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When Betty
Came Home.
By C. B. LEWIS.
Copyrighted, 190 J-. by Associated
Literary Press.
The Arrangement was satisfactory
nil around. Mrs. Hardin, the widowed
mother, accompanied by tier daughter
Betty and maid, was to spend July and
August at a seashore resort. Will
Hardin, the son, and his college churn,
Frank Archer, were to keep bachelors'
hall in the Long Island manor house.
The faithful old servant who had
acted as cook for many years past
was willing to remain, to care for their
wants and keep the,house from being
turned into a stable, but she was given
two months off with wages and told to
make herself scarce.
All went well at home and at the
seashore for a month. Then the time
was ripe for something to happen, and
something did happen. The mother
met with a fall, Miss Betty lost the
only young man worth flirting with,
and the maid came so near being
drowned in the surf that she threat
ened to quit her job unless the family
retired to a safe distance from the
raging sea.
Miss Hetty wrote her brother Will
that they would arrive home on a cer
tain date, and the date was put far
enough ahead to enable the two camp
ers to get the dishes washed up and
their fish poles removed from the par
lor. But what is the use of writing
letters to a brother who doesn't go to
the poßtoflice for mail? The letter ar
rived all right, but was not called for.
Then, on the afternoon or the even
ing on which the family were to ar
rive home, Will had to go up to Brook
lyn on pressing business. It was mid
night before the young lady gave an
answer to his pressing question, and
It was two hours Inter before he
dropped off a freight train at the coun
try station half a mile from home.
Archer was left to fish the time
away, cook his own dinner and go to
bed at any hour that suited his con
venience. That hour was 9 o’clock,
and he had sixty minutes to get to
sleep when the family arrived. No
Will appeared at the depot to meet
them, but fortunately they found a
conveyance, and fortunately Miss
Betty had carried her latchkey away
with her and could now make use of it.
As the hour was late no time was
wasted looking around-just enough to
Ik* satisfied that brother Will wasn’t in
his bed and that It would take two
robust women two weeks to put the
house In its former tidy shape. The
arrivals had been abed for two hours
when Archer woke up. He was dream
ing that he had hooked a fish five feet
long and was playing it. when he
found himself sitting up in bed with
bis eyes wide open.
He felt that some noise had disturbed
him. There had been a great deal of
the “Raffles” business In the country.
The chums had talked the matter over
and decided what was to be done in
case he invaded the house under their
guardianship.
They were armed, and they were to
do their best to kill or capture him.
One chum and one revolver being ab
sent on this occasion made a differ
ence, but nevertheless the Qbum on
the spot prepared to die for his host.
Getting softly out of bed and partly
dressing, he soon assured himself that
Will had not yet returned. Just then
he distinctly heard a noise in the lower
part of the house—the fall of some
thing.
Rutiles had effected an‘ entrance aud
blundered over a chair. The student of
chemistry hesitated no longer. He
softly opened his door, and, with a
lamp in one hand and a revolver in the
other, he stepped out into the hall to
descend the stairs.
There had certainly been a noise—
two noises In fact. Mother and daugh
ter occupied rooms at the front of the
house. After sleeping for a couple of
hours the mother had awakened in a
nervous condition and called her
daughter. This was number one.
The daughter had answered, mixed
a sleeping draft and kno ked the
bottle off the stand to the lloor. This
noise had brought young Archer from
his room into the hall, and he was just
in time to encounter Miss Betty as she
was returning to her own room.
Of course she was startled. Of
course ho was startled as well. They
were not ten feet apart, and as they
stood there staring at each other she
forgot that Will was to have his chum
with him, and it went clean out of his
head that Will had a mother and sister
anywhere on earth.
Some girls, under the circumstances,
might not have been the first to re
<• >ver tliein wits. Miss Betty was.
She motioned the young man down the
hall. sDd when he could back up no
farther she advanced quite close to
him and whispered:
“Mother is very nervous, and if she
knew you were in the bouse the shock
might kill her.”
T ‘Y-e-s;” replied Archer in some won
derment.
lucre is some silver plate down-
stairs, but I'm afraid It’s not very
good. Ho you take bric-a-brac? If so,
there are a few pieces in the parlor
-vorth your bother. Won’t you please
step down and take what you want
and leave us alone up here?”
“But, Miss Miss”—stammered Arch
er. who hadn’t yet got it through his
head that the family had returned un
expectedly.
**We have two watches and three
diamond rings up here, but if you
must have them let me get them. I
won’t be gone more than a minute,
and I wish you would be very quiet
while I’m gone. I wouldn’t have moth
er wake up for a thousand dollars.”
“But see here, miss, 1 I don’t want
your rings and watches,” the blushing
and confused young man managed to
articulate.
“Hush! Not so loud!” she cautioned
as she raised her hand and entered her
room.
lie stood there, feeling and looking
like a polite idiot for the next two
minutes, and then Hetty reappeared,
held out the watches and rings on her
palm and whispered:
“These are all. I have been very
honest with you. We are not keen for
jewelry. Now won’t you please go?”
“Will you tell me whom I’m speak
ing to?" was asked as the girl contin
ued to hold out her hand with her ear
Font to hear if her mother was stir
ring.
“I’m Miss Hardin."
“Croat Scotts!” with a gasp. “Then
you must be Will’s sister. Let me say
to you that 1 am’’—
"IIusli! You are Raffles- Mr. Raf
fles, of course. Please, please go away.
I wish we had twice as much to be
robbed of, but you will have to be sat
isfied. Here I’ll put the things in your
coat pocket. Now go on tiptoe. You
may leave the lamp burning after you
gat through robbing downstairs, and
I’ll comedown after it. Hush! Softly!"
Young Archer wanted to stop and
explain, but she laid one hand on his
shoulder and urged him along, and the
first thing he knew he was at the foot
of the stairs and a white hand was be
ing waved to him from the top. Where
should he go? What should he do?
There was an awful mistake, hut liow T
was it to be rectified?
Will had said that he would be back
on tlie 9 o’clock train. He had missed
It, but might be expected at any min
ute now. The first thought was to go
outdoors and wait for him. The sec
ond was to turn out the lamp and sit
down in the library and wait for Will
or daylight or something or somebody
to come along and befriend him.
This second decision was final. He
stood in the hall, turned the light out,
and somehow he felt that eyes were
upon his movements. Ensconced in a
big leather chair, he had passed away
half an hour in calling himself names
and hankering after his chum’s scalp
when he heard a faint rustle outside
the window near which lie sat.
He cocked his ear toward it, and a
moment later he knew that someone
outside had his hands on the sash.
Sixty seconds had not gone past when
the catch was thrust over with a click,
and the sash was carefully and slowly
raised.
Young Archer was excited, but he
was game. It looked as if a kind
Providence was sending a Raffles to
help him out of his fix. He rose and
stood beside the window with his pis
tol in hand. He meant to shoot the
intruder if he stepped into the room,
but a sudden thought made him
change the weapon end for end. The
report of the pistol Would arouse the
whole house and lie had tacitly prom
ised the girl upstairs to keep very
quiet. The man who had raised the
sash waited thirty seconds and then
stepped over the sill to meet a blow
that dropped him like a log.
lie had just fallen when Will Hardin
opened the front door and entered. As
he scratched a match to sec his way
upstairs he noticed the lamp on the
hall tree aud lighted it, and next in
stant his sister Betty came running
downstairs to gasp out:
“Oh, Will, we had to come home—
and you didn’t meet us—and mother is
very bad—and Raffles has been here
and robbed the house—and”—
“Rats!” interrupted the brother.
“But it surely was Raffles. I called
him Mr. Raffles, and he didn’t deny his
identity. 1 gave him all our jewelry,
and then he came down for the plate.
He acted real nice on mother's ac
count.”
The library door stood partly open,
and of course young Archer had heard
all. Now was the dramatic moment,
and he came forward aud showed him
self. As the girl uttered an exclama
tion and shrank back he said:
“Will, there has been a comedy of
errors, with something like a tragedy
to end lip with. If your sister will go
upstairs and you will come in here. 1
think that all can be satisfactorily ex
plained.”
And all was. It was done in sec
tions aud methodically. Asa first
move the arms and legs of the man
on the lloor. who was beginning to re
vive. were bound. When the mask
was torn from his face, they saw that
he was indeed the Raffles who had ter
rorised the manor houses for long
weeks.
Then Miss Beny was brought down
ami .formally introduced ]c> Archer
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GEORGIA, Wai.ton County.—
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' One-halt' interest in ten shares
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One fourth intrest in one hun
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Administrator of J. S. SMITH
By this Time she had exchanged her
wrapper for something more appro
priate for receiving company. Then
the stolen jewelry was restored. Then
the nearest country police station was
telephoned to and Raffles was re
moved. Then the mother awoke and
said she had had a good night’s sleep
and felt well enough to come dotvn to
breakfast, and she didn’t faint away
when told of the doings of the night.
Then, as a sort of closing chapter to
the events, brother Will beckoned bis
sister to follow him out into the shrub
bery, aud when they were hidden from
sight of the house he turned on her
aud said:
“Sis, you are a brick—a regular
brick."
“Yes?” she smiled.
“And Frank is a brick—a regular
brick.”
“Yes?”
“And by the great horn spoon, if
you two bricks don’t fall in love with
each other and give him to me for a
brother-in-law I'll—I'll”
And then Betty blushed and laughed
and ran away.
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SEABOARD AIR LINE
RAILWAY.
EASTWARD.
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No. 82, - - 2:50 pm
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’No. 11 —Lv 8:40 a. m.
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No. 12— At. 18:00 m.
No'. 14—Ai. : 505 pm.
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