would never come I 1 do not blame you when I 1 read your not ce in the paper I 1 knew I 1 waa right in taking you for an hon est man I 1 heard all ou said to your friend in the street car and felt a sudden impulse to help you the ticket nas all I 1 had I 1 could only rope that it would win a prize later I 1 might have g ven you a lot of brou trou ble now I 1 never shall it Is all yours do with it as you wish rhe knocking ceased and stanley s wrathful voice rose above the tran som here s a letter it you 11 wake up long enough to read it dick rubbed his eyes stretched his long arms above his head and grop ed his way to the door still under the influence of that strangely realis tic dream he reached out a hesitating hand for the letter no need now to shake hlin rub his eyes and look at stanley to real ize that this at least was no dream nor was it necessary to read the let ter over aga n and again he knew it by heart at the first reading the writer began by saying that a serious illness had prevented her from an av eang his advertisement sooner she thanked him for the trouble he had taken to return that which came to aim by accident but ignored the fact that she had placed the ticket in his ap the number of the ticket and he name of the car upon which the incident had occurred were given with other details which established ler identity beyond a doubt finally adding I 1 shall come for the money on the lith this was the foley s bad quarter of an hour lasted all night every kind of demon came to him with suggestions of how ie might 1 beep the money and his self respect at the same time but in the end his conic ence tri of course he must give it up that a what he meant to do all the time else why had he taken so much tro ible to find the owners when the morning of the dawned stanie who had been told all the re im stances of the ticket was as much excited as foley but no one came to claim the prize three six ten days passed then dick declared he suspense must end he would find the little suburb from which the letter had been sent and make inquiries concerning the writer A long search through the rambling village was at last rewarded the who answered the summons looked shocked when asked it the sen ora de leon lived there had not the senores heard that she died twelve days agoa by dint of much questioning foley learned that the lady was without relatives and rather eccentric sufficient explanation or the unusual way fortune haa come to him its yours said stanley emphatic pally as they left the old house don t ha ie any more qualms of conscience on that po nt but may I 1 never take another coci tall it it isn t stranger than digging for the treasure ot the Monte |