St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1871-12-15
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\ Loss AND GNI\


iIr >uiall. silent. attentive. a~silIull-
Dr small. set himself to work to bind
up the Mnumdcd heart "f Bud Means.
even ~ lac had hound up his broken
aim. The tattrlv "t his tine eyes.
which luol>rd al BUd'~ muscles 80 ad
miIimglN. which gave attention to hi,
lightc>t remark. WIS not lost on the
vnrluy Flat Creek Hercules. Outward
ly 1T least Pete Jones showed no i'll
clinatinn IL revenge himself on Bud.
Was it respect for mH>Clc. or WAS il the
influence of Small NJ amy ratr. the
concentrated extract nf the resentment
of Pete Jones and his clique was now
ready to empty itself upon the head of
IIart>ook. And Ralph found himself in
hi, dir, ,->tItIuitN without oven til"
support "f Bud. whose good resolutions
seemed :n give way :ll II once. her"
have been many men al culture amt
more favorable surroundings VIII" have
thrown tlrm~rlNr~ away with less prov
ucatjnn. y ii WAS. Bud quit school.
avoided Ralph. and seemed more than
ever under the influence OF lbr. snail.
hc>idc> becoming the intimate "i W al
ter johnson. SmalrS student and MIS-.
Matilda Whites son. The! made Il
strange, pair Bad with Iii firm jaw and
silent rlutious manner. and Walter
johnson With his weak chin. his nice
cravat tic< and general damd> appeal
arrr.
10 hr thus deserted in his darkr~;
Hour l,y his only tricnd VIZ: the bitter
est iugrc,iirm, III Ralph'~ emp. In Vain
hr sought an interviews. hu! alwaH
,Iildcd him. While ly aIl the faces
about him Ralph Learned ihJt the storm
v"> getting m,.ti,r and i.:u.ri to hlm-
self. 1t might delay: if ii had been
Pete .foa,~ alone. ii might blow over.
/ But Ralph t,it sure that the gcicn.lC>>
liand Of DIR. :>mall WAS present III all
his tIuuhr-. Aud he had only to look
+ into Smaii'> cl, to know how incNtin-
-ui~hahir w:i~ q mtli%ni,> dat burned
80 steadily and 81 quietly.
But there l. no cup of uuuiNCd bitter
mess. Ni!h an imuoccut man thclc l.
ru night - dark that >uIur >tdt doe
not slime. Beside his religious faith
Kalrh hid one >ti"ng ,h"ct au"hnI.
Om hi, return from l.;.Wi>iUi% on Mon
daN Bud had handed him Il note. writ
ten ON c"mnuu blue foul>cap. i'll round,
old -f;l~liunrd hand. II ran:
"Drm sir: Anyh"dy who can Il" 81
good thing aS ynu did Ia" our Sh"rkN.
can NOT hc bad. hope You will toI-
give ne. vi tEc appearances i'll tho
world. and aii that anNh"dN says. can
not make uc t!inl> Nou anything else
( hut II good man. hope G"d will re-
ward Nuu ! on must not answer this
and Nou hatlu't better see me again, ol
think ANY more Of What Nou spoke
about he other night. | shall he !;
slave for three Years more, and thea
must work for my mother and Sh"ckN
but felt 50 had to think that had
spoken 50 hard TO you. that | could uot
help writing this. Respectfully,
"lIANNAn TH"M>">.
To Nix. X. iIAET>OOK. ESQ
Ralph read ii over and over. What
else he did with it shall not tell. Ior
want to know if he kissed it. and put il
in his bosom. Many Il man aS intclli
gent and manly as llartsook has done
quite a> foolish :, thing as that. Ior
have been Il little silly perhaps if it i.
,illy-and Nou have acted i'll Il scnti
mental sort of Il way over such things
But il would never do for me to tel
Won what Ralph did. Whether he pu
the letter in his bosom or not. he pu
he words in his heart, and, metaphor
cally speaking. he shook that little blue
billet. written on coarse foolS-cap pa
. per-hc shook that little letter. full O
r confidence, in the face and eyes of al
the calamities that haunted him.
Hannah believed in him. the who'll
, world might diStruSt him. When Han
= nah was in one scale and the Who'll
world III the other, of what account wa
} the world Justice may bc blind. TN
all the pictures of blind crpids in tn
f world can not make Love blind. An
: it was well that Ralph weighed thing
4 in this way. For the time was come i
0 which he needed all the courage til
a blue billet could give him.
b (TO be cOntinHed.)
h The Heather Chincc" pridcs himsc
Il on paving up all his debts at the hegir
, ming of each year. and places over Ii