Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-01-12
CHAPTER K.
ABOUT THE FARM.

my DEAR, said Mark Hamilton, one
pleasant morning in the fall, as he sat with
his wife in the pretty breakfast room, do
you remember my telling you two months
ago that lent an old farmer two thousand
dollars?'
Dora was trife changed. Her manner
was affectedly languid, though she appear
ed to have suffered no diminution in appe-
tite from the loss of the rose in her cheek.
She wore, howo7or, moro decided cap;
you could read motherhood, all over it; the
blue ribbons were longer, and the blue
pegnoir was exchanged for one Of fawn-
color, profusely embroidered.
Il think remember your telling me Of
it said Dora, setting her cup down, why
what of it?' ....-.,. ...
The poor old fellow is dead-that's ALL
Dead Z! Oh! horror, how you shocked
me! I'm so nervously sensitive lately
Then I suppose you've lost your money,
sO!no; I'm well secured from any loss
he paid every thing up, and leaves fine
little farm quite clear. Bygjudicious man.
agement, Mr. Carlisle thinks lean get
that ~. y
MERCY! I hope you wouldn't go out
west, Mark
'Of course shouldn't, you charming
little simpleton! I should turn the prop
erty into money. pity the family, though,
poor things!- When everything is paid,
there will be precious little left. But they
can work-of course; they always expected
to work, so it will not be Disappointing
them in any high tangled project. 1t was
an unfortunate visit to them. Just think Of
his dying in a hospital and being buried
any how
sWhy Mark, you surprise me; I thought
they we're with wealthy relatives-you said
so.'
80 they were, but wealthy relatives are
as fearful of contagionl and death as other
people ; so when they found the old man
had the smallpox
A scream from his wife interrupted him.
70! Mark, for heavens sake, don't say
he died of smallpox. hope you hav'nt
been near. Oh my precious Albert -
Mark! you certainly didn'tgo near them.
TO be sure not, Dora-I wonder you
could imagine it for moment;' replied
her husband. Il heard of it through Car
Isle, who wouldn't risk his handsome body
near any danger, I can assure you. 1t seems
when the family found what the disease was,
they hustled them all of, and the saying
goes that the old man took cold at the crit.
ical time, and death ensued. It's pretty
hard case for the rest, two of whom have
been sick, but I suppose somebody will at
tend to them
%! yes, of course ) said Dora, as care
lessly as if there were no hearts agonizing
over the loss-no tears of anguish she'd
while she turned to the nurse, who at that
moment entered with beautiful babe in
her arms. The mothers face lighted, as she
received the child, and Mark gazed foudly
on wife and son.
sNow you are doing SO WELL said Dora,
you must buy baby that superb carriage
we saw in Broadway, yesterday There is
nothing like it round here. The Percy's
gave only twenty-five dollars for theirs. I'm
sure I wouldn't have such shabby con-
Germ; and the Hales, they think they have
outdone all the rest, by giving fifty dollars
for theirs. Now we will give a hundred,
and when they admire the beautiful silver
ornaments-the elegance of the work. can
say: oh! it is nothing so very rare; Mr..
Hamilton only gave a hundred dollars for
it. Now won't that take them DOWN.
Too expensive, Dora-too expensive by
half said Mark. a
60! now you're growing stingy;' 81
the pout that made her face so piquant faf
her girlhood, seemed to add a positive
blemish to the slightly, care-worn face.
They say the moment men get to be sue
cessful they begin to economist, and I be-
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