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amends? Oh, tell' me, I implore of you;!" And Robert Jones, good law yer and true friend, told her, and almost at daybreak next morning Sarah was on her way to tHe herding farm where her husband " had been leading his hermit-like life Sarah found the bleak place, with" its cottage in charge of a boy. He told her that Mr. Ritchie had goneaway for'a few days on important business. At'once,'with a joy that thrilled her tired heart to mighty devotion and love, she 'started' in "to make things com fortable." "I will stay here, ah, I must stay if Alfred will only let me !" she told herself, as she scrubbed and cleaned and dusted' Tvhen she set to thinking of the fayorite dishes herhusband used to like. She; smiled as she recalled his 'ardent praises former pumpkin pies and doughnuts. Trailing through the snow, Al fred Ritchie approached his lone ly home two nights later. He no ticed that there was a, light in the. window. I hen a sniff ot unusual; cooking crossed his nostrils. He' pushed open the door. Some one screamed the startled Sarah but not until thea astonished husband had'seen a kitchen table loaded with pump-' "kin pies and doughnuts, a famous steak frying on the comfortable looking stoye, and the burnished "tea kettle singing a merry song of velcom'e and-comfort. , "Sarah," he cried, arid his big, Joyal heart spoke, it's earnest de light as "he sheltered her Tin his strong, cherishing arnis. ! "Oh, Alfred, it is like heaven, all this!" sobbed the penitent Sarah a little later, as they sat in the soft, ' soothing glow of the burning logs in the great fire place. "I wish never to leave this. A glad, true wife, I will only ask to care for you, and please you, and love you." "And pumpkin pies and dough nuts all .the year round," rallied Alfred gayly. "Yes, all the time, dear, if you wish it," replied Sarah, humbly and gratefully. '"Only in alittle better home," said Alfred. "I have been away on account of a legacy left me by a relative. If means less toil and finer surroundings. We won't be too grand, thqugh. There, must always be your- famous pumpkfn pies and doughnuts on the bill of fare!" "-What does this mean, Brid get?" exclaimed the lady of the house, returning from shopping. "The telephone's been taken out." Sure, ma'am, the girl across the way came over and said her missus would like to use it for a little while, and, I sint it over to her. But I had a terrible job get tin' it -unscrewed from the wall, We hope that Gen. Genevevo de la O'Amador Salazar does make peace with Hue'rta. It takes so much type to mention a fellow who uses the. whole a'lphabetjor a name. ,