New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-05-17
POsrOFFIcE box sI0.

EoE much longer are you going to
e Maggie :"
0nly a few minutes, dear. Be quiet;
Ia good BOY. Let me see-where was
Oh, Evelyn burst into convulslYe
ggie scratched away rapidly. Charley,
to be quiet, sat looking YEARLY at his
While she wrote. For over two hours
y been confined to his seat, alternately
at Maggie bending over the portfolio
Wrkling in the CRATE. The room was
AaaA silent and duh; the confinement
very lrkseme; Charley was restless and
Suddenly Maggie looked up again.
Ar you very tired, dear?"
les, Charley said, pitifully.
In very sorry, but 1t won't be long,
Evelyn has found her father. I've
ionen
Wait are you going to do with her little
Ag?s
o., he's going to grow up and marry
ihat will be nice"
Barley leaned back on his chair again,
Thought Of the characters of Maggie 8
b iof while. Then he wondered now
III. Barnes would give for it, and if
pay her Immediately or wait week
b, as he sometimes did, and Maggie
ing the money all the time, He hoped
give her enough so that she could get
Hev mittens she had promised him, and
ndia rubber overshoes for herself. She
asgff asgff feet every time she vent 70 the city
her old ones. He thought Mr.. Barn es
Too bad; but then Maggie said he
tlealize how she was situated, and
know anything about being poor, 50
ne didn't blame him. But he didn't
be did.
H'8hsre, dear, now you may run. Sister
going to write any more. You may
Willy Crosby to come up and play with
now. am going to the postottice.n
arley sprang up and ran away. Maggie
er finished story into an envelop and
BASED 1t to the publisherin Boston, and
70 prepare for her long, cold walk te
lly, II was a bleak December day, and
wished her shawl was thicker as she
td ton. But the ground was frozeI
70 she could not get her feet wet-thai
PIE advantage she had.
vas over a mile to the postoffice
he had walked the long, lonely roaC
atime, but somehow it never seemet
4 aud lonely before. Every wal
ahe could hear nothing but the crush
he ice beneath her feet. The skl
Iay and full of scudding clouds; thu
lt houses looked cherries and cold
eayy wind beat against her so that she
maize hut slow headway. Maggie haC
ed scarcely ten minutes before sh'
! that Sue was crying softly under hel
All dsy she had struggled with |
Ache, and been bright and Cheerful
e Charley, but alone on the desolat
desolate and bare as her life, she CAV
beneath the depression that had tor
he- so long. She sobbed and cried, still
ng bravclY on until she came to houses
then abe stopped. But she had no
away the heavy pain at her hear
she reached the postofice. The even
lal was Just distributed, and she steI
/ slskly into the office and raped o.
l9. At the same moment q gentleman
hil hand on box 200 which was jus
he did not mind Maggie-be wa
ltlv In haste-and when the cler
" iorth 3 number of letters and paper
= ook them and started for the dooi
a. received the next collection Of le'
hen some one pressed forward to u
d and she gave way. As she Walke
y lhe Office she looked eagerly at d
and then stopped IN blank surprits
we're all addressed IN unfamiliar pei
4 to Mr.. Hugh @. Tracey
y adag lady ~ called the clerk from q
ofce, II gave you the contents Of bo
y lon have Mr.. TraCey's mail,
VI es cheek flushed, for several genN
- sh0 were in the Office looked at he
1aouick glance around she obeyea =.
S. oQalse to find the Afr. Tracey whc'
she possessed, while he held B
'ng down the steps, she caught
paI q just stepping into an elegant 81
corner Of the next street, HURRY
.. succeeded In attracting his atterl1ls
RI Be started his horses. At the sopi
q foice, he checked them again.
Z. @ have my mail, cir, said Maggie
~ l1hhed and excited. s 9
Tracey sprang from his seat and atc'
her on the walk. fre
lar mail, madam n m
H. sir, the pOst0ffce clerk mede