Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-09-12

~ iieIl BACK IN my chair, white and
cold, and said "a wandering tramp
left II here Never your Rob, my dear,
never your Rob. lie must have been an
impostor. l would't have turned away
q person really In want. Oh DO, no,
it's another pouch, Charlie, not that; or
he stole II, A tall fellow, with blue
eyes and yellow brown hair, wounded,
be said, and going TO his mother NJ
Greenbsnk Not your Rob-.
And Charles stood staring at me with
clerched hands, aud said
III was my Rob--my dear old Rob-
wounded and starving-my deal old
Rob who saved my life, aud you have
driven him out In such night as this,
mother My mother TO use Rob so
Curse me, Charlie, If you like, said |,
Il am afraid God win. Three times be
asked only for crust OF bread and a
place to lie In, and drove him away,
land he's lying on the road now
Oh it'd only known
Charles caught his hat and said, III
| find him, If he's alive. Oh, Rob my
| dear, dear friend =
And them never saw the Girl la such
a taking-down went Drusilla ou her
knees, as II she were saying her prayers,
and said, Thank God, l dared to do H..
o, aunt, I've been trembling with fright,
not knowing what you'd say TO me. |
took him in the kitchen way, could not
see him go away faint and hungry and
wounded, and | put him in the spare
chamber over the parlor, aud I've been
so frightened all the while
Lord bless you, Drusilla . said
Charlie. and Amen, said l.
And she, she getting holder, went on :
Aud took him up hot short cake and
apple-sauce and tea, aud also & candle
and hot brick for his feet and told him
TO go to bed in the best chamber, Aunt
Fairfax, with the white counterpart and
all, and locked him In, and put the key
In my pocket, and told him he should
have one nights rest, and that no one
should turn him out unless they walked
} over my dead body.
And Drusilla said 1t like an actress
in a tradegy, and went of into mysteries
the moment the words were out Of heI
mouth. She'd been expecting TO bt
: half murdered for doing it, you know
and the girl was but sixteen, and always
} before minded me as If had been hel
} mother.
: Never was all old sinner so happy 4,
t | was on that night-so thankful 10 the
good Lord and it would have done yoC
| good to have seen the two meet In the
, morning - Charlie and Bob. And
1 Charlie, who had got on so well, and haC
q mother shat was not poor either
g helped Rob into business. And he 90
over his wounds at last, and grew hand
e some as a picture, and to-day in week
t he is going to marry Drusilla,
I'll give you anything l have said |
Y and | won't even refuse you, Drusiia,
= when he asked me, telling me he ha(
e loved her ever since she was so kind L
' him. the night have told you OF.
4 And Charlie is to stand up with hiu
l and I'm to give Drusilla away, ant
L Rob's sister at Greenbank is to be brides
y maid, and have guess that some da!
Charlie will bring her home to me t(
I take Drusllla's place.
q / don't drive beggars from the doc
t as I used to, and no doubt | am Otter
e imposed on, but l say this Better b'
imposed on always, than to be cruel L
any who really need your help, AM
q I've read my Bible better Of late, and
;, know who says,-'Even as ye have don
it unto the least Of these, we have done
D unto me