The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1868-04-04

' snkps when decided to retufn to nv d
lo1ging, and have days rest bsfors settir
= oufs MY wanderings.
] Th3 nv baEsfA and the night ara N
o next day, and fWssss sstill Ia bed, the goo
1 folks tending me like = child. Ny limb
oil whict had been racked with pain, NO. fe
: easyfrnd Twas ready for start agait. Bi
thQpght fbsre would be opposition, 90 gc
up very quiet, and was putting on nv thing,
when the room door opened, and. to n
J wonder IN came Jack Glover.
} si4lIoa, Charley, here we are 70 he cried
seisipk rry hand, and giving it a heart
! squeeze ssWbo would have thought Of j
/ TIVE being alive to-day ~
II "W&lh Jack l answered. ~ am els,
Tor yoe, bnt 4 shculdn't have cared for my
sHeH His t6sE r he asked.
n,a5 ssssss ! have something on m
aYodps he said, laushins, and riv;.
me litne push Here, now, sit down, and
have a.s's. :Pils. and il win 60 of like tn
II d&r e.rs II never smoke again."
said, ssyseclys @8s
"Nos III just tel. .yeu What il is,n said
S.ias.,, S:in sea have b''s A''ins tiff with Ou'
Il haFen't" answered. my cheeks burn
well You know best about that,o con
tinued Jack; "but it's what guess, because
you were seen talking with her, and she had
a crying it directly after. And when she
heard from me that it was you who brought
me up from the pit, she fell on my neck and
tainted.
"Didn't she know it before ?" asked, re-
lenting.
MOS
"rhsn, PIl just tell you about her and me, .
| said.
WAS . long time telling IT. but Jack sa
up as II ne was listening TO play or q ser
mon at . chapel. gave him 4 description
oil Nelly thst would have done for the Hue
and Cry; went into all the feelings she had
raised in my breast told him how 7 had
watched for her, thought Of ber and dreamed
Of her and finally Tecoupted our last colo
guy. Jack never moved muscle, and not
till stopped for breath did he put ia q
word.
"Don't you think you've been little fast.
Charley" be then said, dubiously.
"How do you mean % l answered
why, in going up so. Suppose, when
Nelly said she couldn't have you, you had
put your arm round her waist and said she
must ?'
This view had never struck me, and rather
took me abaek.
"But there was her promise to you and
her mother never to marry . pitman," |
urged.
$50 there Was But die you never hear
that .1rox. l. -
II can't say but have" muitered,
ciapping on my hat
"Where are you going r. said Jack.
"You wait here a minute" ! splied.
With that ! took two strides down the
stairs into the road, and hurried of to Mrs.
Glovef's cottage. | stood outside minute,
when | opened the door, and the first thing
I saw was Nelly, sitting BY her mother, and
looking like ghost-only ghosts never look
pretty. She gave mFoRe look, then started
up and -spEaRs INTO my arms. Ny heart
was so full 4eohldn't speak al first, but
thought | must do something, so | slipped
my aTm SaroIIa her waist, as Jack recon-
mendcc. Now felt sure Of her, and Of all
the happiness the world could give, and, as
my breast swulled proudly, began to bear
little malice.
"Ah, Nenyg fyou had only loved me-
said.S
Sa.iy tlghts., } bsr arms round my neck.
"How happy " might have been ri
continued.
'Then We Ssa be, Charley" she muir
INJURED.
"How, NsIlyf We can never marry, you
know,
"The little fingers unlocked, and | felt
Nelly falling away, but Remembered Jacks
counssi, and held her by the waist.
There's your promise to your mother
and Jack continued; how we are to get
over that ="
= forgot that > faltered Nelly, as white as
q sheet.
Sand what do you say to it, mother"
criec 70 the old lady.
Mrs Glover got up and took Nelly's and
and ,-Ht it in mine.
"That's what say to it," she said, heart
lily; land know Jack is Of the same mind. :"
And this is what | say to it" cried,
giving Nelly kiss-
You won't be surprised to hear that we
were married the next week. And now
am the viewer o. the colliery; and as for
Nelly, she viii telf you that, though she has
married pitnan, ana has her roughs and
smooths like other women, there is no hap
pier woman 10 the kingdom. Temple Bar