The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1852-06-10

already forbidden your broaching that
subject in my presence. I will hear no
more aboutr'
4" Henry Fairfield" said the Elder in
a calm imperative tone, "justice de-
mands that / speak of it to you, and l
roW not be silent. Would you die and
leave your wealth to distant relatives
who are better off without, than with it,
while your grandson is left alone in the
wide world, poor, penniless orphan 20
The determined manner and words of
Elder Trotter seemed at first to awe
Mr.. Fairfield into silcnce, but when he
again alluded to his grandson his violent
anger returned and he exclaimed in
tones of thunder
" Elder Trotter, the boy, if there is
one, is no grandson of mine, and I'll not
have him called so. The self-willed
girl married poor paltroon against my
will, and from that very moment l swore
a terrible oath that 1 would for ever
disown her and all that pertained to her.
She cared not an atom for the wishes of
her father, and it's not my fault if she
died, and left not single copper for her
brat l toiled and laid up gold for her.
She forsook her father for the sake of a
beggar, and my money shall
never 90 to enrich his son."
Henry Fairfield" returned Elder
Trotter," you are angry now and no one
can view any subject in its true light
when their judgment is biased by ILL
temper; but it was darker passion
than that of anger that estranged your
heart from that of your daughter, and
embittered both your life and hers.
It was the love of gold. You encour-
aged the addresses of Henry Noble as
long as you thought him rich, but when
you found that his expected fortune
would not be his you rejected him while
Mary Fairfield obeyed the generous i'm
pulses of her nature, and bestowed upon
the poor young student the same hand
and heart that you had promised to the
rich one. Was it her fault that you
disowned her Was it her fault that
her husband died of consumption, and
she of broken heart, and that her only
son was left penniless in land of
strangers 7"
How do you know that she left a
son, or that she is dead even. 1 never
had any notice of the fact"
81 was wandering few days since
in the Gripeville church yard, when sud-
denly came to the graves of Henry
Noble aud his young wife, Mary Fair
field Noble. The inscription upon their
told that that tribute to their
memory was erected by their son, Henry
Noble.
"Ah then it seems that the boy had
some money left him by some one or
other, perhaps his father inherited that
estate after ALL"
"No he did. not, for took pains to
inquire into the affair. found that
Henry Noble and his wife came to
to live when their child, who
bears the name Of both his grandfather
and father, was but an infant. Henry
Noble died few months after Of con-
and his wife soon after fol-
owed him. The little Henry was left
but Deacon Maydon, who
ives near Gripcville, adopted him.
When he got old enough to earn any
hing, Deacon Maydon paid him wages,
20, as he said, to make him feel inde-
pendent, and the first use which he made
If his money was to buy those tomb
stones for his parents"
Mr.. Fairfeld's countenanoe had un-
lergone variety Of changes during tins
recital, but when Elder Trotter ceased,
ne exclaimed, while tears for the first
lime in many years came rushing to his