Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1870-01-14
stlect Storp.
HOW SHE PAID HER DEBT.


'.Oh, Charley, Charley, how could you
do such q thing?"
Idllas Wayland's round cheek Was
blanched To IN unwonted whiteness, a.
she stood before her brother in the close,
cramped room which constituted her sole
home.
Charley Wayland, handsome, dis
sipated looking youth Of two or three and
twenty, with bold, black eyes, and n
merry mouth that seemed made only TO
smile, stood opposite her looking halG-
repentaut. halt-defiant, as she spoke.
Lilly. couldn't help it. | tell YOU |
was hardup. Afellow must have money !;
YOU women don't know any thing about
the temptations and necessities of the
world
..But. Charley. she faltered, do you
know how this same world, rs YOU phrase
il, looks Al the deed YOU have just COM
mitted2 Oh, Charley and her voice
grew low and tremulous, lit is forgery"
Nonsense. Lii, Its only borrowing =
part of old Glencross' unused millions, to
aid nv needs. wrote and asked him for
cash, and he, the unmannerly lout refused.
Well. what could he expect after this, but
that should help myself"
Lilas wrung her slender hands.
How dared YOU, Charley? That a
WaylauI should come to htS." she
walled.
Dared" he echoed reckleSsly lit was
but stroke of the pen, after all 4; and old
Glencross would be paltrier mi5er than
/ take him TO be. if be makes fuss about
matter OF iye hundred dollars"
1t IS theIight and Justice OF the thing,
cried Lillas. almost lrantically. lit We
could pay him in any way but have
sold everything that remains four former
wealth. See and she looked round the
miserable apartment. ''Sec how live.
Last night sat upuniil midnight sewing
TO have q little money 10 pay the rent. l
have not Jewel lett. nor q trinket."
"Ob. bother. Lii IfoldGlencross cuts
up rough. it Is only taking q run across the
wate know lots of ship-captains that
would stow me away under their holds,
almost ANY moonlight night"
Li,las looked despairingly at him. Was
it, then. impossible to make him COM
prehend the moral obliquity of the deed
he had Jus, committed?
But Icant stay fooling here, " observed
the Young man. with toss of his black
curls. Il must be off about my business.
Good bye. Lii. Give us a kiss my girl
Except that you're uncommon fond OF
lecturing fellow. you're not bad sister
in the main"
After he had gone, Lillas sat down 10
try and realize the new situation in which
she and her brother were placed. All
now depended upon the spirit in which
Paulus GlencrosS should receive this new
encroachment upon his purse aud
patience.
Lilly had never seen this distant rela-
ton. vet she had formed an opinion ol
him in her inmost mind. as We all are apt
to do of unseen persons whom We hear 4
great deal about, and whenever she thought
ofAlr. Glencross, the image ola hook-nosc
old man, ycllow-skinned and cadaTerous,
engaged in sorting over piles of mortga'
ges. or counting bags of gold, suggested
itself 10 her mental eye.
But be must be humane. at least
thought Lilly. in the agony of her distress
"IfI go 10 him myself, and tell him just
what poor Charley necessities were land
how goOdhearted he really is, in spite of
all his faults and thoughtlessness-iil | say