Litchfield enquirer., 1869-02-18
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ought to have said so. for to permit suf5sr- ling for the sake of joyful surprise is not good. Going home first, he was hardly seated in his room, to turn oyer not the matter but the means, when Q knock came to the shop door, the sole entrance, and there were two policemen bringing the de- serter in cab. He had been run oyer in the very act of decannping with the con- tents of the till. had lain all but insensible at the hospital while his broken leg was being set, but, as soon as he came to him. self had gone into such fury of detefmi- nation to return to his master, that the house surgeon saw that the only chance for the ungovernable creature was to yield. Perhaps he had some dim idea of restoring the money ere his master should have dis covered his loss. AS he was very little, they made couch for him in the cab and so sent him. " IaI
 It would appear that the suffering and the faintness had given his conscience c chance of being heard. The accident was to Charley what the sight of the mountain peak was to the boy Wordsworth. He was delirious when he arrived, and instead of showing any contrition towards his master only testified an extravagant joy at finding him again. Stephen had him taken into the back room, and laid upon his own bed. One of the policemen fetched the charwo- man, and when she arrived Stephen went to find Sara. ".43
 She was sitting almost as he had left her, with dull, hopeless look. sja
 T am sorry to say Charley has had an &C., cident, he said.
 she started up and clasped her hands.
 He is not in prison 2 she panted in c husky voice. No; he is at my house. Come and see him. I don't think he is in any danger, but his leg is broken
 A gleam of joy crossed Sara's counten. ance. She did not mind the broken leg, for he was safe from her terror. She put on her bonnet, tied the strings with trembling hands and went with Stephen.
 You see God wants to keep him out of prison too, he said, as they walked along the street. lt ag'h t'
 But to Sara this hardly conveyed an idea. She walked by his side in silence.
 Charley Charleyp she cried when she saw him white on the bed rolling his head from side to side. Charley ordered her away with words awful to hear, but which from him meant no more than words of or dinary temper in the mouth of the well nurtured man or woman. She had spoiled and indulged him all his life, and now for the first time she was nothing to him, while the master who had lectured and restrain. ed him was everything. When the sur geon wanted to change his dressing he would not let him touch them till his mas ter came. Before he was able to leave his bed, he had developed for Stephen terrier like attachment But after the first fever ishness was over, his sister waited upon hi m. -.t.,7 r..zorj4 a..s... t,..-..'-..-', :. Stephen got lodging, and abandoned his back room to the brother and sister. but he had to attend to his shop, and there fore saw much of both ot them. Finding then to his astonishment that Sara could not read, he gave all his odd moments to her instruction; and her mind being at rest about Charley so long as she had him in bed, her spirit had leisure to think of oth-r CT things. ,r
 She learned rapidly. The lesson book was, of course, the New Testament; and Stephen soon discovered that Sara's ques- tions, moving his pity at first because of the ignorance they displayed, always left him thinking about some point that had never occurred to him before; SO that at length he regarded Sara as being of superior intelligence, waylaid and obstruc- ted by unfr1endly powers upon her path towards the threshold of the kingdom, while she looked up to him as to one ,su. preme in knowledge as in goodness. But she never could understand the pastor. This would have been great trouble Co Stephen, had hot his vanity been hattered by her understanding of himself. He did not consider that growing love had en- abled him thus to use an ordinary human language for the embodiment of common. sense ideas; whereas the speech of the pas tor contained such an admixture of the f1 ho %all lirxifH Ahn neophyte. ~--t.-t ..-
 Stephen was now distrsssed to find that whereas formerly he had received everye thing without question that his minister spoke, he now, in general, went home, in doubting, questioning mood, begotten of asking himself what Sara would say. He feared at first that the old Adam was be- ginning to get the upper hand of him, and that Satan was laying snares far his soul. But When he found at the same time that his conscience was growing more scrupul- ous concerning his business affairs, his hope sprouted afresh. 5yr 4Y- .t4aC.l
 One day, after Charley had been out for the first time, Sara with little tremor of voice and manner addressed Stephen thus :- r -s r~7-aE'U .a!B5s
 I shall take Charley home tomorrow, if you please, Mir. Archer
 
 been paying for these lodgings all this time. @ 4f.psu t.as q
 Yes, Mir. Archer. We must have some where go to- It aint easy to get Q room at any moment, now them railways is every where's. c. IeEsafa.9 tag ~. .J.
 But hope as how you're comfortable where you are, Sarav ...ss.a.5.
 sYes, MT. Archer But what am to do for all your kindnessp se,% s5 You can pay me all in lump,if you like Sara. Only you do not owe me anything. v Her color came and went. She was not used to men. She could not tell what he would have her understand, and could not help trembling. s..-,s. ,..-,rfl. .i,t
 .What do you mean. Mir. AroherT she faltered out. '''''- A' -+''' ''A'' @'''<i
 T mean you can give me yourself, Sara, and thatl clear all scores
 But Mir. Archer,-youy'e been a-teach- ing of me good things, ,--you don't mean to marry mel cried Sara, bursting into tears.
 Of course do, Sara. Don't cry about it. I won't if you don't like. gaF. s.tsfl6
 This is how stephen came to change his stock in trade. !,
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