The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-01-04

wv iO' uio'u uuShy lace, WHOSE Color was
finely set off by the snowy whiteness of her
kinky hair.
Well, bress dc Lord ~ she said Joyous
ly, "ef here amt my boy, a cC,nin' to see
me Ill my own room, de room he glib me all
for myself Set down, chile Well, there.
clair for it, the chairs is pooty much occu-
pied. 'Tis 'mazin' how things gets heaped
up with me clarin' up all the time. Yis,
honey, jist turn dem tings rite out ON de
floor. Dey aint much 'count-iist q few
stockings | was gwine to cut over for Nan
cy's chil'en."
"Aunt Rhoda," said, as soon as could
get i'll word, "do you know, or did you
ever know person by the name of Alicia
Orton."
Lord, massy, yes. Well, no, not zactly
elder, but know about de moder OBJ her,
she dat was Margp ret Reeves, an married a
orton, but o'ter 'narried your grandfather,
an III say dat ef am talkin to you. But
dar de Lord, ]tnows yo aint noways to
blame so don't yer trouble yerself, honey"
said she, with the rambling garrulity of old
aye.
"oNght TO have married my grandfather?
WhyT' | said, trying to bring her back to
that head of her discourse
why? Hadn't q man orter marry n
gal whell he hangs around her wear or
two, and gets her so she aint no eyes nor
rH'tihin' for nobody but him? His folks
beat i'm out of it, yer see. Nobody neber
was good enough for de Launces dem DAYS.
But he repented on it, pend on dat. He
aev ar took no comfort wild de woman he
married, and neber was like himself arter
w'rrd. But yer aint in no wise to blame
about it, ef she was yer grandmother, hon.
ey.'
Poor old aunt Rhoda She had always
soft place in her heart for her boy, as she
always called me big and little.''
began to see through this matter. MY
grandfather had willed his property to the
child of his Old sweetheart as an atonement.
There was something of spite mingled with
this more Christian-like spirit, | thought
afterwards, when aunt Rhoda explained his
cruel and complete ignoring of me, by in
forming me that he never manifested
the slightest fatherly feeling for his own son
my father, seeming only to regard him as
the child of the wife he hated.
Z" Do you know where this Alicia Orton is
now?' | said again.
oval, no; yis, p'raps do. Pears now
head Nancy say somethin' about Miss
Orton that was teachin music to Mss Price S
chil'en, when she was down to Fairbanks s
on visit. Nancy" she said, elevating her
voice to higher key, "what was that mu-
sic teachin' Orton's fust name?"
And from some invisible quarter came
back the fateful reply:
"Alicia''
"Aunt Rhoda,, said " this place, and
all have so long thought was mine, is this
Alicia Orton's | have discovered today.
that grandfather left II will and by that
will every dollar of this property is given to
her."
The good old creatures aged eyes filled
with tears, and she rocked herself back and
forth in state of great dismay and SYM
pathy.
"Don't yer neber say nothin' bout it,
honey, neber. He hadn't no right to will
his property way from his own blood that
way neber see sich a topsy-turvy world
as dis is. clare for it I'm glad I'm most
down to 'Jordan's shore. OATS what your
grandfather wanted to tell 'em an could
! MT, whar dat ar was. lie had stroke you
see. an neber could speak or lift finger
arterit, an all the time tryin' to, three
days an nights. He was an awful
close communioned kind Of man. Neber
told nobody nothin' Dey asked him (his
lawyer man died iist before he did yer see)
OF dar was any will, an some thought he
meant yes, an some no, but dey neber
found none, so nobody don't know nothing