Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-02-12
Need we tell you

more?'
Lottie pressed her hands to her head
and looked from one to the other, til
the tender smile on Charities lips con
firmed the things.
Il seem to betOo much bewiidered Il
be as glad as Ishould be- she exclaim'
ed. Am really. awake? has thert
been no robbery after all? That dread.
full newspaper!-why did believe the
paragraph heard Sir John read from
it?' -.... B..
sit down here, you poor, pale child,
said Charlie, and let me help you out
of your mystification. | thikk it be.
gan the night before last, when sought
you at Sir Johns to say goodbye be-
fore l went on hurried journey, and
to tell you the two-fOld object oi it,
Il had heard, dear, that the man who
Was the cause of all your father's mis-
fortunes was at Birmingham, and
Messrs. SmithsOn freely gave ME per-
mission to go there and see whether
my remonstraDces, and if those failed,
my threats to expuse his nefarious pro-
ceedings, would induce him to do JUS
tice to your fathers widow and or
phans.'
and you succeeded?' e,-i All
Beyond my expectations. / have
just liad The pleasure of putting into
Your IiIuther's nandS sum that will
enable her to educate her children with
comfort 5r- 5-.-.. faft.
Lottie was obliged to interrupt him
that she might throw her arms around
Mrs. Warde'S neck, and congratulate
her rApturously. Then Charlie him
self had to be thanked in loving, tear
ful whispers; and then SO many pleas
ant little plans we're discussed for the
widows future that some time elapsed
before they recurred to the explanation.
when had completed my own bu-
sinesS, MessTS. Smithson desired me to
go to Sheffield and make some inqui-
ries for them. The drift of these /
scarcely understood when started, but
soon discovered that they had refer
ence to certain suspicious they weree en-
tertaing.' ~ -{Ll..4. s5- .sl 10, =
But not of you, Charlie?' -.
NO, love; they have never had any
reason to doubt my integrity, and they
have just proved their confidence in it,
by promising me an increase of salary.
But another of their clerks, led into
temptation by hove of gayety
i see it all now,' sighed Lottie. Poor
Austin!' --eg .-i. 3
Charlie resumed: My father, for
whom, as an old friend, Messrs. Smith
son sent, to assist them in breaking the
news to his parents, Can scarcely bear
to speak of the scenes he witnessed,
Mrs. Crawley is very i'll, Lottie, The
trutb xros ~ ,pt.uai.xi fran, i,ar al lann
as possible. 1t was not until late last
night she learnt that it was to hear the
tale of her SONS guilt that Mr. Craw-
Icy was summoned to the city; and it
appears that no one suspected how,
while : ustin was believed to he quiet
ly sleeping, he had packed q portman-
teau and stolen out of the house in the
dead of night, tn embark for America
And so Lottie's joy in her betrothed's
innocence was tempered by the knowl-
edge that if his parents had been hap
PLY spared such deep sorrow, others
were enduring. T..
She spent her Christmas Eve at Clap,
ham, but not in the dove-coiored silk.
She was clad soberly in the dark meri-
no, and heard, with dropping head and
\ troubled conscience, Mrs. Morrison tell
her how fully she and her husband ap--
proved their sons choice, and how her
conduct as a daughter and sister had
won their esteem long since.
i am not half as good as you think
mel Lottie tearfully conft ssed, and
1eepened their interest in her by her
honesty. sx..
After all, it was Mrs. Warde who
- the dove-colOred silk at her
voi> wedding. 1t was made up
laughter herself, who, as her
Dr. her by LOttt. nut of her work,
eedle passed in anu "ected with
rev from the events cou.. rise or
er purchase the lesson every w. -
,olish deed conveys to the heart tha.
opened to receive it. .. aa.la.