The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-12-09
FREMONT 8ANDU8KY COUNTY OHIO FRIDAY DECEMBER I870

eyes," he said slowly, "Child,
did not know you were there"
She heard him not. She stoo,
and stared and at last threw hersel
ION his fatherlV breast.
"Do not think 1 weep for M
wealth. l can stand that, but tht
other humiliation; wei was SC
proud ofmy good family.
She took off her queenly robes
and remained at home.
The intelligence of the Judges
failure flew through that city as il
on the wings of fire, and the friends
who had admired the erich Miss
Chester" dropped off one BY one.
The Judge left his stately man.
sion and they took rooms in a small
neat boarding heuse. He watched
how bravely she bore her reverses,
and sighed.
Fanny insisted upon the old pro.
gramme which she had marked out
for herself before she had ever
dreamed of being reduced.
81 will not be burden to you,'
she replied to the Judge, when he
pleaded with her to abandon her
scheme.
She went braEely to the trustees
of the school where she had been
educated, and laid her case before
them. They listened attentively.
They believed there must be sterling
qualities within the girl, that she
could readily face her fate. They
gave her the position she desired.
The night she was to commence
her labors the Judge called her to
him.
Fanny" he said, Gin Just six
months from this day was to give
up your property to your own care,
and be your guardian no longer.
What can you think of the way
have fulfilled my trust?'
She then threw her arms around
his neck.
"Donot think ofmy loss, guardie, y
she exclaimed. "You have been q
father, true, good father to me. !
have been a butterfly of fashion, but
now you shall see that 1 can be some,
thing else"
He pressed her convulsively to
his breast.
God will reward you" he said;
II know 1 was not mistaken in nv
estimation of your nobility of char.
acter."
For months she filed her position
as teacher honorably, and declared
himself happier than she had ever
been in her life before.
John Wallace visited the old Judge
in their humble lodgings much more
frequently than in their prosperous
days.
Fanny was very pleasant and
seemed anxious to erase the rude
ness of the past from his mind.
Their intimacy ripened into friend
ship, and from friendship into love.
The Judge looked on with intense
satisfaction.
The anniversary of Fanny Ches.
ter's twenty-frst birthday came, the
day on which he was to yield up his
control of her.
"I wish Won TO take q ride with
me, Fanny" he observed, and she
prepared to do so.
They drove to his old residence.
"What does this mean?" she ask
ed, with flushed cheeks.
81 mean that l have taken a fancy
to visit our old home" he ventured.
"You know it has only been occupied
by servants since we left it."
She made no response. She fol-
lowed him up the high brown stone
steps into the library and offered
her a chair.
He then took rou of papers and
laid them before her.
"This is your birth day, my dear,'
he said, and I render up to you all
that which was intrusted to my care.
l knew you were noble and good,
and had a strength of character
which you yourself were unaware of.
Loving you as I did and do, it pain
ed my heart to see you that shallow
creature woman of fashion,
firt. l knew you knew not your
own heart, and judging your friends
wrong. In all things else bat this
one you were perfect, and before 1
relinquished all claims to you l
wished to open your eyes. NJ y pow
erty, your loss, was but pretence.
Can you forgive me?"
She sprang from her chair. She
buried her face in his bosom and
wept.
81 thank you," she said, when her
emotion subsidized sufficiently to al.
low her to speak.
"You have taught me a lesson
which I shall never forget, l will
never again be the useless, foolish
creature of the past"
The Judge was satisfied, and he
wiped a suspicious moisture from
his eyes.
"And John Wallace?" she asked,
with a questioning look.
Believed as you did my dear"
She made no comments.
The circle in which she reigned
supreme was surprised to hear that
her poverty was but freak to test
their friendship; and many of the
heartless dandies cursed their stup-
idity in giving her up so easily.
A month passed, and John Wal
lace had not called. He sent in his
congratulations to the Judge and
"Miss Chester" but that was all.
Fanny wrote him note.
Mr. Wallace obeyed the summons
Six months later Fanny Chester be-
came Fanny Wallace.
Mr.. Wallace is now one of our
most eminet lawyers noble ex-
ample Of what poor, friendless boy,
if ambitious and industrious, can
accomplish and become.
The old Judge lives yet, and is
contented and happy.
How the French Ladies Treat the
Germans.
A correspondent of the Milwaukee Sentinel,
who is with the German troops at Versailles.