The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1857-04-09


barn, and pretty soon the former notice
a great cllnnce in Justin.
He got him new suit of clothes, nn
bis face lost its down look and, afte
harvesting Farmer Reid made hin al
fer to stay all winter.
So justin stayed, and taking Lucy,
advice, went to the district school and
though he hadn't any education before
he went ahead CT many au old scholar
that winter.
Well, Justin stayed with the farmer
four years Then hc had good ofel
somewhere in New York State, and con
cludcd to stop for the winter.
Lucy Reid was grown into q young
woman by this time, aud q handsomci
one, children, those dim eyes never look
cd on
don't know bow il happened, 70
Lucy might have bad her pick Of th'
for miles around, but somehow she took
to Justin, and, when, he left, they were
engaged to be malri.d one year from
that time"
why, Grandma Deanc, you aren't
going to stop nov ?" cried Cora in alarm
for the old lady had laid down her knit
ting.
No, my child" and she removed her
spectacles and wiped her eyes. "But
the rost is sad story aud must hurry
over it,"
don't know how it happened, bu;
that winter Lucy's father got into a ter
rible law suit with Squire Wheeler -
There was some flaw iu the title, aud
people said it was plain that he must let
the homestead 90.
He said he'd never survive it; and
better, haps, he never had, than have
kept it as he did. But one day Squire
Wheeler, to all the neighborhood's as
tonishmeut, rode over TO the farm.
What he did there was never exactly
known; but in little while it was ru-
mored that the suit was withdrawn, and
next spring Lucy Reid was to be mar
ried to Stiilmau Wheeler. And so it,
was. One bright March day she went
to the Old church yonder, and gave her
self to him
lie was good looking man, but not
over smart, and | always thought it was
bis money more than anything else that
kcpthim up.
but, Justin, grandma Deane-what
became of him =
"rbere is dark look about the whole
matter, Lucy was made the victim OF
some terrible ial,ehood never blam-
.d her father, for the idea of losing the
Id homestead seemed completely to
,hatter him.
I only know that Squire Wheeler,
and his son were at the bottom of it,
ud that Lucy Reid went to the altar
believing that Justin Keep had been
false to her"
Dear me, how dreadful did he ev-
cr come hack :"
US the next May. Lucy had been
Il wifi. two months She was at home
visiting Der father When she met him
at the door she Iell down like one strick
en with fit
But he carried her into The house and
there they learned all. Both had been
deceived
It was a terrible scene that old front
room presented. Justin swore a tern.
bla oath of vengeance and it was not
til. with clasped hands and streaming
ewes, the young vile kneelcd to the on
~ man she ever loved, and pleaded for
the life Of her husband, that hc prom {
ised for her sake to spare him
But. from the kay of Justin's visit,
Lucy was a changed woman. All the
ichi and gladncss of her being seemed
4 iIad to her, and she moved about her
,onsc, pale aud quiet, with look of
,aii,nt suffering 10 her once sunny eyes
hat made my heart ache to behold"
/" AnG her husband-did she eyer tell
i'm what she had learned"
:" think not. His father and Lucy's
lied in less than two years after the mar
iage. The Squire was much less veal
by than people supposed. The next
.pripg Lucy an1 her husband removed