The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-04-16
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TOUCHING SKETCH.
Twenty.avs Cents

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twenty-five Cents,
please sir, will YOU buy my chesinutsS'
'Chestnutsl N, 7 returned Ralph Moore,
> looking carelessly down on the upturned face
whose large brown eyes shadoWed By tangled
cutls Of fdxsn hair, were sppealiog 50 pitt
fully TO bis own what do ! want with chest
! nutsF 9H Hs al
But please sir. do buy EN- pleaded the
little one, re- assured by the rough kindness
of his tone. Nobody seems to care for EN-,
IRnd-and--' .. Isr-. els .aAFt = 4tff
She fairly burst into tears, and Moore,
who had been on the point Of brushing
carelessly past her, stopped instinctively.S
} Are you very much in want Of the
money! s.f .ss bs- fss
Indeed sir, We are, sobbed the child,
'moher sent me out and .-,.
Nay, little ore, do not cry, in such
broken.hearted way, said Rslpb; smoothing
3 her hair down With careless gentlsness, i
don't want your chestnuts, but here is a
quarter for you, ifthat viii do you any good
He did not stay TO hear the delighted in
coherent thanks the child poured out through
a rainbow of smiles and tears, but streds on
his way, mutteripg between his teeth;,
That cuts OF my supply Of cigars for the
next twenty -four hours. Idln't care though,
for the broWB-eyed object really did cry IS if
she hadn't friend 10 the world. Hang it,
wish ], was rich enough to help every poor
creature out of the Slough of Eespoudl
While Ralph Moore was induIging IN these
! very reflections, the dark orbedl little d. msvl
, whom he had confronted, was d4shiug down
the Street with quick elastic step, utterly re-
gardless OF the basket Of unsold nuts that
dangled upon her arm. Down an obscure
lane she dartsd, between tai ruiEOuslTows
of houses. and Up narrow wooden staircase
to a room where pale, neat looking woman
with large brown Eyes like her own, was
sewing as busily as if the breath of life dee
pended upon every stitch, and two little
ones were playing in the sunshine that
Temporarily supplied the place of the absent
| fire. $780, 1d-
Mary! back already7 Surely you have
not sOld your obestnuts so sooDlrF IA
No, mother, mother seel ejscuated the
breathless child "A gentleman gave me
whole quarteIl Only think mother whole
quarterl'
If Raph Moore could only have seen the
rapture which his tiny silver gift difuscd
around it, in the poor widows poverty
strickeh home be would have grudged still |
less the temporary priVations of cigars to |
which his generosity had subjected him, 4
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Years came and vert The little chestnut
girl passed as entirely out of Ralph Moore
memory as if her pleading eyes had never
touched the soft spot in his heart but Mary /
Lee never forgot the stranger who had given
her the silver piece.
#E
The crimson window curtains were closely II
drawn to shut out the storm and tempest Of
the b!eik December night-the fire was
glowing chserfully in the we'll filed CRATE,
and the dinner table all in glitter with cut
glass, rare china, and polished silver, only Il
waiting for the presence of Mr.. Audley.r II
What can it be that detains papal said II
Mrs. Audley,a d fair handsome matron Of
about thirty as she glanced at the dial Of
tiny enamsled watch. SIX o'clock, and does h
not make his appearance. r-p- i
There's a man with him in the study d
mamma-coms on business, said Robert
Audley, pretty boy Of eleven years old,
who was reading by the fire. ~ 5di lHs 1,
IN call him again. said Mrs, Audley IL
stepping TO the door. lz
{ But IS she openedit the brilliant gas.nght Il
fell full on the face of an humble looking Z
man in threadbare garments; who was leav- II
ing the house, while her husband stood in L
the doorway Of his study, apparently reliey- Il
ed to be rid Of his visitor. II
Z Charles said Mrs. Audley, whose cheek Ii
had paled and flushed, who is that man 1t
and what does he Want3' h
His mama is Moore, believe, slovsy ard Ia
he came to see II would bestoE upon him 10
that vacant messengership in the bank. h
And will your S
4 don't know Mary-I must think about
it, l1
Charles give him the situation. a
'CtWhy, my lover Is
Because, / ask it Of you as favor, and IA
yoa have said thousand times you would e
never deny noe anything. -- ----,--. 81 /
And l viii keep my word Mary, said v
the lover husband with sn a6ectionate kiss f
III write the fellow anotsthis evening. ] lii
believe I've got his address somewhere
about me- t..- ada ,e ,...s7 z
An hour or two later, when Bobby, aud U
Frank and Little Minaie were locked snJg- "
" up in bed 10 the spaci6ns nursery shove "
stairs. Mrs. Agdley told her husband why lol
she was interested in the fate of man whose
face she had not seen for twenty years. Il
That's right INV little wifsf said her al
husband, folding her fondly TO his breast d
never forget one who has been kind to you v
in days when you needed kindness most
Ralph Moore was sitting that self-same
night'in his poor lodgings by his ailing
wife,s sick bed, when liveried servant
brought rOte from the rich and prosperous
bank director, Charles Audley.
sGoJd news Berthal' he exclaimed Joy j j
1usly, as he read the brief words; we shall Z
rot starve7-N Mr.; -Audley promises me the .,
vacant situalionI II,
u'You have dropped something from the Z
ao!e Ralph. said Mrs. Moore, pointing to = J.
,lip of paper that lay on she foOr H =,
Moore stopped to recover the estray.
It was a fifty dollar bill neatly folded in a =,
piece Of paper on which was written: T.
In grateful remembranos of the silver y,
quarter that kind stranger bestowed on a \
.5estnut girl twenty years ago -,.-- -
Ralph Moore had thrown his morsel Of :,
,read on the waters oflifs, and after many h.
lsJ it had returned tohinh ~og 1-s1Il IL