Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-01-30

Dut Luc pIeuSe Ol love gave 10 my uy llt
mother must be kept.'
.".And so the great joy-drcam Of my you'll
must be changed to this sad reality! I can
notask youto leave your father, sweet AS
mes, for the very truth in you which wor
ship would be made lie could you do so
But have Q prayer. pray that God in hi:
mercy may remove the curse from youl
fathers bended form!'
"The curse! Walter 2"
"Aye-Me. Gold Curse!m rejoined the
yorfh feryently. ~ hope God may render
him penniless |"
"What?s Pennilcss ?' Repeated Agnes
with start.
"Aye; pennilessl for then he would be far
more wealthy than he is now. Then he would
know howSto appreciate the priceless bles
sings of his sweet Agnes love, and then the
crust might be broken, and his heart grow
human again. And more than ALL, Walter
continued,5 winding his arm more closely
about the fair form of his companion, and
speaking more deeply, "thcn l could prove
to him myslove. Then l could take you to
my honey and we could both love him and
care for him while we lived !"
Noah Brennan stopped to hear no more,
and as he5walked away, be muttered to him
self: ~.
"The rascal He'd do great things; me
pennilesssand he praying for it, the young
william !';
When the old man gained his accustomed
walk among the great sycamores, be wiped
something from his eye. He acted as though
| n Ynota hrd hann lIoup ~ tbara
Two weeks passed on, and Agnes grew
pale andthin. She did not sing as she used
to- por could she smile as had been her wont.
Sill she emurmured not, nor did her kindness
to her father grow less.
"oh, God, help me to love my father" she
prayed one night. Let not my grief make
me forget my duty"
And the old man heard it.
One night Noah came home from the city,
and in his hand he brought q small trunk.
He barred the door, and drew the tattered
curtains close.
,'See,n he said, as he opened the trunk,
and piled the new bank notes upon the table.
"Lntkf there, Agnes, and see how / have
wosked.in my life time. had no educa!io, |.
buL Eye lad up money-n,oncy-Mo
How many men woa'd sell me all their brains
tonight Tor this. See! one thousand-two-
lhres-four -. Count them Agnes.
There's thousand dollars in each package"
"Why have yop taken it from the bank,
fatheyg
TO let it, my child to let it at q round
interest, Agnes. I shall double it, darling,
Aid while the old mans eye S; arkled with
evident satisfaction, his child wore p sad, sor
rowing look. And l.rg afi:r that she looked
at lie working le.iures Of her father and
prayed. that the Gold Fieni would sci him
lree.#
When Agrcs retired she left her father up F;
but ere long she heard him put his little ;rruk
as ay, AMI 20 - his bed F; AMI then she SLEPT
H;ark What soand is la: Asnes starts
up il afir. h, and Listens cut see, = bright
lisht,is cleaning out into lnc night, ard thick
volumcs Of smoke pour into the garrett
:sfSire, fire. sounded n voice from the en-
try,and she hears tie sharp cracking Eow,
aadifeels the heat.
HAgnrs, ny child" ard in another mo
mest her father Is on H.. stairs. Hc
is ss;.. ,bst4sle :,
Take all your cl1;iiag, Agnes, and yot
can pu: them oD in the entry. The hause is
Ill on fire."
In few minutes more the father and CHI d
,tcod in The read, the latlcr with a bundle oi
, clothing in her la d; while tie former held
small trunk. They gazad upon - burainG
building bat neither ci them spoke.
Aud Others came running to tie scene
but 10 che tried to stay the fumes. And
Ir,l II
made, for The cid Shell bu.ncl like tirder
But more still, 10 one wond have made thu
effort, even had success been evident, for tll'
miserable oil hut h.d too long occu2 ci
one Of the f.ircst spots OF tue village. There
scre no other buildings 10 BE- endangered, sc
they let the old thing bun.
You have your money sale,n said Agnes
Yes. See, tool, the trunk. lett tho
candle burning SO that could watch it Ba
| went to siccr. ana the candle lnast hay:
fallen over. Bat got the trunk" As ht
spoke lie held it up and gazcd upoa it by
the light of the Aaring ruins.
7hci is not the Twnk" whispered !Ag
aes in alright.
sNor-." Bnt the old man spoke ne
further. lie saw he lad taken tie wrong
trunk. This was only filed with old deed;
and dusty receipts.
Ra;ned! Lost" groaned Noah Brennan
rs he turned from the scattered embcrs t."
had ftiy thousand dollars in that trunk, ant
where are they now?'
"Ncver mind" SAID Agnes, winding hel
arms about her fathers neck, ''we'll be hap
py without it."