South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-04-25


was flushed, bur, was With healthful la
Dor, ami not with shame, the steady bright.
ness of his eyes showed th,t.
Are you regularly hired hero 2
Yes, sir. The contractor give me this
berth until o,u fud one better
What does he ply your
Just the same az ho pays oihers-two
dollars day but earn = doll,r extra in
the evening by keeping his accounts It's
better than nothing sir. tried TO end =
clerkship but tLero were at loa-' n dosen
applicrn's for every Vacant place. OF courre
| couldn't starve aud while have health
aud strength | will neither beg nor run 10
debt. | vas brought up TO work, you
know; aud, thsnk Heaven, am neither
afraid of il, nor do | feel above it,
Hoist away shouted the master, and
George Acton applied himself again to his
work.
Mr.. Beverly went over and talked with
looked several times toward the windlsss
where the young ciork was at work, il was
reasonable to suppose that they were speak
iug of him
And during this time Miss Florehce
spoke win Philip and Clarence, and de-
Iicious futtering seized them rs they met
her welcome smile. They expec ed tina,
she would speak Of tho sad humiliatina
spectacle exposed before them, and they
were prepared to tell her how NORTH ID
they felt but she made no alusicn to the
circumstance. Size did not even intimate
to them that she had recognized the young
man at the windlass.
BY aud by Mr.. Beverly came out from
amid the ruins, and having drawn the arm
of his daughter within his own aud bowed
to his former clerks, he departed. EIe did
not bow an adicu TO young Acton, for Just
then the labOrer was busy at his work.
And Philip Louis aud Clarence Bugbee
walked away talking of their pity for poor
Acton.
Mercy ! cried the former. II wouldn',
have been in his place when Florence
Beverly came upon the scene for all the
money in Boston
1T was certainly humiiatipg,' asserted
tho other. 'Bu',' he added Relatively
Acton never was really heightened.
guess his family is rather low-bred, any
way
And 10 this conclusion both young men
fully agreed and they further agreed that
they should not Ia the future recognize
George Acton as az acquaintance.
a week later Lewis & Buebee had occasion
to call Mt the Office where Mr. Beverly had
established his business headquarters, and
they were not little surprised at behold
log George Acton seated at the desk oil
the coniiiantial clerk and correspondent
II was private room, with a glass door,
which George occupied, aud they did not
G, in there but they ven'ured to ask one
Of the book keepers if Acton had been per-
msnentiy employed.
q don't know about that, replied the
book-keeper Il only know that Mr.. Bev-
erly seems to have taken a sudden aud
strong liking for the young msn--that lie
entrusts him with his private correspond
ence, and has given him home beneath
bic own roof
Another day oame-A day when the
sIeighiug was excellent, and when the
merry bells we're jingiiug far and near.
Through the kindness Of friend Lewis K
Bugbee had managed to secure a team for
the afternoon, aud they drove out upon
one Of the Brighton ro1ds. Dat in the
country they met the superb double cutter
Of Mr. Beverly drawn by pair Of rafting
bays. Upon the front seat sat the ner.
chant md his wife, aud upon the back sea-,
smiling and chatting with all the grace and
charm Of friends who bad given to each o.
Their the fullest trust and confidence, sal
George Acton and Florence Beverly
What did il mean
II Philip Lewis aud Clarence Bugbec
arc not stupid beyond belief, they must ere
this have solved the problem and may
the solution give them new and enlarged
views Il life aud its du,ies.-Nco York
Ledger.