The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-03-09

"Don't, mother, please. | am gettin
desperate. feel like breaking throug
somewhere to see if we can not get out, q
like going back and scratching Mrs. Duyel
nay"
''Or the editor" pipcd Harry, hoarsey.
q Mother said Harriet. unea.ily, ':tha
childs feet should be bathed.'
! !" But We have no mustard.
:" Salt will answer
| "We are out Of that also, !" returned Mrs
Willie, hopelessly, and taking up her lette
"A crabbedly. written note, four lines long
SISTER ANNE,--I am in New York, at the Clare
don. snail stay There two days. hear YOU are il
trouble. II you choose to let by -gones be by-gones
come and see me- Yours Dawn"
From your Uncle David commentc,
Mrs. Wife, much excited. :. He can hell
us il he likes
Miss Harriet examined the dute.
This was written Yesterday" One o
the two days has gone already"
:" We could not so if there were fort,
days. How should we get ticket to New
York;
our money may come
YES asscntcd George, indifierentv
it>may come. If | could only write now
Borrow paper and stamp
From whom? We know no one here. q
Matte can run across the street anC
ask"
What.will they think ?"
"Stuf. What would we think if Uncle
David made us his heirs? Run, Matte"
Matte trippcd across the street, and the
Whites watched her through the blinds. She
came back slowly. They were very sorry
but they were just ont. Georgiana set lit.
tie in sort of stupid despair, and, bcthink
ing herself, rushed up stairs and searched
the dress pockets for stray pennies. Then
she pulled out the chldren's boxes and the
bureau drawers, Miss Harriet followed and
got out her trinkcts.
o. shall try to sell my ring" she said.
Georgiana stared
"Why, child, they will not give more than
dollar for it.
"a dollar will buy medicine and paper
" The check may come Tomorrow
I" Have you looked at Harry? He has
fever already"
Fever" echoed Mrs. Wife, who had
followed them. 81 have sent Matte for
DR.. Gray. think Harry case is serious.
Harriet tied her bonnet strings very hard
and went out into the street, and Mrs. Witfle
looking after her in wonder
"She is gone to sell her ring SAID
George, with jerk. "Shc thinks she may
get dollar for it, Whereupon the two
women began to cry, and improved their
time in that way while Harriet was gone
When they saw her coming they wiped their
eyes, aud pretended that they had been
sorting clothes. Harriet came back look
ing very pale. Nobody would buy her ring.
BY this time the Doctor had arrived and
shook his head over Harry.
II" GU should have called me before -
He must be dociorcd sharply now Or
The doctor did not finish his sentence
but hastily wrote prescription. The women
grew ralcr yet. and looked piteouSlv at each
other.
u soc" said George, bravely. " Har.
riot went out to sell her ring, and must
20 out to throw away my pride and call on
Mrs. Duvcrnay. | will tell her what have
left at.
She said that over and over to herself al
the way to Mrs. nuvernay' $ door; hut Mrs
Dnvcrnay was not at home. :" Miss Wife
would wait till Mrs. Duyernay returned. -
The man stared.
II beg your pardon, Miss. Mrs. DIVER
nay has gone to the country
"Writc to her there" suggested Harriet
NO stamp and paper briefly respond
ed Geoygie, sitting still in her cloak and {:
brown study.
IL shall go mad Of that no stamp" burst
out Harriet, ordinarily the most phlegmati,
of mortals.
"A three fold cord is seldom broken,
answered Georgia. irrelevantlv md mvstcr
'iou>ly and marched ont before she could b,
questioned. She was afraid of losing he
inspiration if she stopped for explanations
In one hand she carried the prescription, il
the other her pockct-book, and she went t,
the druggist on the corner, of whom she wa
known. When the prescription was ready,
That should have brought no money.
she exclaimed, innoccnlly, and searching
T. hot bn1l. ,.,,, ,,;.
The polite druggist assured her that it wa
Of no consequence and so she carried tn
! precious bottle home in triumph and dazzlct
her mother and sister with it. Her con
science gnawed her, but gave her no crcdi
for it ; for whom lator Harry was In want O
lemons, sugar, and mustard, she did til
same thing with the innocent grocer. Tha
evening they talked dolc!ully OF Tnnl
| David, and Harriet thought that he shoul,
have known that two days would not Civ
them breathing time but Mrs. Wife con
tended that he had been deeply oflened, ant
! that it was heroic to make any advance q
| all.
They had not entirely relinquished hope
/ The check might come with the early morn
ing mail and George had visions of jump
ing into the first traiu and reaching New
York in timc-io catch Uncle David over hi
breakfast at the Clarendon. She was atrai
to look at the slow clerk, indih'erently goin
over his letter, and turned her head away
There was nothing from the editor or fror
Mrs. Duvernay, who, Harriet had hoped
| wnnid rnmnmhen ihem hut n nnto froI