Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1864-11-09
Knowing to whom it belongs, have we
shadow Of right TO possess it my child 7"
julia, much to her mothers surprise,

snadoW OF fignt 70 possess II my cnlId
Julia, much to her mothers surprise,
bust into tears.
I'VE are SO poor" she said, sadly, "and
you need 40 many things, mother, tha. [
wishcd-I thought, as | really found il,
that nigh. keep it. but knos it was a
wicked wish"
"Lcad rs no. into temptation, ou. &C.
livep us from evil" said Mrs. Dean, gent
ly /: "always, my dear child, draw broad
line of distinct on between "mine and
thine" and never overstep it. Your
own conscience will tell what is yours and
what is your neighbor's where there is 40
legal specification. 1t is sure aud safe
monitor"
"But Mr.. Converse is SO wealthy, think
it ought To-"
Converse Did you say Converse 2
Mrs Dean turned white Ike death, and
her voice was low and strange.
"That is bis nams," said Julia, Won
derins a. the change in her mother, "ard
ha lives in great marble palace, Or some
thing like one"
Julia" asked her mother, sic hs tall
and shsrp-teatured, and docs he talk ike
4 foreigner, and with strange accent"
"Hs has been in France, mother, for |
once heard him tell gentleman 50, and bs
said he made all his money there,
Mrs. Dean said no more to Julia then,
but she continued strangely 25ita.ed, and
when she took down the OIL Bible and Sc
lectsd the portion, Bless the Lord, oh,
my soul, and forget not all his BENEFITS
her voice sas tremalous win tears.
The next morning after Jalia had gone
to her stand and Johuny 70 school, Mrs.
Dean dressed herself as we'll as her limit
ed wardrobe would permit, and wen; out.
She took her way straight TO RE marble
palace, as Julia called it, il which Jules
Converse, Esq, resided.
He was sitting in his business chamber,
with flowing purple dressing gown around
his por.ly limbs, when the Servant nsher-
ed in the widow in faded black He look
ed at her as if surprised at her presump-
tion, and in tha. moment he knew her
through all the mist of years, the change,
which toll, and hardship, and sickness had
ma0e-he knew her.
Maria :" ,.
"Jules!" .-. lid.
And they we're folded in eacii Others
arms, the eldest and youngest Of a broken
family, the long parted brother and sis
ter .,r
1t was strange meeting-a strange
story all AROUND. and yet not one oftrefeas-
ed. Mrs. Dean was married in extreme
nth to poor artist, thereby voluntarily
from her family, who complete
il uiouH ucu iicT III Tue Time, duu tuc sep
aration had proved long one. She had
followed her husband to America, and
closed his eyes among strangers, lived in
privacy and poverty, and to her letters
home received not word, for her pareats
had long since died and her brother, a
merchant in foreign ports, had failed to ev-
er receive them, or hear aught of her
Chance -no-Proyidence, had decreed
him TO America; most assuredly Provi- ,
dence had permitted the meeting Of the ]
two sole representatives Of an old and re-
spectacle family.
# Mrs Dean had erred in her youth,
she had expiated her offence in bittsi re-
n orse and had brought up her children
beyond reproach.
''How strange" her brother remarked
g that should have taken a fancy 70 that |
child, and she should prove to be my own
niece. ] often bonght apples just to hear
her speak"
Jnlia had done hin injustice when SIZE
called him miser, for no miser would
have done what he did-made that twenty |
dollar bill thousand. SO that. ere a
week passed, che was at a good school, as
well-dressed as any girl in it, with great
ambition at hessheart to make herself wor
thy of it all--and her mother in a comfort
able home, where she should not again
know wabt, where kind relatives minister
ed to her IN sickness. It was all very
strange, but Julia never again doubted
her mother, OF failed in believing that
doing right brings its own reward, even
in this world, and that I" honesty" is most
as,urelly not"the best, ,"but; the only
"policy.." a,a