Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-02-19

said |, 'ihe B0TRe0. Charlie Ianc, Is
due cau't We see, from the skylight in
the garre;, If she is in the bay p /
"He proposed gning upto see. Roy
went ahead and opened the skylisht.
The place was dusky as a grave. and jus,
as Jolly. There was no B0rHeo in sight.
Account books aud bundles Of paper lay
here and there. with dust upon them
nearly inch deep. And over these things,
that had one day aIneauing and value,
and neither now, the spiders had woven
their hcmes, and were having in turn
their little cares. We looked about us
curiously. Roy rcmarking book Oh ;op
of the pile, less dusty than the others,
proposed TO n,e TO take it down stairs as
curiosity. [ did. The skyhght WIS
lowered, the two sunbeams, that had van
shed as we opened the light, came back
again, aud lay athwart one another like
bars Of dusky gold. Downstairs VIC sat
and examined our prize. 1t was not a
bank book, but ledger, evidently be-
longing to the general, and filled with
records and dealings long years before,
when in the wood and coal business The
writing was neatncss itself, Rarely a
blot or an erasure did we see, as Roy sat
rather indiffercntly turning the leaves.
Occasionally there remained an unbalonc-
ed account. The fuel had become smoke
and ashes long ago, and the debtor dust.
may bo. Here was one Job Jones, charg.
ed with cord of wood generation ago.
Out Of this scanty material we imagined
history for this later Job. We invented
for him little pleas for his delinquency I;
that he had married a wife that he had
left the town; that he never had it; that
it was only half n cord; that he paid for
it at the time, &c. Ne crtheless, it is q
shame, Job jones, for you to owe for ev.
er for the feel that boiled yoarkctte, and
blessed your hea-thstone, and, pcrchance,
warmed to life one of the innumerablc
little Joneses, we concluded. Didn't hi,
ears burn2
"Whilo we were laughing over this, the
door softly opened, and Amy Woodsor
appeared. | had almost expected 'twa,
the ghost of the said Jones.
: "She wished again to see the book con
tanning those entries of the 10 tn Of May
5 Roy brought it, Amy sat at one side o
4 the tablc; Elwell and at the other.
d She porel over the page, as her fathe
had, doubtless, done before her, will
dreamy, misty eyes. We mentioned tn
! reason of our mirth. | took the book
n carelessly, and opened it, Roy and Am
n looking on as turned now one leaf, the
c three or four together; when Ny hcav
i eus!' | exclaimed. They started. Am
G leaned over the table. Her breath wer
and came quickly. By Jove, car fec
II it now, on my check Never wind ca
blow.,hat away. There, staring us all
It the face, were two one thousand dola
5, bank bills. | swear | saw JOY 60 int
o her eyes.
= 1t was pretty clear to her. TheI
:. was fresh writing on the credit side Of a
y account. The old general had had IL
l. book from the garret and upon his tab
s. that 10 til of May. Exchanging the Til
:. for some customer, he had laid them {
3, the open book and absen,ly closed it.
le was then returned to its old place in Il
ID garrett. His mind being distracted by h
y pecuniary troubles, the transaction of Il
!? bills ha! made no mark upon his mcmor
o. This was our theory
sr Amy had dreamed, singuarly, thi
he she was greatly comforted by o book, al
C. this was the reason of her co:aing and ga
ing for the one we had first examined. !"
In /" And you say Amy married Roy2 "
~ "Ay, ay; and their boy they've nam
pit Frank Manly Elwell. Turn in, Hal,
It, must look after my girl, the Suaset."
e. | obcyed; and in moment more
it. thought | landed on a wharf in Bramb
ed head, and the first sign that met my e
Of was Job Jones. Dealer in Coal, Wo
y. and Bark, For Cash Only" A brea
OF nosed, 6ery-eyed little old man lean
/ ? over an old fashioned door that was di
or ded in the middle, half shut and h
ID open.
ce "Job Jones said /, . Frank Mar
Of and Roy Elwoll have judged yon unjust
lc- That cord Of wood they thought you ow
for. l continued, as his CLASSY e,
nd seemed to demand an explanation. I
ng little man was SILENT but he gave m,
so look which said plain enough. "What
en human justice to ME, OF Injustice F? /"
un And Job Jones, for could no. thi
'or of him as any other being, became
Dor stanily stature Of ice; tear trick
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