Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-03-17

nv ears boxed because L r0DDed DlrdS
nests, and stole apples and peaches from
the neighbor's gardens. But that was
a long time ago. | have forgiven him
for all that. | say, George, if he should
take a fancy to us, we're in luck, amt
we? You won't say anything about"
'sAbout what %
81 was going to say about my bust
ness, but never mind. Only those who
have been behind the scenes know the
crooks and turns.
"You need not fear that shall say
thing to your disadvantage, John. You
will find Uncle Moses just one of the jol-
liest and kindest-hearted men you ever
saw"
And as soon as John had locked the
safe and finished his toilet the two cous-
ins set forth.
Uncle Moses had been brother to Johns
father, and to Georges mother. and for
many years he had been away in Europe
engaged in responsible agencies for
American houses and it was we'll known
that he had amassed fortune. He had
married in youth, but his wife had died
leaving no children, and he had never
married again ; so that the hopes of the
expectant nephews were not without foun-
dation.
At length the young men reached the
hotel, and, as George had been there be-
fore, he led the way.
"Uncle Moses he said, upon enter
ing the room where a genial faced. smil-
ing, portly, elderly gentleman, arose to
receive him. This is John-John, this
is Uncle Moses
John looked, and turned pale as death
Uncle Moses looked, and flushed like
a scarlet rose.
"How-this-John ?''
.Of course it is John, SIR" said George
in answer.
.'And not Joshua Slurr %
'Oh," cried George, thinking that
Uncle Moses mi ght have seen Johns face
beneath the pawn brokers' sign. That's
the name of the man who was in busi-
ness before him.
"And," added Uncle Moses, severely,
''if mistake not, it is the name under
which he now does business for himself. ~
John Gleddin could not deny it. for he
saw in Uncle Moses the man from whom
he had so meanly taken the valuable gold
watch. He tried to say something, but
the words choked him, and he stood like
a whipped cur before his relative. FL
nally he mustered up courage to ask the
old man to forgive him.
81 may forgive you,'' answered the
old gentleman, 'but cannot take you
into my confidence just yet. think you
had better go home and sleep upon it
l would rather not talk of it now, the
wound is too fresh
John Gleddin was no more anxious tc
stop than his uncle was to detain him
and without further words he took hi:
departure. Once more at his office, he
thought of the watch he had sold, and
of the two hundred and twenty-five dol
lars profit he had made, and the convic
tion was forced upon him that his grea
operation was likely to prove very
heavy settler upon his greater expecta
tions.
And so it ultimately proved. Uncl,
Moses could not take the dishonest, un
scrupulous nephew to his confidence no
to his love nor could John muster VI
the impudence to claim the tender re
CARDS of one whom he had so meanly ant
unmitigatingly wronged and abused
The result was, that the true-hearteC
printer ere long left his type-setting t.
assume the wealth which Uncle Nose
deemed him fit to enjoy. What the paw
broker may gain in time we cannot say
but if he ever regains the confidence h
has lost, it will be when he has show
by his works that he regards truth ant
honor of more value than the sordi
! profits of such operations as have here
tofore soiled his hands.