New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-11-28

employment. While waiting he met MI.
Ebenezer Grant, who had been most affA-
BILE and most prOdigal Of his promises to
| get John employment. John admitted that
he was very much taken with his compan-
ion, and that he had confded toe much to
him. He told him of the curious old gen.
tleman who had intrusted his property
to him; he showed him the watch and the
notes; and Mr.. EbeneZer Grant had
taken great deal of interest in the story,
and had examined the watch and
the notes, and pronounced on the
quality of both. He had endeavored to
pursuade John to give them up to him to
keep; he had declared he knew the old
gentleman quite well and when be found
that this tack was unsuccessful, he made
| hints which John did not understand then,
but the meaning Of which he now under
stood fully, viz: that they should go OF
with the money and divide the spoil.
John then told more of his own history.
How his mother had died when he was
young, and his father only lately, leaving
his sister and himself totally unprovided
for; how they had sold the little furniture
in the cottage in the little country town
where they lived, and had come up to town
to seek their fortune, and how all their lit
tie fund was spent
When the little dinner party broke up, l
think everybody went home happier. Ed
mund Carew felt happier. 1t was not be-
cause he had made good start in his pro-
tession, for be was hardly aware Of that; he
had been interested 10 the case and had
forgotten himself; it was not because Mr..
Blenkinsopp had compelled him to take
one OF the bank notes as fee, declaring
that the case was his own, and Edmund
Carew bis barrister; it was not because he
had made the acquaintance of the senior
partner of an Influential firm of city law
yers-l think the happy faces of the brother
and sister whom he had befriended made
him feel happy; but this know, that when
he reached his lonely chambers, they did
not seem so lonely as u5ua'; fragrant
memory seemed to be present frail,
iairy-like form seemed to move about them
and when he fell asleep, he dreamed that
light finger was laid upon his elbow and
two bright little eager eyes were gazing
into his.
Mr.. Blenkinsopp went home happier.
He was lone old man. He had benevo-
lent heart; but he was odd. People
thought him stern old man; but they did
not know of the sweet home he had had
when young, and how in week the old
home had been broken up, and he had
been sent to the care of stern old aunt,
full OF precise kindness, and sharp, pru-
dent and saving ways; they did not know
OF the uphill fight he had endured, and
yet how he had forsaken many pleasure
and many gain that he might go home
aud watch by the side OF his sick old aunt,
who had been the making of him; still less
did they know the story OF the old Bible.
which his aunt had read so regularly to
him when he was a lad, and which he read
so regularly to his aunt when she was
an invalid; they did not know of that
night when the sternness of the aunt had
torsaken her. and the story of loving Sa-
Viors death had laid hold upon her heart.
and he learned to see that there was more
reality in that word than he had ever
thought OF, and went to his room to read
and pray, but not to rest They did not
know how the bright and happy truth had
at length dawned upon him, and how he |
had changed in all but the cold, stiff man |
ner that he could not change; for though |
the heart was warm and tender that beat |
within. there was needed something with
out to draw forth the kindlier manner.
John and his sister went home happier |
that night; for Johns misfortune had proved |
bis success, and he was to go to Mr.. Blenk- |
insopps tomorrow, and commence his &C.
,upatlon as clerk there at a fair salary.
John, said little Lucy as she babe her |
brother good night, IL have thought OF a
lice text for to-day"
$50 have l, Lucy
''What is yours, John 81
NO, tell me yours first, Lucy"
"'When my father and mother forsake
ne, the Lord taketh me up And now
'ours, John. u
~ have been young, and now am old,
yet never saw the righteous forsaken, nor
us seed begging their bread That's the
ext came into my mind when Mr.. Blenk-
nsopp told me could go to him as clerk. /
oar dear fathers life, Lucy,
nd how he wore himself out in trying to
elp others, and how he always said that
e could trust the Providence of God, be-
ause he knew the grace of Ged.n
Then they parted for the night, and little
'ucy knelt beside her tiny bed in that dingy
tile room, and thanked God for His care,
nd prayed a blessing on the good old
ian, and the noble young man who had be-
tended them that day.
There was a wedding some years after
lis, when Edmund Carew, ESQ, @. O.. was
larried to Lucy Henthorn, only sister of
ohm Henthorn, Esq, of the firm of Blenk-
lsopp d Henthorn; and a very happy
'edding it was, and people remarked that
Id Mr. Blenkinsopp looked che merriest of
ne party till the bride and bridegroom
'ent away, and then it was noticed that
9 coughed a good deal, and muttered to
imself and wiped his spectacle glasses
cry often. WHO.