Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-04-19

and the door pushed haS'Hy open'
Charles, dear ?
I'm going to get place mother ? be
cried to her, the moment his feet touched
the door.
The pale woman smiled, and held oul
her hand to the boy. He came quickly
TO her side.
"There is no necessity for you getting
place now Charles. We shall go back
to England
20, mother? The boys face was all
aglow with sunbeams.
Here is a letter from a gentleman in
New York who says that he Is directed
by your Uncle Wilton to pay our pas,
sages to England, if we will return
God is good, my son. Let us be thank
fulP
Charles now drew from his pocket the
note which Mr.. Frazier gave him, and
banded It to bis mother.
'What is thisP She asked.
'The gentleman who promised to get
me a place told me to give it to YOU
The woman broke the seal. There
were three bank bills, of ten dollars each,
enclosed, and this brief sentence written
on a piece of paper.
God sent your son to a true friend.
Take courage. Let him come to me to-
morrow.
who gave you this ? she asked. Her
pale face was growing warm with sudden
excitement.
"A gentleman. But | don't know
who he was. / went into a great many
stores to ask if they didn't want boy,
and at last came to the one where the
gentleman was who sent you the let
ter. He spoke roughly to me at first,
and then called me back and asked who
| was, and about my mother. / told him
your name, and how father had died, and
you were sick. Then he sat a good
while and didn't say anything and then
he wrote the note, and he told me he
would get me a place. He was a kind
looking man if he did speak roughly at
frst.'
Did you see what name was on the
sign?
l never thought to look replied the
boy, l was so glad when I came away.
But l can go straight to the place.
| will write the gentleman a note,
hun for his kindness, and you
must take it to him in the morning.
How light it makes my heart feel to
know that we are going back to dear old
England. God is good to US my son,
and we must be obedient and thankful
Just little before evening twilight
ell, word came up to the woman that
gentleman had called and wished to see
ler.
Go and see who it is, Charles she
laid to her son.
%, mother! Its the gentleman who
ent you the note : exclaimed Charles
n an underone, coming back. And he
wants to see you. Can't he come up"
There was hasty glance around the
'oom TO see if everything was in order
hen a few slight changes in attire.
ASK him to come up, my son, she said
md Charles went down stairs again.
A mans firm tread approached the
loor. 1t was opened, and the boys
mother and the boys new found friend
ooked into each others faces.
90, Edward ! fell from her lips in a
Iuick surprised voice; and she started
rom her chair and stood strongly agita-
ed before him. He advanced, not speak
ng until he bad taken her hand.
Florence | never thought to see you
hus ? He said it in a calm, kind, even
y modnlated voice, but her ears were
inely enough corded to perceive the
eep emotion that lay beneath. He said
t looking down into the dark, soft, tender
rown eyes. But l think there is pro-
idence in our meeting he added.
They sat down and talked over the
hings gone by, and of the causes that
eparated them, while their hearts beat
My for each other-of the weary years
hat had passed for both of them since
hen-of the actual present in their lives.
have a motherless child, be said
t last. "A tender little thing that love
nd to-day ! find her body purple with
.ruises from The cruel hand OF servant
florence will you be a mother TO this
hid ? You have q noble boy, who is
atherless; let me be to him a father
}, Florence there has been a great void
n our lives. A dark and impossible
iver has flowed between us for years.
But we stand at last together, and if the
Id love fills your heart as it fills mine,
here are golden days for US in the fu-
lre.'
And so it proved. The lady and her
on did not 90 back to England, but pass
to the merchants stately residence, she
ecoming its mistress, and he finding
ONE there, and truer father than the
ne he had in former years called by
anne.
"Do as you have an opportunity" On
? a few weeks before the lads application
, the merchant had this injunction been
rged, 10 his hearing, by an eloquent I
reacher, and the words coming to his
lought, led him to call back the boy, af-