Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-06-18

the Captain had left II, carrying away with hin
considerable share OF the property. With III,
remainder John, alter many expenses and deiay
returned 10 the island and resumed his business
But he soon discovered to his cost, that the cal
culations he had made were quite fallacious ow
ing to bis having neglected to enquire whethe
the late prosperous season had been normal Of
an exceptional one. Unfortunately, it was the
latter; and several very unfavora6e ones tha
succeeded, reduced The family to great distress
and finally to utter ruin.
distinguishing his shop and his goods to his
creditors, John Glegg, heart-sick and weary
sought refuge in London-a proceeding &c
winch he was urged with no prudential motives
out rather by desire to fly as far as possible
from Inc scenes OF his vexatons and disappOint
ments, and because he had heard that the me.
Iropols was place in which a man might con.
ceal his poverty and suffer and starve at his ease
untroubled by impairment curiosity or officious
oeneVolence and, above all, believing it to be
the spot Whefe he was least likely to fall in with
any OF his former acquaitances
But mere new calamity awaited him, worse
than all the rest. fever broke out in the close.
! ly populated neighborhood in which thew had
fixed their abode, and the first two of his three
children took it, and died then himselfand his
wife, rendered meet subjects for infection bv
anxiety of mind and poor living, were attacked
with the disease. He recovered; at least he snr.
vlvhd, though with an enfebled constitution hnt
ne lost his wife, wise and patient woman, who
had been his comforter and sustainer through
all Recommendations which, after vain
| ~ endeavorIng to avert, she supported with he
rolc and accomplishing forttude; but dying,
she lett him precious legacy in Mary, who,
! q fin main Atho -,
Their precepts and example, had been 10 him
ever since treasure of tial duty snd tender
| ness.
! A faint light dawned through the dirty win
dow on the morning succeeding the little event
with which we opened our story, when Mary
rose softly from her humble couch, and stepping
! lightly TO where her fathers clothes Law on a
chair at the foot of his bed she put her hand in
his WalStcoat pocket, and extracted therefrom the
guinea which had been found in the cruel the
proceeding evening, she transferred it TO her own.
! She then dressed herself, and having ascertained
that her father still slept she quietly left the
room The hour was yen so early rfiat tire stfco,s
so deserted, that Mary almost trembled to find
! herself In them alone; but she was anxious to
do what she considered her duty without the
PAIN OF contention. John Glegg was naturally
an honest and we'll intentioned man. bu, the
him still. They were doubtless in terrible need
OF the guinea, and since it was not by any means
certain that the real owner would be found, he
saw no great harm in appropriating it: but Ma.
ry wasted no casuistry on the matter. That the
money was not legtimaely theirs, and thatthev
had no right to retain it, was all she saw and
SO seeing, she acted unhesitatingly on her con-
vctons.
She had bought the meal at Mr.. Benamin's.
because her father complained of the quality of
that she procured in the smaller shors, and on
this occasion he had served her himself. From
the earliness of the hour, however. thouph the
shop was open, he was not in it when she arriy-
ed on the errand of restitution but addressing
lean bee', who Yves dsstag the counter she
mentioned the circumstance, and rendered the
guinea; which the other took and dropped into
the till, without acknowledgment or remark
Now Mary had not restored the money with anv
view of praise or reward; the thought of either
had not occurred to her; bu, she was neverthe-
less panied by the dry, cold, thankless manner
with which the restitution was accepted. and
she teIt that little civility would not have been
out of place on such an occasion.
She thinking of this on her way back, when
she observed Mr. Benjamin on the opposite side
OF the street. The fact was, that he did not
sleep at the shop, butn one of the suburbs ofthc
metropolis, and he was now proceeding from his
residence TO Lond Acre. When be caught her
eye, he was standing still on the pavement, and :,
looking. as it appeared, at her, as she dropped
courtesy, ard walked forward while the old
man said to himself: "That's the girl that got
the guinea in her meal yesterday | wonder if
she has been to return it,"
1t was Mary's pure, innocent, but detected
counenance that had induced him to make her
the subject of one of his most costly eXper ments
lie thought if there was such thing as honesty
in the world, that it would find a fit refuge in
that young bosom; and the early hour, and the
direction in which she coming, led him TO
hope that he might sing Eureka at last When
he entered the shop, Leah stood behind the coun-
ter, as usual, looking very staid and demure
but all she said was Good morning." and when
he inquired if anybody had been there, she quiz
city aneWered,
"No; nobody"
Mr.. Benjamin was confirmed in his axiom
but he consoed himself with the idea that as the
girl was doubtless very poor, the guinea might
be of some use 10 her. In the meantime Mary
was boiling Cruel for her fathers breakfast, the
only food she could afford him, till she got few
sm!Iings that were owing TO her for some needle
work
well, father dear, how are you this morn
ing7"
Il don't know Mary. I've been dreaming, |
and II was so very much like reality tina, | can
hardly believe yetit was dream :" and his eyes
wandered over the room, as if looking for some
thing
What is it, father? Doyou want your break
last! 1t will be ready in five minutes y
i've been dreaming of a roast fowl and glass
of Scotch ale, Mary. 1 thought you came in
with the fowl and bottle in yonr hand and said.
"See father this is what I've DO ught with the
guinea we found in the NEAL"
"ButI couldn't do that, father you know. I'll
wouldn't have beeu honest TO spend other peo-
PIES money.
"Aonsense," answered John. "Whose mon.
ney is it, should like to know What beloDgs
to no one, we may as well claim, as any body
else"
'Bat it must belong to somebody, and as | |
knew it was not ours, I've carried it back to Mr.. !
Benjamin"
You have!" said Glegg, sitting mp in bed.
ayes, have, father. Don't be angry. I'm |
sure you won't when you come to think better
of it,"
But John was very angry indeed He was |
dreadfully disappointed at losing the delicacies
that his sick appetite hungered for, and which,
he fancied, would do more to restore him than all
the doctors stuff in London, and, so far. he was
perhaps right. He bitterly reproached Mary for /
want Of sympathy with his sutferings, and was
peevish and cross all day. At night however. !
his better nature rppaiDpd the ascendant. ard