Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1872-12-19
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No. sir !, I an gong to sall the neigh.
I'm, | said resoldtsly.
Going With that nifht-eab on Yeu'll
DGks your fortune. But dvn't hurry, that's
Z dear. Lets have little frieadly talk.
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otbef woman nearly to death-no. sir!'
We'll. then, III give you two hundred.
No. SIR
Name your price then, dear girl. I
suppose every woman has her price-they
say every woman has,
No; it wouldn't be right said, hes
itatingly.
neard chuckie.
First step toward it 4; she begins to talk
Of what is right
I thought Of my poor girl out to work
By the week. and SO anxious to get an ed
ucation. and I'm sure it isn't to be won
dered at If I did begin to thiak ossetting a
price. But / said not word.
Look here! I'll put FIVE hundred dol.
lars in good sound gold uuder the door.
and you can count it as push it through
piece BY piece. if you'll only let me out Of
this cursed hole I'm smothcring.'
Try some chloroform.' I whispered
through the key hole.
Curse the chloroform! viii you Let
me outr
I had a ligh. BY this time; and had
slipped into q calico wrapper and my slip
pers.
I'll got the money, how could I let
him out of the closetT I wondered. 4
should not dare to meet him bed rob me
again, and perhaps murder me- But I
said. III take the gold resolving that I
would try to get out Of it somehow, just
for the sake Of poor Rebccca, who so much
wanted to 60 to school.
Your heart i, in the right place. he
said and the next moment big round
gold piece came through the wide crack
under the door.
/ couldn't withhold an exclamation Of
delight.
ITS all right enough now. i-n't it. be
sueered. There's nothing like gliding
over our sins little. Bah all the worlds
alike Here goes another, and another,
and another. Count fast. my pious dam
sci. dare say there's no confessional in
your church 7
is there in yours?'
We'll. if there was, gold gets into that
sometimes. they say. Hold fast, there /;
you have got the last clinker, now Sc, mu
free
Wait a minute
But won't wait, I swe.r I WON'T
Can you help yourself%
Well no, not much but I'm smoth
cring iu here. Can't you take pity on a
poor fellow?'
sit down fat on the aoor.' said.
heard him plump down as obedient as
school boy.
What nextT
turned to the kitchen door to see II
the lock was all right Then turned the
key with a sharp click, which sounded to
me like the report Of a pistol.
There + I cried. and sprang into the
kitchen, locking the door behind me.
He came out Of his prison swearing like
trooper.
Sharp old Satan she's locked herself
up somewhere trying the kitchen door as
she spoke. Good night, Madam, Dell
--good night! You've got the best OF
this. You have robbed me. Good night
Get down and say your prayers
And did. What is more. cried like
a baby over my money, thinking what j.
would bring to rs.
l never saw the strange burglar again.
and in few weeks Rcbecca was comfort
ably settled at school No one ever knew
where the money came from. An uncle
died about that time and some of INV neigh
bors shrewdly suspected that he had left
rs something but had nothing to say
on the subject.
About six months after my adventure
brother Joe came to me. one day, and said
that he bal been stopped id the street BY
a strange man that morning. and that he
had begged him to say to Madame Quinn
BY that the frill Of her nightcsp vas just
= little too wide So saying be passed on.
What did lie mean r Joe asked.
Nothing. only he was crazy answer
ed but my face was red as blaze.