The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1874-02-07
One Of a Tl,Oushnd.
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BY EDEN E., REXFoDH.


4 wish had five hundreti dollars,
Graham Marsh said, as he iooktd up
from the paper hc.had beeh Eeading. i
What would you do with itf' asked
Alice Moore, smiling downyiSto his face
She had laid aside her Eora and had
come to his side.
I would buy o partnership ia some
reliable firm where u young and active
partner is wnnted,' he replied q 'mit
Would five hundred dollars do it p
she asked. ys, 7
Not five hundred in itself, but with
what | could put with it Icould easily
get chance to invest it as 4 proposed >
he answered. But TIE firsshundred is
what is needed, and withoutit there's
no use talking LILA
Aud if you had it---if.syou could
buy into some 6zan,s swl.atsthen 2 she
asked.
What then? Why we could bemar
ricd "nd have home of our own, that's
all, he answered.
a soft light came into her, eyes.
Perhaps if We work. a little harder,
you AMI |, VIC can get it inside Of u year.
she said, rcsolutely.
i don't want you to bel get it, he
answered. You work bArd enough
over that everlasting sseEis; efsaurs
tkss {
can :tnke you, aud let yoa give up
this drudgcry of writing for living
wholly
ltl>n't such rc'y harl work she
said. II should like to help get
home. You ought to be willing to let
me. ] shall be the one to enjoy it
most
Il know, but you work hard enough
now he answered; a smile curyiny the
lines ab out his mouth, us she let her
hand tall caressinSly on his hair. 1t
was pleasant to feel her touch upon his
head, aud to know that she cared 80
much for him.
IA Il shonldn;t mind n little extra work, >
she said, thoughtfully, because should
all The time be looking forward to what
the reward Of it would be- You work
hard; it's no more than fair that should
help you, il | can
Yes, | know | work hard, he sid
That's fact, Alice, shouldn't work
so hard if it wasn't for you
w ell, then, since you work so hard
for me you ought TO let ME work little
for you, she said. 1T will be only an
extra poem or story week In tha,
way | can get something to help you
in this plan of yours, perhaps
well, don't mind your trying he
said at last, but l dou t like the idea of
you working ny.harder than you do ut
present.
She smiled down into the hanlsom
face OF the man she had promised to
marry. 1t was not strong facc
There were limos Of weakness about tho
mouth, and Of indccision in his feat u, cs
which physiognomist would not have
liked to see
But to Alice Moore, who had 80 few
friends, he was more than you can iln
aginer un less you are in circumstances
similar to those which surrounded her.
TO her marriage with him she locked
forward longingly, trustiusly. Thon
she would have home oil her own.
Then, when love sat down beside their
own hearth stone, they would smile at
the world and have strong hearts to bat
tie with it,
Alice wrote the extra story every
week IL was u task sometimes to mus.
ter up ideas when id,as seemed nearly
exhausted, but tho impulse that promp.
ted her to perform this extra labor kept
her steadily to her determination, and
the publis her who had consented to take
the stories she proposed to furnish him
each week, found them promptly on
hand.
Any one VINO knows anything about
writing fora living, knows that it is a
'hard living that one gets in that way
in nine cases out ften. Alice foml IL