The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-01-30

claimed, linging his cap, boy fashion, upon
the kitchen settee, and stepping up to the
kitchen fire. /" Not but what I've teen as
warm as toast, all but my ears and I'm
gers" he added, blowing upon the latter
as he spoke.
"Here is something for you, mother"
he said, seating himself on q stool at her
| feet, and tossing into her lap shining
| piece of gold.
"Why, Arthur, where did you get this"
"The strange gentleman down at the
tavern gave it me, mother. He asked me
| into his room, and gave me as many nuts
and raisins as could eat, beside"
az wonder who he Is ?" she said mu-
singly.
81 can tell you" exclaimed her hus-
band, his eyes flashing angrily. che is
| the owner of the Red Stone Farm house.
| He is the man who bid against me on the
| few articles 1 wanted to reserve. The
curse of the homeless rest upon him ~
| MAY, john" interposed his wife, gent
ly; "perhaps he did not know how highly
| you priced them"
Eyes he did; Parson Brown stepped up
and told him, but he only smiled, and said
ne wanted to buy everything just as it
| stood"
| "Well," said the boy, gazing thoughtful
ly into the fire. az can't help plying him,
he looked 80 sorrowful He asked me
| great many questions about you, mother,
and all the rest of US, and kept walking
up and down the room, wringing his
hands and groaning as if he was in great
! trouble"
81 will buy you new coat with this,
Arthur" said Mrs. Williams, as she exam
ined anew the gold coin. "You need ore
badly enough, she added, glancing with
sigh at his well-patched roundabout.
"You shall do nothing Of the sort, moth
err" said the generous-hearted boy. You
shall buy yourself and Sissy nice warm
shawl"
Before Mrs Williams could reply there
was quiet knock at the door. Farmer
Williams opened it. It was only boy
who brought small parcel for Mrs. Vii
liams.
"Another New Years gift, suppose"
he said bitterly, as he handed it to her, for
he was In bitter mood. Mrs. Williams
glanced reproachfully at her husband.
"God grant that it may bring us much
comfort" she said, laying her hand fondly
upon the head that was resting against her
knee.
i As she opened it she uttered an exclama-
ton of surprise. It was a deed of Red
Stone Farmhouse, and made GU in her
name On the inside wrapper were these
words:
"Inasmuch as We did it unto the least of
these, ye did it unto Me"
There were grateful and heDpv hearts be-
meath the roof of the old homestead that
!. night, though with Mrs. Williams joy
there was mingled an uneasy feeling. She
vas well assured that it was in some way
connected with Arthur, and trembled
; with apprehension lest some one should
appear who had stronger claims to him.
This fear was dissipated the next morn
ing, by letter that carie 10 her in the
!. first mail. It contained check for five
thousand dollars, together with these
words:
"The boy that you so generously re-
ceived ten years ago, and have so tenderly
cherished since, will never be taken from
you. The mother, forced to relinquish the
babe, dearer to her than life, is now in
Heaven. The father, who so basely for
sock ais child, and her whom he had
sworn to cherish, is unworthy of SO sacred
trust. In s. Bank you will find the
sum Of twenty thousand dollars deposited
in the name of your adopted son, OF
which he is to come into possession
when he is legally of age, and the inter
est of which is to be appropriated to
his support and education during his mi
nority."
To this singular letter there was neither
date nor signature. There were various
conjectures in regard TO the stranger, who
had been in the village for some days, and
from whom it was evident this letter came,
as well as the package received the night
before.
But when Arthur recalled to his mind
the look of sad, renaorseful tenderness with
which he had regarded him, he felt that it
must have been his father. Yet he often
said, as he looked into the face of his
adopted mother, that he wanted no dearer
friends than those he already had. And as
for Mrs. Williams, among all the blessings
that surrounded her, there was not one
that brought her purer Joy than he W HON
| she had taken to her heart when q friend
less babe, her New Years gift.
GoDEY's LADY's BooK-The contents
of Cooley for February are Picnic Rowland
(continued;) Antiquity of Kissing; Contrast;
Revolt in the Kitchen; Does He Remember; Two
Faces under Hood, Miss Edgeworth's Life and
| Letters Waiting; WHAT st, Valentine Brought to
Eoline; Dreams of Childhood; Pearl and Pearl
| Shell Gossip; Constance; Editors Table, Litera-
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