Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1859-04-28

much sadness in the tone. I" Look in my face, I"
and she drew her long, disheveled, aud molS
tened hair with both hands back from her fore
head |" do l look as though | would get
drunk tonight :"
The woman locked at her, and shook her
head in silence she saw an expression which
she had never seen before. At length she got
up, and going behind the counter, talked long
and earnestly in whispers with the old man.
! After while she returned, and seating herself
beside her visitor, said:
Now, Jenny Irwin, / want you to tell me
the truth do you really wish this money for
/ the purpose you state You wouldn't be such
fool, would you, as to go cutting up any the
atrical suicides, or anything of that sort, would
you ?"
Mrs. Levi, tell you the truth am to
meet an old friend | would appear we'll to
him tonight expect to be better off after
see him this is Gods truth y
Very well, say no more, child you shall
have your clothes and some money. How much
do you want z"
Give me my black dress, my velvet hat,
one of those new pair of boots, my black man
tlla, some under clothes, pair of my best
silk hose, o couple of handkerchiefs, pair Of
gloves, and twenty dolars-this all ask aud
here, you may keep all these as additional Sc
curity,7 and she drew large package of pawn
tickets from her pocket and placed them in the
womans hand.
"And there is one more favor | would ask,
Mrs Levi, if you would be so kind, have
paid you great deal of money the last FIVE
years-would you give me the use of room
to dress in have nowhere to go7
There was something SO different in the
words and manner of Jenny Irwin from what
they had lately been, that Mrs. Lewis heart
was touched, and she gave her all she asked.
Perhaps she saw dim visions Of future ''pledg-
es," which would come through the old
friend" of her once profitable client perhaps
there might have been some feeling of CON-
puuction at witnessing the sufferings and mis-
cry, and complete lfe-wreck of the shiyering
woman who pleaded for the temporary use Of
what had once been her own.
The articles were soon selected, ard lead
ing her visitor TO q room, Mrs. Levi assisted
her in many little Offices in a kinder manner
than she had had ever done before. As she
afterward said, lit seemed as though she was
made to do it-she couldn't tell how"
After brief space of time the back room
door opened, and Mrs Lewis melodious tones
were heard ordering the shopboy to go for
carriage"
by JOSH says the boy, as he bangs the
street door after him, 4" Jen Irwiu'S going to
do il up brown tonight q carriage well, may
be ticketed if she didn't come It heavy over
the old woman | only wish she hadn't come
out quite so quick guess old fifty per cent,
would have caught rats then y aud popping
? hall -
dow, where poor woman was striving in vain
TO keep alive the embers of dying ERE, be
kicked up his heels after the manner Of Old
Joe" and was soon lost in the distance.
The City Hall clock had struck ten St
Paul's had taken up the strain. and Trinity was
just joining in, as carriage rolled noiseIesSly
over the snow up to the mansion Of Solomon
! Levi. 4 moment after, the door opened, and
q lady dressed in black. with her vail drawn
emerged from the dark hall and entered the
vehicle.
Where, madam p said the driver
"Taylor's :"
Slam went the door. and up the dark street
the carriage made its way as uoiseleSsy as it
came.
\ strange FIRE was burning in Jenny Irwin'S
heart, an unwoHted energy buoyed her up, and
seemed to carry her on a wave OF supernatural
life swiftly toward the speedy realization of the
wild dream which had fitted through her mind
as she sat beggared outcaSt in her wreIched
room. with the cold winds drifting the ieecy
I snow through the broken Windows upon her
/ deSolate floor.
! Arrived in front of Taylor's the carriage
drew up, and bidding the driver wait, she en-
/ tered the rich saloon, aud taking E seat in one
OF the uuoccnpied alcOTes, gave her orders to
I the waiter.
J Coffee or tea, madam he asked as he
vas about 10 depart.
Neither responded Jenny bring NE
I brandy
( As soon IS her supper, made up OF TiaHds
+ such as had long been strangers to her lips, was
( placed before her, she moiSiened her lips with
/ brandy and proceeded to partake, and, although
/ faint with long fasting, by an almost super
( human effort she mastered the cravings Of
+ hunger, aat ate slowly and Regligently, as
T though such fare was an every day matter with
+ her. Finishing her supper, and draining the
( last drop in the goblet, she paid her reckoning
at the counter, and bowling with slight, neg
Iigent grace with the same cir that once marx
ed her training as a ladl-she thanked the
servant who ushered her 10 the carriage, aud
ordering the driver 10 stop at the ST Nicholas,
entered and was driven noiselessly away.
The snow was still falling, and. although it
was now quite ten o'clock, merry parties OF
. Christmas seekers thronged the streets, and
the merry sleigh-beIls mingled in vivid harmony
with the diScoriant notes OF rival horns, which
made the night hideous as they echoed from
the passing sleighs.
Jenny Irwin looked from the tightly closed
window OF her carriage. Old memories came
thronging wildly and tun1ltuousiy hack upon
her ship-Ereckei heart she thought Of the
dsyswhen her fathers eqlipase drove through
that self-same :hro1ghfsre, snd she. with one
who sleeps now beneath the sDoW-her mother