Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-06-24
REWARDED,
BY AMY RANDOLPH.

bad ebscured the purple heraldry of dawn, and
threatened TO last late into the nights rair
that penetrates remorselessly through um.
brellas and waterproof cloaks, discovers all
the cracks in leaky roofs, and generally con-
trives to drive people of a nervous tempera.
ment nearly distracted
Kitty Eswick was sitting at the window,
dreamily watching the big drops as they
FLASHED against the panes and streamed down
in Liliputian rivuleis, bat the blue, misty eyes
! took no eognizance of the driving rain, and
The open book lay UNDECIDED on her lap. She
was delicately pretty, this homesick country
girl, with a dazzling fair complexion, and
| Pale-brown hair,-a fragile thing, whose fair
head dropped like white, wind-hower
Not bit like my Josepha !" said her aunt
| Mrs. Sinclair, to herself with some compIa-
cency, when the rural damsel had first been
consigned to her care for the winter.
Mrs. Sinclair was right. Miss Josepha
was tall and large, with brilliant black eyes,
and cheeks whose bloom was artifcially height
ened-a young lady able to talk you blind on
any given subject, aud possessed Of consider
able calm impudenee, which her mamma ca lied
'easy self-pessession." No, Kitty EsWick was
certainly not bit like her cousin Josepha
Sinclair.
kitty Kitty Eswick p
The girl started from revere, and drop
ped her book
did you speak to me Aunt Sinclar?"
''Did | speak to you? / should think so !
| three times at the very least"
Il beg your pardon, aunt" said Kitty,
meekly, Il was thinking of something else %
"Then must beg you for the future, my
dear, to be little less absent-minded. l want
you to decide about this blue silk-the boy
is in the hall to carry it back if it is not want
ed. Will you have the dress or not ?"
Il have already decided, Aunt Sinclair"
kitty, you are never in earnest !" interrupt
ed Miss Josepha. "You will not send back
that lovely silk when the shade is so becoming
to you."
II don't need it Josepha,-and l cannot
afford it''
Nonsense" said Josepha, shortly. you
have money enough,-it will only be fifty dol
ars."
"But have other uses for my money" said
JOsepha, calmly.
"Mr. Melbourne is so fond of blue," said
lJosepha trying new tack.
ais he? but do not dress to suit Mr..
Melbourne'g peculiar tastes. He is nothing
more than an agreeable acquaintance"
kitty"
"Aunt Sinclair"
"You surely do not think of repelling the
attentions of the richest man in our set my
dear. have been overwhelmed with con-
gratulations on his evident admiration for
you"
I" 1 am sorry" said Kitty, quietly, "but
cannot help it. You should have warded off
this trial, aunt. You knew that 1 was al
ready engaged y
Engaged! 10 country clergyman, with
two hundred yearl"
Kitty colored up-the blue eyes glowed like
sappbires.
"TO a man whom love and respect more
than the whole world beside,-to man whose
noble heart is worth all the mines of Golcon-
da p
Mrs. Sinclair looked rather surprised she
would as soon have suspected her canary bird
of having a will of its own, as meek little
Kitty Eswick !"
"Of course, you viii do as you please" she
said. setting her thin lips close together
"Josepha, will you ring the bell for Bridget,
| and tell her to deliver this silk TO the boy
who is waiting 10 the hall2 Thank you my
love-!
MEN, if you please" said Bridget, return
ing from her behest, 'there's little boy says,
plase can he see Mrs. SincIair?"
ats all right. Bridget" said Mrs. Sinclair,
composedly, 'yOu gave him the silk ?''
at isn't that one, mem is another one, -
said Bridget. Hes just come in, streamin'
wild the rain, and never an umbrella to the
back of him ~
Probably it is mistake, Bridget" said
Mrs Sinclair, thoughtfuly contemplating the
ribbon bow she was arranging.
| "No, ma'am, it isn't; would ye come down
and spake 10 him?"
'Really this is very annoying" spoke the
lady, somewhat sharply. "Tell him to come
up here if be must see me, on such dreadful
day as this "
Bridget returned in a moment, ushering in
pale, faded little creature of scarcely more
than ten years of age, his eyes stained with
recent tears ard his garments dripping with
moisture.
swell, boy, what do you want ?" said Mrs
Sinclair, pettishly. "Stand little further of
you'll give me my death of cold I"
care you Mrs. Sinclair. ma am ?" asked the
child, his lip quivering with the effort be made
to command his voice, and one little hand
closing nervously on the brim of his worn hat
"Yes-what on earth do you want? ?"
"Grandpapa is dying-nnd he asked me tc
come here for you, maam-grandpapa' name
is JOhn Merlin ond-"
The voice broke down here, drifting away
on a sudden tide of hysterical sobs, as the lit
tie creature sank on the floor, hiding his fact
on chair.
"Merlin-John Merlin-why, he's a kint
Of distant cousin, isn't he? the man tha
specalated in foreign stocks and lost every
thing" said Josepha. al thought he was deaf
long ago"
$50 did l." said Mrs. Sinclair, coldly.
"Will you come, ma'am 2" said the child
piteously. HE is very sick, and he said h'
: must see you"
: II can do no gooG. boy" said Mrs. Sin
clair, drawing her silken skirt from bis uncou
scious grasp. "Send for doctor, why DON
!, you ?"
}, "The doctor won't come" sobbed the boy
: ave owe him so much money, and he says h
!, will not come again. 1t is not very far ma'au
only down in Low street, and it don't raj
very hard"
Low street p calculated Josepha holding
n up both her hands 10 horror. "Mamma that